All Tulane library resources are licensed for academic purposes only. Using these resources for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited. Off-campus access is available only to current Tulane students, faculty, and staff. Tulane Library users are responsible for compliance with this policy. The complete policy on resource use is available here: Proper Use of Turchin Library's Licensed Databases.
Business Databases A-K
Questions? Contact a librarian at the Turchin Business Library.
Searchable database of academic journals, business magazines and newspapers (including the Economist and the Wall Street Journal) as well as Experian company records, industry and market research reports, and analyses of countries and economies.
Our broadest, most general full-text database that includes both popular and scholarly periodicals. It covers virtually all academic areas of study, including social sciences, sciences, and humanities.
Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and futures for both international and domestic markets.
Please reach out to the library for information on Bloomberg certification. Freeman students, faculty, and staff can receive certification in Bloomberg Market Concepts and Bloomberg's Environmental and Social Governance modules.
Comprehensive database of core scholarly publications in disciplines including marketing, management, accounting, finance, information systems, international business, and more. Also includes industry profiles, market research reports, country reports, and SWOT analyses. Entire database can be searched a number of ways, including by subject, article title, author, keywords, date range, and periodical title.
** Available to current Tulane students, faculty, and staff. To access this database, use the 'new user' link to create a login using your Tulane email address. Please note that Tulane users must access Capital IQ from the library website database list. Do not go directly to capitaliq.com. **
Capital IQ provides detailed company, industry, market, and transaction information, with screening, charting, and idea generating tools.
** Available to current Tulane students, faculty, and staff. To access this database, use the 'new user' link to create a login using your Tulane email address. NOTE: Tulane users must access Capital IQ from the library website database list. Do not go directly to capitaliq.com. **
Thomson Reuters’ accounting research database Checkpoint Edge offers tax, audit, accounting and finance tools. It includes federal, state, and local full text resources.
Checkpoint Edge has a limit of 35 simultaneous users.
Provides in-depth profiles of a specific industry subsector within a country, including analysis of market opportunities, end-users, competitors, market access, distribution channels, market barriers, and financing options. The reports also list market sector prospects, trade promotion opportunities, and in-country contacts. This site replaces the former Market Research Library from U.S. Commercial Service.
Directory of US and Canadian businesses as well as consumer and lifestyle information. Users can search for businesses by multiple criteria including name, geography, industry, business size. Consumer/lifestyle database is searchable by geography, housing, and lifestyle categories.
Standardized and structured statistical data including key economic indicators. Covers subjects including banking and finance, criminal justice, education, industry and commerce, housing and construction, population and income, stocks and commodities, and more. International data includes China Data Center, International Monetary Fund, imports and exports, international finance statistics, World Bank statistics, and Stats Canada. Also includes EASI Market Planner with 13 data sets covering consumer behavior, consumer expenditures, consumer price index, consumer spending analytics, demographics, gross domestic product, health, industries, life stages, media, quality of life, and retail sales.
Also includes EASI Market Planner with 13 data sets covering consumer behavior, consumer expenditures, consumer price index, consumer spending analytics, demographics, gross domestic product, health, industries, life stages, media, quality of life, and retail sales.
Datastream
**Datastream can now be accessed through WRDS. See 'Thomson/Refinitiv' tab in WRDS for more info**
Provides historical time series data for a variety of securities and markets worldwide. Use Datastream to find historical equity, index, commodity, currency, ond, futures, options, economic data, etc. The Excel add-on allows researchers to download data on multiple securities simultaneously.
A collection of U.S. statistics and stories including information on demographics, public health, energy consumption, education, mean income and other topics categorized by location, industry, occupation and education.
Analysis of political and economic trends for almost 200 countries. See also the the EIU Viewswire for country-specific forecasts and risk assessments.
Users have instant access to over 35,000 full-text articles from Emerald's international management portfolio, complete with full-text archives back to 1994. Subject coverage spans a spectrum of management disciplines including: strategy, leadership, marketing and human resource management, plus a substantial number of engineering, applied science, and technology titles.
Full-text coverage of newspapers, periodicals, and other sources of business and general news, plus company reports, industry reports, and financial data compiled by Dow-Jones and Reuters. Note: Factiva allows for a maximum of 8 concurrent users.
Financial Times is a London-based newspaper that emphasizes coverage of business and economics on a global scale. Access the current issues on FT.com on your device by signing in with your Tulane email address and password.
Global research resource available for free from Michigan State University's Center for International Business Education and Research. The site offers comprehensive international business and trade content organized by trade bloc, country, state, and industry. GlobalEdge also includes a glossary of international business terms, a resource directory, market potential index, and export tutorials.
Hoover’s features company profiles, industry information, and profiles of key executives. Profiles include a company overview, detailed history, officers and board members, competitors, products and operations, auditors, rankings, industry information, and historical financials.
A comprehensive collection of detailed industry research reports. Industry reports include industry analysis, outlook, products and markets, market segments, supply chain, major players, competitive landscape, operating conditions, key statistics, and more.
This subscription includes reports for the US and China, as well as global industry reports. Specialized industry reports are also included along with US business environment data profiles. Reports are typically 35-40 pages in length.
When you need answers fast. Literati is a solid starting point for research and learning that offers unlimited access to hundreds of full text reference books on every subject.
The Mintel database contains the following:
Mintel Reports- covers brands, companies, markets, consumers and trends. Each report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles.
Mintel Market Sizes – global market data including market size, share and segmentation data.
Morningstar Direct
Global investment and analytics database; includes all of Morningstar's data and institutional research, as well as private and third party content. Uses include investment analysis, portfolio management, and asset allocation.
Morningstar is only available on terminals in the Financial Analysis Lab and in the Turchin Library. For access, please see library staff, email turchin@tulane.edu, or see notes attached to terminals with the program installed.
NationMaster is a free resource that compares countries across a variety of subjects including cost of living, crime, culture, government, health, energy, economy, industry, labor, and more. Data is pulled from sources such as the CIA World Fact Book, the United Nations, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Create a free NYTimes.com account using your Tulane email (tulane.edu) address for a one year subscription to NYT. Academic Pass grants access to breaking news articles, archived articles, blogs, video, and interactive features. Does not include crossword puzzles or eReader editions. For web, iOS and Android.
The Online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Develoment (OECD) which includes publications in full-text including books, papers, and statistics. Data is available in PDF, WEB, XLS, ActiveChart, DATA, ePUB, and READ allowing users to easily find, cite, and analyze data. Database included content published by International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).
Private equity and venture capital database with in-depth information and statistics on a wide range of companies including startups. Establish benchmarks, find real time data on deals, identify and analyze comparables, and search investor details. NOTE: requires registering your Tulane email address
Users are limited to 10 downloads per day and 25 downloads per month. Licensed for academic & curricular uses only. Accounts are reset yearly.
A data and mapping tool that enables government, commercial, non-profit and academic institutions to access data about communities and markets across the US.
Provides business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies. The database also includes information on private investors, private equity deals, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital firms. **Users will be asked to create an individual account in order to view or download information.**
The world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world. Full text available for most dissertations added since 1997. Selective coverage of Tulane University scholarship begins in 1957.
Refinitiv Workspace is the resource that replaces Thomson One and Eikon. The information modules currently available on the platform include: aftermarket research (analyst/research reports), private equity, company financials, market data, and industry information. Expanded screening tools feature public and private company data, with customizable peer comparisons. Workspace also features geographic and industry analytical tools, as well as access to cross-asset data including bond pricing, commodities, economic indicators, and more.
For access to Refinitiv: Workspace, please register and then follow this link: https://workspace.refinitiv.com/web
For access to Refinitiv: Eikon, please follow the link above.
For Refinitiv Certification, please follow: http://training.refinitiv.com/cert/
Register for login credentials using your Tulane email address. You need to do this part only once. https://my.refinitiv.com/productregistration.html
A social sciences digital library that includes a range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly books, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more.
The SAGE Data resource includes access to 550+ U.S. and international databases through one central searchable platform with multidisciplinary, global statistics for research and instruction.
A leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters (both Open Access and library-subscribed) on social sciences, humanities, scientific, technical, and medical research.
SDC Platinum
SDC Platinum provides detailed information on new issues, mergers and acquisitions, syndicated loans, private equity, project finance, poison pills, and more. Turchin Library's SDC subscription includes the Mergers & Acquisitions and Global New Issues modules.
SNL Financial
SNL Financial -- See listing below for S&P Global Market Intelligence. SNL has been renamed.
Social Explorer “contains over 18,000 maps, hundreds of profile reports, 40 billion data elements, 335,000 variables and 220 years of data”. It can be used to locate census tract boundary information from 1940 to the present.
Open Access repository of social science research to include an Abstract Database on scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers, an Electronic Paper Collection containing downloadable full text documents, and research papers of a number of Fee-Based Partner Publications.
Indexes 3000 journals in over 50 social science fields. It supports comprehensive by subject and author, allowing users to find bibliographic information on research articles. Tulane Libraries provides a link to search for full text within search results. Database is also used to track article citations to journal articles, books, essays, and other academic publications.
***NOTE: You will need to create a user account and profile using your Tulane email address to access this database.***
S&P Global Market Intelligence (formerly SNL Financial) combines analysis and in-depth data in real time for selected sectors and industries in the U.S. and worldwide. This resource collects relevant corporate, financial, market and M&A data plus news and analysis organizing this information by sector. Tulane’s S&P Global Market Intelligence subscription includes information on the following sectors: banking, specialized financial services, insurance, real estate, energy, media/communications, and metals/mining.
S&P NetAdvantage includes a broad spectrum of industry, company and investment analysis including Industry Surveys, and Equity Research (formerly Stock Reports). Industry data sets include key ratios, benchmarks, constituents, financial metrics, etc. by sub-industry or geography (see Markets tab). Archived Industry Surveys included as far back as 1999 depending upon title continuity. Company data covers a global universe of over 3 million private and public companies.
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
A growing collection of the statistical abstracts from many countries that are generally issued by the national statistical offices of foreign governments and contain country-level data not easily found elsewhere. Global and regional statistical compendia issued by international organizations are included.
Select Index to government and private statistical sources including international, federal, and state publications, as well as licensed business statistical reports.
In addition to accessing the Wall Street Journal through our subscription databases listed below,
Tulane faculty, students, and staff can create a free WSJ Online account. Verify your Tulane email (tulane.edu) address and register for a personal one year subscription to WSJ online.
This personal subscription includes current news articles, mobile apps, newsletters, and more.
Two options - select these from this database list:
ABI/Inform - Available from 1984 - Present. Click on link to publications and search Wall Street Journal.
Factiva (Current content) - Use 'Search Builder' to select Wall Street Journal.
Westlaw Campus Research has become Westlaw Next, an updated interface with powerful search capabilities. This is a legal research database providing access to cases, briefs, statutes, regulations, and legislative materials. It also provides access to legal analysis from national journals and law reviews, as well as legal reference materials (encyclopedias and dictionaries). It covers the United States and European Union.
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is a comprehensive economic and financial data management system intended solely for research purposes.
All Freeman faculty and Ph.D. students are welcome to create a WRDS account. Research assistants, masters students, visitors, and faculty and librarians outside of Freeman may create an account at the discretion of our WRDS administration team. Freeman undergraduates may create an account for a specific class or with the approval of a faculty member.
To register for an account, open the WRDS page and select "register for a WRDS account." Please also send an email to turchin@tulane.edu with the details of your account request.