LibGuides: Business Resources: Guide

Specialized Databases

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
This comprehensive database combines ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. It features access to full-text business and economics journals, dissertations, working papers and industry-focused reports.
Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to scholarly journals and information for accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues.
Asian & European Business Collection This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to journals, newspapers, and magazines covering information on business and finance across Asia and Europe.
Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window
This databases provides access to company, industry, and market research through Hoover's Company Profiles - information about 40,000 global public and nonpublic companies, OxResearch - articles covering regional economic and political developments from a network of faculty members at Oxford, and Snapshots- market research overviews on 40+ industries.
Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Business Source Ultimate provides full-text access to more 3,500 journals with subject coverage in the following areas: Accounting, Administration, Banking, Economics, Finance, Human resources, Management, and Marketing.
EDGAR This link opens in a new window
EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system provides access to company filings submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Fed in Print This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive index to Federal Reserve research.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) This link opens in a new window
This database is a comprehensive guide to testing instruments in the areas of education, psychology, business and leadership.
Licensing of this database restricts usage to four (4) simultaneous users.
O’Reilly for Higher Education This link opens in a new window
O’Reilly for Higher Education is an online training resource for technology and business that provides access to more than 38,000 book titles and more than 30,000 hours of video. The platform also includes case studies and interactive tutorials. Topics range from programming to IT networking to project management to business strategy.
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Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Contains full text articles for more than 80 regional business publications. Provided by BadgerLink.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is a statistics portal that integrates data onto a single, clean, and easy to use platform. Categorized into market sectors, Statista provides research institutions and the academic community, as well as business and corporate customers, with direct access to quantitative data on demographics, media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest.
Statistical Abstract of the United States This link opens in a new window
The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

International Databases

Asian & European Business Collection This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to journals, newspapers, and magazines covering information on business and finance across Asia and Europe.
Australia & New Zealand Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to academic journals covering business, science, technology, and other multidisciplinary subjects published in Australia and New Zealand.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to publications covering business, health and medicine, science and technology, and other multidisciplinary subjects published in Canada.
Continental Europe Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to academic journals published in many European countries covering business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
East & South Asia Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to academic journals published in East Asian and South Asian countries covering business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
East Europe, Central Europe Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to academic journals published in eastern and central European countries covering business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
Latin America & Iberia Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to information covering business, science, technology, engineering and other subjects from scholarly journals published in many Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal. This database is included in ProQuest Central.
Middle East & Africa Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to information covering business, science, technology, engineering and other subjects from scholarly journals published in many Middle Eastern and African countries. This database is included in ProQuest Central.
Turkey Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to academic journals published in Turkey, covering business, science, technology, engineering, and other subjects. This database is included in ProQuest Central.
UK & Ireland Database This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to information covering business, science, technology, engineering and other subjects from scholarly journals published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. This database is included in ProQuest Central.

Datasets and API Resources

The datasets and APIs listed here are provided for individual educational research purposes. Please be sure to comply with any terms of use or limitations set by the provider.

Alpha Vantage Stock Market API (Open Access)
Public-domain access to global financial and economic datasets including stocks, ETFs, company financials (SEC filings), foreign exchange rates, cryptocurrencies, and 50+ derived technical indicators. Microsoft Excel based access is also supported. You may refer to the guide for financial data integration code samples.
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24/7 technical support is available to MSOE members through support@alphavantage.co.
arXiv API
The arXiv API allows programmatic access to content and metadata from the Cornell University e-print arXiv, a document submission and retrieval system heavily used by the physics, mathematics and computer science communities.
Data.gov
Data.gov provides data, tools, and resources for the U.S. Government’s open data.
Digital Public Library of America API Codex
An API of the data contained in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) platform.
Kaggle
Kaggle is a data science community providing access to data science tools and resources.
ProgrammableWeb
This source provides a reliable API Directory along with news and information about APIs.
UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository
The UCI Machine Learning Repository is a collection of databases, domain theories, and data generators that are used by the machine learning community.

Other Resources

EDGAR This link opens in a new window
EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system provides access to company filings submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
FDsys This link opens in a new window
The Federal Digital System contains free electronic access to official, published information produced by the Federal Government.
Fed in Print This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive index to Federal Reserve research.
Google Patents This link opens in a new window
Google Patents allows you to search and read patents and patent applications from around the world.
Reference Solutions This link opens in a new window
A directory of business and residential listings and physician and dentist listings.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Resources This link opens in a new window
Resources for locating U.S. patents and published patent applications.
USA.gov This link opens in a new window
Contains official information and services from the U.S. government. This database is a portal to federal, state, local, tribal and international government information.

Resources for Prospective MBA Students
A guide created by Kaplan and Wake Forest University to assist students considering a Masters in Business Administration.

Business Periodicals

The library carries a number of periodicals relevant to business students, including but not limited to:

Bloomberg Businessweek
Call Number: HF5001.B89
Consumer Reports
Call Number: TX335.A1C6
The Economist
Call Number: HG11.E2
Forbes
Call Number: HF5001.F6
Fortune
Call Number: HF5001.F7
Harvard Business Review
Call Number: HF5001.H3
Inc.
Call Number: HD2346.U5155

Harvard Business Review: Digital Articles
This publication contains items that are published digitally to HBR.org that do not appear in the print publication.

Business Books

Brick by Brick by David Robertson; Bill Breen
Call Number: HD9993 .T694 L447 2013
ISBN: 9780307951601
Business Driven Information Systems by Paige Baltzan; Amy Phillips
Call Number: HD30.2 .B357 2008
ISBN: 9780073195582
Business Ethics by William H. Shaw
Call Number: HF5387 .S47 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Business Strategy by The Economist; Jeremy Kourdi
Call Number: HD30.28 .K68 2015eb
ISBN: 9781610394772
Data at Work by Jorge Camões
Call Number: HF5548.4 .M523 C36 2016
ISBN: 9780134268637
Decision Making in Systems Engineering and Management by Gregory S. Parnell; Patrick J. Driscoll; Dale L. Henderson
Call Number: TA168 .D43 2008
ISBN: 9780470165706
The Exponential Era: Strategies to Stay Ahead of the Curve in an Era of Chaotic Changes and Disruptive Forces by David Espindola and Michael W. Wright
Publication Date: 2021
Innovation Management and New Product Development by Paul Trott
Call Number: HD45 .T76 2008
ISBN: 9780273713159
International Marketing and Export Management by Gerald Albaum; Edwin Duerr
Call Number: HF1416 .I617 2008
ISBN: 9780273713876
New Product Development by Marc A. Annacchino
Call Number: HF5415.153 .A56 2003
ISBN: 9780750677325
Reinventing Management by Julian Birkinshaw
Call Number: HD31 .B4975 2012
ISBN: 9781118375907
Publication Date: 2012-08-20
Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World's Top Corporations by Mikel Harry and Richard Schroeder
Call Number: TS155 .H298 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz
Call Number: HD30.29 .K63 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Strategic IQ: Creating Smarter Corporations by John R. Wells
Call Number: HD30.28 .W383 2012
Publication Date: 2012
The Third Wave by Steve Case
Call Number: HD9696.8.U62 C36 2016
ISBN: 9781501132582
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail: Governance and Management Lessons From the Crisis by Thomas H. Stanton
Call Number: HD2785 .S65 2012
Publication Date: 2012