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ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
An intuitive and comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
IBISWorld provides industry research that covers more than 700 industries as well as specialized industry reports on emerging industries. Reports include the industry at a glance, performance, outlook, life cycle, competitive landscape and more.
IBISWorld provides industry research that covers more than 700 industries as well as specialized industry reports on emerging industries. Reports include the industry at a glance, performance, outlook, life cycle, competitive landscape and more.
First Research Industry Profiles This link opens in a new window
Industry overviews with snapshots that include recent developments, business challenges, trends & opportunities, insight from executives, financial information, forecasts and ratings. Also, industry profiles for North American states and provinces.
Coverage: 2009-
Full text: Yes
Hoover's Company Profiles (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from Hoover's Company Profiles - covering 40,000 global public and non-public companies including financials, competitors, officers, and more. A subset of Business Market Research Collection.
Coverage: 1986-
Full text: Yes
Hoover's Academic (Mergent) This link opens in a new window
Hoover’s™ Academic solution is a premier source of business information. Providing comprehensive up-to-date information through a global database of over 85 million companies, and 1,000 industries. Hoover's Academic solution provides unique insight to the core database of over 40,000 company profiles.This powerful research tool brings together company histories, news stories, financials, federal filings, executive biographies and more.
Coverage: Current
Full Text: Yes
statista This link opens in a new window
Access the most recent and relevant statistics and studies on a specific topic by simply entering a keyword. statista aggregates statistical data on over 600 international industries from more than 18,000 sources, including market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases.
Gartner (IT subscription) - Access suspended as of 7-1-2023
Gartner is the leading provider of research and analysis on the global IT industry. The Gartner database includes executive summaries, perspectives, research briefs, research notes, and special reports on IT related issues. The database also spotlights key technologies, products, trends, market opportunities, industry developments, vendors, products, and services.
Business Source Elite This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text coverage of top business, management and economics journals and periodicals. These valuable publications cover topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales and more.
Coverage: 1922-
Full Text: Yes
Journals and Other Sources Included
O’Reilly Books This link opens in a new window
The O’Reilly digital platform includes more than 38,000 book titles and more than 30,000 hours of video. Topics range from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business strategy. The content includes code snippets, certification preparation materials, practice exercises, training videos, and much more. Users can search thousands of books simultaneously online, saving time and quickly finding the information they need.
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All Business & Management Databases

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Coverage: 1971-
Full text: Yes
Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection This link opens in a new window
This database brings together global scholarly journals with other key resources for access to reliable information in this continuously evolving area of study. Quickly locate precise results from sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.
Coverage: 1971-
Full text: Yes
Asian & European Business Collection This link opens in a new window
This database provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. Find information on companies, economies, markets, international trade, and overall business conditions and practices throughout these regions.
Coverage: 1971-
Full text: Yes
Business (Gale OneFile: Business) (Formerly General Business File ASAP) This link opens in a new window
Includes business and industry articles, company directory listings, and investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries. from business, trade and international publications.
Coverage: 1980-
Full Text: Yes
Titles Included
Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window
Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles - covering 40,000 global public and non-public companies including financials, competitors, officers, and more; OxResearch - succinct articles covering regional economic and political developments of significance; US and Worldwide Industry & Market Reports from Barnes Reports - covering global industries in depth; and Snapshots - market research overviews on 40+ industries and 40 countries.
Coverage: 1986-
Full text: Yes
Business Source Elite This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text coverage of top business, management and economics journals and periodicals. These valuable publications cover topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales and more.
Coverage: 1922-
Full Text: Yes
Journals and Other Sources Included
Business Video Database This link opens in a new window
Business Video Database features executive interviews, corporate training video, case studies, “how to” features and documentary films that focus on all aspects of the global business environment. Videos have been selected to support educators in the classroom and student research and projects via easily-streamed clips, many ranging from two to 10 minutes.
EDGAR -- Search & Access This link opens in a new window
Financial reports and filings submitted by US publicly traded companies to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Includes press releases, quarterly (10-Q) and annual (10-K) reports, insider trading reports, and more. 10-K reports give very detailed information about a company's products, businesses, operations, competitors, and markets.
Coverage: 1994-
Full Text: Yes
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (EEMCS) is an online collection of peer-reviewed case studies focusing on business decision making and management development throughout key global emerging markets. Cases are written by case writers working in or closely with developing economies, offering local perspectives with global appeal.
Emerald Engineering eJournal Collection This link opens in a new window
Contains over 25,000 management articles as well as a range of engineering, applied science and technology journals.
Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Yes
Titles Included | Search Tips
Emerald Management 120 This link opens in a new window
Emerald is one of the leading publishers of management research with an international perspective. The package consists of 120 top rated journals on a range of business and management topics.
Coverage: Varies
Full text: Yes
Encyclopedia of American Industries This link opens in a new window
Searchable through the Gale Virtual Reference Library, this electronic book provides industry snapshots.
Coverage: 2005
Full Text: Yes
First Research Industry Profiles This link opens in a new window
Industry overviews with snapshots that include recent developments, business challenges, trends & opportunities, insight from executives, financial information, forecasts and ratings. Also, industry profiles for North American states and provinces.
Coverage: 2009-
Full text: Yes
Foundation Directory Online Professional This link opens in a new window
Provides access to timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. Included is a database of the entire universe of over 100,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.; a database of over 4,000 sponsoring companies, offering a quick pathway to corporate funders; a database of over 2.4 million recently awarded grants; and a keyword-searchable database of over 700,000 recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF.
Gartner (IT subscription) - Access suspended as of 7-1-2023
Gartner is the leading provider of research and analysis on the global IT industry. The Gartner database includes executive summaries, perspectives, research briefs, research notes, and special reports on IT related issues. The database also spotlights key technologies, products, trends, market opportunities, industry developments, vendors, products, and services.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.
Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Yes
HighWire Press This link opens in a new window
From Stanford University, includes online versions of 920+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences.
Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Yes
Titles Included | WPI Access | Search Tips
Hoover's Academic (Mergent) This link opens in a new window
Hoover’s™ Academic solution is a premier source of business information. Providing comprehensive up-to-date information through a global database of over 85 million companies, and 1,000 industries. Hoover's Academic solution provides unique insight to the core database of over 40,000 company profiles.This powerful research tool brings together company histories, news stories, financials, federal filings, executive biographies and more.
Coverage: Current
Full Text: Yes
Hoover's Company Profiles (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from Hoover's Company Profiles - covering 40,000 global public and non-public companies including financials, competitors, officers, and more. A subset of Business Market Research Collection.
Coverage: 1986-
Full text: Yes
J.P. Morgan Research This link opens in a new window
The database features thousands of analyst reports covering over 3,000 global companies and all industries. Derived from Morgan Markets – which is J.P. Morgan’s exclusive information for key clients and investors – these reports are made available to academic users for education and research purposes. Coverage is 2011 to current with a one week embargo. Lengthy reports cover equities and company performance, global and regional economics and financial strategy, foreign exchange, commodities, liquidity, and emerging markets.
Coverage: 2011-
Full text: Yes
Journal Citation Reports (WPI access ended 6/30/2021)
JCR helps measure research influence and impact of journals and journal categories, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. Thomson Reuters provides Journal Impact Factors with current and five year trends.
Coverage: Current
Full Text: No
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Online archive of eBooks and complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields.
Coverage: 1800s-
Full Text: Yes
Titles Included | Search Tips
Materials Business File This link opens in a new window
Focuses on industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries.
Coverage: 1985-
Full Text: No
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni provides access to more than 17,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Nexis Uni includes: 1) full-text access to thousands of news sources (primarily newspapers, magazines and journals) in the U.S. and abroad back to the 1970s; 2) aggregated economic data - including company financial information, and SEC filings and reports - on businesses, corporations, and industries in the U.S. and abroad; 3) full-text legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, federal and state agency regulations, Shepard's Citations to Supreme Court cases (back to 1789), and law reviews from the late 18th century to present.
Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Yes
O’Reilly Books This link opens in a new window
The O’Reilly digital platform includes more than 38,000 book titles and more than 30,000 hours of video. Topics range from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business strategy. The content includes code snippets, certification preparation materials, practice exercises, training videos, and much more. Users can search thousands of books simultaneously online, saving time and quickly finding the information they need.
See https://proquest.libguides.com/oreilly for further information.

***To view and download O'Reilly eBooks, WPI community members must create a personal account with their @wpi.edu email account.
ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
An intuitive and comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Search full text & abstracts of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Coverage: 1993-
Full Text: Yes
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full text access to more than 2000 Elsevier science, social science, engineering and management scholarly journals.
Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Yes
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers the most comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities. As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, Scopus helps ensure that crucial research from around the world is not missed.
SpringerLINK This link opens in a new window
Access to a variety of scholarly science journals and eBooks published by Springer.
Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Yes
Individual chapters and subscribed books are available to download as PDFs.
statista This link opens in a new window
Access the most recent and relevant statistics and studies on a specific topic by simply entering a keyword. statista aggregates statistical data on over 600 international industries from more than 18,000 sources, including market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases.
Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full text searchable database of Wall Street Journal Eastern edition, offering coverage of global business, financial, and industry news and politics. Coverage: Jan 2, 1984 - present
Coverage: 1984-
Full Text: Yes.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Search journals published by Wiley-Blackwell. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas such as chemistry, medical & life sciences, materials science and engineering.
Coverage: 1996-
Full Text: Yes