UCF Research Guides: Finance: Databases

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Business Source Premier - Company & Industry Profiles (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window

Provides enhanced business searching.
Browse or search Company Profiles, Industry Profiles, Country Reports, and Market Research Reports
CASSIDI (Competitive Analysis & Structure Instrument for Depository Institutions) This link opens in a new window
"Strives to be the one-stop shop for your banking competition information needs. CASSIDI contains information for the entire country and is updated regularly."
- Find an Institution - "View information such as subsidiaries & branches, history, and operating markets."
- Find a Banking Market - "View a market definition, structure & concentration, history, and even a map."
- Perform a "What If" (Pro Forma) HHI Analysis - "See how a potential transaction (e.g. merger or acquisition) would change a banking market's concentration."
Mergent Archives by FTSE Russell (1909-2025) This link opens in a new window
Company histories, business, properties, income statements, balance sheets, long-term debts, lines of credit

Corporate Manuals, 1909-2025
- Bank & Finance
- Industrial
- International
- OTC Industrial
- Public Utility
- Transportation
- OTC Unlisted
- Archives Supplement
- Archives Supplement International
Municipal Manuals, 1918-2025
NetAdvantage (S&P) This link opens in a new window
Database for searching information on stocks, companies, industries and mutual funds. Access to nine of the most popular S&P publications including Stock Reports, Industry Surveys, Corporation Records, and The Outlook.
Sage Skills: Business Skills This link opens in a new window
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Interactive instruction, self-assessment, virtual scenarios, downloadable data, and expert insights to empower users to develop and practice real-world skills needed to successfully transition from campus to the modern workplace. Business Skills modules include: Data Analytics, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Organizational Communication, and Professionalism.
VitalLaw This link opens in a new window
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-Information about the law of business and finance, plus federal and state tax laws, rules, regulations, cases and forms.

- Tax News, Journals, & Newsletters
- Federal Tax, including Primary Sources, Legislation, and Federal Tax Archive (1913, 1939, 1954, 1978+)
- State Tax, including (1) Tax Reporters for each State, and (2) Multistate Tax Guides: business formation & qualification; franchise or capital stock taxes; corporate income taxes; personal income taxes; property; miscellaneous taxes; motor fuels; cigarettes, tobacco products; sales & use; public utilities; practice & procedure
- International Tax: Tax Treaties
- Accounting & Audit
- Advertising Law
- Antitrust & Trade Regulation
- Banking (Federal & State)
- Bankruptcy Law
- Commercial: Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
- Commodities & Derivatives
- Consumer Financial Services
- Corporate Governance
- Energy & Natural Resources
- European Union Financial Services
- Exchanges & SROs
- Financial & Estate Planning
- Franchising & Distribution
- Government Contracts
- Health Care Compliance & Reimbursement
- Insurance Coverage Litigation
- Intellectual Property (Patents, Trademarks & Copyrights)
- International Securities & Business
- Investment Management
- Labor & Employment Law, including Case Law, Disabilities Management, EEOC Compliance, Employment Practices, Labor Arbitration Awards, Labor Relations, NLRB Case Handling, OFCCP Compliance, Wages-Hours
- Labor & Employment Law (State)
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Privacy Law
- Products Liability & Safety
- Secured Transactions
- Securities (Federal & State)
- Transportation Law

General Databases

ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) (1971+) This link opens in a new window
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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
Business Expert Press (BEP) This link opens in a new window
Full text ebooks covering specific areas of business, including supply and operations management, international business, social media, finance, accounting, public relations, and marketing strategy.

Subject areas include:
- Analytics
- Business intelligence
- Business logistics
- Consumer behavior
- Decision making
- Decision support systems
- Economic conditions
- Entrepreneurship
- Forecasting
- Globalization
- Information services
- International business enterprises
- Leadership
- Lean manufacturing
- Management
- Marketing
- Planning
- Public relations
- Strategic planning
- Strategy
- Supply chain management
- Sustainability
Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window

Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
EconLit (EBSCOhost) (1969+) This link opens in a new window
EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 1.1 million records from 1886-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
Insurance and Liability (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
"provides access to academic journals and trade publications covering the insurance industry and topics such as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more. The database offers content of interest to individual property owners and multinational corporations alike."
Mergent Intellect by FTSE Russell This link opens in a new window
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"Mergent Intellect is a highly flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence."
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"Coupling Mergent's expertise in developing products for the reference marketplace with D&B®'s private company database, Mergent Intellect offers new and existing clients a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.
Additionally, through Mergent’s partnership with Whitepages Pro, clients now have immediate access to contact information for over 250 million U.S. consumers. This enhanced search tool features specific information - name, address, previous address, age, number of household members and reverse phone number lookup capabilities - another valuable source of business insight."
Nexis Uni - All Content This link opens in a new window
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Full text of news and legal sources, as well as company and industry data.

Sources include newspapers, wire services, magazines, SEC filings, law cases, state and federal codes, law review journals, and reference works. Limited coverage of health administration news.
LexisNexis Academic (previous platform) is no longer accessible, as of December 2018.
Nexis Uni - Company Dossier This link opens in a new window
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Links to Nexis Uni homepage. Select "Find a Company" below the search box.

Search for information about specific companies, executives, or industries. Create a company list based on criteria such as NAICS industry classification or geographic location.

Company Dossier is part of Nexis Uni business information solutions including: legal, corporate, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic, and risk and compliance assessment.

See also Mergent Intellect and Business Market Research Collection
Sage Business Cases This link opens in a new window
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Cases designed to suit a range of academic uses: from short vignettes to narrative long form, written using both field research and publicly available sources.
-browse by subject, content partner, or academic level.
-Thousands of authoritative cases (published 2016-2024) from over 100 countries, designed to engage students in applying core concepts to practice through the use of examples from the global business environment.

Includes curated SAGE Originals case series such as Social Impact, Sustainability, Music Marketing, Ancient Leadership and additional cases on public policy, tech, accounting, health management and more.
Wall Street Journal (WSJ) (ProQuest) (1984+) This link opens in a new window
Financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance.