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Company Research

Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
Detailed information and financial data on American and International public companies
Business Insights (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Easily find information on companies and industries. Especially useful are the extensive financial and operational ratios provided for companies. Also SWOT analyses.
ABI/INFORM Collection + other ProQuest business databases This link opens in a new window
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 Source Premier (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Find articles, economic reports, company profiles, industry reports, and videos from business publications in areas such as marketing, management, accounting, and finance.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Next to the database logo in the upper left of the page, drop the menu down to find Business to get started.

Industry and Market Research

IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Founded in 1971, IBISWorld provides trusted industry research on thousands of industries worldwide. Our in-house analysts leverage economic, demographic and market data, then add analytical and forward-looking insight, to help organizations of all types make better business decisions.
Business Insights (Gale) This link opens in a new window
In addition to detailed information on companies, this database provides market research reports from Plunkett, GlobalData, and Datamonitor.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is a global data and business intelligence platform with an extensive collection of statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources in 170 industries.
CountryWatch This link opens in a new window
CountryWatch provides critical country-specific data including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information to a global audience.

Country Comparison Tool
Rates countries on six cultural characteristics: Power Distance, Individualism, Motivation towards Achievement and Success, Uncertainty Avoidance, Long Term Orientation, and Indulgence
Index of Economic Freedom
This entity measures the impact of liberty and free markets around the globe.
International Trade Administration's Country Commercial Guides
Reports on market conditions, opportunities, regulations, and business customs prepared at US Embassies worldwide.
Observatory of Economic Complexity
Visualize, understand, and interact with the latest international trade data.
Trading Economics
Information for 196 countries including historical data for more than 300.000 economic indicators, exchange rates, stock market indexes, government bond yields and commodity prices.
Corruption Perceptions Index
Corruption Index by Country
World Bank's Business Ready Environment
Resources in five areas that are highly pertinent to shaping a country’s business environment are listed.
World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators
Reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 215 economies for six dimensions of effective governance.

Demographic Data

If you are 13 or older and live, work, attend school, or pay property taxes in New York State, you can get a free digital library card from the New York Public Library using this online form: https://www.nypl.org/library-card/new

This will provide remote access to the following:

SimplyAnalytics, which allows you to obtain demographic data and map that data.

Reference Solutions, which is a large database of companies. It also contains modules that provide demographic data for places.