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Business Databases, as provided by Cowles Library

Our Coolest CBPA Databases

A few databases, provided by Cowles Library, that might be interesting and useful for all CBPA'ers!

CountryWatch
Business, political, cultural and news sources for every country.
Global Issues in Context
GREENR
Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources - Lots of stuff on anything to do with the Environment, including media (podcasts, etc.)
Oxford Handbooks Online

New York Times

If you're a Drake student, faculty, or staff, you now have FREE access to the online New York Times! Go to the link below to find out how:

http://researchguides.drake.edu/nyt

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Find Journals

This form allows you to browse the tables of contents of scholarly journals and choose full text articles. To search for articles across multiple journal titles, use SuperSearch.

Privately Held Companies

You asked for it, we got it! PrivCo has in-depth information concerning privately-held companies. Need business info on Red Bull or NASCAR or Gucci or the European PGA Tour? This is information (particularly financials) that is NOT available elsewhere. Check out PrivCo!

SuperSearch

CBPA Databases - Top Ten

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 10,000 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Business Source Premier includes full-text coverage of nearly 2,900 business and trade journals.
CountryWatch This link opens in a new window
Up-to-date news and information on all of the world's countries.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
Provides provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature

JSTOR - Business Titles
Historical archives of 160+ business journals.

Sage Data This link opens in a new window
Statistical DataSets is a web-based research solutions tool that provides fast and easy access to more than 12 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets within an easy-to-use interface.
Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Mergent Intellect including First Research Industry Reports provides company data on over 100 million privately held global companies (plus 145 million inactive global companies). It also includes information on public companies as well. For access to ANNUAL REPORTS, search for your company, then select ANNUAL REPORTS from the tab on the top.
Includes access to First Research Industry Reports covering 900+ industries and demographic data from Nielsen. TO ACCESS-->Scroll to the middle of the landing page. Click on link that says "FIRST RESEARCH". It will prompt you for an e-mail address, and you MUST enter a valid Drake e-mail address!!
This service also contains information on over 220 million individuals through White Pages Pro and executive contacts on over 90 million professional decision makers.
Mergent Web Reports This link opens in a new window
Access to an archive of corporate and industry related documents. Contains decades of company histories!
Wall Street Journal (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Full text (updated daily) of the newspaper's eastern edition.