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BUS 576: Technology, Evaluation, and Commercialization Concepts

Course Instructor: Angus Kingon
Librarians: Amy VanScoy & Hyun-Duck Chung

Databases for Industry Information, Market Share, Company Information, Financial Ratios

LexisNexis Academic
Information on a wide range of topics such as: Top News, General News, Company News, Industry & Market News, Government & Political News, Legal News, Company Financial Information, Country Profiles, State Profiles, Biographical Information, Reference & Directories, Accounting, Auditing and Tax, Law Reviews, Federal Case Law, US Code, Constitution, & Court Rules, State Legal Research, etc. Full text available.

Business Source Premier
Provides full text from over 950 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting, etc. Offers indexing and abstracts for over 1,400 journals. Contains business publications such as Business Week, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review. Also includes Wall Street Words, a dictionary of financial terms, linked directly to words within the citations and full text. Full text available.

Thomson Research (formerly Disclosure/Global Access)
Detailed records for more than 16,000 public companies, and selected records for foreign companies traded on major American exchanges. Information is current, taken from SEC filings and portions of corporate annual reports. Includes extensive quarterly and annual financial data for the parent company, company ratios, selected shareholder information, and textual information from Management Discussion and President's letter. Fully searchable. Customized report formats available. Full text available.

Reference USA
Information on over 10 million US businesses searchable by company name, location, and detailed industry category. Lists size of company, top personnel, year established, type of business, credit rating, yearly sales ranges and more.

Standard and Poor's Net Advantage
Stock Reports include key statistics on more than 4,600 companies: the latest share price, the current year's range, P/E ratio, current dividend and yield as well as a chart showing 6 to 7 years of monthly stock price ranges and trading volume and a 10-year summary of per-share data, statistical tables and balance sheet data. Stock Reports let you compare a given company to its industry peers in terms of stock price, P/E ratio, profit margin and more. Industry Surveys are provided for 52 industries. For each, a description of the Current Environment, Industry Trends, How the Industry Operates, Key Industry Ratios and Statistics, How to Analyze a Company (in the Industry), a Glossary, Industry References, and a Comparative Company Analysis with financials and ratios for leading companies in the industry.

LexisNexis Statistical
Indexes and displays statistical data produced by the US government, by important international intergovernmental organizations, and by knowledgeable professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities.

STAT- USA
The most recent international trade information available from the National Trade Data Bank, the National Economic, Social & Environmental Data Base and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Business, trade and economic information from over 50 US Government Agencies.

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