Business Databases

Business Source Elite
Business Source® Elite provides full text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. This rich collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. Business Source Elite offers full text for nearly 1,100 business publications and contains expanded PDF backfiles for 150 titles (back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal). 10,000 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.

URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=bsh
Datamonitor Company Profiles
Datamonitor Company Profiles provides detailed company profiles for the world’s 10,000 largest companies. Many of these reports include SWOT analyses.

URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=bsedata&defaultdb=bsh
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. In many cases, these are multi-volume reference works previously only available in a physical form in the library. Now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Chicago State has access to more than 40 titles. Featured titles include Contemporary Black Biography, a 71 volume biographical reference source and International Directory of Company Histories, a massive 93 volume encyclopedia of business history. A current alphabetical list of all available titles can be found here.

Business titles included in the Gale Virtual Reference Library include

  1. Business Plans Handbook. 13 vols. 1993-2008.
  2. Everyday Finance: Economics, Personal Money Management, and Entrepreneurship. 2008.
  3. Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce. 2002.
  4. International Directory of Company Histories. 93 vols. 1990-2008.
URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uiuc_csu?db=gvrl
IntelliConnect
A complete state and federal tax research service

URL: http://intelliconnect.cch.com
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Business
Through the integration of information and technology, LexisNexis uniquely unites proprietary brands, advanced Web technologies and premium information sources. Across the globe, LexisNexis provides customers with access to five billion searchable documents from more than 40,000 legal, news and business sources.

URL: http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/search/flap.do?flapID=companies
Regional Business News
provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications incorporating coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=bwh

General Interest Databases

Academic Search Complete—is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 5,300 scholarly publications, including more than 4,400 peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for 9,300 journals on nearly every area of academic study.

Gale Virtual Reference Library—is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely at all times.

JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1 (119 titles) is JSTOR’s first collection—includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Arts and Sciences IV (112 titles) has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology, public policy and administration.

Newsbank—provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 500 U.S. newspapers – including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times.


Business Databases