Additional business databases are offered by the Gmelich Lab for Financial Markets. Please note the access instructions and limitations on use.
ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)Provides access to scholarly journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, and country- and industry-focused reports.
Ad$pender (Kantar Media)Creates custom reports on advertising expenditures across twelve media channels including TV, cable, magazines, newspapers, radio, and outdoor and internet displays on the level of industries, categories, brands, products, and advertisers going back to 2007.
Advertising Age Datacenter (AdAge) Access Instructions
Features news, reports, and statistics about the advertising industry.
Audit Analytics Access Instructions
Provides access to data and information about public company audits, compliance, and governance.
Use My Dashboard button to initiate search.
BoardEx Access Instructions
Contains biographical information on board members and senior executives around the world from 1999 to 2015.
Current Villanova faculty, students and staff contact linda.hauck@villanova.edu for access.
Business Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)Indexes business magazines and scholarly journals. Includes abstracts and selected full text. Coverage goes back to 1995.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)Provides access to a wide range of academic business journals and trade magazines. Topics include management, marketing, finance, economics, and management information systems. Full text access may be embargoed for up to three years. Coverage goes back to 1965.
China Data Online (China Marketing Research Co.)Provides national, provincial, city, and regional data series including national accounts, prices, employment, income, industry, foreign trade, agriculture, construction, transportation, telecommunication, and education in monthly and annual time series.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)Indexes academic journals, magazines, books, and book reviews in the fields of communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields. Includes abstracts and full text for selected journals. Coverage goes back to the early 20th century.
Conference Board Business & Economics PortfolioIncludes reports, economic indicator data sets, and global macroeconomic time series for economists. Also features interviews and studies on leadership, compensation, organizational development, operations, globalization, diversity, sustainability, innovation and more for management and human resource development professionals. Coverage varies.
D&B HooversOffers public and private company and industry information including company profiles, market research reports from Marketline, Freedonia, Euromonitor, and RMA updated with recent news, executive profiles, and analyst reports.
Data-Planet (Sage)Provides access to a wide variety of economic, social, and political indicators including data sets from the U.S. government, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the OECD, Eurostat, the United Nations, the world's stock exchanges, and Zillow. Offers customized graphing and mapping.
EMIS Intelligence (Emerging Markets Information Service)Delivers company and industry information together with relevant news, research, and analytics for developing markets.
ESRI Business Analyst Online Tutorial
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Provides geographic analysis tools. Includes demographic, consumer spending, and business data.
Access courtesy of the Department of Geography & the Environment.
To create your Villanova SSO account, click on the option Your ArcGIS organization’s URL and type villanova (right before .maps.arcgis.com), then Continue. On the next page, click Villanova SSO. The familiar Villanova log in page will appear.
EconLit with Full Text (EBSCO)Indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, working papers, and dissertations in the field of economics based on the
Journal of Economic Literature's subject classification. Provides access to the full text of selected journals including all American Economic Association journals. Coverage goes back to 1886.
Economist Intelligence UnitFeatures a single unified platform delivering country and regional reports and comparable data for over 200 countries. Politics, economics, the business environment and sector and industries are explained and forecasts presented. The data tab delivers time series on national accounts, monetary, demographic, trade, employment, debt & spending indicators to name a few.
Financial Times Limitations on Use
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Provides full access to the web edition which features the same content found in the print edition plus additional multimedia features, company tear sheets, interactive charting, a dictionary of financial terms, and recruitment tools. Digital access to the print edition is available via ABI/Inform and Nexis Uni.
Subscription courtesy of Villanova School of Business.
Register with your Villanova email address. For mobile access via iPad or iPhone visit app.ft.com. For mobile access via Android devices visit m.ft.com.
First Research Industry Profiles (ABI/Inform Collection - ProQuest)Provides industry profiles with critical analysis, statistics, and forecasts. Coverage extends back to 2009.
Foundation Directory Online Professional (Foundation Center)Offers information on foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking charities. Grantmaker profiles include private and independent foundations, corporate foundations, U.S. federal funders, public charities, and international foundations.
Gale Directory LibraryPresents a collection of directories including Business Rankings Annual, Market Share Reporter, Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S., and Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media.
Gale Virtual Reference LibraryOffers access to a collection of digital encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, and directories in the arts, social sciences, business, and sciences.
Gartner Limitations on Use
Features analyses, forecasts, and market statistics on IT products and services.
Subscription courtesy of Villanova UNIT.
Limitations on Use:
Authorized users (on and off campus) limited to current Villanova students, faculty and staff.
Global Financial Data Limitations on Use
Features historical data on worldwide stock exchanges, bond indices, intraday data, futures, interest rates, population, and much more. All data is clearly defined, easy to read, and can be readily exported into Excel.
Limitations on Use:
Authorized users (on and off campus) limited to current Villanova students, faculty and staff.
GuideStar ProProvides detailed information about nonprofit organizations including IRS Form 990 with financial statements. Also offers self-reported information about programs and activities.
Partially funded by Villanova School of Business.
Hoover's Company & Industry Reports (Lexis-Nexis)
IBISWorldProvides access to U.S. and global industry market research reports.
JSTORProvides a full text archive of academic journals and books in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. The most recent three to five years of a journal are usually not included.
Leadership Directory
Lexis-Nexis Company DossierProvides full-text access to company profiles and dossiers.
Lexis-Nexis Market & Industry ReportsFeatures BMI, Canadean, IDC, and Hoover industry profiles.
MarketLine Company Profiles (EBSCO)Offers detailed reports on U.S. and foreign companies in a wide range of industries. These reports provide a description of the business, company history, key personnel, products, services, and competitors. MarketLine Industry Reports are available from the D&B Global Business Browser database.
MarketResearch.com Academic Limitations on Use
Provides marketing reports for many industries and demographic reports on a variety of age groups. Documents are formatted as Adobe Acrobat or PowerPoint files.
Limitations on Use:
Licensed for academic uses only. May not be used for commercial uses.
Mergent Archives (Moody's Manuals, Annual Reports, SEC & Commodity Research Bureau)Offers the full text of all of Mergent/Moody's Corporate Manuals, including Mergent/Moody's Industrial, OTC, Bank & Finance, Public Utilities & Transportation Manuals for some titles going back to 1909. The glossy annual report archive includes U.S. and foreign companies with coverage to the 1800s. The SEC Historical collection covers 1970-1995 and includes 10-Ks, 11-Ks & 20-Fs. The CRB Commodity Yearbook, covers 1939 to present. Searching by company, year and location, but not full text, offered.
Mergent Online Limitations on Use
Provides detailed financial statements for U.S. and international public and private companies, including SEC filings and current and historical annual reports for U.S. and international public companies. Data can be downloaded in a variety of formats. Also includes country profiles.
Access limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Mintel Insights & Analytics Limitations on Use
Offers product and industry market research reports covering U.S. and international marketplaces. Each report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape, supply chain, market-share size and trends, and consumer profiles. Analytics advance search monitors new product activity in consumer packaged goods markets worldwide.
Limitations on Use:
Authorized users (on and off campus) limited to current Villanova students, faculty and staff.
Morningstar Investment Research CenterContains information on more than 30,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. Provides independent analysis, industry information, stock charts, portfolio building tools, and web-based educational tutorials.
NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's Capital IQ)Offers market information, company quotes, equity index information, industry information (including the S&P Industry Surveys), and economic data.
Nexis Uni Limitations on Use
Formerly known as LexisNexis Academic. Provides full text access to national and international newspaper and magazine articles and news transcripts, business, company, and industry information in the U.S. and abroad, and legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews. Coverage varies.
Limitations on Use:
LexisNexis online services and the materials contained therein are under copyright by LexisNexis. All rights reserved. No part of these Services may be used except for research purposes, and the Services may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the LexisNexis Academic Library Solutions. Materials retrieved from the Services may not be duplicated in hard copy or machine-readable form without the prior written authorization of LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions, except that limited reproduction of output is permitted solely for individual use by the Authorized User or internal distribution within the Subscribing Institution in accordance with the terms of this Agreement unless further limited or prohibited by the Copyright Act of 1976. Under no circumstances may the Materials or any portion thereof be used to create derivative products or services.
Oxford Bibliographies (Oxford University Press) Tutorial
Presents peer-reviewed, annotated bibliographies and expert commentary on current scholarship in selected disciplines. Villanova University has access to the following bibliographies: African American Studies, Art History, Atlantic History, Biblical Studies, British and Irish Literature, Buddhism, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Communication, Criminology, Environmental Science, Geography, International Relations, Islamic Studies, Latin American Studies, Management, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Renaissance and Reformation, and Victorian Literature.
O'Reilly for Higher Education Tutorial
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Provides access to over 35,000 ebooks, 30,000 hours of video, curated learning paths, technology manuals, case studies, audio books, and videos covering fields ranging from software development, business, management, career development, engineering, design and more. Formerly known as Safari Books Online.
O’Reilly Media mobile app (iOS, Android & Amazon Fire) allows you to read online and off and syncs across devices. App is available on the
App Store or Google Play.
PRS International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) Tables Limitations on Use
Offers political, economic, and financial risk ratings and forecasts for 146 countries. Time series data covers 1985 through 2021. This is a downloadable file in Microsoft Excel format.
Limitations on Use:
Authorized users (on and off campus) limited to current Villanova students, faculty and staff.
Passport (Euromonitor International) Limitations on Use
Provides lifestyle statistics and reports, market data and analysis, and market forecasts for selected countries. Includes 6-year historic market size data for selected consumer products plus 5-year forecasts.
Limitations on Use:
Authorized access (on and off campus) limited to current Villanova students, faculty and staff.
Philadelphia Business Journal (American City Business Journals) Limitations on Use
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Offers full text access to the Philadelphia Business Journal and their Book of Lists
This User Agreement explains your rights and obligations in accessing, visiting and/or using the Service, brought to you by ACBJ. By using the Service, you consent and agree to be bound by the terms of this User Agreement. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this User Agreement, you should not access, visit and/or use the Service, or request or receive a Product. This User Agreement may be modified from time to time, so check back often.
https://acbj.com/useragreement
Register with your Villanova email address and create a password. Accounts will be purged from time to time. When they are, reregistration will be needed. After registration you may get the mobile app for access.
Plunkett's Industry Almanacs
PolicyMap Tutorial
Offers a tool for mapping and analyzing U.S. national data on a wide variety of topics including education, income, employment, public health, crime, housing, transit, and more. Researchers can conduct demographic and socioeconomic analyses on a variety of geographic levels, from the national level to the neighborhood census block group as well as custom regions. Time series data covers 2000 to present.
Polling the NationsPresents public opinion poll data from surveys conducted in the U.S. and more than 100 other countries. Includes the full text of hundreds of thousands of questions and responses from thousands of surveys. Only polls using statistically valid sampling and methods are included. Covers 1986 to the present.
PsycINFO (ProQuest) Tutorial
Provides abstracts and indexing to journals, books, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations in all areas of psychology. This database is produced by the American Psychological Association (APA). International in scope; coverage is from 1887 to the present.
Regional Business News (EBSCO)Provides full text coverage of regional business publications including journals, newspapers, and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
RIA Checkpoint (Thomson Reuters) Limitations on Use
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Includes federal, state, local, and international tax codes, regulations, cases, and administrative rulings with explanations and commentary. Also offers news alerts and a tax thesaurus.
Limitations on Use:
Authorized users (on and off campus) limited to current Villanova students, faculty and staff.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (iPOLL) Tutorial
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Offers public opinion poll data from surveys conducted in the U.S. and other countries by many major polling organizations. Includes the full text of questions and responses. Items with a green plus icon have crosstab breakdowns; those with an X have microdata available for download; while those with a green and blue star icon allow you to perform custom crosstab analysis online. Covers 1935 to the present, updated daily.
To download or analyze data online, each user needs to set up a free account.
Scopus (Elsevier)Provides citations and abstracts to peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings in all major disciplines. Provides information on citing and cited references for each article.
Sports Market AnalyticsOffers statistics, articles, and reports on sporting goods, participation, fans, media, and facilities. Formerly known as Sports Business Research Network.
Statista Tutorial
Provides a portal to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources. Topics covered include industries, media, companies, product categories, and countries.
Statistical Insight (ProQuest) Tutorial
Offers indexing, abstracting, and selected full text of statistical publications from U.S. state and federal governments, business and research institutes, and international material from the UN, OECD, EU, etc. Some tables are available in GIF, XLS, CSV, and other formats.
Value Line Investment SurveyProvides information for investors on individual stocks and companies. Offers forecasting and historical information, as well as detailed financials, charts, and reports. Includes sorting, filtering (screening), graphing, and reporting functions.
VaultOffers career, school, and industry guides; internship information and reviews; company rankings and profiles; and job search advice. Formerly known as Vault Online Career Library.
Access courtesy of the Villanova Career Center.
Venture Capital & Private Equity Firms (Grey House Publishing)Presents an international directory of venture capital and private equity firms. Profiles include information about each firm's mission, industry and geographic preferences, portfolio companies, and more; also includes background information about each firm's executives.
WARCOffers information on global advertising and marketing trends including case studies, articles, reports, opinion pieces, and expenditure data. Formerly known as World Advertising Research Center.
WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) Limitations on Use
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Offers a data research platform for business and economics datasets including AuditAnalytics, COMPUSTAT, CRSP, CBOE, Option Metrics, Risk Metrics, TAQ, TRACE, Thomson Reuters 13f, and others.
Limitations on Use:
Authorized users (on and off campus) limited to current Villanova graduate students and faculty.
Access and registration approved by rdavid.ratigan@villanova.edu of the Gmelich Lab for Financial Markets
Web of Science (Clarivate) Tutorial
Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceeding Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, and Index Chemicus. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work. Coverage varies.
eMarketerOffers data and reports related to digital marketing. Topics include advertising spending, digital marketing, social media, media usage, e-commerce, email marketing, and device usage. Coverage is global.