Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports.
Reference content from Gale's core business collection. Includes easy-to-use company fundamentals and investment research reports, industry rankings, profiles, market share data, company histories, and more. Compare companies and generate lists by industry or location. Thousands of company histories and industry essays from Gale's core business collection. Deep research coverage with scholarly journals, business news, and more.
Electronic version of standard CCH looseleaf services covering tax, securities, banking, and trade law. Includes the CCH Federal Tax Service, IRS letter rulings, state tax reporters, Federal Securities Law Reporter, the Trade Regulation Reporter, the Government Contracts Reporter, current news, and more.
Patrons may use this resource for academic, scholarly, or educational purposes only.
Fill out a form to request access to a data set of tax and every real estate transaction at the parcel level.
Access to CoreLogic data is available to currently affiliated faculty, staff, and students. To access this data you must fill out a form on the database link. You will then be contacted by a librarian who will send you the memorandum of understanding.
CoreLogic aggregates data from individual, parcel-level real estate transactions and financial records We have licensed access to Tax, Deed, and Foreclosure data at the parcel level for every county in the United States.
These records are publicly available and gathered from county record offices across the country. Coverage dates vary by county, some county records go back 50 years. Coverage is more comprehensive from the 1990s to the present. The Tax data file contains only one year of data (for most counties that is 2016)
The dataset consists of multiple pipe-delimited text files organized into Tax, Deed, and Foreclosure. Each file covers the whole US. Downloading the entire dataset will take 1-2 hours.
Bibliographic database of Arabic literature in western research.
The Database of Arabic Literature in Western Research (DAL) is an easy-to-use, searchable, internet-based bibliographic database of Arabic literature in western research. Search Keyword and other Browse links on the left hand bar, as well as Simple Search and Advanced Search, provide easy access to detailed, annotated, and content-enriched bibliographic records of books, articles, chapters of books, and reviews written in English since the movement of translation and commentary of Arabic literary texts first began in the West.
Provides US and International time series economic data from 79 sources.
FRED Economic data provides comprehensive economic data, including banking & finance, population, employment, labor market, national accounts, production & business activity, prices, international data, U.S. regional data, and academic data. This database is governed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Loius.
Annual and infra-annual labor market statistics for over 100 indicators and 230 countries, areas, and territories.
The yearly indicators dataset contains standardized indicators for purposes of greater comparability across countries and relies heavily on the official submission of data by national authorities. The short term indicators dataset contains monthly, quarterly and semi-annual data from official websites of national authorities and is updated on a monthly basis. The EAPEP dataset contains country estimates and projections of the total population, labor force, and participation rates by sex and age.
A growing collection of digitized rare medical texts, video, and other formats in the Internet Archive.
The Medical Heritage Library is a digitized collection of rare books from leading medical libraries. The contents cover all areas in the history of medicine and can be browsed by title, author, subject/keyboard, and date. Contributors include the National Library of Medicine, the New York Public Library and the medical libraries of Columbia, Harvard, and Yale.
Comprehensive news and analysis of state government delivered in written reports detailing the activities of the House, Senate, Judicial, and Executive branches of Michigan state government.
Digitized radio programs and scripts of African music broadcast by Voice of America, 1966-1996. Links to current broadcasts. Some content requires login; click more for details.
Most of the content is open access. However, some requires login via UMICH credentials.
Leo Sarkisian was an ethnomusicologist of African music and broadcaster for Voice of America (VOA) radio. Hired by Edward R. Morrow, Mr. Sarkisian created Music Time Africa in 1965. It was VOA’s longest running English-language music program, and regarded as a cultural bridge between the United States and Africa.
The archive is a compilation of radio programs digitized as part of the grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including both the audio segment and the script, if available. During his nearly five decades at VOA, Sarkisian helped preserve Africa’s musical heritage by reporting on the traditions of its people and recording their music. The diversity of countries, locales, and languages represented in this collection makes it uniquely remarkable.
Comprehensively covers the English and Chinese newspapers published by North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd., the most important and largest British-founded press agency in Shanghai in the 1800s.
Newspaper titles include The North-China Herald《北华捷报》,The North-China Daily News《字林西报》, The Chinese Shipping List & Advertiser《上海新报》, Hu Bao《沪报》, Han Bao《汉报》, Xiao Xian Bao《消闲报》, and The North-China Desk Hong List《字林西报行名录》.
The Office of Minority Health is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities.
Documents the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States through correspondence, reports, pamphlets, and more.
Chronicles the evolution of public health legislation, policies, and campaigns at local, national, and federal levels. Through the lens of public health, this archive also tells a tale of twentieth-century urbanization and industrialization, the rise of public advocacy and impact of legislation at various levels, the transformation of domestic life, the role of state control in the care of its populations, the challenges presented by differences of and social attitudes respecting race, ethnicity, gender, citizenship, age, ability, and class, and finally the means, methods, and mechanisms for organizing and financing public health policy initiatives.
Correspondence, reports, pamphlets and ephemera documenting the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States. Documents cut across a broad spectrum of subject areas including American history, American studies, history of science and medicine, public health studies, sociology, political science, psychology, and economics.
Includes rare, hard-to-find materials from four collections: the Library of Social and Economic Aspects of Medicine from Michael M. Davis (1920-1966); Selected Publications on Public Health from the New York Academy of Medicine; Records of the Children's Bureau: Maternal and Child Health (1912-1969); and the Committee on Public Health of the New York Academy of Medicine: Correspondence, Reports, and Documents.
Primary source documents of territories of the United States before statehood, 1764-1953.
Documents assembled by the National Records and Archives Administration (NARA) relating to territories of the United States before they achieved statehood. The official history of the states’ formative territorial years, recorded in primary source documents, many of which are hand-written, that include official correspondence with Washington, Native American negotiations and treaties, military records, judicial proceedings, population data, financial statistics, land records, and more.
Sources include: documents of the Departments of State and the Interior; "multi-agency" records of NARA; many documents from David Parker’s Calendar of Papers in Washington Archives Relating to the Territories of the United States (to 1873); and supplemental records from Alaska.
Directory of U-M faculty with expertise in sustainability projects and goals.
From the website: "The Graham Institute catalyzes and facilitates sustainability-focused collaborations involving faculty, students, and external stakeholders. We link knowledge to real-world impact by supporting collaborative teams spanning multiple topics, disciplines, and sectors. And we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are key to empowerment and the advancement of sustainability."
Searchable in the following goal areas:
• No Poverty
• Zero Hunger
• Good Health and Well-Being
• Quality Education
• Gender Equality
• Clean Water and Sanitation
• Affordable and Clean Energy
• Decent Work and Economic Growth
• Industry Innovation and Infrastructure
• Reduced Inequalities
• Sustainable Cities and Communities
• Responsible Consumption and Production
• Climate Action
• Life Below Water
• Life on Land
• Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
• Partnerships for the Goals
United Nations Industrial Development Organization's database comprising statistics of industrial growth, business structure, and more.
UNIDO maintains a variety of databases comprising statistics of overall industrial growth, detailed data on business structure and statistics on major indicators of industrial performance by country in the historical time series. The databases are updated regularly with the most recent data. Release of the new edition of the databases is announced every year in May.
Currently available databases:
• INDSTAT4 - Industrial Statistics Database
• INDSTAT2 - Industrial Statistics Database
• IDSB - Industrial Demand-Supply Balance Database
• MVA - Manufacturing Value Added Database
• MINSTAT- Mining and Utilities Statistics Database
Directory of contact information for government and non-governmental (NGO) organizations.
The Washington Information Directory has more than 10,000 listings for members of Congress, Congressional committees and subcommittees, organization charts, and contact information for NGOs. Browse by topic to find information on internships.
CIA-sponsored translations of local news sources from around the world, including newspapers, radio, and television broadcasts
Searchable by keyword, region of the world, and date. Provides the full-text in English. World News Connection covers content from 1995-2013. For older U.S. government translation of foreign news please see Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (1941-1996). Per the National Technical Information System no new content has been added since December 31, 2013.
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