Combined access to all three ABI/INFORM business databases: ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline.
Includes thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Featured content includes: Business Monitor International (BMI) Industry Reports; Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Data, Country Finance & Forecast Reports, and ViewsWire; First Research industry reports; Just-Series Market Research Reports; Oxford Analytica Daily Brief Service and Country Profiles; Oxford Economic Country Briefings; Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) Working Papers; and over 5,000 business case studies from Ivey, Thunderbird, Idea Group, and Darden.
Provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Replaces Business & Company ASAP and General Business File ASAP.
Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through business and trade publications, complemented by a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications.
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals, case studies, country profiles, statistical data, market research reports, news articles, academic journals and reference materials organized by country, company and industry.
Includes the content of Ward's Business Directories, Market Share Reporter, International Directory of Company Histories, American Wholesalers and Distributors Directory, Brands and Their Companies, Business Rankings Annual, Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory, Encyclopedia of Global Industries, Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries, Encyclopedia of American Industries, Graham and Whiteside Major Company Series, and other reference works.
Search this database using a company name, ticker symbol, industry code or description, geographic location or personal name.
1886-present. Case studies, company profiles, conference proceedings, country reports, financial data, industry reports, investment research reports, market research reports, monographs, SWOT analyses, trade journals. All aspects of business.
Due to license restrictions, access to the 500 most popular articles from Harvard Business Review is read-only--no printing, downloading, or direct linking to these 500 articles is permitted. All other HBR articles are fully accessible to all current U-M students, faculty, and staff with no such restrictions.
Use Policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of EBSCO Business Source Complete."
Market research reports and market forecasting in advanced materials, biotechnology, chemicals, energy, healthcare, sensors, plastics, nanotechnology, and other emerging technologies. Over 250 research reports published annually.
Contains Commerce Clearing House publications in such areas as securities, banking, trade regulation, information technology, and product safety/liability.
CCH IntelliConnect contains content formerly available from CCH Internet Research and CCH Internet Tax Research Networks. Use Policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of (name of database)."
Information on nearly 24 million companies, including large and mid-sized companies in the US, Canada, and worldwide
Information on nearly twenty-four million companies, including large and mid-sized companies in the United States and Canada, and hundreds of thousands of companies world-wide. Includes contacts and emails, analysis of company operations, actions and changes, plus additional data points such as technologies (software, etc.) used at a company. D&B Hoovers aggregates and enhances content from over 30 diverse content providers representing 2,000 separate information sources including Reuters, CorpTech, Investext, RMA Industry Ratios, StatUSA.
Institutional repository for the University of Michigan. Includes scholarly publications, conference presentations, dissertations, theses, and data from University of Michigan scholars across the three campuses.
The DOT database contains time series data from 1980. Direction of Trade Statistics provides critical data on the value of merchandise exports and imports between each country and all its trading partners. It reports total bilateral and multilateral exports and imports aggregated at national or regional group level.
No "sign in" is necessary to view content. If individual users want to download data, please create a personal account.
Offers company and industry financial data and news stories, as well as full text articles in 6,000 trade publications, newspapers, newswires and magazines.
Technical notes: Please log out of this resource as directed when finished. Failing to log out may prevent others from using the database. Downloads are limited to 100 documents per PDF.
Use policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of Factiva." Traders may not use this database.
Brings together documents, archival collections, videos, advertisements, and texts on aspects of food and society.
Includes photographs, menus, cookbooks, pamphlets, television commercials, documentaries, and more. Includes material on food history, business, anthropology, gastronomy, and nutrition.
Simultaneous searching of numerous Gale databases.
Includes many cross-searchable databases covering most academic subjects and current events.
Includes: • Academic OneFile; • Business and Company ASAP; • Business Economics and Theory; • Communications and Mass Media Collection; • Computer Database; • Criminal Justice Collection; • Agriculture Collection; • Culinary Arts Collection; • Diversity Studies Collection; • Environmental Studies and Policy Collection; • Expanded Academic ASAP; Fine Arts and Music Collection; • Gale Virtual Reference Library; • Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection; • Gender Studies Collection; • General Business File ASAP; • General OneFile; • General Reference Center Gold; • General Science Collection; • Health Reference Center Academic; • Home Improvement Collection; • Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection; • Information Science and Library Issues Collection; • Informe Académico; • InfoTrac Newsstand; • Insurance and Liability Collection; • Junior Edition; • LegalTrac; • Military and Intelligence Database; • New York Times; • Nursing and Allied Health Collection; • Opposing Viewpoints In Context; • Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection; • Pop Culture Collection; • Popular Magazines; • Psychology Collection; • Religion and Philosophy Collection; • Small Business Collection; • Student Edition; • U.S. History Collection; • Vocations and Careers Collection; • War and Terrorism Collection; • World History Collection.
Digitized manuscripts & visual primary source material for the study of global commodities in world history.
Emphasis is on transport, exchange, and consumption of commodities represented. Types of materials include business accounts, mercantile papers, government reports, dock records, and advertisements. Materials are drawn from several libraries, and cover these commodities: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, wheat, and wine and spirits.
Global Insights provides international business and trade information on over 200 countries, the U.S., as well as nearly two dozen industry sectors, and many of the world’s trade blocs.
Use the drop-down boxes below to find the country, state, industry, or trade bloc you desire, or simply hit "Go" and begin exploring. Includes directory of resources allows you to find information ranging from culture and economic information to Trade Tutorials, Trade Law or even Statistical Data Sources. Compare Emerging Markets across several dimensions.
Using this authenticated link while off campus makes obtaining resources easier. Articles that are available at UM-Flint will have the link "Find full text @ UM-Flint," or a link directly to the article, or both. Citations can be exported into RefWorks and EndNote.
Includes ProcurementIQ and Industry Market Research segments. Click "more..." link below for important login information.
IBISWorld's Industry Market Research Reports cover a wide-ranging number of U.S. industries and are updated every four months ensuring that the latest Industry data will always be available. The IBISWorld Industry data enables detailed analysis of key growth trends, the competitive environment, and key issues facing each industry. You browse by industry or search the reports by keywords such as companies, industries, locations, etc. Archival content is available for each industry with some reports dating back to 2001.
ACCESS NOTE: Users will be directed to a registration page where you will need to enter your name and campus email in order to access the reports. This is not creating a permanent account, so registration will be required each time you start a session. Downloads are limited to 30 reports per session.
Data and analysis of international trade, monetary and fiscal issues, and other global economic matters.
The IMF eLibrary Data contains international financial statistics (IFS), balance of payments statistics (BOPS), direction of trade statistics (DOTS), government finance statistics (GFS) covering more than 200 countries and areas. Data can be exported in Excel, CSV, Tab delimited, and HTML formats.
No sign-in is necessary to view content. If individual users want to download data, please create a personal account.
Historical statistics (1750-2010) on the economics, populations, labor force, education, and transportation of nations.
Contains downloadable data drawn from and updating the 3 volume print reference work International Historical Statistics 1750-2005. IHS covers a wide range of topics including: the economy, trade, population, labor, education, migration and transportation with data spanning 260 years (1750-2010). The data is organized by regions which are presented as: The Americas, Europe, and Asia + Oceania. Tables can be downloaded as PDF or Excel documents.
Its purpose is to create jobs and economic growth by promoting U.S. companies; strengthening American competitiveness across all industries; addressing market access and compliance issues; administering U.S. trade laws; and undertaking a range of trade promotion and trade advocacy efforts.
Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences. Also include full text ebooks and open access content.
3-5 years & older full text. African American studies, anthropology, botany, business, ecology, economics, education, general science, geography, history, language & literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology, statistics.
Dates of coverage vary by journal title. All go back to the very first issue published, but most have a "moving wall" embargo that excludes issues from the most recent X years (where X can be anywhere from 0 up to 10 years, depending on the particular journal; most are in the 3 to 5 year embargo range).
Interactive language learning. Includes over 70 modern and ancient languages. Set up a personal account to track progress and resume where you left off.
Includes the following languages
• Arabic, Egyptian
• Arabic, Iraqi
• Arabic, Levantine
• Arabic, MSA
• Armenian
• Azerbaijani
• Bengali
• Cherokee
• Chinese, Cantonese
• Chinese, Mandarin
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dari
• Dutch
• Dzongkha
• English
• English, Shakespearean
• Farsi (Persian)
• Filipino, Tagalog
• Finnish
• French
• French, Canadian
• German
• Greek, Modern
• Greek, Ancient
• Greek, Koine
• Haitian Creole
• Hawaiian
• Hebrew, Biblical
• Hebrew, Modern
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Icelandic
• Igbo
• Indonesian
• Irish (Standard)
• Italian
• Japanese
• Javanese
• Kazakh
• Korean
• Latin
• Malay
• Malayalam
• Norwegian
• Pashto
• Pirate
• Polish
• Portuguese, Brazil
• Punjabi, Pakistani
• Romanian
• Russian
• Scottish Gaelic
• Serbian
• Shanghainese
• Slovak
• Spanish, Castilian
• Spanish, Latin America
• Swahili
• Swedish
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Thai
• Turkish
• Tuvan
• Ukrainian
• Urdu
• Uzbek
• Vietnamese
• Yiddish
Digital collection of historical Moody's, Hoover's, Dun & Bradstreet, and Mergent publications. Mergent WebReports merged into this database.
Digital collection of historical Moody's, Hoover's, Dun & Bradstreet, and Mergent publications. Coverage dates range from 1909-present, depending on the source. The collection includes:
• Moody's/Mergent Corporate Manuals
• Dun & Bradstreet's Key Business Ratios
• Million Dollar Directory
• Hoover's Handbooks
• Historical International Company Annual Reports
Most publications are only available as a PDF download. These files can be quite large.
Private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, and industry profiles. Includes information from Hoover's and Dun & Bradstreet.
Current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock, and insider trading for US and foreign companies.
Provides access to current and historical financial information on 15,000 US and 20,000 foreign companies, both active and inactive, including firm description, statistics, and financial information, as well as annual reports. Mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock and insider trading are also provided in the company records. Historical data is available for the past 15 years. Company reports and financials can be exported to Excel.
Includes Mergent Horizon data about a firm's products; its relationships with its major customers, suppliers, and partners; its competitors; its financials; and the industry space in which it operates.
Full-text access to over 15,000 sources of news, business, legal, and reference information worldwide.
Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, including hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, legal and business publications, wire services, broadcast media transcripts, and trade/news magazines. Covers 1980 - present (varies by publication).
Industry Analysis, an office of Manufacturing and Services within the International Trade Administration, provides information and analysis pertaining to issues affecting U.S. industry competitiveness to facilitate the establishment of sound policies that contribute to U.S. economic welfare.
Orbis has information about 40 million companies, including 18 million European companies from 46 countries, 16 million US and Canadian companies, 6.5 million South and Central American companies, 1.3 million Japanese companies, 300,000 Chinese companies, and 90,000 African companies. Orbis includes information about 30,000 banks and 8,000 insurance companies.
Includes the following databases. which may also be searched individually:
• ABI/INFORM Complete
• COS Conference Papers Index
• COS Scholar Universe
• ebrary e-books
• EconLit
• OxResearch
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text: Business (1639 - current)
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland: Business
• ProQuest Historical Annual Reports (1844-present)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Wall Street Journal (1889-1996)
• ProQuest Research Library: Business
• Women's Wear Daily Archive
Comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses.
The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research. PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.
More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.
Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
Subject coverage
• Business and Economics
• Medical Sciences
• Science
• Technology
• Agriculture
• Social Sciences
• Arts
• Humanities
Note: Full text for certain publications is subject to market availability.
Searchable access to the backfile of the Wall Street Journal, in full page images digitized from microfilm.
Searchable access to the backfile of the Wall Street Journal newspaper (Eastern Edition) from the first issue on July 8, 1889 through the December 31st issue of 17 years ago. (One year of additional content from 17 years ago is added annually.) Reproduces the complete full text of every issue in its original printed form, in full page images digitized from microfilm. Note: For searchable access to the full text of the Wall Street Journal from 1995 to the present, use ABI/INFORM. For combined searchable access to the complete backfile from 1889 up through today's issue, use ProQuest News & Newspapers.
Combined access to all available ProQuest news databases, both historical and current.
Combined access to all subscribed ProQuest news source databases, including ProQuest Newsstand, Gannett Newsstand, and ProQuest Historical Newspapers, as well as ABI/INFORM Dateline, Alt-Press Watch, American Periodicals, and Ethnic NewsWatch. Includes full text of thousands of newspapers, dozens of news wire services, and many news-oriented magazines and periodicals, from the past up to the present. Includes both major and smaller English-language newspapers from around the world and across the U.S., as well as selected newspapers in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, and other languages.
Indexes and abstracts statistical publications from foreign, US, and state governments, and businesses.
1974-present. Includes statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, private companies, and intergovernmental organizations. Create maps and reports on health, crime, population, finance, industry, and marketing. Data is available for the world as a whole or for selected countries. Data for the U.S. are shown by state, often by county, sometimes by census tract and zip code. Time series data may go back several decades. Requires Java. Firefox and Internet Explorer recommended. Does not work with Safari.
Tool used for creating and distribution online surveys, data storage, and analysis. Requires UM-Flint email account.
The University of Michigan has purchased a system wide site license for this service. Therefore, subject to conditions outlined by the vendor and the University of Michigan, there is no limit on the number of surveys that can be created using Qualtrics.
To create a Qualtrics account, visit: https://umflint.qualtrics.com. Click on the "Please click here to create an account" link at the bottom left of the screen. You MUST use your FULL UM-Flint email address (i.e. username@umflint.edu) as your username. You can select whatever password you like (it does NOT have to be your LAN password). You will be emailed a link to verify your account. NOTE: You are only allowed to create one account in Qualtrics, so it is important that you remember the password you use. If you forget your password, click the "Forgot your password?" link and provide your email address. Qualtrics will email you a link to reset it. More info
Web-based mapping application that allows you to create thematic maps and reports using demographic, business and marketing data.
Sources include: U.S. government sources such as the census, Department of Labor statistics, FBI, and National Climatic Data Center; Mediamark Research Inc (MRI) Consumer Survey, EASI Analytic Life Stages, EASI Health Care, Nielsen PRIZM Consumer Buying Power, Nielsen Retail Market Power; and Nielsen Financial CLOUT datasets.
Data can be downloaded for use with other software such as Excel and GIS.
SimplyMap requires users to log in to save their work and use it again later. Users who do not wish to create a personal account may log in as a guest
Contains access to over 2,000 journals, primarily in the life and physical sciences, medicine, and technical fields, but also some social sciences and humanities.
Includes over 2,000 journals published by Elsevier Science and its subsidiary publishers, including Academic Press, Cell Press, Pergamon, Mosby, and Saunders journals. Coverage is particularly strong for the life and physical sciences, medicine, and technical fields, but also includes some social sciences and humanities.
Includes chemistry, chemical engineering, clinical medicine, computer science, earth & planetary sciences, economics, engineering, energy & technology, environmental science & technology, life sciences, materials science, mathematics, physics, astronomy.
International multidisciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences.
International multi-disciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences. Searchable by cited-reference (forward citation searching). Covers journals, patents, and websites (16,500+ titles) from 4,000+ publishers. Covers 1995-present. with limited earlier coverage.
Unlimited, full text access to business, technical, and engineering e-books.
See More info for important login information.
Access to Skillsoft Books is through login with your uniqname and UMICH password. When you have logged in, Skillsoft will assign you a unique, anonymous identifier that will give you access to personalized features such as notations and favorites. You may opt in and provide your personal information if you desire.
For information about added functions for mobile use and for mobile app information, please see the Skillport help documentation.
Data on business activity with estimates & analysis of US economic activity.
Monthly publication of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (US Dept of Commerce) on business activity with estimates & analysis of US economic activity. Includes articles on the national, regional and international economic accounts and related topics, a column describing the current business situation and statistical tables highlighting national income and product accounts. Statistical section has tables for approximately 270 series as well as charts for about 130 series.
Back issues from July 1921 to present available at: http://www.bea.gov/scb/date_guide.asp
Provides cross-search of multiple Web of Science databases.
Includes: • Web of Science Core Collection (1900-present) • BIOSIS Previews (1926-present) • Current Contents Connect (1998-present) • Data Citation Index (1900-present) • Zoological Record (1864-present) • Journal Citation Reports (1997-present) at top edge
Short descriptions of how to effectively use Web of Science to: - Perform Basic Search - Register and SAVE SETTINGS to repeat search later. - Search for books and book chapters in core collection. - Create CITATION ALERTS to receive email notification whenever a new article cites a specified document.
Offers detailed subnational reports, which exhaustively cover business regulation and reform in different cities and regions within a nation. These reports provide data on the ease of doing business, rank each location, and recommend reforms to improve performance in each of the indicator areas.
The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 185 economies and selected cities at the subnational level.
Provides information about M&A, IPO, & venture capital deals, including over 500,000 transactions with up to 100,000 new deals added each year.
Covers five years back for international deals; 1997-present for deals involving European & U.S. companies.
Use policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of Zephyr." This database is for personal use only, meaning that you should never share your log-in credentials for this resource.
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Find e-books and the 25,000+ full text journals held by the Thompson Library in print, microfilm, & online. Updated every 1-2 days. Search by title or ISSN/ISBN.
