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Business Databases by Name

 

Electronic resources, or databases, are covered by licenses limiting access to academic use by UCLA faculty, staff, and current UCLA students, with some limited to Anderson School use only.  Please also read the UCLA Library policy on  Appropriate Use of Licensed Electronic Resources. Violations of the University's contractual agreements with electronic resources vendors can and do result in the suspension of access to those resources for the entire UCLA community.

Some business-related information needs require other library databases or subject-specific databasesor e-resources licensed by the UCLA Library. If you cannot identify a useful database, please consult a business research librarian.

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UC

Available to current University of California students, faculty, and staff via their home campus proxy server or VPN.

UCLA

Available to current UCLA students, faculty, and staff via the Anderson Proxy Server, Bruin Online Proxy Server, or UCLA VPN.

Anderson

Available via the UCLA Anderson Proxy Server to current UCLA Anderson students, faculty, and staff.

Special Request

Available only to current UCLA community (sometimes UCLA Anderson community only), and has additional access requirements.

Database Usage

 

Electronic resources, or databases, are covered by licenses limiting access to academic use by UCLA faculty, staff, and current UCLA students, with some limited to Anderson School use only. Please also read the UCLA Library policy on  Appropriate Use of Licensed Electronic Resources. Violations of the University's contractual agreements with electronic resources vendors can and do result in the suspension of access to those resources for the entire UCLA community.

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Academic Search Complete

Multi-disciplinary database with content, indexing and abstracts for over 13,000 academic journals and other publications.

Access: All UC

American Fact Finder

American Fact Finder provides United States-specific searchable, downloadable demographic and economic data from the US Census.

Access: Free to Public
 

AtoZdatabases: Target Company Lists

Use AtoZdatabases to create custom target lists from more than 30 million U.S. business profiles by geography, industry, public/private ownership, employee size, annual revenue, and more, then export search results to Excel.

The database also includes more than 2.3 million job listings, 1.1. million healthcare professionals, 2 million new businesses, and much more.

Access: All UCLA

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Bank Regulatory Database (via WRDS)

Five databases for regulated depository financial institutions, providing accounting data for bank holding companies, commercial banks, savings banks, and savings and loans institutions.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

BCC Research

Provides market research reports covering major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial and advanced manufacturing (Business-to-Business), pharmaceutical, and high technology organizations, as well as certain consumer products (such as those in the Food and Beverage category, for example).

Access: All UCLA

Best Practices Database

Provides benchmarking data and other strategic research, originally commissioned by Fortune 500 clients and the like, on real life "best practices" in such areas as customer service, sales and marketing, human resources, operations, knowledge management, the Internet and e-business.

Access: All UCLA

Bizminer

Provides detailed financial and marketing data for some 16,000 lines of business in 300 national and local markets throughout the U.S.

Access: All UCLA

Blockholders Database (via WRDS)

Standardized data for blockholders of 1,913 companies (1996-2001). 

Access: Special Request (see notes)

Bloomberg

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Bloomberg use is strictly limited, without exception, to current UCLA Anderson School students, faculty, and staff only.


Data platform which provides real-time and historical financial market data and economic data, analysis, and news worldwide.

Access: UCLA Anderson

BMI Research

Country and global industry data, analysis, and forecasts for 24 major sectors in markets worldwide; emerging markets are emphasized, but key developed markets, such as the United States, are also covered.  

Access: All UCLA
 

Business Expert Press Digital Libraries

Fully searchable and downloadble collection of more than 680 current business-related e-books written by top business school faculty.

Access: All UCLA
 

Business Plans Handbook

Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses. UCLA owns volume 38 (2017) through volume 56 (2023).

Access: All UCLA

Business Source Complete

Comprehensive business articles database covering more than 13,000 scholarly, professional, and trade periodicals in all areas of business, and the only electronic resource for the full text of the Harvard Business Review, 1922 to the most current issue.

Access: All UC

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Capital IQ

Click on the “More” link and read the NOTES section to learn how to obtain your individual  Capital IQ account.

DO NOT attempt to sign up or register at the  Capital IQ site to obtain an account—you will only be referred back to the Rosenfeld Library.

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Your Capital IQ account works ONLY on a web browser configured with the Anderson Proxy Server.

Access: UCLA Anderson

CB Insights

Click on the “More” link below to read the Notes section about specific usage parameters on individual CBI accounts
Global private equity, venture capital, and angel investment database that provides both historical and daily real-time information about VC- and angel investor-backed startup companies, venture capital companies, angel investors and their interests, private company financing deals, incubators, related mergers and acquisitions transactions, and more.

Access:  UCLA Anderson

CBOE Volatility Index (via WRDS)

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index® (VIX) is a key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

CEIC

Provides thousands of downloadable time-series of macroeconomic data for China, Japan, India, and 15 other Asian countries ('Global Database') and some non-Asian countries ('Daily Database'), including the USA.

Access: All UCLA

Checkpoint

Information and tools for tax and accounting professionals, from Thomson Reuters/RIA.

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Cheetah

Note: The database name has recently changed to VitaLaw™; the link does resolve to the correct, expected site.

Provides access to primary law (including state, federal, and international taxation) and Cheetah analysis on such legal/business topics as Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Banking, Corporate Governance, Human Resources, Intellectual Property, Pensions and Benefits, Products Liability, Securities, Government Contracts, and much more.

Access: All UCLA

Claritas 360 via SRDS.com (Formerly Claritas Segmentation & Market Solutions)

Note Vendor's System Requirements: The Claritas 360 application supports Google Chrome only (two most recent versions).
Provides highly detailed demographic/psychographic and consumer lifestyle data, sourced from Claritas and PRIZM, for all U.S. 210 DMAs (Designated Market Areas) and 3,000 counties.

Access:  All UCLA

Compendex

Comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research covering all engineering disciplines.

Access:  All UC

Compustat Emerging Markets Database (EMDB) (via WRDS)

Please Note: Requests for WRDS accounts will be accepted up until 12:00 PM Pacific Time, Friday, December 16, 2022. After that time, account requests will not be processed again until noon, Tuesday, January 3, 2023. This hiatus coincides with the UCLA Campus Winter Holiday Closure.

The Compustat Emerging Markets Database (EMDB) covers 53 markets and more than 2,200 stocks in developing countries, 1998-2008 only.

Access:  Special Request (see notes)

Compustat Global (via WRDS)

Compustat Global is an international database including data on over 42,000 non-North American companies (active and inactive).

Access: Special Request (see notes)

Compustat North America (via WRDS)

U.S. and Canadian fundamental and market information on active and inactive publicly held companies.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

Conference Board

The Conference Board's Research Insights Collection provides full-text research reports on issues in business management and U.S. and global economics.

Access: All UCLA

Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory

Comprehensive directory of more than 25,000 U.S. and Canadian consulting firms and independent consultants/experts who serve business, industry, and government.

Access: All UCLA

CRSP Database (via WRDS)

Security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX, and Nasdaq stock markets.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

CRSP U. S. Mutual Funds Database (via WRDS)

The CRSP [Survivor-Bias-Free U.S.] Mutual Funds Database includes a history of each mutual fund's name, investment style, fee structure, holdings, and asset allocation.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

CRSP/Compustat Merged (via WRDS)

Concurrent database access to CRSP's stock data and Compustat's fundamental data that simplifies matching Compustat financial data to CRSP security price data.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

CRSP/Ziman Real Estate Data (via WRDS)

All real estate investment trusts (REITs) that have traded on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ exchanges since 1980.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

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Data Planet

Search or browse 35 billion data points in more than 4.9 billion data-sets taken from more than 70 private/commercial sources and public sources, including federal, state, local, and international governments and organizations.

Access: All UCLA

Datastream (Refinitiv/Thomson Reuters)

Datastream has transitioned to a completely new platform as of 2022, and is now accessible from within Refiniv Workspace (please see the entry below, at the start of letter "R").

Datastream is a Refinitiv/Thomson Reuters-produced global numeric database with millions of time series for financial instruments, securities, and indicators, covering more than 75 countries and 60 markets worldwide, with 30 years or more historical depth for some series. 
Access: UCLA, Special Request (Click on MORE)

Direct Marketing Education Foundation (DMEF) (via WRDS)

Four individual data sets, containing historical customer buying history for about 100,000 customers of nationally known catalog and non-profit database marketing businesses, are available through DMEF to approved academic researchers for use within academic situations, within the period 1971-1996; not an active dataset.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

Dow Jones Averages & Total Return Indexes (via WRDS)

The Dow Jones Averages are comprised of The Daily and Monthly Dow Jones Composite (DJA), as well as The Dow Jones Industrial (DJI), The Dow Jones Transportation (DJT), The Dow Jones Utility (DJU), The Dow 10, and The Dow 5.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

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EconLit

Online version of The Journal of Economic Literature.

Access: All UC

Economist (The Economist.com)

Publisher portal to full-text/full-image articles in The Economist magazine, covering 1997 to present. Ignore the "Sign in" shown in the top upper right corner of the home screen; it does not apply to UCLA's campuswide subscription (site license).

Access: All UCLA

EDGAR

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission public company filings and forms (annual Form 10-Ks, Prospectuses, Proxy Statements, and much more), in full-text from 1994 to current.

Access: Free to Public

eMarketer

E-commece, social media, internet and information technology (IT) industry information, news, data, trends, demographics, numbers, and analysis for anything and everything online or digital.

Access: All UCLA

EMIS: Emerging Markets Information Service

Industry, company, and financial markets information and analysis, along with full-text business and legal news, from some 80 emerging markets throughout Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Formerly known as ISI Emerging Markets.

Access: All UCLA

Encyclopedia of Associations

Both individual directory title access and cross-searching for the most current editions of the Encyclopedia of Associations (National Organizations of the U.S.), International Organizations, and U.S. Regional, State, and Local Organizations. Part of the Gale Directory Library.

Access: All UCLA

Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World

Up-to-date, authoritative coverage of nearly 1,000 U.S. and international business topics.

Access: All UCLA

Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing

Provides 837 articles about the sports industry and business practices as they relate to sports.

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Estatement Studies

Provides annual financial ratios benchmarks (FRB) and industry default probabilities (IDP) for 762 NAICS industry classifications.

To Access: On the first screen, click on Industry Resource Center in the middle of the white band across the top of the screen.

Access: All UCLA

Europa World Plus

Online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series.

Access: All UCLA

Execucomp Database (via WRDS)

Standard & Poor's database of top executives' salary, bonus, and stock option data, for 2,872 companies.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

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Factiva

NOTE: Text mining of Factiva is prohibited.

U.S. and international business news and information and general news aggregated from some 31,000+ sources (including Barron'sThe New York Times,  The Financial Times,  The Wall Street Journal, and The Wall Street Journal Online), spanning 28 languages and more than 200 countries

Access: All UCLA

Fama-French Research Portfolios and Factors (via WRDS)

Constructed from the intersections of two portfolios formed on size, as measured by market equity (ME), and three portfolios using, as proxy for value, the ratio of book equity to market equity (BE/ME).

Access: Special Request (see notes)

Faulkner's Advisory for Information Technology Studies

Full-text reports on markets, products, trends, and events in the IT and communications industries.

Access: All UCLA

FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) Database (via WRDS)

Internet and information technology (IT) industry information, news, data, trends, numbers, and analysis for anything and everything online or digital.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

Federal Reserve Bank Reports (via WRDS)

Contains three databases: Foreign Exchanges and Interest Rates come from reports published for the Federal Reserve Board (H.10 and H.15 reports); the third database contains the Coincident State Indexes from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

First Research Industry Reports

In-depth profiles for more than 900 U.S. industries, with especially good coverage of small or niche industries. Reports for Canadian and global industries are also included.

Access: All UCLA

Forrester Research

Be sure to click on the MORE link below and read the NOTES section about how to obtain an individual Forrester account

Research, trend analysis, and expert opinion on technology change and related IT issues, and their impact on businesses and consumers.

Access: UCLA Anderson

FRED® Economic Data - Economic Research. Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis

Download, graph, and track more than 294,000 economic time series of regional and national financial and economic data from 81 sources, including U.S. and international governmental, non-governmental organization, and private (corporate and commercial) sources.

Access: Free to Public

Freedonia Focus Industry Market Research (via MarketResearch.com Academic)

Market research reports, updated annually, covering 18 U.S. industry sectors, emphasizing B2B (business to business). Access within MarketResearch.com Academic by including the keyword “freedonia” in searches, or by selecting “Freedonia Focus Reports” from the Publisher drop-down menu in Advanced Searches.

Access: All UCLA

Frost and Sullivan

Full-text U.S. and international market research reports, focusing on such industries as aerospace and defense; chemicals and materials; environmental and building technology; energy; healthcare and biotechnology; communications and information technologies, and much more.

Access: UCLA Anderson

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Gartner

Current UCLA use only -  UCLA Logon ID required for use.  Research reports and expert analysis for all areas of information technology.

Access: Current UCLA students, faculty, and staff only (see notes)

Glassdoor.com

Comprehensive career resource with information on 80,000+ U.S. and international companies and jobs.

Access:  Free to Public
 

Global Financial Data

Provides more than 32,000 current and historical economic and financial data time series, covering over 200 countries; many series are from hundreds of years ago.

Access: All UCLA

globalEDGE

Vast web portal, encompassing more than 5,000 online resources, that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.

Access: Free to Public

GlobalSpec Engineering 360

Identifies U.S. and international products and suppliers that specialize in scientific, technical, and industrial markets.

Access: Free to Public

Google Scholar @ UCLA

Google optimized for locating scholarly and academic material--including content in subscription resources licensed by UCLA.

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Access:  All UCLA

GreenFile

Covers scholarly, government-produced, and general interest titles, focusing on content concerning the environmental effects of individuals, corporations, and local/national governments.

Access:  All UC

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Harvard Business Review

PDF full text, from 1922 to the most current issues, for all print issues of the bi-monthly publication of the Harvard Business School, provided through the Business Source Complete database.

Access: All UC

HFR Database (via WRDS)

Hedge fund-level detail on historical performance and assets, plus firm characteristics on the broadest and most influential hedge fund managers.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

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I/B/E/S (via WRDS)

Earnings forecasts from security analysts, including earnings per share, revenue, cash flow, long-term growth projections and stock recommendations.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

IBISWorld Industry Research Reports

New Content (May 2023): US Business Environment State Profiles; US Industry State Reports; US Spotlight Industry Reports; US State Economic Profiles.

Full-text, fully searchable U.S. industry analyses, covering over 790 idustries at the 5-digit NAICS level--more than 97% of the U.S. economy.

Access: All UCLA

IHS Global Insight (via WRDS)

IHS Global Insight data on WRDS includes over 1.5 million time series, from over 110 data banks, covering 200+ countries and international organizations.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

IMF International Financial Statistics

International Monetary Fund time-series data.

Access: All UCLA

IndiaStat.com

Provides national, sectoral, and state-by-state statistics from Indian government and industry associations.

Access: All UCLA

Inspec

Worldwide coverage of scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical and electronic engineering, computer science and information technology.

Access: All UCLA

International Debt Statistics

Time series statistical data for more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for 138 countries reporting public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank.

Access: All UC

Investext (via Mergent Online)

Provides as full-text PDFs expert reports by investment bank and brokerage house equity analysts along with independent consulting and company research firms, covering publicly-traded companies and their industries worldwide.

Access: All UCLA

ISSM: Institute for the Study of Security Markets (via WRDS)

Numeric database containing tick-by-tick data covering the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX) between 1983 and 1992, and NASDAQ between 1987 and 1992.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

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JSTOR

Full text/image of hundreds of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately one to three years ago.

Access: All UC

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Key Business Ratios Online

Provides 14 key business ratios (industry financial performance benchmarks), drawn from balance sheet and income statement data collected by Dun & Bradstreet from both public and private U.S. companies, sorted into 800 SIC- or NAICS-coded lines of business.

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Los Angeles Times (1985-current)

Searchable and displayable full text of the Los Angeles Times newspaper from 1985 to today's issue.

Access: All UC

Los Angeles Times (1881-2014)

Full-text coverage, December 4, 1881 through December 31, 2014, as PDF images.

Access: All UC

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Making of the Modern World: Economic Literature from the Goldsmiths' Library and the Kress Library

Full-text and full-page image access to books from the 1460-1850 period, and pre-1906 periodical publications in this digital reproduction of the combined collections of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Access: All UCLA

Management and Organization Studies

Full text of nearly 100 peer-reviewed management and organization studies journals published by Sage Publications and participating societies.

Access: All UC
 

Market Research Library (International Trade Administration)

Industry and country-specific market research reports aimed at U. S. businesses looking for new market opportunities; from the International Trade Administration.

Access: Free to Public

Market Share Reporter

Provides compilations of reported market share data for companies, products, and services for the U.S. and international markets.

Access: All UCLA

MarketResearch.com Academic

Searchable repository (aggregator) of over 3,000 full-text market research reports covering eight major subject areas: Business services, consumer goods, demographics, food & beverage, heavy industry, life sciences, public sector, and technology and media. These publishers constitute UCLA's subscription: Freedonia Focus; Kalorama Information; Mind Commerce; Packaged Facts; and Simba Information.

Access: All UCLA

Marquis Who's Who

Consolidation of all Marquis biographical directories profiling more than 1.3 million people of note, U.S. and worldwide; includes Who's Who in Finance and BusinessWho's Who in America, and many more.

Access: All UCLA

MathSciNet

Database covering the world's mathematical and statistical literature since 1940; from the American Mathematical Society.

Access: All UC

Mergent Fixed Income Securities Database, FISD (via WRDS)

Comprehensive database of publicly offered U.S. bonds, FISD contains issue details on over 140,000 corporate, corporate MTN (medium term note), supranational, U.S. agency, and U.S. Treasury debt securities and includes more than 550 data items.

Access: Special Request

Mergent Horizon NOW KNOWN AS "Supply Chain"

Covers the product and service sectors of more than 6,200 public companies (NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX companies) with complete financials, including segment financials and earnings estimates, detailed product and service hierarchies, competitors, major customers, suppliers, and strategic partners.

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Mergent Online

Current and historical (up to 38 years) balance sheet and income statement data in "as reported," "restated," and "standardized" data formats for 15,000+ U.S. and 30,000+ international public companies.

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Mergermarket

Be sure to click on the “More” link below and read the NOTES section about how to obtain an individual  Mergermarket account

Proprietary intelligence service providing financial data about mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals worldwide plus narrative reports and analyses associated with those deals; the specific geographic modules included in this subscription are North America and Latin America.

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Mint Global

Provides quick, streamlined access to comprehensive company data for more than 113,000,000 U.S. and international public and private companies; from Bureau van Dijk.

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Mintel Academic Market Research Reports

Market research reports covering the United States and global consumer products and services, as well as demographics and specific consumer lifestyles.

Access: UCLA Anderson

Mintel Market Sizes

Market size, market share and segmentation (including by brand name), and markets' CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate), for a wide range of consumer and industrial products and services--along with 5 years' historical and 5 years' forecast data.

Access: UCLA Anderson 

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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers

Searchable online archive of downloadable economics working papers, by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

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National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations

Directory of the largest nonprofit organizations in the United States (more than 260,000), providing organization's contact and basic factual information.

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New York Times: 1980-present

Comprehensive digital coverage of The New York Times back to 1980 is available for this internationally renowned U.S. newspaper through the ProQuest database.

Access: All UC

New York Times: 1851-2019

Historical coverage of The New York Times newspaper: September 18, 1851 through December 31, 2019.

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Newsbank

Full-text news coverage of 1,500+ sources worldwide, including 650 in the U.S. (130 or more are California newspapers, some not covered by either Factiva or Nexis Uni).

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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)

Mega-database of thousands of full-text news, business and financial, and legal publications and general information sources. This new platform replaced LexisNexis Academic as of Fall 2017.

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OECD iLibrary

Online library of country profiles, data, reports, and interactive databases produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Access: All UC

OptionMetrics Ivy Database (via WRDS)

Comprehensive database of historical price and implied volatility data for the U.S. equity and index options markets.

Access:  Special Request (see notes)

Orbis

Provides coverage for more than 178 million  U.S. and international public and private companies (active and inactive).

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OTC Markets (via WRDS)

OTC Markets provides comprehensive closing quote, trade and security reference data for securities trading on the OTCQX, OTCQB, and OTC Pink Marketplaces, from September 1, 2011-present.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

Oxford Scholarship Online: Economics and Finance

Cross-searchable library containing the full text of more than 1,100 Oxford University Press books, including 200+ in Economics and Finance and representing Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.

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PAIS Index

A public affairs information service, with coverage of research in such areas as: business and economic conditions, education, energy resources and policy, government, health conditions, international relations, and social conditions.

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Passport (Euromonitor International)

Market research database for analysis, trends, and news, as well as current, historical, and forecast data on consumer market sizes.

Covers 350 markets, 200 countries, and 1,150 cities worldwide, along with detailed reports on U.S. & international consumer lifestyles, with company profiles and company brand data. Find the data and analysis for Cities within the "Economies" section.

Access:  UCLA Anderson 

Penn World Tables (via WRDS)

National income accounts-type of variables converted to international prices, with coverage from January 1, 1950 through December 31, 2009.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

PHLX: Philadelphia Stock Exchange (via WRDS)

As one of North America's primary marketplaces for the trading of stocks, equity options, index options and currency options, the PHLX continues to be a market leader in the development and introduction of innovative new products and services.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

PitchBook

PitchBook access is strictly limited, without exception, to current UCLA Anderson School students, faculty, and staff only.

Be sure to click on the “More” link below and read the NOTES section about how to obtain an individual  PitchBook account

Data and research covering the private investment market, including venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions.

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Plunkett Research

Industry overviews of 37 major industries and industry groups, both established and emerging, and profiles of thousands of U.S. and international companies, both public and private.

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PolicyMap

Online data and mapping application that provides access to more than 10,000 indicators related to demographics, housing and real estate, income, mortgages, health, and more.

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Political Risk Yearbook

Analysis and data, including forecasts, by the Political Risk Service (PRS) Group, covering the current state of political, financial, and economic risk in some 100 countries. To limit, add [country name] to search. Re-sort results by "Date Newest" to retrieve the most current annual content.

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PrivCo

Be sure to click the "More" link below to read Notes about how to obtain an individual  PrivCo account, and always using the Anderson Proxy Server with the account.
Financial data, revenues and additional intelligence on more than 150,000 U.S.-based privately-held companies, including venture capital (VC) backed, private equity-owned, and family-owned companies.

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Procurement IQ

Reports covering more than 1000 U.S. industries which provide a highly granular overview of the procurement process, to facilitate supply chain planning and purchasing decisions.

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ProQuest Congressional

Comprehensive U.S. legislative information, including Congressional publications, regulations, and legislative histories, bills, and laws.

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Indexing and abstracting of doctoral dissertations and Master's theses, including the full text of University of California dissertations.

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ProQuest News & Newspapers

Simultaneous searching and retrieval of full-text newspaper articles from up to 17 current and historical newspapers licensed by UCLA from ProQuest.

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ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

Authoritative and comprehensive statistical summary of the economic, social, and political conditions of the United States.

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PsycINFO

The American Psychological Association's (APA) comprehensive database of literature in psychology and related disciplines, such as business (human resources, marketing, consumer behavior), psychiatry, education, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, and law.

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PubMed@UCLA

The National Library of Medicine's Medline database, profiled for UCLA users, covers over 4,600 biomedical and health sciences journals, 1966 to present.

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Refinitiv Workspace

Requires an individual account (accounts are limited)--new account requests are currently only available for faculty and staff for Datastream access.

This is the platform from which to access Datastream (see "MORE" below)

Please Note: The subscription does not include the "AMR" ("Aftermarket Research") module. That content—equity analyst reports—is available separately in the Investext database (see the entry above).

Access: Current UCLA faculty and staff

Regional Business News

Incorporates more than 80 business journals, newspapers, and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

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Research Centers Directory

Comprehensive guide to premier nonprofit research organizations throughout North America.

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RKMA Market Research

Annually/biennially-updated market research handbooks with data in the fields of business, healthcare, and consumer markets, primarily for the United States.

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SAGE Research Methods Online

Provides full-texts for more than 800 books, reference works, journal articles, and more about qualitative and quantitative research methodologies in the social sciences.

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Science Direct

Database for full-text journals and reference works published by Elsevier in the sciences, technology, medicine, and social sciences.

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SDC Platinum (Refinitiv/Thomson Reuters)

Be sure to click on the “More″ button and read the “Notes” section to learn information vital to accessing SDC Platinum, which is available only on workstations located on the 3rd Floor of the Rosenfeld Library, directly opposite the Loan Desk, and not from this or any other Web page.
Detailed datasets on mergers and acquisitions for the global financial marketplace.

The SDC Platinum subscription include this single dataset onlyMergers & Acquisitions (covers 672,000+ global M&As, 1985-present). The academic use license mandates that data from the most recent 30 days are embargoed.

Access: All UCLA, Special Request (see notes)

SEC Order Execution (via WRDS)

Monthly, electronic disclosures from market centers that trade national market system securities, 2000-2005.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

SimplyAnalytics (formerly SimplyMap)

Web-based mapping application to create professional quality, interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of U.S. demographic, business, and marketing variables.

Select, sort, and compare data across multiple geographic locations and create custom reports exportable to spreadsheets.

Access: All UCLA

SMA: Sports Market Analytics (formerly SBRnet: Sports Business Research Network)

Market research and industry news articles covering sports in the United States: Equipment sales, apparel, attendance, participation, broadcasting, sponsorship, sports marketing, "revenues from sports venues" content (both professional sports and colleges), and more.

Access: All UCLA

Small Business Sourcebook: The Entrepreneur's Resource

Designed to facilitate the start-up, development, and growth of specific small businesses, as well as similar listings for general small business topics.

Entries are provided on a state-by-state basis; also included are relevant U.S. federal government agencies and branch offices. The library currently owns the 40th edition (2023).

Access: All UCLA

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Downloadable working papers and selected journal articles and abstracts provide early dissemination of the newest research in accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, legal issues, and management in this free, searchable archive.  

Access: Free to Public

SRDS Advertising Publications (SRDS.com)

This media/advertising industry “bible” provides information (including but by no means limited to advertising rates) about print and digital publishers and TV and radio stations/networks in the U.S. and overseas. 

Access: All UCLA

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

Analytic data, descriptions, and details for companies (public and private), industries (U.S. and global), and mutual funds.

Access: UCLA Anderson

Statista

Portal for business and industry, government, and demographic statistics that integrates thousands of diverse topics of data and facts from some 18,000+ public and commercial sources onto a single, easy-to-search platform.
Please Note: The "Company Database" module is not included within the UCLA Anderson subscription.

Access: UCLA Anderson

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Authoritative, comprehensive summary of statistics on the economic, social, and political organization of the United States, published annually by the U.S. Census Bureau, 1878-2012.

Access: Free to Public

Statistical Insight

Indexes the statistical content of government and private sector/commercial data sources.

Access: All UCLA

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Taylor & Francis Online

Journal articles, book chapters and e-books in the social sciences, business, area studies, sports and tourism, the sciences and more.

Access: All UCLA

ThomasNet

Directory of over 610,000 U.S. and Canadian manufacturers, distributors, manufacturers representatives, and service companies, and 152,000 brand names.

Access: Free to Public

TRACE: Trade Reporting & Compliance Engine (via WRDS)

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA's) over-the-counter (OTC) corporate bond market, real-time price dissemination service providing comprehensive, real-time access to corporate bond price information.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

Trade and Quote (TAQ) Database (via WRDS)

Intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and Small Cap issues.

Access: Special Request (see notes)

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U

UCLA Anderson Forecast for the Nation and California

Quarterly business and economic forecasts for the United States and California.

Access: All UCLA

UCLA Library Catalog

Use to find books and other library materials owned at UCLA.

Access: Free to Public

UC Library Search

UCLA's new discovery tool, allows for easy searching of both the UCLA Library holdings (journal titles, books, conference proceedings, etc.) and the holdings of all 10 UC Campus Libraries. Launched July 27, 2021

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Access: Free to Public

UlrichsWeb: Global Serials Directory

Comprehensive database for all types of periodical publications (consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly publications, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, 'zines, etc.).

Access: All UCLA

Uniworld Online

Authoritative directory for multinational business contact information.

Access: All UCLA

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V

Variety Intelligence Platform (VIP+) 
 

Full-text database providing analysis, market research, and data for film, television, and digital entertainment.

Access: All UCLA

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W

Wall Street Journal - Current

Full text of the newspaper, from January 2, 1984 through today's issue.

Access: All UC

Wall Street Journal - 1889-2011

Full text of the newspaper, July 8, 1889 through December 31, 2011.

Access: All UC

Wall Street Transcript

Full-text interviews with investment analysts, CEOs of public companies, and investment money managers.

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Access: All UC

Web of Science

Multidisciplinary index to scholarly journals and the online equivalent of the ISI citation indexes—use this to find ISI citation counts.

Access: All UC

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)

Comprehensive, web-based data platform that allows access to a wide variety of historical financial, economic, and marketing data sources.

Access: Special Request (click More, see notes)

Wiley Online Library

Multi-subject database that includes full-text journal articles and reference works published by Wiley and [formerly by] Blackwell.

Access: All UCLA

World Bank eLibrary

The full collection of all World Bank publications and research.

Access: All UCLA

World Development Indicators

World Bank database of time series development indicators data for 227 countries; coverage starts with 1960.

Access: All UC

WorldCat

Worldwide catalog of millions of books, periodicals, sound recordings, visual materials, and maps held in thousands of libraries, in hundreds of languages.

Access: All UC

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Zephyr

Comprehensive database of current, future, rumored, and historical corporate "deals:" mergers & acquisitions, initial public offerings, joint ventures, and private equity/venture capital deals

Access: All UCLA

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