LibraryGuides: Business Intelligence &amp; Analytics: Databases

Recommended Databases

Business Source Complete
A database of citations to, summaries of, and full text of articles from academic journals, magazines, and trade publications about business-related topics--dating back to 1886. Also included are current company, industry and region reports.
Insights (Gale Business)

This collection of business intelligence combines reference content with respected business sources and full-text periodicals to help researchers understand today’s global business environment. Users can access more than 430,000 detailed company profiles with company financial data, in-depth country overviews, and comprehensive industry profiles to stay current with the ever-evolving business landscape.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Index of journals about librarianship, classification, cataloging, information management and more.
ScienceDirect

Search through journals, books, reference works, and images for the physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Academic Search Premier

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The DOAJ provides open access to thousands of peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journals.

JSTOR

Archive of 2,400 leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and business. Narrow results by discipline(s).

DES (Data Access Tools)
Data tools and databases from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Ersys
From the website: "Using maps, charts, reports, and relevant links, Ersys covers over 2600 US cities with detailed information on demographics, environmental factors, economic indicators, housing stats, media (newspaper, television, and radio), schools, transportation, local contacts, and much more!"
U.S. Census Data
Data.census.gov is the new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau. The vision for data dissemination through data.census.gov is to improve the customer experience by making data available from one centralized place so that data users spend less time searching for data content and more time using it.
Data and Statistics about the U.S.
A source for data about the U.S., such as demographic and economic data, population, and maps. Get information about the 2020 U.S. Census.
Google Dataset Search
A collection of datasets from various sources collected by Google.
Pew Research Center
Find polling data from the Pew Charitable Trusts on a range of public policies and civic issues.
Statistical Sources from Cornell University
More links to sources for datasets and databases compiled by the Cornell University Library.

PolicyMap
A U.S. national data and mapping tool and analytics platform that leverages thousands of data indicators to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis. Users can go from a neighborhood census block group in many cases, up to a national level, as well as create custom regions for their research and studies.

Research tools that help you find articles in journals, magazines, or newspapers, or other information sources like books, videos, and maps.
Some focus on a kind of source (like newspaper articles); most of ours focus on scholarly research in a specific academic field.

(Ruth Szpunar at DePauw University)