Databases
William & Mary faculty, staff and students may access the McLeod Business Library databases from remote locations by following the instructions in the following link. A Mason School of Business user name and password is required to view the instructions and to log on after setting up your connection. Remote access instructions (pdf).
Undergraduate students must be logged onto the Mason School of Business server by one of the staff members in the Business Library.
If you need help using one of the Business Library’s databases please ask the staff for assistance. The Business Library staff members are more than happy to help you get started or answer questions you may have about a database.
If you would like a thorough run-through on a particular database, please telephone 757-221-2916 or e-mail [[charlotte.brown, Charlotte Brown]] to set up an appointment.
Database User guides are designed to assist our patrons to use the databases that are available in the McLeod Business Library. All guides are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
Accounting Research Manager | User guide (pdf)
CCH's Accounting Research Manager is a comprehensive online database of analytical accounting and SEC information as well as primary source data. The program is updated daily and provides current, complete and objective resource materials for your financial reporting needs.
Baseline
Baseline is an Internet-based database that presents financial information in a visually revealing, graphical framework that delivers instant insight into the strengths and weaknesses of stocks and portfolios. The application provides users with a comprehensive source for financial information and analytics.
Bloomberg
The Bloomberg Professional® service is an interactive financial information network. This service integrates data, news, analytics, multimedia reports and e-mail onto a single platform. An intrinsic feature of this program is its analytic ability, helping clients understand the markets by means of real-time tools. More than 1,000 data analysts maintain the data feed to the Bloomberg Professional service.
Business Monitor Online | User guide (pdf)
Business Monitor Online provides coverage of country markets across North America, Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The program features intra-daily news analysis; political and economic risk assessment; strategic views on currency and debt developments; systematic macroeconomic forecasts over a 5-year horizon; country-comparative risk ratings, and rigorous benchmarking of the business environment.
Checkpoint | User guide (pdf)
Resource of full tax libraries and tax news. Includes complete libraries of federal, state, local, and international tax research materials. Also included are RIA's analysis, daily updates of rulings, WG&L treaties, and tax analysis. One of the most complete web-based tax research databases available. Entire spectrum of tax information including complete tax law, expert analysis, treatises, tax-related news, tax cases and rulings, and more.
Choices 3 | User guide (pdf)
The Choices3 CD-ROM from Simmons Market Research Bureau allows you to explore a single source measurement of major media, products, services, in-depth consumer demographic characteristics figures and statistics. The CD-ROM contains a wealth of marketing data collected from a comprehensive survey of about 30,000 American adults, which has been projected to reflect the general population. The Simmons National Consumer Study (NCS) is an annual survey of consumer buying habits and preferences, coordinated with demographic characteristics and with media usage and audience. There are about 5,000 questions with 50,000 possible answers. The primary purpose of the study is to assist marketing and advertising researchers in planning and analyzing market strategies. The Choices3 program makes the effective use of this complex set of information easy and fast.
EBSCOhost Business Source Complete | User guide (pdf)
EBSCOhost provides full text for more than 2,950 business journals. This program includes the Business Source Complete database. EBSCOhost also offers full text articles (in .pdf format) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. You may search the database using basic or advanced searching supported by Boolean logic. There are also natural language, enhanced subject indexing and journal searching features.
Factiva | User guide (pdf)
Factiva is a joint venture between Dow Jones & Reuters. The database includes global content with the Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires as well as the Wall Street Journal. Factiva offers multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 8,000 sources.
Faulkner’s Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS) | User guide (pdf)
Faulkner’s Advisory for IT Studies (FAITS) is a web-based database that contains a virtual library of reports covering technology areas such as IT infrastructure, telecom, data networking, wireless communications, security, enterprise systems, and the Internet and World Wide Web, as well as technology vendors. FAITS also has convenient links to major online technology and business news resources. The service also provides direct links to online bibliographic resources.
First Research | User guide (pdf)
First Research is a leading industry intelligence database. This program provides industry profiles with information synthesized from hundreds of sources. Each industry profile is updated quarterly.
Hoovers | User guide (pdf)
Business-oriented perspective on topics such as company and industry information, money management, career development, news, and business travel. Includes company profiles, lists of competitors, key people, competitive landscapes, comparison data, detailed annual financials, detailed quarterly financials, historical financials, and market data.
LexisNexis Academic
Provides a full-text collection of business, company, financial, and general news information.
MarketResearch.com Academic | User guide (pdf)
MarketResearch.com Academic offers access to previously unavailable market research reports. Students now have access to a fully searchable and browse-able repository of market research reports on dozens of topics. MarketResearch.com Academic provides:
- Internet access to more than 500 market research studies.
- The same reports used by key executives worldwide.
- Full text version of every report.
- Daily updates with new reports.
- Graphs, tables and charts in many reports.
- Over $1,000,000 worth of business intelligence.
- Hundreds of MarketLooks.
Marketline | User guide (pdf)
MarketLine is a business
information service that includes company and industry information as
well as country profiles. The program includes more than 10,000 company
profiles, more than 2,000 industry profiles, and more than 50 country
profiles. The program also has current news, comment and analysis.
Company profiles contain: company overviews, business descriptions,
company history, executive listings, product listings, locations, news
and commentary.
- Industry profiles contain: 5 year historical and 5 year forecast, market segmentations, market shares, explanatory text identifying major trends and significant growth points, and analysis of each market's competitive landscape.
- Country profiles include: a description of the country’s economic performance and GDP, an assessment of the potential for development, and detailed market and industry analysis of the country’s business environment.
Mergent Horizon | User guide (pdf)
Mergent Horizon provides patrons with the capability for finding, filtering and organizing information about companies and industries. Coverage is provided for the more than 6,200 companies that are actively traded on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ. This includes enhanced details on the 3,700 companies in the Healthcare, Technology, Media and Finance sectors.
Mergent Online | User guide (pdf)
Detailed information on 11,000 U.S. public companies. Formerly Moody’s Financial Information Services, Mergent has been publishing detailed business descriptions, corporate histories and financial statements since 1900. There are 15 years of financial statements included in the Mergent Online database. Mergent Online offers easy access to Company Data Direct, which is a service covering more than 10,000 public companies and their real-time SEC (EDGAR) filings.
Mintel Oxygen | User guide (pdf)
Mintel Oxygen is a series of research reports covering the U.S. and European marketplace. Each market research report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are divided into concise sections explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market.
Morningstar Direct
Morningstar Direct is a web-based research platform that connects
institutional investment professionals directly to Morningstar's full
universe of investment research and data (including current and
historical). The program equips the user with highly customizable tools
for selecting, developing, and monitoring investments.
OneSource | User guide (pdf)
OneSource Global Business Browser is an Internet-based reference service from the Library Division of infoUSA. The site was designed for use as a reference tool in libraries. The OneSource database is accessed by first opening the Reference USA database and then selecting International Businesses from the Reference USA home page. The OneSource database has information on more than 3 million international businesses from the United States and around the world.
Plunkett Research Online
This database offers intelligence, industry trends, statistics and market research. Search results may be presented in a variety of report formats. Plunkett Research Online has more than 30 industry sectors organized in industry research centers. Each research center includes a search function, links to statistics, and a market research and trends page.
ProQuest ABI/INFORM Global | User guide (pdf)
ProQuest online information service provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers that you can search or browse. ProQuest’s articles are copyright-cleared which means that you may copy, e-mail, or print them. ABI/INFORM is a database covering business, management, economics and a wide range of related fields. It provides abstracts of material from 1971 onwards and full text (various formats) from 1986. Not all journals are available in full text. ABI/INFORM Global now offers the full text of more than 900 premium business journals.
ReferenceUSA | User guide (pdf)
Reference USA is an Internet-based reference service from the Library Division of infoUSA. The site was designed for use as a reference tool in libraries. The Reference USA database contains detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses and 1.3 million Canadian businesses. Business information is compiled from the following public sources: more than 5,200 Yellow Page and Business White Page telephone directories; annual reports, 10-Ks and other SEC information; federal, state and municipal government data; Chamber of Commerce information; leading business magazines, trade publications, newsletters, major newspapers, industry and specialty directories; and postal service information, including National Change of Address updates.
Research Insight (Compustat PC Plus) | User guide (pdf)
This software provides an efficient means of conducting research via data queries, retrieval, manipulation and analysis. Includes annual and quarterly income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, statistical and market information for publicly-held U.S. and Canadian corporations. Places a wealth of financial data, company reports, performance graphs, and documents at your fingertips. Access more than 160 pre-defined reports and company performance charts including financial statements, market summaries, forecasts, and total returns, sales growth and price and earnings momentum.
The COMPUSTAT (North America) database contains up to 20 years of annual, 12 years of quarterly, seven years of business and geographic segment, and 240 months of stock prices and dividend data. With fundamental financial and market data for more than 10,300 U.S. and Canadian companies, the North America database makes it easy to analyze the domestic market. The database also contains data for more than 7,600 inactive companies that no longer file with the Securities and Exchange Commission due to a merger, liquidation, bankruptcy, etc.
SRDS
The SRDS database of media rates and information catalogs more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties. Each listing is verified up to 20 times per year and more than 21,000 listing updates are made every month. SRDS provides accurate, up-to-date media information — including detailed ad rates, dates and contact data. These databases allow you to search, create contact reports and obtain additional information with direct links to media kits and audit statements.
STAT-USA
Compendium of economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government.
Swem Library | Catalog
The Earl Gregg Swem library home page and online catalog
Thomson One Banker | User guide (pdf)
Thomson One Banker is an Internet-based analytics tool that combines source data, flexible universal searching, and instant charting to give you the data and tools for in-depth research. Thomson One Banker provides up-to-the-minute data that is fully accessible. This tool is a key link to important intelligence on corporate, industry, and market financials. It includes historical research and statistics as well as forecasts. Thomson One Banker gives you access to company and market intelligence from the leading industry authorities, such as Datastream, Worldscope, Extel, I/B/E/S, Standard & Poor’s Compustat, SEC, Interactive Data Corporation, ILX Systems, and Global Access.
Value Line Investment Analyzer | User guide (pdf)
Value Line Investmen Survey Online | User guide (pdf)
Comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy. Similar to the printed version, the electronic version has three main sections:
- Summary & Index contains an index of all stocks in the database as well as many up-to-date statistics. It also contains a variety of stock "screens" designed to identify companies with various characteristics.
- Ratings & Reports have one-page reports for each company in the database. Each company report includes Value Line’s Timeliness, Safety, and Technical ranks, financial and stock price forecasts for the coming 3 to 5 years, and an analyst’s written commentary.
- Selection & Opinion is a weekly newsletter that contains Value Line’s latest economic and stock market forecasts, write-ups of interesting and attractive stocks, model portfolios, and financial and stock market statistics.
WRDS -- Wharton Research Data Services | User guide (pdf)
Wharton Research Data Services, or WRDS, is a web-based data management system that allows faculty and students to retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources.
