{"id":863,"date":"2015-08-19T14:39:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T14:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/?page_id=863"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:59:23","slug":"commerce-small-business","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/start-researching\/research-by-subject-2\/commerce-small-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Commerce \/ Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Subject-Related Resources<\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/business-source-complete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Source Complete<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Indexes and abstracts 4,450 scholarly business journals, of which over 3,600 are available in full-text. This database covers the subject areas of management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and marketing. It also includes other sources of full-text information such as country economic reports and detailed company profiles for 10,000 of the world&#039;s largest companies through Datamonitor.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/business-abstracts-with-full-text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Abstracts with Full Text<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Business Abstracts with Full Text&lt;\/em&gt; contains full-text articles from hundreds of key publications, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences and more. Includes over 600,000 corporate names with cross-references to specific industries and countries as well as SIC and NAICS industry and product codes for over 190,000 subject terms.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/small-business-reference-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Small Business Reference Center<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Small Business Reference Center&lt;\/em&gt; offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics. It includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans. Also included are state-specific resources, start-up business plans, and industry information.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/factiva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Factiva<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Includes full-text coverage of all the major US and international newspapers including the &lt;em&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Washington Post&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;London Times&lt;\/em&gt;, etc. It also includes television and radio transcripts, and business and trade journals as well as company reports and financial data.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span> (4 simultaneous users)<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/regional-business-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regional Business News<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Regional Business News&lt;\/em&gt; is a news database that includes regional business journals, newspapers, newswires, and now blogs, covering all areas of the US. Most are available as full-text.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Company Information and Market Data<\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/hoovers-business-browser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hoover&#8217;s D&amp;B Business Browser (formerly OneSource)<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"A comprehensive business database, providing US and international company and industry information. This source includes company financial data and corporate family trees, information on competitors, SWOT analyses, and analysts reports.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span> (50 simultaneous users)<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/mergent-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mergent Online<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Mergent&lt;\/em&gt; is a source for in-depth financial data on 15,000 US and 20,000 international publicly held companies. Information provided for each company includes a business description, history, company financials, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock data, as well as historical stock price data. Financial data for the last 15 years is available, as well as the latest 5-10 years of annual reports. Company archives include data on inactive companies back to 1996. &lt;em&gt;Mergent&lt;\/em&gt; also now has an economic module which contains time series data on 550 US and international economic variables.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/marketline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MarketLine (Datamonitor)<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Consists of full-text research reports on 10,000 companies in the US and internationally, as well as 2,000 industry reports, and 50 in-depth country reports. It also includes a news and comment section with a two year archive of relevant articles.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/euromonitor-passport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Market Information Database<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;GMID&lt;\/em&gt; (also known as &lt;em&gt;Euromonitor&lt;\/em&gt;) contains more than 4,500 US and international full-text market research reports, offering in-depth strategic analysis for consumer, industrial, and service sectors. It also has statistics on consumer market size data for over 300 product categories across 52 counties.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/ibisworld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IBISWorld<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Provides in-depth full-text industrial market research reports. Over 700 reports are available in areas including mining, construction, wholesale and retail distribution, manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, education, financial services, arts, entertainment, accommodations and food service, etc. Search by keyword, NAICS, or SIC codes.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/key-business-ratios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Key Business Ratios<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Key Business Ratios on the Web (KBR)&lt;\/em&gt; provides immediate online access to competitive benchmarking data. This powerful tool lets researchers examine industry benchmarks compiled from D&amp;amp;B\u2019s database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios (users choose a one-year or three-year set of ratios) for public and private companies in 800 lines of business.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/statista\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Statista<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Statista&lt;\/em&gt; is one of the leading statistics companies on the internet. With a team of over 450 statisticians, database experts, analysts, and editors, &lt;em&gt;Statista&lt;\/em&gt; provides users with an innovative and intuitive tool for researching quantitative data, statistics and related information. The database integrates data on over 80,000 topics from over 18,000 sources on a single platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, it provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets. &lt;em&gt;Statista&lt;\/em&gt; includes data sources such as market research reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. For each statistic, metadata is also provided including but not limited to source, release date, number of respondents, and any other relevant details to facilitate verification of all statistical information available in the database.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Other Helpful Resources<\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/conference-board-business-knowledge-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conference Board &#8211; Business Knowledge Research<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Provides full-text research reports from the &lt;em&gt;Conference Board&lt;\/em&gt; on the latest issues in business management and on United States and global economics. Also includes access to their annual studies on Top Executive Compensation, Corporate Contributions and Directorship Compensation and Board Practices. There is also access to executive action series reports, in-depth analysis of critical economic topics, regular forecasts of the U.S. economy, interest rates, and foreign exchange rates, data on business executives, expectations, consumer confidence, consumer internet barometer, country indicators, and help-wanted index and Conference Board of Canada publications. Note this database does NOT include business cycle indicator data, consumer confidence survey data or leading indicators data. These are separate subscriptions.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/entrepreneurial-studies-source\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Entrepreneurial Studies Source<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Entrepreneurial Studies Source&lt;\/em&gt; offers users full text for hundreds of periodicals and reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and hundreds of videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV, one of the world&#039;s largest social network sites for high-tech entrepreneurs. This database can be utilized by students for their entrepreneurial assignments or case studies ranging from solo projects to major entrepreneurial undertakings.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/academic-search-complete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academic Search Complete<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Our broadest, most general index to periodicals, &lt;em&gt;Academic Search Complete&lt;\/em&gt; provides abstracts for over 9,300 scholarly and popular periodicals, and full text for more than 5,300 of these. It covers virtually all academic areas of study, including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Library Guides<\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/commerce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Commerce\/Small Business LibGuide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/bus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business LibGuide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/start-researching\/research-by-subject-2\/marketing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marketing Subject Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/ESP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Entrepreneurship LibGuide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/start-researching\/research-by-subject-2\/economics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Economics Subject Guide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subject-Related Resources Business Source Complete Business Abstracts with Full Text Small Business Reference Center Factiva (4 simultaneous users) Regional Business News Company Information and Market Data Hoover&#8217;s D&amp;B Business Browser (formerly OneSource) (50 simultaneous users) Mergent Online MarketLine (Datamonitor) Global<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":113,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-863","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/863\/revisions\/2957"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}