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Key Resources

IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Economic, demographic, and market data on thousands of industries worldwide
Mintel U.S. Reports & Global New Products This link opens in a new window
Category specific reports with quantitative and qualitative market, brand, and consumer insights as well as a global database of new consumer packaged goods launches in 86 markets
PitchBook This link opens in a new window
PitchBook delivers data and research covering private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity and M&A transactions. PLEASE NOTE: Access to PitchBook requires separate registration with a Northeastern or NCH email address. Accounts must be re-registered each calendar year. Download limit: 10 downloads a day/25 downloads a month, per user.

BCC Research This link opens in a new window
Market research reports and forecasts

Business Source Complete
Indexing for 2,300 periodicals covering a full range of business topics; includes peer reviewed plus trade and industry publications. Full text for 1,350+ peer reviewed journals. Industry and company reports from MarketLine and Datamonitor
Factiva
Full text access to the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and hundreds of other international business news publications.
For quick searching within the WSJ, use sc=j as a search term. Example: sc=j and starbucks. Jointly funded by the University Libraries and the D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
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If you know a publication's code, you can search for articles within it without having to select it from the source list. Use this format: sc=j and YourKeywordHere

Below are some popular publications with their codes.

sc=J (Wall Street Journal. This code searches the Eastern Edition only)
sc=NYTF (New York Times)
sc=B (Barron's)
sc=BW (Business Week)
sc=WP (Washington Post)
sc=FB (Forbes)

Statista This link opens in a new window
Data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources categorized into 21 market sectors. Statista provides access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets

Capital IQ - S&P NetAdvantage
Includes Industry Surveys, Company Profiles, Mutual Funds, and S&P 500, 400, and 600.
Mergent Online
Financial information for publicly traded companies. Create custom peer analysis reports and more.

Some Favorite Publications

Harvard Business Review coverage from 1922 to current
Wall Street Journal Text based content through the Factiva database. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
The Economist text 1988 to current through Gale Cengage.
The Financial Times Text through Factiva from 1981 through 30 days ago. Currrent issues in the browsing collection in Snell Library.
Bloomberg Businessweek 12/95 to current through Business Source Complete

Publishing

Cabell's Directories This link opens in a new window
Helpful for those wanting to publish articles in business journals. Business directories funded by the D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
Northeastern University has access to the following directories from Cabell's:

Accounting
Economics & Finance
Computer Science
Management
Marketing
This service is available courtesy of Northeastern's D'Amore McKim School of Business
Ulrichs Web This link opens in a new window
Lists all journals, print and electronic, with publisher information, subscription prices, subject descriptions, web locations, and much more.
- Tutorial: This video shows you how to use Ulrich's to find out if a journal is peer-reviewed. There is also a PDF/slide version
Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
JCR is a widely used source of citation data, used to compare and evaluate scholarly journals. For example, the most well-known indicator in the JCR is the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). This measure provides a ratio of citations to a journal in a given year to the citable items in the prior two years. Journal Citation Reports can show you the:

Most frequently cited journals in a field
Highest impact journals in a field
Largest journals in a field

Includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Covers 1997-present.
Thomson Reuters/Web of Knowledge

Choosing a Publishing Venue
A guide for researchers looking for places to publish their work

Your Librarian

Khyle Hannan

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Contact:

Northeastern University Libraries
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

617-373-2359

Subjects: Business and Management, Entrepreneurship

Bloomberg Terminals

Current Northeastern students, faculty and staff have access to Bloomberg Terminals through the D'Amore-McKim School of Business. As of July 2022 the virtual Bloomberg service is no longer available. All Bloomberg terminals are located at the Bloomberg Lab in 054 Dodge Hall.

Bloomberg terminals are provided courtesy of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business. Current NU only.

Case Studies

Harvard Business case studies are not available through the library due to copyright restrictions.

Harvard Business for Educators
View access options available to educators.
Ivey Case Studies: Northeastern
Registration required. For case studies where Northeastern University has retained copyright, faculty may request free access for their classes.

Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text peer-reviewed teaching cases focusing on business decision making and management development through key emerging markets and developing economies.