Subject Guides: Analytics: Getting Started

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Getting started: General Business Resources

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A lot of getting started with analytics is figuring out what kind of information you need. Each tab contains information and links to regularly used resources by students, faculty, and other researchers interested in business analytics and related topics. Below is a starting point to some of our most popular business resources.

Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost)
Indexing for 2,300 periodicals covering a full range of business topics; includes peer reviewed plus trade and industry publications. Useful for researching business-related aspects of computers and information technology.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis)
New version of Lexis Nexis Academic. Full text source of news, business and company information and legal information.
Statista
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
Academic Search Complete (Ebscohost)
SAGE Journals
Access to over 550 journals from SAGE.
Web of Science (Core Collection) (Web of Science/Clarivate)
Citation information and analysis, as well as author abstracts, are available in this multidisciplinary database covering 8,500 high impact research journals.

Core collection is a smaller database
Mergent Online
Factiva

Scholar OneSearch

Scholar OneSearch can be a great place to start your research. Search results include books (both print and electronic), articles, videos, data sets, and more.