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International Business Research

International Company/Financial Information | International Statistical Data | International Text Based Databases

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International Company/Financial Information
Database Title	Publicly Traded Companies	Privately Held Companies	Ability to Make Lists of Companies	Detailed Financial Data	Company History	Insider Trading or Joint Venture Data
Datastream Terminals are located in Regenstein Library (first floor, PC A-9) and in the GSB Walker Computer Lab	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Factiva	Yes	Yes	Yes but only with publicly traded companies	Yes the last 4 years for publicly traded companies only	Yes	No
Investext Plus	Yes	No	No	Yes if in an analyst's report	No	No
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Mergent Online	Yes	No	No	Yes the last 15 years	Yes	Yes
OneSource Global Business Browser GSB restricted, first time users must register	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes the last 5 years for publicly traded companies only	No	No
Thomson Research	Yes	No	Yes must download Citrix application and select Compact D tab	Yes the last 10 years	No	Yes
Database Title	Publicly Traded Companies	Privately Held Companies	Ability to Make Lists of Companies	Detailed Financial Data	Company History	Insider Trading or Joint Venture Data

International Statistical Data
Database Title	Economic Indicators	Securities Prices	Industry Statistics	Demographic & Social Indicators
Datastream Terminals are located in Regenstein Library (first floor, PC A-9) and in the GSB Walker Computer Lab	Yes	Yes	No	No
EconStats	Yes	Yes stock market indices and futures	No	No
Factiva	No	Yes daily and weekly prices for 2 years montly prices for 5 years	No	No
Global Market Information Database	Yes	No	Yes	Yes enter "consumer lifestyles" in the Text search box for an overview of a country
International Financial Statistics	Yes	No	No	No
Macroeconomic Time Series Data Locator	Yes a guide to economic data	No	Yes a guide to industry statistics	Yes a guide to demographic data
SourceOECD	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
STAT-USA	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Statistical Universe	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Thomson Research	No	Yes only recent prices. In order to create a list you must download a Citrix application and select Compact D tab	No	No
United Nations Common Database	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
World Development Indicators CD-ROM located in Regenstein Library - first floor, workstation A-11	Yes	No	Yes, macroeconomic data related to certain industries	Yes
Database Title	Economic Indicators	Securities Prices	Industry Statistics	Demographic & Social Indicators

International Text-Based Databases
Database Title	Industry Overviews	Analyst Reports	Scholarly Articles	Trade Journals	Newspapers/Newswire Services	Country/Economic Overviews
ABI/Inform	Yes Search: "Industry Profiles and [industry name]"	No	Yes	Yes although focus is on scholarly and major business publications	Yes although focus is on scholarly and major business publications	Yes Search: "[location] and economic"
Business Source Premier	Yes In Advanced Search mode note Refine Search tab and select Document Type "Industry Overview"	No	Yes	Yes although focus is on scholarly and major business publications	Yes although focus is on scholarly and major business publications	Yes when viewing search results note the "Country Economic Data" link
CountryWatch	Yes Contains key sector macroeconomic data	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
EconLit	Yes although focus is on scholarly economic publications	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Factiva	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes if it is in an article
Database Title	Industry Overviews	Analyst Reports	Scholarly Articles	Trade Journals	Newspapers/Newswire Services	Country/Economic Overviews
Gartner Research IntraWeb	Yes IT and telecom industries only	Yes IT and telecom industries only	No	No	No	No
Global Market Information Database	Yes	No	No	No	No	No statistics only
Investext Plus	Yes Can limit by industry and location	Yes	No	No	No	Yes can limit by industry and location
OneSource Global Business Browser GSB restricted, first time users must register	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Source OECD	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes
Stat-USA Note the Globus & NTDB link	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes
Database Title	Industry Overviews	Analyst Reports	Scholarly Articles	Trade Journals	Newspapers/Newswire Services	Country/Economic Overviews

Off-campus access:
Access to our restricted databases is controled by IP address. If you are off campus you must be using a University of Chicago connectivity package, or the campus proxy server