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Journal articles, case studies, company profiles, industry reports, SWOT analyses. Covers business and economics, with full text access to the Harvard Business Review.
Peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations, conference proceedings, working papers, trade publications, industry reports, and key periodicals including the Wall Street Journal.
Also covers ProQuest Accounting & Tax, Asian Business & Reference, Banking Information Source, Entrepreneurship, and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences.
Abstracts and full text access to books and journals published by Emerald. Content covers accounting, management, education, engineering and information science.
Offers full text from a range of sources including international newspapers, trade publications and magazines. Many titles have a 20 year archive and content is updated daily, making it useful for business, industry news and reports.
Please note that articles generally have no formatting or images.
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Aim to make results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form to encourage discussion and suggestions for revision before publication in scholarly journals.
Full-text database containing journal articles and book chapters from thousands of journals and ebooks. The majority of content is published by Elsevier.
Subjects covered include science, technology, business, management, accounting, health sciences, engineering and social sciences.. Full-text access is to subscribed content only.
UK, US, China and Global-level research reports for over 400 industries.
Limitation: There is a download limit of 25 reports per session. Specialized Industry Reports are not available as part of our subscription.
User Guides available in Business Library Moodle 2024-2025. Non-Business School students and staff should email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk.
International market research. Offers a comprehensive mix of company, industry, country and financial data for every major marketplace in the world.
Industry trends, strategic analysis, market size and market share data across key countries and industries. Includes demographic and economic data and packaging information.
Registration instructions: Business School students should register for an account via Business Library Moodle 2024-2025. Non-Business School students and staff should email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk for registration instructions.
UK Market research reports with a rolling two years' data. The focus is on consumer markets including a specialist coverage of the financial sector.
Market size, market share, market forecasts and segmentation data. Global coverage of several industries including: automotive, clothing, energy, finance, media, pharmaceuticals and many more.
Limitation: Users may download or print from Mintel Market Sizes a maximum of 55 datasets per session. Users may include a combination of no more than five each of the following: (a) up to twenty-five percent of a single Snapshots report and (b) a dataset, in a dissertation or thesis.
Provides access to recent and relevant statistics & studies on a specific topic.
Statista combines statistical data on international industries from different sources including market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases. It aggregates statistical data on over 600 international industries and from more than 18,000 sources.
Peer-reviewed journals, case studies, WARC briefings, best practice guides on marketing strategy and implementation, research papers, media and advertising data, and market context analysis.
Also includes Market Leader, the Journal of Advertising Research, International Journal of Advertising & the International Journal of Market Research.
© and database right Warc Limited and/or its licensors 2025. All warranties and liabilities disclaimed to the fullest extent permitted by law.
User Guides available in Business Library Moodle 2024-2025. For access to the user guides, non-Business School students and staff should email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk.
Covers all fields of economics, including: capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, and labour economic.
A weekly magazine covering international politics, economics, technology, culture and business news and opinion. Full-text is available from June 1997 to present. The online platform includes web-only content such as blogs and videos.
Offers full text from a range of sources including international newspapers, trade publications and magazines. Many titles have a 20 year archive and content is updated daily, making it useful for business, industry news and reports.
Please note that articles generally have no formatting or images.
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News and analysis of the investment banking and securities industry updated throughout the day, 5 days a week.
Registration instructions: Business School students should register for an account via Business Library Moodle 2024-2025. Non-Business School students and staff should email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk for instructions.
Gives access to the daily news focusing on international business and economics.
FT.com also provides access to company and market data as well as the FT ePaper which is the digital replica of the Financial Times printed newspaper from different countries including UK, Asia and USA.
Registration is required, using your City email address.
App available.
Full-text coverage of national, regional and international news from a range of sources including newswires. Updated daily and with many titles having a 20 year archive, useful for current affairs and seeing how topics have been reported.
Articles generally have no formatting or images.
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Provides digital access to thousands of newspapers and magazines from around the world. You can browse entire editions making it useful for studying page layout etc.
PressReader provides access to the last year of most publications. App available: Setting up the PressReader App
Contains information about public company board members, directors and senior management for companies world wide.
Registration instructions: Username and password available to City staff and students by emailing the Business Library.
Provides extensive debt capital structure for over 60,000 global public and private companies and equity capital structure data on over 80,000 active and inactive companies worldwide.
WRDS dataset listed under Compustat.
Company fundamental and market information on active and inactive publicly held companies, in North American and Global datasets.
Normalized to provide comparability across a variety of global accounting standards and practices. WRDS dataset.
Security price, return, and volume data for NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ, including stock indices, beta- and cap-based portfolios, treasury bond and risk-free rates, mutual funds and real estate.
WRDS dataset.
Global institutional, mutual fund, stakeholder, and float-related share ownership information covering equity positions held in 120 countries.
WRDS dataset. Use Factset to investigate share ownership from company and holder perspective, analyze ownership data or examine historical share movements.
Profit and loss, balance sheet, ratios and trends, stock prices, credit score and rating information for major public and private British companies. Lists of companies can be created using any combination of 300 search items.
Limitation: Please note that Moody's resources may be used for educational research only, and may not be used for institutional business purposes.
Available via the Datastream Excel Add-in via Eikon. Summary and individual analyst forecasts of company earnings, cash flows, buy-sell-hold recommendations and more.
Historical corporate and industry related documents from 1909 to the present day.
Includes digitised manuals from Moody's archives, Ford Equity Research Reports, Annual reports for global companies going back to 1925, and Mergent industry reports from 2003 to 2020.
Company financials, stock prices, descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries officers and directors, long - term debt and capital stock.
User Guide available in Business Library Moodle 2024-2025. Non-Business School students and staff should email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk.
Provides trade, inside quote, and dealer quote data according to symbol and date range for securities listed on NASDAQ.
This dataset is no longer supported by WRDS and should be used for historical purposes only.
Detailed financial histories: at least 5 years for listed banks and 3 years for unlisted banks. Includes 'as reported' financial items in English and local languages, using local GAAP and IFRS formats whenever available.
Worldwide coverage of Banks. Includes original filings, corporate structures and the facility to represent data graphically.
Limitation: Please note that Moody's resources can only be used for educational research, and cannot be used for institutional business purposes.
Provides detailed and standardised financial data on financial institutions in the US, Europe and MEA.
Limitation: You have to be connected to the university network to register for and access this database.
System Requirements: Does not work with Firefox browser.
Registration instructions: Business School students should register for an account via Business Library Moodle 2024-2025 module. Non-Business School students and staff should email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk for registration and access instructions.