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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.
Accessibility statement for British Source Ultimate
Peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations, conference proceedings, working papers, trade publications, industry reports, and key periodicals including the Wall Street Journal.
Accessibility statement for ProQuest One Business
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.
Accessibility statement for Emerald Insight
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.
Accessibility statement for Factiva
Articles generally have no formatting or images.Please note that the length of time to store a single copy of downloaded materials from this resource in machine readable form is limited to 30 days only. Text data mining is not permitted within our Factiva UK licence. The right to retrieve and store machine-readable copies of Materials is limited to the retrieval of a single copy of a reasonable portion of the Materials included in any individual file of the Online Services using the downloading commands of the Online Services or your web browser software and storage of that copy in machine readable form for no more than 30 days, primarily for one person’s exclusive use, to the extent the storage of those Materials is not further limited or prohibited by the Additional Terms.
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.
Accessibility statement for NBER Working Papers
Full-text database containing journal articles and book chapters from thousands of journals and ebooks. The majority of content is published by Elsevier.
Accessibility statement for ScienceDirect
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.
Accessibility statement for IBISWorld
Limitation: Please note 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 2023-2024. 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.
Accessibility statement for MarketLine Advantage
Industry trends, strategic analysis, market size and market share data across key countries and industries. Includes demographic and economic data and packaging information.
Accessibility statement for Euromonitor Passport
Registration instructions: Business School students should register for an account via Business Library Moodle 2023-2024. 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.
Accessibility statement for Mintel
Please read conditions of use when logging on.
Market size, market share, market forecasts and segmentation data. Global coverage of several industries including: automotive, clothing, energy, finance, media, pharmaceuticals and many more.
Accessibility statement for Mintel Market Sizes
Please read conditions of use when logging on.
Limitation: Users may download or print from Mintel Market Sizes no more than 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.
Accessibility statement for Statista
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.
Accessibility statement for WARC
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 2024. All warranties and liabilities disclaimed to the fullest extent permitted by law.
User Guides available in Business Library Moodle 2023-2024. 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.
Accessibility statement for EconLit with Full Text
British weekly magazine of news and opinion, covering world politics, economics, business finance, science and technology. Full-text available from June 1997 to present.
Accessibility statement for Economist.com
The Economist Online also offers a variety of web-only content, including blogs, debates and audio/video programmes. Access is sponsored by The Worshipful Company of International Bankers.
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.
Accessibility statement for Factiva
Articles generally have no formatting or images.Please note that the length of time to store a single copy of downloaded materials from this resource in machine readable form is limited to 30 days only. Text data mining is not permitted within our Factiva UK licence. The right to retrieve and store machine-readable copies of Materials is limited to the retrieval of a single copy of a reasonable portion of the Materials included in any individual file of the Online Services using the downloading commands of the Online Services or your web browser software and storage of that copy in machine readable form for no more than 30 days, primarily for one person’s exclusive use, to the extent the storage of those Materials is not further limited or prohibited by the Additional Terms.
News and analysis of the investment banking and securities industry updated throughout the day, 5 days a week.
Accessibility statement for Financial News
Registration instructions: Business School students should register for an account via Business Library Moodle 2023-2024. 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.
Accessibility statement for Financial Times
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 required - To sign up for a FT account, please see How to register/re-register for a FT account. Further details are available by emailing businesslibrary@city.ac.uk.
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.
Accessibility statement for Nexis UK
Articles generally have no formatting or images.
Limitation - Users may print and download for personal use only single copies of up to ten documents in Full Text Format from the results of one search.
Users are prohibited from downloading substantial parts of the database and materials cannot be stored for longer than 90 days.
Nexis cannot be used for any non-academic purposes and text data mining is not permitted.
For further information please see Library Services’ Online Resource Policy.
The right to retrieve and store machine-readable copies of Materials is limited to the retrieval of a single copy of a reasonable portion of the Materials included in any individual file of the Online Services using the downloading commands of the Online Services or your web browser software and storage of that copy in machine readable form for no more than 90 days, primarily for one person’s exclusive use, to the extent the storage of those Materials is not further limited or prohibited by the Additional Terms.
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.
Accessibility statement for PressReader
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.
Accessibility statement for BoardEx
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.
Accessibility statement for Capital IQ
WRDS dataset listed under Compustat.
Registration instructions
You need to create an account to use WRDS datasets.
Company fundamental and market information on active and inactive publicly held companies, in North American and Global datasets.
Accessibility statement for Compustat
Normalized to provide comparability across a variety of global accounting standards and practices. WRDS dataset.
Registration instructions
You need to create an account to use WRDS datasets.
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.
Accessibility statement for CRSP
WRDS dataset.
Registration instructions
You need to create an account to use WRDS datasets.
Global institutional, mutual fund, stakeholder, and float-related share ownership information covering equity positions held in 120 countries.
Accessibility statement for Factset Ownwership
WRDS dataset. Use Factset to investigate share ownership from company and holder perspective, analyze ownership data or examine historical share movements.
Registration instructions
You need to create an account to use WRDS datasets.
Profit and loss, balance sheet, ratios and trends, stock prices, credit score and rating information for major public and private British companies.
Accessibility statement for Fame
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.
Accessibility statement for IBES
Available on campus from dedicated terminals and available remotely.
5 bookable PCs in the Financial Resources Zone, Business Library
8 bookable PCs in the Refinitiv Trading Room, Bunhill Row
3 bookable PCs in the Financial Resources Suite, Northampton Square Library.
A limited number of Eikon usernames are available for off-site access. These will be issued on a first come, first served basis Monday to Friday 09:00- 17:00 UK time and will expire at 08:00 UK time the following day, if issued on a Friday the username will expire at 08:00 UK time Monday.
Complete our online form to request a username and password. Alternatively, email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk.
Historical corporate and industry related documents from 1909 to the present day.
Accessibility statement for Mergent Archives
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.
Accessibility statement for Mergent Online
User Guide available in Business Library Moodle 2023-2024. 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.
Accessibility statement for NASTRAQ
WRDS dataset.
Limitation: Please note, this dataset is no longer supported by WRDS and is to be used for historical purposes only.
Registration instructions
You need to create an account to use WRDS datasets.
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.
Accessibility statement for BankFocus
Worldwide coverage of Banks. Includes original filings, corporate structures and the facility to represent data graphically.
Limitation: Please note that Moody's resources may be used for educational research only, and may not be used for institutional business purposes.
Contains information on M&A deals, advisors and events.
Accessibility statement for SDC Mergers and Acquisitions
WRDS dataset listed under Thomson/Refinitiv.
Registration instructions
You need to create an account to use WRDS datasets.
Contains information on new issues.
Accessibility statement for SDC New issues
WRDS dataset listed under Thomson/Refinitiv.
Registration instructions
You need to create an account to use WRDS datasets.
Provides detailed and standardised financial data on financial institutions in the US, Europe and MEA.
Accessibility statement for S&P Capital IQ Pro
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 2023-2024 module. Non-Business School students and staff should email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk for registration and access instructions.
Business data research service with a range of datasets searchable through a common interface.
Accessibility statement for WRDS
Registration instructions
You need to create an account to use WRDS datasets.