Most resources use your usual City IT username and password. See 'FAQ - How do I log in?' for further details. Some resources need different login details or you need to register for an account: Business School students can find these in Business Library Moodle 2023-2024. All other students, please email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk for details.
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.
Global private company database. Real-time information on venture capital and angel investor-backed private start-ups. M&A and IPO news, private equity and industry analysis.
Accessibility statement for CB insights
Limitation:
System Requirements: You have to be connected to the university network to register for and access this database.
Registration instructions: Students and staff should email the Business Library to request instructions for creating an account.
Your City email address is only used for log-in, CB Information Services do not use this information for any other purpose.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
It can be very hard to find out information on private companies as they are not required to share much financial or other information by law. We do have some databases with good coverage of private companies, though, especially larger ones. Use our Market Research and Data guide to find reports on private companies, too.
Global private company database. Real-time information on venture capital and angel investor-backed private start-ups. M&A and IPO news, private equity and industry analysis.
Accessibility statement for CB insights
Limitation:
System Requirements: You have to be connected to the university network to register for and access this database.
Registration instructions: Students and staff should email the Business Library to request instructions for creating an account.
Your City email address is only used for log-in, CB Information Services do not use this information for any other purpose.
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 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.