Statista - Research AI: Works like most general-use AI tools. Research AI has a chatbox where you can ask it to find sources, summarize articles, and create reports and visualizations of data pulled from Statista's extensive database.
Proquest One Business - Research Assistant: Provides help with finding articles by suggesting index terms to help you narrow down your search. When you open an article, there is a chatbox feature that can summarize the article, provide visualizations, suggest research topics, and more.
Business Source Premier - Gen AI Tool: Creates bullet-point formatted summaries of articles from the search results page. Just click "Generate Ai Insights" underneath an article to get results.
Google Scholar - Google Scholar Labs: Chatbot that answers research-focused questions. Will find relevant articles to answer your questions, but does not currently output anything itself
Cabells - Compas AI: Provides journal suggestions for publishing your research. Paste your abstract and Compas AI will provide a list of vetted journals and tags to improve your submission strategy.
Scite AI: Generative AI chatbot trained on open access journals. Can assist with research questions, write ups, and more.
Provides full text for over 2,940 scholarly publications including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, health sciences, and ethnic studies.
Asia-Studies Full-text Online is the premier database for the study of modern Asia-Pacific. As the exclusive licensee for the region's most prestigious research institutions, Asia-Studies.com brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.
Full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc.
The Journalytics Academic database gives decision data, benchmarks and context for thousands of reputable academic journals, including journal information, evaluation metrics, and submission details (NOTE: USD has subscriptions to the Psychology, Business, and Educational directories).
WRDS account required. The CRSP US Stock Databases contain daily and monthly market and corporate action data for securities with primary listings on the NYSE, NYSE Amex, NASDAQ, and Arca exchanges and include CRSP broad market indices. CRSP databases are characterized by their comprehensive corporate action information and highly accurate total return calculations.
Access to CRSP is available via the Wharton Research Data Services Platform (WRDS) and is limited to University of San Diego faculty, staff, master's and doctoral students. Users must apply for account access and be approved by the University of San Diego WRDS representative the first time they log in. For account access, please contact Jennifer Bidwell jbidwell@sandiego.edu or 619-260-2380.
Individual accounts are not supported with this version of Checkpoint Edge. Checkpoint Edge provides access to tax and accounting topics such as: Federal Tax; State & Local Tax; International Tax; Accounting, Auditing, and Corporate Finance; Estate Planning; Payroll; Pension and Benefits.
Provides comprehensive and updated information on China's economic development and census data at national, provincial, city, county, and even township levels. Includes the following databases: (1) China Statistical Databases; (2) China Census Databases; and (3) China Spatial Data Service (China Geo-Explorer).
WRDS account required. Compustat provides fundamental and market data; comprehensive company financial data, extensive balance sheet, income statement, and detailed footnotes; thousands of data items, pre-calculated ratios and concepts, corporate actions and business descriptions. Compustat North American coverage includes over 28,000 active and inactive companies. History for active and inactive companies covers up to 20 years of annual data. Includes historical annual (back to 1950), and historical quarterly (back to 1962). Compustat Global Database provides comprehensive financial and market data on over 42,000 companies, both active and inactive non-U.S. and non-Canadian. Coverage includes publicly traded companies in more than 80 countries.
Access to Compustat is available via the Wharton Research Data Services Platform (WRDS) and is limited to University of San Diego faculty, staff, master's and doctoral students. Users must apply for account access and be approved by the University of San Diego WRDS representative the first time they log in. For account access, please contact Jennifer Bidwell jbidwell@sandiego.edu or 619-260-2380.
TCB research is a searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of F500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more. Economics material includes US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions. Full-text coverage from 1995 to date.
ProQuest Congressional offers access to congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress. **Please note: When downloading a PDF, please use Firefox of Internet Explorer. You may receive a security warning. You can bypass the message by clicking on "Add Exception" or "Continue to this website." It is a trusted site.
**Sometimes this link works only after the second or third try.** The Economist Intelligence Unit provides a constant flow of analysis and forecasts on more than 200 countries and eight key industries.Country analysis includes in-depth economic, political, business, and industry information. Trends, forecasts, market indicators, and more. Contains EIU Viewpoint and Country Commerce.
Full text access to over 300 journals, including MCB University Press journals. Topics covered are management, accounting and engineering (mainly industrial).
Factiva includes the Dow Jones and Reuters news wires, The Wall Street Journal and over 8,000 other magazines, newspapers, and trade journals from a wide variety of disciplines.
globalEDGE™ is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities. Partially funded by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI B grant (CIBE program).
Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full- text format.
IBISWorld provides industry reports at the 5-digit NAICS level offering the latest content on 700+ industries. Reports contain key statistics and analysis on market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance, major industry participants and more. Industry reports are also available at the state level for select states and industries.
WRDS account required. Data Axle (formerly Infogroup) gathers geographic location-related business and residential data from various public data sources, such as local yellow pages, credit card billing data, etc. Historic business data includes the location, number of employees, and other data points for each branch / retail location for nearly 100,000 businesses.
Access to Historical Business Data is available via the Wharton Research Data Services Platform (WRDS) and is limited to University of San Diego faculty, staff, master's and doctoral students. Users must apply for account access and be approved by the University of San Diego WRDS representative the first time they log in. For account access, please contact Jennifer Bidwell jbidwell@sandiego.edu or 619-260-2380.
Provides the only locally compiled database of businesses for San Diego. Updated daily. For log in credentials, click more info. To access the database, you must be signed into your USDOne account.
Access 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR that span more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with more than 84,000 backlist titles from 100+ publishers, including Princeton, Yale, and California, and millions of primary sources.
The Market Analysis Tools suite covers the world’s largest databases on trade statistics, tariff data, and rules of origin related to applicable free trade agreements. Additional tools offer export potential estimations, market price information, regional trade and investment data and much more. To register for an account, go to https://trademap.org and register for a personal account with your USD email account (@sandiego.edu).
Mintel offers a series of research reports covering the US and European marketplace. Each market research report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market.
NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world. Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals.
Nexis Uni (formerly known as Lexis Nexis Academic Universe) features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Previously OECD iLibrary, OECD publications, including reports, policy briefs and statistics, are now available open access to readers without a paywall. From improving economic performance and strengthening policies to fight climate change to bolstering education and fighting international tax evasion, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a unique forum and knowledge hub for data, analysis and best practices in public policy.
Oxford Scholarship Online is a groundbreaking online resource, combining OUP's core scholarly books in four disciplines (Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion and Theology) and powerful research tools into one cross-indexed, fully searchable database. With 926 classic and newly published titles now available, OSO will be updated quarterly with an additional 200 titles added each year.
Euromonitor's Passport database is an online business information system providing business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources.
Search multi-format business sources on one platform, including journal articles, books, and company, industry and country reports. Company Overview pages offer resources for in-depth company research, including SWOT analyses, financial information, and current articles.
Includes information on 10 million business, including officers, addresses, sales, subsidiaries, branches. etc. Updated monthly.
Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Includes Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, and Mutual Fund Reports.
SAGE Business Cases (quick start guide) is a collection of authoritative cases studies that spans the globe, including all business types and the gamut of business and management topics. Instructors have access to teaching notes that can include PowerPoint presentations, learning objectives and discussion questions, and in‐depth case analyses.
The Premier package provides access to virtually all of the SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences
Scite is an AI research assistant. Using advanced machine learning and natural language processing, Scite analyzes citation contexts and classifies citations as supporting, mentioning, or contrasting, enabling users to quickly assess the impact and relevance of cited sources across research, teaching, and learning applications.
WRDS account required. Comprehensive data on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) from Refinitiv (formerly LSEG).
Access to SDC M&A is available via the Wharton Research Data Services Platform (WRDS) and is limited to University of San Diego faculty, staff, master's and doctoral students. Users must apply for account access and be approved by the University of San Diego WRDS representative the first time they log in. For account access, please contact Jennifer Bidwell at jbidwell@sandiego.edu or 619-260-2380.
Social Explorer helps you gain deep insights into any location of interest through thousands of data variables and stunning visualizations, and reinforces your decisions with reliable data mapping capabilities. You can pick from maps that cover everything from 220 years of U.S. Census data, U.S. elections, crime, business, environmental, health, and religion data, even statistics for Europe and World Development Indicators.
Includes access to over 2,000 journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences.
Statista.com consolidates over 2.5 million data points on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and makes it available on four platforms: German, English, French and Spanish. Our Market Outlooks provide market sizes, forecasts and other indicators for the digital economy, key consumer markets and relevant automotive markets for up to 50 countries. The Global Consumer Survey allows analyses of consumer behavior and media usage in the on- and offline world based on the data of 120,000 consumers from 28 countries, who were surveyed about 50 topics and 1400 brands.
Access over 300 journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities, as well as applied Science, Technology and Medicine.
Provides publication information for magazines, journals, newsletters, newspapers, and other periodicals. Coverage is international in scope.
Comprehensive coverage back to 1984 is available from the world's leading financial newspaper through the ProQuest database. It covers not only complete bibliographic information but also subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas.
The Wall Street Journal subscription is open to all current faculty, staff, and students. Create an account to access the Wall Street Journal at: https://libguides.sandiego.edu/wsj.
Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It provides cited reference searching, the unique ISI search and retrieval feature that lets users track the literature forward and backward.
WRDS is a platform that provides access to important databases in the fields of finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy. Currently the University of San Diego subscribes to COMPUSTAT, CRSP, I/B/E/S, Infogroup Historical Business Data, and SDC Mergers & Acquisitions via WRDS.
Includes access to over 2,500 journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences.
| Category | Databases Included |
|---|---|
| General Databases | Proquest One Business, Business Source Premier, Nexis Uni, JSTOR |
| News Articles | Global Newsstream, Factiva, Regional Business News |
| US Company Research | Reference Solutions, Factiva, Statista, S&P NetAdvantage, Compustat, CRSP |
| Industry Research | EIU, IBISWorld, Statista, Passport |
| Market Research | Statista, IBISWorld, Mintel Reports, Passport |
| International Business | China Data Online, EIU, globalEDGE, Global Newsstream, IBISWorld, Passport, |
| Supply Chain | Wiley Online, Science Direct, Emerald Insight, Business Source Premier, Sage Journals |
| Major Journals - All Disciplines | Business Source Premier, EconLit, Emerald Insight, JSTOR, Sage Premier Journals, SpringerLink, Taylor & Francis Online, Wiley Online Library |