Resources for Business and Economics Graduate Students

Supplies international business and news coverage from more than 8,000 sources including newspapers, newswires, magazines, trade journals, radio and television transcripts, and websites. Compiles company information and data and up to 5 years of historical market data. Contains photographs and pictures from Reuters and Knight Ridder. View a tutorial on this database here.
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Covers scholarly journals for business topics such as marketing, management, human resources, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Includes author profiles, financial data, books, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, company profiles, SWOT analyses, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, datamonitor, and country reports from 1886.
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The ABI/INFORM Collection includes international coverage and provides researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
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Delivers comprehensive suite of authoritative financial information. Up to 4 years of key financial information on over 400,000 global private companies; integrated screening and searching for public and private companies; full company reports in pdf format; ability to view competitors on both private and public companies. View a tutorial on this database here.

Collects Industry Market Research and Industry Risk Ratings in 6 categories: US Industry Reports (NAICS), US Specialized Industry Reports, Global Industry Reports, US Risk Ratings Reports, US Risk iExpert Summaries and US Business Environment Profiles.
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Provides reports for the top 14 US business-to-consumer categories and tracks consumer attitudes and behaviors. Each report covers market sizing and segmentation as well as consumer attitudes and trends. USER MUST CREATE AN EMAIL AND PASSWORD ACCOUNT TO USE THIS RESOURCE.

Integrates more than 80,000 diverse topics of data and facts from over 22,500 international sources. Includes statistics and studies gathered from market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, government sources and international organizations. Create graphs, reports and infographics. Data is easily exportable for analysis. Statista reports now allow you to create your own interactive industry comparisons with Tableau Workbook. Find the free tool here or via https://www.tableau.com/trial/statista-benchmark-report-uk. View a tutorial on this database here.

Enables users to quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. Data includes Census (1980 - Present), American Community Survey, and both Simmons and MRI Consumer Survey Data. Users may create accounts to save their work. For more information, see the SimplyAnalytics InfoGuide.
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Supplies international business and news coverage from more than 8,000 sources including newspapers, newswires, magazines, trade journals, radio and television transcripts, and websites. View a tutorial on this database here.

Unlimited access to NYTimes.com and NYT Mobile apps, including Spanish and Chinese editions. Note: First time users must create a new account here using their GMU credentials.

Provides UK and international business, finance, economic, and political news, comment, and analysis from the Financial Times newspaper group. Note: For access to the Financial Times' personalized features, please register here using your Mason email address.

Resource offers insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology. It offers a variety of web-only content, including blogs, debates and audio/film programs. Provides full access to the print edition and a searchable online archive that dates back to 1997. Note: For access to The Economist newsletters, please register here using your Mason email address.

Offers a distinguished source for business news and information on financial markets worldwide as well as national and international news. Provides comprehensive indexing, covering bibliographic information as well as subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas. View a tutorial on this database here.

Provides full-text access to national and international newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Times (London), as well as selective full-text for various U.S regional newspapers. In addition, it offers full-text television and radio news transcripts from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and National Public Radio. Tutorial for the Newspaper Source Plus database.

Streaming video platform, with films spanning the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Business, Economics and Health.

Provides Mason faculty, students and staff with free, unlimited online access to tutorials and courses in hundreds of subject areas, including office productivity; audio, video, and web software; as well as business and job skills. New courses are added every week. Log in with your Mason NetID username and password. LinkedIn Learning is available 24/7 from your computer, tablet or mobile device, and is supported jointly by Mason's ITS Learning Support Services and the University Libraries.

Provides access to over 70,000 video titles from numerous unique content partners including Sony Pictures Classics, Film Platform, Filmakers Library, Milestone Films, Microtraining Associates, PBS, and many more. Subject coverage is broad. Interactive transcripts and closed captions are available. View a tutorial on this database here.