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Data & Statistics
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- Provides data, statistics, and reports on many topics including media, business, politics, society, technology and education.
- With SAGE Data (formerly called Data Planet), you can scan and search the contents of billions of datasets, compare and contrast variables of interest, and create customized views in tables, maps, rankings, and charts.Coverage: Details not available.
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- Includes international coverage and provides researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
- AccessEngineering includes books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, videos, data/statistics, tutorials, and other content to help students and faculty in engineering and other STEM fields. From Schaum’s Outlines to textbooks, students can utilize resources to study/learn and instructors can integrate content into their curriculum.
- A comprehensive online medical education resource. Includes reference tools, images, a diagnostic tool, drug & patient information, textbooks, cases, videos, and self-assessment for medical students.
- Interested users must email one of the business librarians in order to create an account. Only 2 concurrent users allowed. Please log out when ending your session. Contains analytical accounting, auditing, governmental, and SEC information as well as data.Coverage: Details not available.
- Online access to the website of the trade magazine Advertising Age. Includes: current articles and an archive of older issues; and the AdAge DataCenter. Users will need to create an account with their wfu.edu email address in order to access content.
- Search corpora of French texts by keyword and see results in context. The complete text cannot be displayed. Other databases available through ARTFL include sources like Textes de Français Ancien and Provençal Poetry.Coverage: 12th-20th centuries.
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- Provides detailed industry analysis and market research reports on more than 16,000 lines of business in national and local markets. Uses include valuation, business plans, due diligence and competitive benchmarking.
- You will need to create an account using your WFU email to access to all Business Journals including the Greensboro/Triad Business Journal and Charlotte Business Journal. Find the latest breaking business news, updated throughout the day, this week’s top stories, and other popular features from the print edition.
- Includes abstracts, indexing, and full text from international business periodicals like the Harvard Business Review. Also includes Datamonitor company profiles.Coverage: 1886-.
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- The Capital IQ platform provides research, data, and analysis on private and public companies. Covers areas of corporate finance, including investment banking, equity research, asset management and more. Users can login with their WFU username and password.
- Search across CQ Press content including: Congress Collection, CQ Almanac, CQ Magazine, Encyclopedia of American Government, Politics in America, Public Affairs Collection, Supreme Court Collection, Voting and Elections Collection, Political Handbook of the World, and Supreme Court Compendium.Coverage: 1983-.
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- (Formerly ReferenceUSA) Provides addresses and sales information for over 14 million U.S. business establishments and organizations. It is searchable by state, city, zip code, area code or yellow page keywords. Search by SIC or NAICS code if you need to get a list of companies within an industry. Limited credit-rating information also available.Coverage: current year.
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- eMarketer is a digital market research firm devoted to understanding where consumers are going online, how they’re spending their money, and how marketers are reaching them through digital channels.
- English-Corpora.org is the most widely used collection of corpora (highly searchable collections of texts) anywhere in the world. Users must create an account for access.
- Covers political, economic and statistical information about more than 250 countries and territories, as well as international and regional organizations. A starting point for any kind of country research.Coverage: Details not available.
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- Information about countries geared towards those traveling (personally or professionally) or researching current issues. Contains informaiton on travel, cuisine, government, society, and more.Coverage: Details not available.
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- Contains historical data from American History. Demographics, social characteristics, crime, education, health and more are all cross-searchable.Coverage: Colonial period-present.
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- Knovel is an extensive, searchable online library of full-text content from many different publishers, including reference handbooks, conference proceedings and databases, delivering trusted, accessible and relevant answers and insights to accelerate foundational engineering knowledge, build expertise in various subjects, and prepare for career in Engineering. As Engineering is interdisciplinary, Knovel includes resources for chemistry, biology, medical devices, and other areas/concentrations. Knovel also includes interactive graphs and equations. Creating an account with your WFU.edu email address is recommended for the best user experience, although the content can be viewed without doing so.
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- Mergent Archives is an online database featuring a vast, indexed collection of more than a century’s worth of global corporate and industry related documents. This collection contains hundreds of thousands of reports covering over 100 countries and industries.Coverage: 1909-present.
- Marketing and consumer research reports. Focuses on the USA and Europe. Each user must be a current affiliate of WFU and must sign in using their WFU username and password to access Mintel.Coverage: Details not available.
- Includes three tools: Stock and Fund Selector, Reports, and X-Ray. Use these tools to select stocks or mutual funds, review Morningstar analysis, and determine how your stocks and funds work in an overall investment plan.Coverage: Details not available.
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- Contains the full text of surveys, budgets, statistical records, case studies, planning documents, training manuals, policy guidelines, reports, and news from the five hundred largest cities in North America. It also includes select materials from hundreds of related agencies and non-governmental organizations.
- Captures and preserves the executive, legislative, judicial, and social media content of North American state and provincial governments. Millions of records from more than 1,500 organizations across all forty countries and territories in North America, including Central America and the Caribbean. Coverage 2000 – present.
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- Systematically collated data on key aspects of the health care systems in the 30 OECD Member countries within their general demographic, economic, and social contexts.Coverage: 1960-.
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- Pitchbook tracks every aspect of the public and private equity markets, including venture capital, private equity and M&A. Access detailed data on companies, deals investors, funds, and professionals. Users will need to enter in their WFU email address to access.
- A U.S. national data and mapping tool and analytics platform with multidisciplinary applications related to social sciences, urban studies, real estate and housing analysis, community and economic development, public administration, public health, policy and political science, education, business, economics, statistics, and geography, among others.
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- One of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. Covers opinions on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented.Coverage: 1935-present.
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- With SAGE Data (formerly called Data Planet), you can scan and search the contents of billions of datasets, compare and contrast variables of interest, and create customized views in tables, maps, rankings, and charts. Views also include descriptive summaries of the datasets and data sources.Coverage: Details not available.
- SAGE Explorer includes over 40,000 cases, videos, data, and more related to social and behavioral sciences.
- Provded by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, this database includes reference, substance, reaction and supplier content as well as relevance-ranked answer sets, step-by-step procedures and protocols, biosequence searching, retrosynthesis planning, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing.Users can now log into SciFinder with their WFU username and password. If you have an existing SciFinder account associated with your WFU email address, you will still have access to all of your saved searches and other data when you log in. WFU School of Medicine/Carpenter Library users will need to access Scifinder via the Carpenter Library A to Z Databases List.
- Simmons Insights includes advanced reporting analytics, data visualizations, and business intelligence applications with comprehensive profiling that enable clients to build proprietary data dashboards and custom analyses. Five concurrent users may access Simmons Insights.
- Map thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Coverage limited to the United States.Coverage: Details not available.
- Social Explorer allows users to visually explore demographic information, from census and economic data to election and religion data. The site includes data from the entire US Census from 1790 to 2010, all annual updates from the American Community Survey to 2008, and other data sets.
- Provides data, statistics, and reports on many topics including media, business, politics, society, technology and education. Add-ons include: Consumer Insights, providing increased data and analytics on consumer attitudes and behavior worldwide and eCommerce Insights, providing increased data and analytics on the eCommerce landscape including customer behavior and digital market insights.
- Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.Coverage: 1878-.
- This database aggregates the statistical abstracts of over 40 countries (and growing) and makes the content available through a single-search interface. These statistical abstracts are generally issued by the national statistical offices of foreign governments and contain country-level data not easily found elsewhere. Global and regional statistical compendia issued by international organizations and research firms are also included.Coverage: 2013-.
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- Genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Data available includes the complete genome sequence along with gene structure, gene product information, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, publications, and information about the Arabidopsis research community.
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- Information and analysis on stocks.Coverage: Details not available.
- Contains in-depth data about U.S. Presidential, Congressional, and Gubernatorial campaigns and elections, historical and modern. Data export tools allow for customized data downloads for statistical analysis. Also includes information about voter demographics and political parties.Coverage: 1789-2012.
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- Contains the full text of surveys, budgets, statistical records, case studies, planning documents, training manuals, policy guidelines, reports, and news from cities of all sizes from every continent, with particular attention to the Global South, spanning Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Latin America. It also includes select materials from hundreds of related agencies and non-governmental organizations.
- Captures and preserves the executive, legislative, and judicial, and other content of the governments of the UK, Ireland, Canada, and Oceania, including Australia and New Zealand, with additional coverage of a further 700+ government agencies from more than 180 countries.