Includes international coverage and provides researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.

Covers the world’s agricultural literature, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, soil and water resources, and earth and environmental sciences. Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library including patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports from the USDA agencies and the U.S. State Agricultural Colleges and Universities.

BCC’s market research reports explore major economic, scientific, and technological developments in a variety of categories including finance, high tech, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and startups.

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.

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 will need to create an account with their WFU email in order to access Capital IQ. Click “new user”, in the upper right corner of the Capital IQ landing page to get started.

(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.

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.

Offers full text for key periodicals, reference books, case studies, company profiles and videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Series and Vator.TV. Subjects covered include business planning, management, marketing, product development, raising capital, risk taking, etc.

Provides detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports, as well as thousands of company histories, case studies, scholarly journals, and company news.

Gartner Group provides vital advice to professionals making key decisions about IT. Its subscription-based products and services include qualitative research and analysis on trends and developments, quantitative market research, and benchmarking services. This database is available to the Wake Forest community only.

Provides extensive reports on 300 industries and numerous companies. Includes size, trends, market share, descriptions of key participants and more.

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.

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.

Located in the “Menu” dropdown box and listed as “Company Dossier.” Find info on thousands of U.S. and international companies. Search by name, geography, industry and financial criteria. Get company overviews, financials, news, intellectual property, corporate hierarchy, and more. Search for lists of companies by geography, industry, NAICS/SIC, and other criteria. Includes private companies.

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 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.

This database bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly – including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings – to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneur in a wide range of formats – from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as traditional text and PDFs.

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.

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.