Articles: Newspapers & Magazines (16)

• ABI/INFORM Collection

  Scholarly business research database. Features The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.

• Academic Search Premier

  Provides abstracts, indexing, and full-text for journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, and more. Coverage: 1985-.

• America's News

  America’s News features national, regional and local news content that delivers multiple perspectives from more than 3,650 U.S. news sources including the Winston-Salem Journal. Covers a range of popular topics including business, health, politics, careers, entrepreneurship and much more. Coverage: 1980s-.

• New! Business Journals

  You will need to create an account using your WFU email to access this resource. Find the latest breaking business news, updated throughout the day, this week's top stories from 46 Business Journals including the Greensboro/Triad Business Journal and the Charlotte Business Journal, and other popular features from the print edition.

• Business Source Premier

  Includes abstracts, indexing, and full text from international business periodicals like the Harvard Business Review. Also includes Datamonitor company profiles. Coverage: 1886-.

• Consumer Reports via MasterFILE Premier

  A popular collection of product reviews and recommendations for cars, appliances, electronics, personal finance, and health information.

• Ebsco Current News

  Cross search Ebsco's Newspaper Source Plus, Newswires, WebNews, and Regional Business News databases.

• EconLit

  Contains citations to, and selected abstracts of, the field of economics from international journal articles, dissertations, and books, books chapters and articles and conference proceedings. Coverage: 1969-.

• Economist Historical Archive

  Fully searchable, complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper covering politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. Contains more than 600,000 pages, with full-colour images, topic and area supplements and surveys. An excellent multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage: 1843-2008.

• Entrepreneurial Studies Source

  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.

• Gale In Context: Global Issues

  Updated daily with more than 660 geographically diverse full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals for a truly global view. Also includes multimedia.

• Global Breaking Newswires

  Global Breaking Newswires is an aggregated full-text news database with timely access to global newswire content. This database includes newswire services from around the world, including the AP, Dow Jones Industrial News, dpa, AFP, Canadian Press, and others. The wires are available in various languages including Arabic, French, Italian, and German.

• Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic)

  Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

• ProQuest Central

  ProQuest Central provides access to databases across all major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports all together on a powerful, user-friendly platform.

• ProQuest Entrepreneurship Database

  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. Coverage: 1987-.

• ProQuest Recent Newspapers

  Contains 18 newspapers with coverage beginning in the late 2000s through present with a three-month embargo. Titles include Barron's, LA Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and more.

Articles: Scholarly Journals (14)

• ABI/INFORM Collection

  Scholarly business research database. Features The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.

• Academic Search Premier

  Provides abstracts, indexing, and full-text for journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, and more. Coverage: 1985-.

• Business Source Premier

  Includes abstracts, indexing, and full text from international business periodicals like the Harvard Business Review. Also includes Datamonitor company profiles. Coverage: 1886-.

• Consumer Reports via MasterFILE Premier

  A popular collection of product reviews and recommendations for cars, appliances, electronics, personal finance, and health information.

• EconLit

  Contains citations to, and selected abstracts of, the field of economics from international journal articles, dissertations, and books, books chapters and articles and conference proceedings. Coverage: 1969-.

• Entrepreneurial Studies Source

  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.

• Gale In Context: Global Issues

  Updated daily with more than 660 geographically diverse full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals for a truly global view. Also includes multimedia.

• Global Breaking Newswires

  Global Breaking Newswires is an aggregated full-text news database with timely access to global newswire content. This database includes newswire services from around the world, including the AP, Dow Jones Industrial News, dpa, AFP, Canadian Press, and others. The wires are available in various languages including Arabic, French, Italian, and German.

• Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic)

  Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

• ProQuest Central

  ProQuest Central provides access to databases across all major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports all together on a powerful, user-friendly platform.

• ProQuest Entrepreneurship Database

  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. Coverage: 1987-.

• ProQuest Recent Newspapers

  Contains 18 newspapers with coverage beginning in the late 2000s through present with a three-month embargo. Titles include Barron's, LA Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and more.

• Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)

  "Social Sciences Citation Index indexes over 1,700 journals in the social sciences including anthropology, communications, history, law, management, political science, psychology, sociology, and women's studies. It provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references. Social Sciences Citation Index is most useful for searching for articles that cite a known author or work. Citation searching also allows a researcher to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic." Coverage: 1956-.

• SPORTDiscus

  Citations and some abstracts from periodicals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and theses, research papers, etc. SPORTDiscus covers the areas of: sports, physical fitness, sport science and recreation. Access is limited to four simultaneous users. Coverage: 1830-.

Books & E-Books (6)

• Directory of Open Access Books

  A searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository. Coverage: 1985-.

• Ebook Central

  Academic e-books covering a broad range of subjects. Books may be read online in any web browser. WFU user login required.

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations at WFU

  The Wake Forest University Electronic Theses and dissertation database consists of PDF versions of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences students' theses and dissertations. At this time, students have the option of submitting electronic versions; it is not yet a requirement. For a comprehensive listing of WFU theses and dissertations, please consult the online catalog. Coverage: 2002-.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

  ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is a comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download.  The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content. Coverage: 1861-.

• WorldCat

  The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with millions of bibliographic records representing 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge. Includes holdings information from the world's libraries. Coverage: 1200-.

• ZSR Library Catalog

  Data about the books, journals, films, manuscripts, and other materials owned by the ZSR Library. Coverage: 14th century-.

Careers & Personal Development (4)

• Cypress Resume

  Easy-to-use resume building tool with a built-in writing process and automatic formatting.

• Data-Axle Reference Solutions

  (Formerly ReferenceUSA) Provides addresses and sales information for over 14 million U.S. companies. It is searchable by state, city, zip code, area code or yellow page keywords. Search by SIC code if you need to get a list of companies within an industry. Limited credit-rating information also available. Coverage: current year.

• Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

  Career database that enables users to explore industries and careers, plan their education, and research best practices for resumes, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and salaries/benefits. Includes articles, career advice blogs, and streaming video.

• Occupational Outlook Handbook

  The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a source of career information, designed to provide assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. Coverage: Current.

Company & Industry Research (9)

• BizMiner

  BizMiner produces industry statistical reports, with industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more. Market analysis reports are available at the national and local levels down to the zip code. BizMiner is for educational, non-commercial use only; systematic copying and/or distribution of BizMiner content is prohibited.

• Business Source Premier

  Includes abstracts, indexing, and full text from international business periodicals like the Harvard Business Review. Also includes Datamonitor company profiles. Coverage: 1886-.

• Data-Axle Reference Solutions

  (Formerly ReferenceUSA) Provides addresses and sales information for over 14 million U.S. companies. It is searchable by state, city, zip code, area code or yellow page keywords. Search by SIC code if you need to get a list of companies within an industry. Limited credit-rating information also available. Coverage: current year.

• Gartner Research

  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. Coverage: May 1997-.

• IBISWorld

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

• Mergent Corporate Manuals

  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.

• Morningstar.com Library Edition

  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.

• Nexis Dossier

  Located in the "Menu" dropdown box and listed as "Compan 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.

• Value Line Investment Survey Online

  Information and analysis on stocks.

Country Research (1)

• Business Source Premier

  Includes abstracts, indexing, and full text from international business periodicals like the Harvard Business Review. Also includes Datamonitor company profiles. Coverage: 1886-.

Curriculum Resources (K-12) (1)

• SIRS Discoverer

  Designed specifically for elementary and middle school students, SIRS Discoverer offer articles, nonfiction books, images, activities and websites curated for educational relevance, age appropriateness, and readability.

Data & Statistics (10)

• Advertising Age Data Center

  Advertising Age is one of the world's leading news sources for the fields of advertising and marketing. The AdAge.com Data Center is a useful source of statistics, facts, and special studies related to advertising and marketing.

• Capital IQ

  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.

• Consumer Reports via MasterFILE Premier

  A popular collection of product reviews and recommendations for cars, appliances, electronics, personal finance, and health information.

• Data Planet

  With 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.

• Mergent Corporate Manuals

  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.

• PolicyMap

  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.

• Simmons Insights

  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.

• SimplyAnalytics

  Map thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Coverage limited to the United States.

• Sports Market Analytics

  SMA is a single resource for analytics of sports marketing trends, brand preferences, general media habits, sponsorship, social media, fantasy, eSports, participation, and sports equipment and footwear. Coverage: 1996-.

• Statista

  Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 18000 sources on over 60000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database.

Encyclopedias & Reference (10)

• Credo Reference

  Credo Reference includes over 650 titles with particular emphasis on subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are over 1,100 short reference videos, nearly 450,000 high-resolution art images, photographs and maps across all subject areas.

• Cypress Resume

  Easy-to-use resume building tool with a built-in writing process and automatic formatting.

• Data-Axle Reference Solutions

  (Formerly ReferenceUSA) Provides addresses and sales information for over 14 million U.S. companies. It is searchable by state, city, zip code, area code or yellow page keywords. Search by SIC code if you need to get a list of companies within an industry. Limited credit-rating information also available. Coverage: current year.

• Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

  Career database that enables users to explore industries and careers, plan their education, and research best practices for resumes, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and salaries/benefits. Includes articles, career advice blogs, and streaming video.

• New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

  Contains the full text of the 2008 edition of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, with ongoing quarterly updates. Also includes the 1987 edition. Coverage: 1987-present.

• Occupational Outlook Handbook

  The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a source of career information, designed to provide assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. Coverage: Current.

• SimplyAnalytics

  Map thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Coverage limited to the United States.

• SIRS Discoverer

  Designed specifically for elementary and middle school students, SIRS Discoverer offer articles, nonfiction books, images, activities and websites curated for educational relevance, age appropriateness, and readability.

• Statista

  Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 18000 sources on over 60000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database.

• WorldCat

  The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with millions of bibliographic records representing 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge. Includes holdings information from the world's libraries. Coverage: 1200-.

Multi-Subject Databases (10)

• Academic Search Premier

  Provides abstracts, indexing, and full-text for journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, and more. Coverage: 1985-.

• Directory of Open Access Books

  A searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository. Coverage: 1985-.

• Ebook Central

  Academic e-books covering a broad range of subjects. Books may be read online in any web browser. WFU user login required.

• Films on Demand - Master Academic Collection

  17,000+ videos in business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.

• Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic)

  Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

• ProQuest Central

  ProQuest Central provides access to databases across all major subject areas, including business, health and medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. The collection includes thousands of full-text scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and market reports all together on a powerful, user-friendly platform.

• SimplyAnalytics

  Map thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Coverage limited to the United States.

• Statista

  Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 18000 sources on over 60000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database.

• WorldCat

  The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with millions of bibliographic records representing 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge. Includes holdings information from the world's libraries. Coverage: 1200-.

• ZSR Library Catalog

  Data about the books, journals, films, manuscripts, and other materials owned by the ZSR Library. Coverage: 14th century-.

News & Current Events (7)

• Academic Search Premier

  Provides abstracts, indexing, and full-text for journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, and more. Coverage: 1985-.

• America's News

  America’s News features national, regional and local news content that delivers multiple perspectives from more than 3,650 U.S. news sources including the Winston-Salem Journal. Covers a range of popular topics including business, health, politics, careers, entrepreneurship and much more. Coverage: 1980s-.

• Economist Historical Archive

  Fully searchable, complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper covering politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. Contains more than 600,000 pages, with full-colour images, topic and area supplements and surveys. An excellent multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage: 1843-2008.

• Gale In Context: Global Issues

  Updated daily with more than 660 geographically diverse full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals for a truly global view. Also includes multimedia.

• Global Breaking Newswires

  Global Breaking Newswires is an aggregated full-text news database with timely access to global newswire content. This database includes newswire services from around the world, including the AP, Dow Jones Industrial News, dpa, AFP, Canadian Press, and others. The wires are available in various languages including Arabic, French, Italian, and German.

• Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic)

  Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

• ProQuest Recent Newspapers

  Contains 18 newspapers with coverage beginning in the late 2000s through present with a three-month embargo. Titles include Barron's, LA Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and more.

Primary Sources (1)

• Market Research and American Business Reports, 1935-1965

  An insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to the complete market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era’s foremost consumer analyst and market research pioneer. Coverage: 1935-1965.

Primary Sources: Historical Newspapers & Periodicals (1)

• Economist Historical Archive

  Fully searchable, complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper covering politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. Contains more than 600,000 pages, with full-colour images, topic and area supplements and surveys. An excellent multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage: 1843-2008.

Reports (9)

• BCC Research

  Market research and analysis. Coverage provides detailed market size forecasts that incorporate the major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology organizations.

• BizMiner

  BizMiner produces industry statistical reports, with industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more. Market analysis reports are available at the national and local levels down to the zip code. BizMiner is for educational, non-commercial use only; systematic copying and/or distribution of BizMiner content is prohibited.

• eMarketer

  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.

• Gartner Research

  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. Coverage: May 1997-.

• IBISWorld

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

• Market Research and American Business Reports, 1935-1965

  An insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to the complete market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era’s foremost consumer analyst and market research pioneer. Coverage: 1935-1965.

• Mintel Reports

  Marketing and consumer research reports. Focuses on the USA and Europe. Each user must be a current affiliate of WFU and must create a personal profile.

• Morningstar.com Library Edition

  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.

• Value Line Investment Survey Online

  Information and analysis on stocks.

Theses & Dissertations (2)

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations at WFU

  The Wake Forest University Electronic Theses and dissertation database consists of PDF versions of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences students' theses and dissertations. At this time, students have the option of submitting electronic versions; it is not yet a requirement. For a comprehensive listing of WFU theses and dissertations, please consult the online catalog. Coverage: 2002-.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

  ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is a comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download.  The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content. Coverage: 1861-.

Video & Multimedia (1)

• Films on Demand - Master Academic Collection

  17,000+ videos in business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.