Business & Management

Last Updated: Sep 12, 2025 2:28 PM

Business Librarian

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422 Lockwood Library, North Campus

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Use these top databases to begin your company research.

EDGAR
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission database that contains over 21 million forms and documents reported by U.S. companies and industries.

Gale Business: Insights

Detailed company and industry reports, profiles, and news.More Info
Full-Text UB ONLY
Mergent Archives
Mergent Archives allows you to access a vast collection of corporate and industry related documents. Coverage goes back to 1909. It includes PDFs of the Moody's manuals (later renamed Mergent): Bank & Finance, Industrial, International, OTC Industrial, Public Utility, Transportation, and OTC Unlisted.
Mergent Intellect

Mergent Intellect, formerly Hoover's, includes information on both public and private U.S. companies, Canadian companies, and international companies. More Info
UB ONLY
Mergent Market Atlas

Mergent Market Atlas provides access to a multitude of company, industry, country, index, ESG and economic data analysis tools and reports.More Info
S&P NetAdvantage

Online access to Standard & Poor's publications. More Info
UB ONLY
Statista

A global business data platform providing insights and facts across industries and countries. More Info
Full-TextUB ONLY
Uniworld Online

Uniworld Online unravels the maze of “who operates where” and “who owns whom” providing multinational companies worldwide locations, contact information, revenue and many other datasets.More Info

Mergent Intellect
Mergent Intellect, formerly Hoover's, includes information on both public and private U.S. companies, Canadian companies, and international companies.
Gale Business: Insights

Detailed company and industry reports, profiles, and news.More Info
Full-Text UB ONLY

Crunchbase
Basic private company information, including team members, news, funding and acquisition information. While UB does not subscribe to Crunchbase, select content is freely available.
BuzzFile
Consider this site when trying to find data on U.S.-based companies, particularly smaller, privately held ones. Free and fee-based services available.
PrivCo
A leading provider of private company data, PrivCo provides limited private details for free. Check out their blog for additional research and insights into private companies. Note: UB does not subscribe to the full version of PrivCo.