Entrepreneurship Databases
Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com provides reporting on business, finance, and politics. To access:
1.Visit bloomberg.com/account/create-account
2.Enter your WVU email address to verify eligibility.
3.Check your inbox for an 8-digit verification code and enter it.
4.Create a password and confirm your account.
Factiva
Factiva provides access to sources of local, regional, national, and international news, general insight, selected financial information and profiles for publicly traded U.S. and international companies, industry reports, quotes for financial instruments, and stock market data. News content types include: newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, transcripts, images, blogs, and websites.
First Research
First Research, an affiliate of Hoover’s and Dun & Bradstreet, is a leading industry intelligence company designed to help sales teams perform more effectively. This industry database may be searched by keyword, SIC or NAICS code. State Profiles are also available here to provide a quick snapshot of the business climate in individual states and Canadian provinces. Industry profiles include industry overview, recent developments, business challenges, trends and opportunities, executive insight, call preparation questions, financial and industry ratio's, industry forecast, web links and acronyms.
IBISWorld
Industry market research reports, economic, and demographic data to support business research; reports include statistics, industry structure, product & customer segmentation, performance analysis, major players, market share, and 5-year forecast analysis for 680+ industries.
LSEG
Register for access through Workspace's
self-registration process
using your WVU MIX or MAIL email account. If you haven’t received a registration confirmation email after an hour please contact eva.murphy@mail.wvu.edu for registration assistance. For help using LSEG features, please contact jeffrey.werst@mail.wvu.edu.
LSEG (formerly known as Refinitiv Workspace or Refinitiv Eikon) is a platform that features market trends, company financial and deals data, private equity and venture capital, breaking news, and After Market Research reports by leading analysts and firms. LSEG (formerly Refinitiv Workspace / Refinitiv Eikon) replaces Thomson One.
For assistance getting started with LSEG, please see the
Refinitiv Workspace Academic Quick Start Guide
or
Refinitiv Workspace (Formerly Thomson One) User Guide.
Mintel Oxygen
Consumer market research reports that focus on consumer attitudes, trend information, and market data in 14 consumer categories (Food, Drink, Foodservice, Beauty & Personal Care, Health & Wellbeing, Household, Lifestyles, Leisure & Entertainment, Multicultural, Retailing & Apparel, Finance, Technology, Transportation, and Travel).
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. NBER-affiliated researchers study a wide range of topics and they employ many different methods in their work. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policies.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis™ including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 — with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents. Formerly called Lexis Nexis Academic.
Pivot
COS Pivot is a frequently updated database of funding opportunity announcements in all disciplines including physical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, health and medicine, and arts & humanities. It contains information on awards, fellowships, and grants from federal/non-federal and corporate/private foundations, as well as international funding sources. Pivot combines the most comprehensive, editorially maintained database of funding opportunities worth an estimated $33 billion with our unique database of 3 million pre-populated scholar profiles. If you create an account, you are required to use your WVU or UHA email account. Pivot is made available with funding from the Office of Sponsored Programs at WVU.
PrivCo (To access content, click on the "Direct Access" button)
PrivCo specializes in business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed, and international unlisted companies. Includes profiles for over 850,000 firms, 20,000 investors and 100,000 private market deals, with more information and analysis added daily. Recommended for company, investor, M&A, venture capital funding, and private equity research. To access content, click on the "Direct Access" button.
Regional Business News (Courtesy of WVInfoDepot)
Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and news wires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Provided by the West Virginia Library Commission with funds from the WV State Legislature and the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Library and Museum Services.
Richard K. Miller & Associates Market Research Handbooks
Annual handbooks summarizing latest consumer market research for leisure, sports, restaurant,travel, healthcare, and entertainment.
Social Explorer
Features demographic research mapping tools that allow for demographic data analysis. The main goal is to visually display the demographic change that has occurred in the U.S. since 1790 through present down to the zip code or a city block level.
Statista
A statistics portal that integrates data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform - categorized into 21 market sectors, providing direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets
USPTO
The US Patent & Trademark Office grants US patents and registers trademarks. Search for patents and trademarks. Access training materials and application information.
Wall Street Journal (2010 - present - Proquest Newspapers)
The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news.