Business Research
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Welcome
This Research Guide is designed to aid students in using Iona University Library resources to complete projects and assignments for Business Research. It includes essential reference works, articles in databases, and journals.
View the School of Business website and find information about course offerings, program faculty, curriculum requirements, etc.
Digital Business Magazines & New York Times
- Flipster Digital Magazines This link opens in a new window
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Digital newsstand that offers a browse-able access to popular magazines such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Fortune, and The New Yorker.
Magazines can be downloaded to Android™ phones and tablets, Apple® phones and tables, and Kindle Fire tablets for offline reading. - The New York Times Academic Pass This link opens in a new window
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The Academic Pass provides access to NYTimes.com, NYTimes.com smartphone and tablet apps, and NYTimes In Education.
Start Your Research with eBooks
- Skillport (Books 24x7) This link opens in a new window
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eBooks and streaming video covering business skills, management, and strategy.
Databases - search for articles, journals, eBooks
General Business Databases: start here
These databases represent general business databases and are a good starting point for your research. Use the tabbed sections at the top of this box for more specific business topics.
- ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window
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Business related articles from journals as well as trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, market reports and wire feeds. - Business Insights: Essentials This link opens in a new window
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Company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share and financial reports, industry rankings, products and brands, marketing data, and more. Contains articles and abstracts from journals and news sources. - Business Source Elite This link opens in a new window
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This database provides full-text coverage of business, management and economics journals and periodicals. These publications cover topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, and sales. - PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
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Users can access thousands of U.S. data indicators to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis, from a neighborhood census block group up to a national level, or create custom regions, for research and studies.
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Company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share and financial reports, industry rankings, products and brands, marketing data, and more. Contains articles and abstracts from journals and news sources. - Key Business Ratios This link opens in a new window
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Mining information from the Dun & Bradstreet (now a subsidiary of Mergent, Inc.) database of financial information on 60 million+ companies from 209 countries around the world, Key Business Ratios (KBR) can be used to assess a firm's strengths and weaknesses relative to competing firms or an entire industry. - Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
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Financial information on thousands of companies worldwide; also includes industry reports. Company information includes annual reports, company histories, SEC financial statements, stock information, directories, etc. - ValueLine Investment Survey This link opens in a new window
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Reports on 1700+ U.S. stocks including projections and company and industry commentary. New data issued weekly. Iona subscription is limited to 3 users at a time; to the 'Investment Survey' section only.
- CheckPoint This link opens in a new window
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Tools for conducting accounting and tax research containing documents on tax law, expert financial analyses, IRS and court rulings, tax-related news and more. - Key Business Ratios This link opens in a new window
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Mining information from the Dun & Bradstreet (now a subsidiary of Mergent, Inc.) database of financial information on 60 million+ companies from 209 countries around the world, Key Business Ratios (KBR) can be used to assess a firm's strengths and weaknesses relative to competing firms or an entire industry. - Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
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Financial information on thousands of companies worldwide; also includes industry reports. Company information includes annual reports, company histories, SEC financial statements, stock information, directories, etc. - ValueLine Investment Survey This link opens in a new window
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Reports on 1700+ U.S. stocks including projections and company and industry commentary. New data issued weekly. Iona subscription is limited to 3 users at a time; to the 'Investment Survey' section only.
- CountryWatch This link opens in a new window
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Reports on political, business, demographic, cultural, and environmental information and statistics on countries around the world. Also includes daily news coverage by country, comparable country data sets and regional maps. - Statista This link opens in a new window
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Find statistics, consumer survey results, and industry studies. Categorized into 21 market sectors, the platform provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.
Data sources include market research reports as well as trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. - Sports Market Analytics This link opens in a new window
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Sports Market Analytics is an online, continuously updated nationwide sports marketing analytics database with four reporting formats to accommodate user needs: Single Sport Analytics, Subject Analytics, Sport Summaries, and Sports Venue Analytics. It offers an all-encompassing perspective on the sports business, drawing upon syndicated and custom proprietary market research, industry reports, and licensed industry articles. - RKMA Business Reference Handbooks This link opens in a new window
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Richard K. Miller & Associates (RKMA), founded in 1972, publishes handbooks focused on marketing and the consumer marketplace. The titles include: Sports Marketing, Entertainment, Media & Advertising, Business-to-Business Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Consumer Marketing; and Healthcare Business Market Research Handbook.
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This database provides reliable and relevant information on a wide range of health administration topics, including: Hospitals, Insurance, Law, Statistics, Business management, Personnel management, Ethics, Health economics, and Public health administration. - Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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This database provides access to nursing and allied health journals, plus Health Reference Center and the Alternative Health Module. - Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
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This database, updated on a daily basis, provides 550+ scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 800+ journals. - ScienceDirect (via SciVerse) This link opens in a new window
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ScienceDirect offers comprehensive indexing of e-journals, e-books and working papers published by Elsevier. Coverage focuses on science and medicine, with some social science, computer and business journals. Full-text is available for only a limited number of titles through Iona's subscription. - PubMed This link opens in a new windowPubMed comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
- RKMA Business Reference Handbooks This link opens in a new window
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Richard K. Miller & Associates (RKMA), founded in 1972, publishes handbooks focused on marketing and the consumer marketplace. The titles include: Healthcare Business Market Research, Business-to-Business Marketing; Consumer Behavior; and Consumer Marketing Handbook.
- The New York Times (1980 - Current) This link opens in a new window
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Often considered the official U.S. newspaper, the NYTimes publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches and presidential press conferences. - Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
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The WSJ is considered the US's preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide. Content available from 1984 - Current. - Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text of 200+ regional, national, and international newspapers. The database also includes transcripts from major television and radio broadcasts. - US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. - International Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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Provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites. - News (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to more 1,000+ major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world.
Key Subject Journals
Where are the Library Books on Business?
Books relevant to Accounting & Finance are found in the Dewey Decimal sections:
- 332 Financial economics
- 336 Public finance
- 657 Accounting
These books can be found in Ryan Library, 3rd floor, West Wing.
Books relevant to Business, Business Economics, Business Law, Economics, and Finance are found in Dewey Decimal Number Sections:
- 506-507: Sciences -- Organizations & Management
- 610-619: Medical Sciences
- 650-659: Business & Management
All of these sections can be found in Ryan Library, 3rd floor, West Wing.
Books relevant to Marketing are found in the Dewey Decimal section:
- 658.8
These books can be found in Ryan Library, 3rd floor, West Wing.