VBIC

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[Note: Access available in Van Munching Hall Financial Markets and Computing Lab/Labs (1572 and 3505 Van Munching Hall), and Smith School DC, Baltimore, and Shady Grove campuses.]

[Note: Access available in Van Munching Hall Financial Markets and Computing Lab/Labs (1572 and 3505 Van Munching Hall) via vSmith. If not affiliated with or taking courses at the Smith School, e-mail a request for access to vSmith to rhsmith-helpme@umd.edu.]

[Note: Formerly called LexisNexis Congressional.]

NOTE: Replaces FedBizOpps.

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NOTE: Formerly Statistical Datasets (Proquest)

NOTE: Doing Business was discontinued by the World Bank in 2020. Historical reports are available from 2004-2020.

IBISWorld is an industry research database. It contains reports on industries in the following markets: China, Global, and U.S. The U.S. content is further subdivided into:

Industry Reports classified by NAICS (North American Industry Classification System)
Specialized Industry Reports for industries not adequately covered by NAICS
US Industry State Reports
US State Economic Profiles
US Industry iExpert Summaries
US Specialized Industry iExpert Summaries
US Business Environment Profiles
US Business Environment State Profiles

The Industry Reports are the main focus of the database. Each report contains an “at a glance” overview (including SWOT analysis), performance data, outlook data, products & markets analysis, competitive landscape analysis, lists of major companies, operating conditions, and key statistics. Statistics include financial ratios and industry averages from the Risk Management Association.

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[Note: The Regents of the University of Michigan]

Please see: MRI/Simmons Insights Platform.

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. Mergent Archives uses a reliable and easy-to-navigate system designed to meet your historical research needs.

Mergent Online is a database of corporate information on over 25,000 U.S. public companies, over 35,000 foreign public companies, and over 34,000 private companies. Information available for each public company includes:

A complete corporate history
Lists of subsidiaries, property holdings, and key personnel
Up to 25 years of annual and quarterly financial data
Up to 10 years of scanned, full-image annual reports, including SEC filings
Extensive information about the corporation's current long term debt
Links to recent news reports
Reports on insider and institutional owners

A variety of search options are available, including company name, ticker symbol, executive's name, auditor, country code, NAICS or SIC industry code, and selected financial characteristics and ratios. In addition to the main Mergent Online database, the Smith School of Business has access to one additional resource available as a tab on the Mergent Online platform: Investext. Investext contains over 18 million current and historical broker research reports on companies, products, markets, and over 125 industries. These reports have been sourced from more than 1700 brokerages, including Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan, and UBS. Date coverage varies per brokerage.

[Note: Licensing restrictions limit use to 4 simultaneous users. If you are unable to access this database, please try again later. Screening for stocks and mutual funds available using many different data points.]

[Note: Access available in Van Munching Hall Financial Markets and Computing Lab/Labs (1572 and 3505 Van Munching Hall), and via vSmith. If not affiliated with or taking courses at the Smith School, e-mail a request for access to vSmith to rhsmith-helpme@umd.edu]. "Global investment analysis uniting all of Morningstar's data and institutional research"; software allows for the creation of customized reports and presentations. Morningstar Direct provides complete coverage of Morningstar's global investment database and analytics, including worldwide investment data and global market indexes. It has hundreds of financial variables including portfolio and ownership data for thousands of worldwide hedge-funds, open and closed-end funds, exchange traded funds, insurance/life products, U.S. variable annuities and life policies, and 529 plans. In addition, it includes details on 28,000 publicly traded stocks.

[Note: replaces Mediamark and University Internet Reporter. If you are on campus, you can connect from any machine wired (office machine or labs) or wireless on UMD network. Just point your browser to the link below and click on “Proceed” on the left menu. You could also try to connect from vsmith.umd.edu. Launch the student desktop on vSmith and then try the URL: https://insights.mrisimmons.com/university/umd. If working remotely you could try to connect as follows: Connect to UM GlobalProtect UMD VPN, Select the “TunnelAll Gateway” option as shown in pic below, Then point your browser to link: https://insights.mrisimmons.com/university/umd].

[Note: Does NOT include access the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The WSJ is contained in Factiva and National Newspapers Core.]

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[Note: Print only.]

[Note: Access only via Refinitiv (Thomson Reuters) Eikon]

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[Note: Datastream Excel Add-in. Excel access available in Van Munching Hall Financial Markets Labs (VMH 3505), and Smith School DC, Baltimore, and Shady Grove campuses. Users must also be logged into Eikon using specific Eikon user IDs and passwords.]

[Note: Access available in Van Munching Hall Financial Markets Labs (1318 and 3505 Van Munching Hall), and Smith School DC, Baltimore, and Shady Grove campuses.]

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[Note: Access available only in Van Munching Hall Financial Markets Lab 1318.]

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[Note: University of Waterloo Library]

Please see: MRI/Simmons Insights Platform.

1983-current

1984-current

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