Within each portal you will find tools to help you with business and industry research, including Market Research & Trends Analysis, Glossaries of Industry Terms Industry Statistics & Charts, Profiles of Thousands of Industry-Leading Companies, including Public and Privately held Firms.

Provides addresses, telephone numbers, SIC codes, number of employees, sales volume data and other information for millions of public and private United States and Canadian businesses. Also includes data on millions of U.S. and Canadian households such as income and home value.

Regional Business News provides full text for nearly 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications (including titles from Crain Communications).

Designed for business libraries, this is the industry's most used business research database, providing the full text for more than 2,100 journals. Business Source® Premier provides indexing, abstracts and full text back to 1965. Business Source Premier provides comprehensive coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, banking, finance, etc. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

Business Insights: Essentials brings together in a single database company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. It provides "business, company, and industry content in the following areas: Periodical articles, news articles and press releases, detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations including information on corporate hierarchical structures, company financials and earning estimates, investment reports corporate chronologies and company histories, brands and product information, industry and company rankings, market share data, industry overviews and HR Law Case Digests." Users may search for companies by name, location, industry or product, for industries by industry code or description, and for articles by subject, keyword or full text.

This is the premier full-text resource for coverage of the research and development spectrum of the applied sciences and computing disciplines. This database offers accurate and diverse content that focuses on traditional engineering challenges & research, as well as research concerning the business and social implications of new technology.

This resource offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding. Business videos provide critical information for business owners: interviews, ‘lessons learned’ features, lectures and ‘how to’ videos help foster success in all aspects of managing a business.

Small Business Resource Center covers all major areas of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax and more. Based on a combination of unparalleled periodical and reference content, Small Business Resource Center is an unmatched source of information for the prospective and current entrepreneurial community, as well as for students in business programs. From conducting industry research to financial planning and marketing a product to franchising a business, users have access to all the information they need.