LibGuides: Databases for Engineers: Business Intelligence

Market Information

Mintel This link opens in a new window
Mintel Oxygen covers a wide range of original UK market research reports in a number of industry sectors including: food, drink, fashion, health, leisure, technology and travel. Access to the Retail Intelligence (International) section and Mintel Access Asia China Reports.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry This link opens in a new window
This resource allows the searching of more than 1200 business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. It provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. It also contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more.

GlobalData Explorer This link opens in a new window
GlobalData Explorer is a cross-sector platform providing actionable intelligence spanning 22 industries. Combining macroeconomic data and information on thousands of companies, Explorer offers you broad yet detailed coverage of the global trends that are shaping industries, impacting companies and driving innovation.

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Full text business database, covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and marketing.

Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
Electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, covering the last 300 years.

EconLit This link opens in a new window
Econlit indexes and abstracts more than 550 international economics journals and provides coverage back as far as 1969 covering all fields of economics.

Datastream This link opens in a new window
Datastream® provides powerful global macroeconomic data allowing you to get the complete picture on virtually any macro environment, better understand economic cycles to uncover trends, and forecast market conditions. Datastream includes: global key indicator economic time series; history back to the 1950s for G7, 1970s for other major markets, 1980s for smaller countries; economic profiles for 175 countries from national, primary sources and major international organizations; access to active & inactive equity pricing & reference data; intraday updates.

Fame - Bureau van Dijk This link opens in a new window
Database containing information on over 2.8 million (public and private) active companies in the UK and Ireland for up to 10 years.

Northcote This link opens in a new window
A free database of UK companies listed on the London Stock Exchange that have a presence on the Web. Information includes: annual and interim reports, press releases, summary financial information, results presentations and webcasts, chairman's statements, price information and broker research.

Registration is free.

Filings Expert This link opens in a new window
PI Navigator is a financial and capital markets database providing access to over 15 million global company filings including annual reports, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), equity transactional documents (including Initial Public Offerings) and bond prospectuses. PI Navigator surfaces the value of the data buried within financial documents, providing the ability to significantly reduce the time taken when modelling company financials.