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Business - General Resources

A broad list of resources for UMSL's Business programs.

Top Business Resources

All Business & Economics Databases

  • Academic Search Complete

    Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with several thousand full-text periodicals, most of which are peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for many more journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

  • Ad*Access
    The Ad*Access Project presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. & Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955 and covers five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.
  • AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials
    Access to over 8,000 historic television commercials created for clients or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s.
  • Agricola (via National Agriculture Library's Web Gateway)
    Covers major agricultural subjects, including agricultural engineering and marketing, animal breeding, entomology, environmental pollution, farm management, foods and feeds, pesticides, rural sociology, veterinary medicine, and water resources.
  • APA PsycArticles

    APA PsycArticles® offers full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology published by the American Psychological Association. Access over 70 top, full-text psychology journals covering the disciplines of Human Physiology, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, and more. For a more extensive and in-depth search use APA PsycInfo.

  • APA PsycInfo

    APA PsycInfo® is the American Psychological Association's renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, containing over 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s.

  • Business Source Complete
    Best Bet

    Business Source Complete provides full text for thousands of journals, including both peer-reviewed, academic journals and trade business publications. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. To find case studies, enter search terms (examples: "restaurant" or "advertising") in the usual boxes, then under "Document type," choose "Case Study."

  • Capital IQ NetAdvantage
    Includes data and analysis for industries, companies, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and indexes. NetAdvantage contains the following Standard & Poor's publications: Bond Guide, Mutual Fund Reports, Corporation Records, The Outlook, Dividend Record Register of Corporations, Earnings Guide, Stock Guide, Industry Surveys, and Stock Reports.
  • CaseLaw Access Project
    The goal of the Caselaw Access Project (“CAP”) is to expand public access to U.S. law and "to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law School Library."
    This collection may be useful in conjunction with our main legal database: HeinOnline Academic
  • Checkpoint Edge (RIA) - Student Registration Link
    Checkpoint EDGE provides information to tax and accounting professionals, including expert research, guidance, technology, tools, learning, and news.
    Students in accounting classes should set up their own individual accounts using this link.
    ** Register from a computer on campus (so that you have an IP address associated with UMSL). Student IDs automatically expire on June31st and December 31st. **
  • Checkpoint Edge (RIA) - Walk-in access
    * Accounting students: Please use the RIA Checkpoint Student Registration link instead. *
    RIA Checkpoint provides intelligent information to tax and accounting professionals, including expert research, guidance, technology, tools, learning, and news.
  • data.census.gov (U.S. Census)
    data.census.gov provides access to population, housing, economic and geographic data gathered by the United States Census Bureau. It provides access to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. The data is drawn from several censuses and surveys. Older City & County Data Books (2007 and earlier)
  • EconBiz
    EconBiz is a subject portal for economics and business studies. It offers a literature search across important German and international databases, including the holdings of ZBW, and access to free and licensed full texts on the internet.
  • EconLit (American Economic Association)
    EconLit covers economics publications as far back as 1886, including peer-reviewed journal articles, working papers from leading universities, PhD dissertations, books, collective volume articles, conference proceedings, and book reviews. All these are indexed, classified, and linkable to full-text library holdings.
  • EDGAR
    Contains disclosure documents with financial and other information filed by companies & investment funds as required by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
  • FRASER (St. Louis Federal Reserve)
    FRASER is a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System.
  • FRED (Economic Data | St. Louis Federal Reserve) Best Bet
    The widely used FRED® data service is updated daily and allows 24/7 access to over 500,000 financial and economic data series from more than 85 public and proprietary sources.
  • Geocoding System: Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Best Bet
    Designed for use with the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and the Community Reinvestment Act, with this site you can enter a street address and retrieve information for the census tract in which the site is located. Median family income, population, number of housing units, and ethnicity for the tract are examples of data available. Note: Due to differing update schedules, this data may not be identical to data retrieved directly from the census.gov site.
  • GreenFILE

    GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, including content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations & local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 880,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 13,000 records.

  • HeinOnline Academic
    Best Bet
    HeinOnline Academic offers access to a wide array of case law at the federal and state levels. The database covers 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. The package also includes the U.S. Congressional Serial Set and features more than 100 million pages of content across more than 100 subject areas.
    FastCase, a separate database, is more technical, but offers a few additional materials (such as statutes) if you cannot find what you need in HeinOnline.
  • IGI Global Ebooks and Research Anthologies
    Access to over 6,000 DRM free books from IGI Global.
  • JSTOR

    JSTOR contains articles and books, usually at least 3-5 years old, from scholarly sources. They also have some primary resource collections. For more recent material, use Discover@UMSL or other individual databases.

  • Mergent Archives
    Mergent Archives contains a vast, indexed collection of historical corporate and industry related documents.
  • Mergent Intellect
    Best Bet
    Worldwide business information that enables users to access private (via D&B®) and public U.S and international business data, key business ratios, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, industry profiles, and much more.
  • Mergent Online
    Best Bet
    Find a company by company name, ticker symbol, Primary SIC, Primary NAICS, or MIC codes. Mergent Online also offers Industry Analysis reports (Industry Analysis --> Search by Industry).
  • Morningstar Investing Center
    Information on mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, stocks from the NYSE, AMEX, Nasdaq & OTC exchanges. Users can access reports & videos, screen funds & stocks by various criteria, and analyze markets & portfolio. An Investing Classroom also offers brief sessions on various financial topics such as saving for retirement, how investing works, and much more.
  • North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
    The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy. The Department of Labor has a listing of SIC codes.
  • O'Reilly for Higher Education
    Best Bet

    Covers a wide variety of topics: computers, programming, hardware, system administration, security, general software, business case studies, accounting, careers, presentations, science, medicine, psychology, math, statistics & data science, travel & hobbies.
    Formats include learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, videos, etc.  

    O'Reilly requires users to log in with their SSO  and maintains a record of your progress and recently used items.  See below for information on how to link directly to individual items.

  • Regional Business News

    Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Some newspapers only provide selected articles.  Please contact us if you have questions. Content in this database is subject to change without notice.

  • RKMA Market Research Handbook Series
    Marketing research handbooks from Richard K. Miller & Associates covering a variety of marketing topics & sectors.
  • Salem Press
    Salem Press includes references, books, and primary sources in the areas of Literature, History, Science, Health, Education, Business, Economics, Counseling/Social Work, and more. You can search all of UMSL's titles at once, search only selected titles using the Advanced Search, or browse the Subject Index.
  • Scopus
    Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It is useful for analyzing publication topics, finding researchers, and obtaining counts of cited materials.
  • Social Explorer
    Quick and easy access to current and historical census data, demographic information, election data and marketing profile data. Create maps and reports to illustrate, analyze and understand demography and social change.
    User Guide
    Examples from Business, Criminal Justice, Education, Political Science, History, Health, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology & more.
  • SSRN
    SSRN is an open-access online preprint community providing valuable services to leading academic schools and government institutions. Specializing primarily in social sciences, including economics, law, corporate governance, and humanities, SSRN is branching out into other science disciplines. Most, but not all papers are free.
  • St. Louis Business Journal (Registration for Individual account)
    • Account required (see description)
    Best Bet
    The Libraries offers a subscription to the St. Louis Business Journal (students, faculty and staff only). Individual accounts are required. Click this link for more information on how to sign up.
    REQUIRED: Use an email address with @umsl.edu or @mail.umsl.edu.
  • St. Louis Regional Data Exchange (RDX)
    The St. Louis Regional Data Exchange (RDX) is a unified open data portal for the St. Louis Region. On this site, you will find publicly available data from all over the St. Louis area, compiled and documented by the St. Louis Regional Data Alliance. Our vision for the RDX is to be a one-stop-shop for public community data in St. Louis, helping people find data on local government and nonprofit websites — or uploaded onto the RDX directly.
  • TRID (formerly TRIS Online)
    The TRID Database covers all modes and disciplines of transportation and contains more than 900,000 records of references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and journal articles in the field of transportation research.
  • Wall Street Journal - Online Subscriptions for UMSL Students, Faculty & Staff
    Best Bet Featured
    The Libraries offer subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and St. Louis Business Journal for all students, faculty and staff. Individual accounts are required. Click this link for more information on how to sign up. Access to articles more than a few years old is limited.
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