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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.

The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

This resource is partially funded by MOREnet, the Missouri Research and Education Network.
Business Source Complete
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.
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- Use the campus VPN (click the "V" icon for details)
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Mergent Intellect
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 Intellect includes the following types of data:
- North American Database
- Global Database
- Key Business Ratios (also see the Mergent Archive database for older editions)
- Industry Database with access to over 900 industry segments via First Research
- Job Search Solution Database
- Residential / Local Business Database with over 200 million residents and 30 million businesses
- Executive Database with over 90 million executives details including contact and biographies
Mergent Online
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).
UMSL's subscription to Mergent Online includes the following products:
- US Active and Inactive Data
- International Active and Inactive Data
- Expanded Long Term Debt
- US and International Earnings Estimates
- Executive Biographies Basic and Plus
- Institutional and Insider Holdings
- D&B Private Company Data
- As Reported All Years, Standardized All Years, Transparency All Years
- US Equity and International Equity Pricing
- Unadjusted Pricing
- SEC Filings, SEDAR Filings
- North American and International Annual Reports
- Industry Reports (NA), (AP), (EU), (LA)
- News
- Competitors
- Equity Reports, Equity Reports Integrated Search
- Mergent Reports, Report Builder, Custom Report, Report Wizard, Comparison Report
- Risk Analysis, Net Basis
- Bond Search
- Ratio All Years, Restated All Years
- Factsheets Plus, International and Express
- Equity Portraits
- Bond Portraits (D&B 20 Million Plus Private Company Database, D&B 20 Million Plus Corporate Family Tree)