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All available databases
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ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains country and industry focused reports and resources on companies, business trends, product information, SWOT analysis, etc. Coverage is international.
Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary, streaming video collection of tens of thousands of titles touches nearly every subject. The database includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage. The collection includes 60 Minutes, PBS, BBC and Stanley Milgram videos.
Business Economics and Theory This link opens in a new window
Best place to start for economics research - find information and articles on virtually every economics related topic.
Business Insights: Essentials This link opens in a new window
In-depth information on U.S. and international companies, industries and products. Includes SWOT reports, financial analysis tools, business associations, investment reports and market research reports.
Computer Database This link opens in a new window
Computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.
Hoover's This link opens in a new window
D&B Hoovers delivers insightful information on more than 130 million businesses, both public and private, around the world; including the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and emerging markets.

Search by Company Name, Executives, Industry or by using Conceptual Search and Business Signals.

Business data includes Annual Revenues, Employee Counts, Corporate Family Tree, Key Contacts, Analyst Reports, SWOT reports, stock data, financials and other vital information.
Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection This link opens in a new window
This collection provides coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in hospitality and tourism, including the cultural and economic aspects. Includes travel guides.
Insurance and Liability Collection This link opens in a new window
This collection of journals covers labor relations, mortgage banking and legal issues.
MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
American Mathematical Society's searchable database comprising Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. No full text, request articles through Interlibrary Loan.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Includes country information, company profiles, SEC filings, international, domestic, and local news, European Union law, federal and state statues as well as federal, state, court of appeals and supreme court cases.
RKMA Market Research and Forecast Handbooks This link opens in a new window
Market research reports compiled from widely available data. Topics include business-to-business marketing, consumer behavior, consumer marketing, entertainment, media and advertising, health care, leisure, restaurants, retail, sports marketing, and travel and tourism. Each market research handbook includes market assessments and forecasts, sector trends, profiles of market leaders, and statistics. In addition to in-depth analyses, the handbooks include links to hundreds of websites for additional information.
Sage Journals This link opens in a new window
Excellent source for scholarly journal articles in the social sciences, including education. The humanities and sciences are also represented among the over 700 indexed titles.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary research in science, education, social science, business, engineering and technology, mathematics, medicine, psychology, and biotechnology journals from 1995 to the present.
Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of small business management, including starting, operating and maintaining a business. Provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories.

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AidData
Data for international development.
Airbnb dataset
Offers different data sets related to Airbnb listings in dozens of cities around the world.
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Has national and regional economic data, including gross domestic product and exchange rates.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Many important economic indicators for the United States (like unemployment and inflation) can be found. Most of the data can be segmented both by time and by geography.
CDC Data and Statistics
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a database on cause of death. The data can be segmented in almost every way imaginable: age, race, year, and so on.
College ScoreCard Data
Data on student completion, debt and repayment, earnings, and more. The files include data from 1996 through 2017 for all undergraduate degree-granting institutions of higher education.
Data.gov
U.S. government data, this site acts as a portal to all sorts of amazing information on everything from climate to crime.
Data Hub
Data.World
One key differentiator of data.world is the tools they have built to make working with data easier - you can write SQL queries within their interface to explore data and join multiple data sets. They also have SDK's for R an python to make it easier to acquire and work with data in your tool of choice.
Dryad
Dryad is an international repository of data focusing on the fields of scientific and medical publications.
FBI Crime Data
National crime statistics, with free data available at national, state and county level.
GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus
Grouplens Datasets
Harvard Dataverse Network
HealthData.gov
125 years of US healthcare data including claim-level Medicare data, epidemiology and population statistics.
Informatics Research Data Repository
International Monetary Fund Data
Publishes data on international finances, debt rates, foreign exchange reserves, commodity prices, and investments.
J-PAL (Poverty Action Lab)
J-PAL uses randomized evaluations to answer poverty-related policy questions.
Kaggle
A data science community that hosts machine learning competitions. There are a variety of externally-contributed interesting data sets on the site. Kaggle has both live and historical competitions. You can download data for either, but you have to sign up for Kaggle and accept the terms of service for the competition.
Lending Club Statistics
Provides data about loan applications it has rejected as well as the performance of loans that it issued. The data set lends itself both to categorization techniques (will a given loan default) as well as regressions (how much will be paid back on a given loan).
LIS Cross-National Data Center
Medicare Hospital Compare Datasets
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services maintains a database on quality of care at more than 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals across the U.S., providing for interesting comparisons.
Migration Policy Institute - Data Hub
NASA Prognostics Data Repository
Public datasets covering planets and stars gathered by NASA’s space exploration missions.
National Cancer Institute
Data about cancer incidence, segmented by age, race, gender, year, and other factors.
National Climatic Data Center
Huge collection of environmental, meteorological and climate data sets from the US National Climatic Data Center. The world’s largest archive of weather data.
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANES
Pew Research Center Datasets
Raw data from Pew's research into American life.
Registry of Open Data on Amazon Web Services
Huge resource of public data, including the 1000 Genome Project, an attempt to build the most comprehensive database of human genetic information and NASA ’s database of satellite imagery of Earth.
re3data.org
Registry of Research Data Repositories, the largest and most comprehensive registry of data repositories.
Socrata
Explore government-related data, with some visualisation tools built-in.
SSDC Social Science Data Collection
Unicef data
Statistics on the situation of women and children worldwide.
United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)
Statistics compiled and published by the United Nations on international trade. Includes Comtrade Lab which is a showcase of how cutting-edge analytics and tools are used to extract value from the data.
United Nations Data (UNdata)
United States Census
The U.S. Census Bureau publishes reams of demographic data at the state, city, and even zip code level. The data set is fantastic for creating geographic data visualizations and can be accessed.
World Bank Databank
Datasets covering population demographics and a huge number of economic and development indicators from across the world.
World Health Organization - Data and Statistics
Offers world hunger, health, and disease statistics.
Walmart historical sales data
Historical sales data for 45 stores located in different regions across the United States.
World Trade Organization - International Trade Statistics
World Wealth & Income Database
Yelp dataset
Yelp maintains a dataset for use in personal, educational, and academic purposes. It includes 6 million reviews spanning 189,000 businesses in 10 metropolitan areas. Students are welcome to participate in Yelp’s dataset challenge.

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Includes access to the series, International Directory of Company Histories

Historical Statistics of the United States
ISBN: 9780511132971
E-book

Try the following subjects when searching for books/e-books in our catalog, Connect NY or Summon:

Big Data

Big data -- management

Big data --congresses

Blockchains

Business - data processing

Business forecasting

Business forecasting -- data processing

Business intelligence

Business intelligence -- data processing

Business logistics -- Decision making

Business planning

Business planning -- statistical methods

Data analytics

Data mining

Data mining - congresses

Data warehousing

Database management

Databases

Datasets

Decision support systems

Econometric models

Electronic data processing -- distributed processing

Finance -- mathematical models

Information resources management

Investment analysis -- mathematical models

Management -- mathematical models

Management information systems

Marketing -- mathematical models

Marketing research

Operations research

Operations research -- data processing

Panel analysis

Predictive modeling in business

Project management resources guide

Regression analysis

Robust optimization

Journal Finder
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Wall Street Journal
Available in our databases (1984 - present) and on microfilm (1960 - 2003).
Harvard Business Review
Available in our databases (1922 - present) and in print (1922 - 2009).
The Economist
Available in our databases (1988 - present) and in print (1936 - present).
Business First of Buffalo
Subscription begins Jan. 2019. Print only.