Research Guides: Entrepreneurship: Databases

Databases A-M

Access World News This link opens in a new window Access World News provides information and perspectives from numerous national and international news sources, offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Company Search

Vivvix (Formerly Ad$pender) This link opens in a new window A database of advertising expenditures and occurrence information for millions of brands.
Access is limited to 1 user at a time.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Company Advertising Spend

ASM Medical Materials Database This link opens in a new window A comprehensive, peer-reviewed database providing materials data to support medical device design. The database features both materials properties and biological response data for medical device designers. Also includes a searchable list of international device and material producers.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Producers

BCC Research This link opens in a new window Industry reports addressing very specific technological niches across most high-tech and healthcare industry sectors. The reports contain detailed analysis of the industry including global market data, competitive landscape, trends, and more.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Find Industry Reports

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window Content includes scholarly business journals (including open access journals), trade publications, news, conference proceedings, industry reports, country reports, company reports, and more.

Access: UCI

CB Insights This link opens in a new window Global data and information about the financing activities of startup companies and investors, including venture capital firms, angel investors, as well as M&A and IPO activity. Specializing in emerging industries, the database also offers data-driven research reports, performance metrics related to company health, and data visualization and presentation tools.
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).

Users must create an account with their UCI email address. Download limits apply.

New!
Access: UCI – Authorized Affiliates

eMarketer/Insider Intelligence This link opens in a new window Industry and market research data, charts, and reports on topics related to everything digital, including: internet usage, ecommerce, B2B, online marketing and advertising, social media, and mobile device usage.

Access: UCI

Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window Contains newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. It also provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

Access: UCI

Factiva This link opens in a new window Global full-text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich websites.
Maximum 12 users at a time.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Earnings Call Transcripts
Learn this Search: Expert Search
Learn this Search: Trends

Fitch Connect This link opens in a new window Global intelligence database with data, analysis, ratings, rankings, and forecasts for much of the world's countries and industries. Research features country risk, financial markets analysis, and industry research.
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).

Access: UCI – Authorized Affiliates

Forrester This link opens in a new window Reports across all nuances and trends of IT. Research Reports include industry news, statistics, and forecasts. "Waves" offer a detailed, comparative analysis of products and services.
Forrester Access Instructions
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).

Access: UCI – Authorized Affiliates

Frost & Sullivan This link opens in a new window Global industry research reports that integrate seven perspectives (competitive intensity, customer dynamics, industry convergence, disruptive technologies, global mega trends, new business models, and emerging markets) into a complete, overall view of the factors that impact covered industries.

Access: UCI

Gartner This link opens in a new window Research applicable to all facets of IT. Content includes: Magic Quadrants (i.e., a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers), Hype Cycles (i.e., a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications), as well as other reports on vendors and technologies.
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).

Access: UCI – Authorized Affiliates

GuideStar This link opens in a new window Database for nonprofit company intelligence, featuring current financial data, IRS forms, and visualizations of financial trends for nonprofits. Includes a directory to search for nonprofits by size, cause, and location, plus a directory to search for people in leadership roles at nonprofits.

Access: UCI

IBISWorld This link opens in a new window Current and historic industry research reports for established and niche U.S. industries. Reports include key statistics and analysis of market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance, key players, and more. Also includes risk reports for established U.S. industries.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Find Industry Reports
Learn this Search: Industry Ratios
Learn this Search: Keyword Search Within Report
Learn this Search: Supply Chain
Learn this Search: US Business Environment Profiles

Investext This link opens in a new window Analyst research reports of companies, industries, products, and countries from brokerages, investments banks, and independent research firms globally.
Reports are typically embargoed for 14 days prior to being made available.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Analyst Reports
Learn this Search: Cortellis Reports

MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window Reports for well-established industries in many countries worldwide, including Porter's Five Forces analyses for those industries, covering almost every aspect of business-to-consumer and business-to-business activity. Also includes company profiles featuring SWOT analyses, and country profiles featuring PESTLE analyses.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Company Search
Learn this Search: M&A Deals

Materials Science & Engineering Collection This link opens in a new window Includes the renowned METADEX, Copper and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Patent News

Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window Company directory database, powered by Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). Includes profiles for public and private companies globally. Particularly useful for building a list of companies and for understanding parent/subsidiary relationships.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: List of Companies

Mintel This link opens in a new window Market research reports that address behaviors, lifestyles, and trends for several major consumer segments in the U.S. The Industry reports covering retail and consumer product sectors that address market conditions, forecasts, prominent brands, trends, and customer decisions in the U.S.
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).

Access: UCI – Authorized Affiliates

Learn this Search: Find Market Reports
Learn this Search: Market Size & Share

Databases N-Z

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Provides full-text access to U.S. federal and state statutes, regulations, court cases, administrative agency decisions, law reviews, to selected court briefs and pleadings, and legal news sources. Also includes international, national, local newspapers, and wire services, as well as radio and television transcripts. Business, medical, industry, and legislative magazines, journals, and newsletters and various directories are also available. Wide geographic coverage and translations from foreign-language sources, as well as news services like the Associated Press, Agence France Press, El Pais.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Contacts
Learn this Search: Earnings Call Transcripts

Passport This link opens in a new window International industry and market research database. Market research covers consumer lifestyles in different countries. Industry research major consumer goods industries. Country and city reports cover business dynamics those regions (as available).
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).

Access: UCI – Authorized Affiliates

Learn this Search: Market Share

PitchBook This link opens in a new window Data and research covering the private investment market, including venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions. Information on companies, deals, investors, and funds. Use PitchBook to establish benchmarks, identify and analyze competitors, and search investor details.
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).

Users must create an account with their UCI email address. Download limits apply.

The vendor of this resource may monitor, collect, store, and analyze Subscriber’s usage of the Services (“Subscriber’s Usage Data”) on both a Subscriber and individual User basis for the limited purposes of providing or improving the services.

Access: UCI – Authorized Affiliates

Learn this Search: Companies Search
Learn this Search: Emerging Spaces
Learn this Search: Financial Ratios
Learn this Search: M&A
Learn this Search: People Search (UCI Alumni)

Plunkett Research This link opens in a new window Industry-specific research portals for the most important business sectors, from energy to e-commerce and retailing to financial services. Includes market research and trends analysis, glossaries, statistics, company profiles and contacts, and industry associations and organizations.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Industry Trends

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window Offers easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US.

Access: UCI

ProcurementIQ This link opens in a new window Industry-based reports providing data and analysis of the procurement landscape to help users plan their supply chain and make smart buying decisions. Reports cover: pricing dynamics, characteristics that affect the purchasing decision, supplier benchmarking and supply chain risks, negotiation questions and tactics, recent and forecast price, market characteristics and risk, key price drivers, major vendors, and the Buyer Power Score.

Access: UCI

PubMed@UCI This link opens in a new window Provides access to millions of citations from MEDLINE and life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Access: UCI

Regional Business News This link opens in a new window Database of business journals, newspapers, and newswires covering metropolitan and rural areas in the U.S.

Access: UCI

S&P Capital IQ This link opens in a new window Company intelligence database, including granular financial and capital structure information on companies worldwide. Company profiles contain data and graphs for historic stock prices, searchable SEC filings, mergers and acquisitions activities, and venture capital/private equity data. Also features biographic and professional connection information for business leaders.
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).

Access: UCI – Authorized Affiliates

Learn this Search: Company Pre-made Screens
Learn this Search: Financial Ratios
Learn this Search: Index
Learn this Search: M&A by Industry
Learn this Search: M&A Transactions
Learn this Search: PE & VC Custom Screen
Learn this Search: PE & VC Pre-made Screens
Learn this Search: People Search

Science Direct This link opens in a new window Interdisciplinary database that combines authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications in various formats, like journals, books, reports, etc..

Access: UCI

Scopus This link opens in a new window An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Content covers research output in the fields of physical science, health science, life science, technology, medicine, and social sciences.

Access: UCI

SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window Mapping and data visualization application that lets users create interactive maps, charts, and reports. Includes demographic, housing, employment, consumer spending, and business data for the United States. Users also have access to SimmonsLOCAL consumer behavior data, including information on brands, and Claritas PRIZM, which offers market insights using demographics and consumer lifestyle data.
Maximum 3 users at once.
Register for a free account to save and return to your work.

Access: UCI

Social Explorer This link opens in a new window Current and historical US census data, ACS, RCMS and demographic information. The easy-to-use web interface lets users create visualizations and reports to better illustrate, analyze and understand demography and social change, location-based data down to the city block.

Access: UCI

Sports Market Analytics This link opens in a new window Market analytics for sports business. Research related to consumer demographics, consumer behavior patterns, financial statistics, attendance and media usage trends for major sports market segments, fans, participants, and sporting goods buyers.

Access: UCI

Uniworld This link opens in a new window Global company directory in which every company within the database has at least one foreign subsidiary. Find both U.S. firms operating in foreign countries, and foreign firms operating in the U.S. Searchable on criteria including: industry, employee count, and revenue.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Distributors
Learn this Search: List of Companies

Value Line Investment Survey This link opens in a new window Financial measures for over 6,000 stocks, 18,000 mutual funds, 200,000 options, and other securities.

Access: UCI

Learn this Search: Financial Ratios

Web of Science (WoS) This link opens in a new window Global citation database provides access to the Science Citation Index expanded from 1900 to the present, Social Sciences Citation Index from 1956 to the present, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1975 to the present.

Access: UCI

Web of Science: Derwent Innovations Index This link opens in a new window Combines unique value-added patent information indexed from various patent issuing authorities. Ability to search across clearly written patent titles and abstracts that highlight the novelty, use, advantage, and claims of each invention.

Access: UCI

Access Key

UCI – Authorized Affiliates
Access requires an active UCInetID and password.

UCI
Access is available to all users physically on the UCI campus.

Remote access is available to users with active UCInetID and password using the VPN.

Public
Access is generally available to all users.

Connect

Electronic Resources:
How to Connect

Connecting FAQs:

Test My VPN Connection

Usage Policy
& Guidance