BankFocus
- Subject coverage: detailed financial information, ratings, and ownership information
- Size/scope: information for over 42,000 banks worldwide
- Type of content: financial reports
- Data range: Up to 5 years of information for listed banks and 3 years for unlisted.
Business Source Ultimate
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- Subject coverage: business and management
- Size/scope: over 45,000 sources
- Type of content: academic journal articles and business trade titles
- Level of access: Some full text available.
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Capital IQ
On-Campus Link | Off-Campus Link
- Subject coverage: financial information
- Size/scope: financial news, market insights and company performance data. It provides intelligence on more than 62,000 public companies and 4.4 million private firms. It covers financials for 88,000 publicly-listed companies
- Type of content: company information
- Level of access: full text.
Disclaimer: Reproduction of any information, data or material, including ratings (“Content”) in any form is prohibited except with the prior written permission of the relevant party. Such party, its affiliates and suppliers (“Content Providers”) do not guarantee the accuracy, adequacy, completeness, timeliness or availability of any Content and are not responsible for any errors or omissions (negligent or otherwise), regardless of the cause, or for the results obtained from the use of such Content. In no event shall Content Providers be liable for any damages, costs, expenses, legal fees, or losses (including lost income or lost profit and opportunity costs) in connection with any use of the Content. A reference to a particular investment or security, a rating or any observation concerning an investment that is part of the Content is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold such investment or security, does not address the suitability of an investment or security and should not be relied on as investment advice. Credit ratings are statements of opinions and are not statements of fact.
Company Profiles
- Subject coverage: Datamonitor and Life Science Analytics company profiles available via Business Source Complete. Worldwide coverage
- Size/scope: over 17,000
- Type of content: company profiles
- Level of access: full text.
EBSCO Host Databases
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Fame
- Subject coverage: financial accounts and management details on UK companies For financial accounts of bank and financial institutions, use BankFocus
- Size/scope: 2 million plus companies
- Type of content: accounts and company information
- Data range: last 10 years
- Level of access: full text
Note for off-campus use: To identify yourself type Bournemouth University in the search box or select Bournemouth University from the drop down list.
FT.com
- Subject coverage: news
- Size/scope: the Financial Times is an international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. In addition to the content appearing in the printed newspaper the online version gives access to personalised news alerts, specialist blogs and videos
- Type of content: newspaper articles
- Date range: 2006 to date
- Level of access: full text available.
Note: A one off registration process may be required in which you will need to provide your University e-mail address.
BU staff/student login required (OALA)
Mintel
- Subject coverage: For a full list of sectors, themes and demographics covered, click on the 'Category Overview' option when you access Mintel. Here's a shortlist of categories: Automotive; Beauty and Personal Care; Business to Business; Drinks; Financial Services; Food; Foodservice; Health & Nutrition; Household; Marketing & Communications; Pet; Retail & Apparel; Technology & Media; Travel, Leisure & Entertainment
- Size/scope: covering domestic consumer products and services, plus marketing news and reports from UK trade press
- Level of access: full text available.
Note: Use of Mintel is restricted to academic use only
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Mintel Market Sizes
- Subject coverage: Industries covered : Alcoholic Drinks; Beauty, Personal Goods & Toiletries; Food; Household / Home; Non-Alcoholic Drinks; Pharmaceuticals
- Size/scope: Quantitative Database providing market sizes, segmentation, market share and socio economic data for 34 countries
- Level of access: Market size data.
Note: Use of Mintel Market Sizes is restricted to academic use only and permits the download or print of no more than fifty-five (55) Datasets per Session. It also permits an authorised user to include in any dissertation or thesis a combination of no more than five (5) each of the following: (a) up to twenty-five percent (25%) of a single Snapshots report and (b) a Dataset
Nexis Uni
- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database of local, regional, national, and international newspapers. It also includes journals, broadcasts, newswires, blogs, legal sources, and business/company information
- Type of content: local, regional, national, and international newspapers, with some journals and other media
- Level of access: full text.
Note: View the training videos in Nexis Uni Help to find out how to use the database effectively.
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Orbis Europe
- Subject coverage: annual accounts and management details of the top public and private companies actively trading in 41 European countries
- Size/ scope: covers 330,000 companies
- Type of content: statistics, full financial reports, financial and management data
- Date range: annual accounts for up to 10 years
- Level of access: full text.
Passport (Euromonitor International)
Note: On campus, you can access Passport as a guest user where you’ll be prompted to set up a Passport account. New users off-campus can only log-in using Open Athens where you’ll have to self-register the first time you visit. You must use your BU email account to register.
- Subject coverage: online market research tool monitors industry trends and gives you strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for products across key countries. Passport is Euromonitor International's global market analysis software platform, which analyses the industry in countries around the world
- Size/scope: 24 industry categories for 80 countries. Economy ander data for 210 consum countries
- Type of content: marketing research reports
- Level of access: full text.
SportBusiness Professional
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- Subject coverage: sports, events, sectors and organisations
- Type of content: growing collection of industry reports, magazine articles, news articles and videos
- Date range: intelligence reports from the past decade. SportBusiness International issues since Jan 2013 to present. Industry news material dating back the past 10 years to present
- Level of access: full text available.
Username and password required. Details available from the library area on Brightspace
TGI (Target Group Index) Snapshot
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TGI Snapshot is Kantar Media’s newest Market and Consumer research tool and is a new and improved version of TGI SalesTab.
TGI (Target Group Index) is the world's leading provider of single-source marketing and media surveys. Snapshot is a marketing research tool that allows users to easily analyse audience and consumer attitudes in relation to thousands of products and brands, as well as advertising medium.
- Subject coverage: UK market research and demographic data from TGI Survey including 500 product areas and 4,000 brands
- Type of content: market research and demographic data.
World Advertising Research Centre (WARC)
On-Campus Link | Off-Campus Link
- Subject coverage: Advertising
- Size/scope: Information supplied by key professional organisations in the area of advertising including the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), Admap, European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR), Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA)
- Type of content: case studies, statistics, conference papers and full text of selected journals including the Journal of Advertising Research and ADMAP
- Level of access: some full text available.
Note: The off-campus link above is the only off-campus access route for this service
BU staff/student login required for off-campus access (Ezproxy)