Databases and Tools
Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowScholarly full-text journals and peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of subjects. 1975 to present.
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowCMMC offers full text and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, discourse, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication theory, language, logic, organizational communication and other closely related fields of study.
- Film & Television Literature Index w/ Full Text This link opens in a new windowFilm & Television Literature Index is the definitive index to film and television literature. It is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, selected coverage of 300 more and full-text E-book coverage. Covers journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Coverage includes history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, humanities and social sciences. Some current issues are available now.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowIndex to journals in psychology and related disciplines, 1887-present.
- Belk Library Databases by SubjectFor every other topic!
- Google ScholarScholarly and peer-reviewed articles; includes other web content.
Other Resources
- Belk Library Advanced SearchSearch our catalogue for books, journals, videos, and beyond!
- PressReader This link opens in a new windowInstant access to 6000+ newspapers and magazines from 120+ countries in 60+ languages. These are usually daily papers; no archives.
For more information, check out the COM databases page!
We can't list all of the amazing Communications resources that are out there. But we have linked to a lot of them on our Communications Databases & Resources page. So if you need more, check it out!
Industry and Consumer Data
- ABI/Inform Collection This link opens in a new windowThe collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals. Country-and industry-focused reports, and major news sources like the Wall Street Journal. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.. 1971-present
- Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new windowConduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles - information about more than 40,000 global public and non-public companies including location, financials, competitors, officers, and more. Coverage 1986- current.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowScholarly and peer-reviewed publications, magazines on a wide range of topics including: marketing, management, company profiles, industry profiles, market research reports, SWOT analyses and more
- Entrepreneurship Database This link opens in a new windowFull-text database about entrepreneurship. Includes video clips, market research reports, start-up plans, templates, and forms, scholarly journals, business cases, working papers, conference proceedings, and dissertations.
- Passport This link opens in a new windowPassport contains data on more that 190 countries. Find data on consumer market sizes, consumer expenditures, population characteristics, national characteristics, and more. Often includes forecast as well as historical data.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowAn example of information available in Statista (social media usage)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/278414/number-of-worldwide-social-network-users/
- Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new windowConduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from these sources: Hoover's Company Profiles - information about more than 40,000 global public and non-public companies including location, financials, competitors, officers, and more. Coverage 1986- current.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowScholarly and peer-reviewed publications, magazines on a wide range of topics including: marketing, management, company profiles, industry profiles, market research reports, SWOT analyses and more
- Data Axle Reference Solutions This link opens in a new windowA directory public and private companies including over 30 million U.S.companies, 89 million U.S. residences, and 850,000 physicians and dentists.
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowCorporate information covering over 22,000 US and foreign public companies. Includes Up to 25 years of financial data, 10 years of full-image annual reports, SEC filings, corporate history, subsidiaries, key employees, properties, and long term debt.
- Consumer Expenditure Survey This link opens in a new windowContains two surveys, the Quarterly Interview Survey and the Diary Survey, that provide information on the buying habits of America's consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics. The survey data are collected for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Richard K. Miller & Associates This link opens in a new windowPublishes a wide range of market research handbooks that focus on various consumer-related markets. Comprehensive assessments include market forecasts, sector trends, and statistics.
- Passport This link opens in a new windowPassport contains data on more that 190 countries. Find data on consumer market sizes, consumer expenditures, population characteristics, national characteristics, and more. Often includes forecast as well as historical data.
- PolicyMap This link opens in a new windowElon students, staff & faculty have access.
An easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US. Data is taken from more than 150 authoritative public and proprietary sources.
- US Census Quick FactsQuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.
- ABI/Inform Collection This link opens in a new windowThe collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals. Country-and industry-focused reports, and major news sources like the Wall Street Journal. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.. 1971-present
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowScholarly and peer-reviewed publications, magazines on a wide range of topics including: marketing, management, company profiles, industry profiles, market research reports, SWOT analyses and more
- First Research Industry Reports Dun & Bradstreet This link opens in a new windowFirst Research industry reports and Business Monitor International (BMI) Industry Reports are here.
- IBISWorld This link opens in a new windowComprehensive, and up-to-date research on over 700 industries, including statistics, analysis, and forecasts. 1999 - present
- Mintel Academic This link opens in a new windowCovers 14 consumer categories with a concentration of business to consumer markets. Mintel provides brand share, market size and forecast as well as company profiles. With in-depth coverage of consumer insights covering a wide range of demographic profiles you'll learn what the consumer base is and why they choose one product over the next.
- Consumer Expenditure SurveysContains two surveys, the Quarterly Interview Survey and the Diary Survey, that provide information on the buying habits of America's consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics. The survey data are collected for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Pew Research CenterThis page is organized by survey, where each dataset is identified by the name of the survey, and below each dataset are links to the reports released from that data. In some cases, reports draw from multiple datasets (https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/datasets/)
- Polling the Nations This link opens in a new windowPublic opinion polls containing 350,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys in the U.S. and 80 other countries, 1986-present.
- Roper Center for Public Opinion ResearchArchives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. 1930- present