Research Assistance
Stacey Brownlie
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Key Tufts Databases for Entrepreneurship
- ABI/INFORM CollectionScholarly and trade journal articles in business, management, and trade. Includes full text of The Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition.
- ArcGIS Business Analyst OnlineBusiness Analyst Online applies GIS technology to extensive demographic, consumer spending, and business data to deliver on-demand analysis, presentation-ready reports, and maps. Select from a wide variety of existing reports or create custom reports to meet your marketing needs.
Email DataLab-support@elist.tufts.edu to request access - D & B Business BrowserIncludes company and industry profiles. Company profiles included financials, filings, news and competitors. Market research includes Freedonia Focus Reports, MarketLine Industry Profiles and RMA Industry Norms as well as quick links to competitors reports.
- Data AxleOver 14 million U.S. companies; public & private; includes detailed information on smaller firms. Can be used to identify producers and suppliers.
- Data PlanetData Planet provides access to several thousand different national and international standardized datasets; the data can be displayed in charts, graphs, maps, and tables, as well as exported for further manipulation. Datasets cover a wide range of subjects including business, finance, banking, economics, sociology, political science, demography, agriculture, education, international studies, criminal justice, housing and construction, labor and employment, energy resources and industries, and more. Sources include public, private/commercial, and nongovernmental organizations. The data now includes U.S. Political Stats.
- EMIS (ISI Emerging Markets)Search for market research, news, and analysis by industry, country or company.
- Passport GMIDMarket research and statistics on consumer products worldwide.
- Policy MapAn easy-to-use web-based Geographic Information System (GIS), use Policy Map to create maps of the United States down to the Census block group in many cases. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates.
- Richard K. Miller Associates ebooksFrequently updated market research with strength in US/consumer markets.
- StatistaStatista provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.