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Databases

ABI/INFORM Collection (Global, Archive, Dateline, Trade & Industry)
This resource enables one to search multiple ABI databases: ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Archive Complete, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry.

Funded by Florida Virtual Campus.
Academic Search Complete
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Business (Gale OneFile)
Business (Gale OneFile) provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
Business Insights: Essentials
Formerly Business & Company Resource Center.
Includes company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and full-text articles.
Business Education in Video
Business Education in Video features executive interviews, corporate training video, case studies, "How To" features and documentary films that focus on all aspects of the global business environment. Subjects covered include Globalization, Operations & Logistics, Management, Marketing, Finance, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, International Business, Negotiations, Ethics, Cross-cultural communication, Technology, and much more.
Business Source Premier
A research database with full-text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics.
Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile)
From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more.
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information
Open Access
The US Securities and Exchange Commission's official database of required filings from US public companies, including 10K reports, etc.
Hoover's Company Profiles
Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.

Funded by Florida Virtual Campus.
IBISWorld
IBISWorld is a comprehensive collection of Industry Market Research. Reports consist of 30 to 40 pages of key statistics and analysis on market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance, major industry participants, and more.
Key Business Ratios
Key Business Ratios (KBR) provides immediate online access to competitive benchmarking data. This powerful tool lets researchers examine industry benchmarks compiled from D&Bs database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios (users choose a one-year or three-year set of ratios) for public and private companies in 800 lines of business.
Nexis Uni
Accesses over a billion full-text news, magazine, legal, and business articles and reports, including newspapers, magazines, state and federal laws and regulations, case law, newsletters, and company and industry information.

Funded by Florida Virtual Campus.
Mergent Online
This subscription will not be renewed; it will be ending June 30, 2025.
Please see LSEG Workspace Campus for a similar resource.
SMA: Sports Market Analytics (SBRnet)
Provides market research and industry news covering all facets of the industry, sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship, and sports marketing.

Sports Management

Online Resources

Athletics Business
An internationally recognized multimedia resource for people in the sport industry.
ESPNU
ESPN's college sports network includes news, scores, columns, video and audio highlights, podcasts and the live streaming of games.
The Institute For Diversity and Ethics In Sports
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport serves as a comprehensive resource for issues related to gender and race in amateur, collegiate and professional sport.
National College Athletic Association
The NCAA research staff conducts national research for its members on a wide variety of topics including academic performance, student-athlete well-being, finances of intercollegiate athletics programs, gender-equity and diversity issues, and many others.
North American Society For Sports Management
NASSM is actively involved in supporting and assisting professionals working in the fields of sport, leisure and recreation. The purpose of the North American Society for Sport Management is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study, research, scholarly writing, and professional development in the area of sport management - both theoretical and applied aspects. Topics of interest to NASSM members include sport marketing, future directions in management, employment perspectives, management competencies, leadership, sport and the law, personnel management, facility management, organizational structures, fund raising, and conflict resolution.
The Sports Economist
Blog maintained by a group of scholars who apply economic thinking to sports, TSE provides commentary and links to issues in the news, occasional essay & a wide variety of additional resources on various topics related to sports.
Sport Information Research Centre (SIRC)
Based in Ottawa, Canada, SIRC is a full sports information resource center. Read through articles from their library, press releases and "SPORTQuest" online resources, from an international perspective.
Sports Management Resources Library
Sports Management Resources (SMR) brings the knowledge of nationally recognized educational sports experts to help athletics directors solve integrity, equity, growth and development challenges of their respective athletics programs. The SMR library is a collection of articles on topics related to thier mission.
Women's Sports Foundation Research
The Women’s Sports Foundation has made a long-term commitment to a series of signature reports addressing such topics as girls’ participation in sports and physical activity, gender equity in intercollegiate sports, the impact of media images of women in sports, and pay equity. In addition to gender/women's issues in sports, there is also a section on homophobia in sports

Last updated on Sep 16, 2025 10:49 AM