Kenan Scholars Intro to Business Research

Research methods toolset designed to help researchers develop research projects, understand or identify particular methods, conduct research and write up their findings; library of more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos including Sages Little Green Book and Little Blue Book series focusing on quantitative and qualitative methods, more than 500 social research case studies of real-life social research, videos, teaching and instructional datasets, and analytical tools.(Business, Education, Health, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology).

Business Source Premier is the major source for scholarly, peer-reviewed journals covering all aspects of business; marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

Major source for academic journals, trade publications, market and industry research reports, company annual reports, dissertations, and working papers. Also contains country profiles and economic forecasts for most major economies.

Find information on academic areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics; resource provides access to major popular and scholarly journals with many full-text articles.

Contains major global newspapers, business newspapers and magazines, trade and industry journals, prominent newswires, and network broadcast transcripts. In the Companies/Markets tab, there are global company reports, limited industry reports, and market data. The results pages allow robust filtering, and there is live chat help.

Note:Not all sources are available to Academic accounts. If you receive 0 results for any given Source search, it is likely that the source is not available to you.

Please note the time out period for inactive viewing is 10 minutes. The simultaneous user limit for this resource may result in temporary delays.

The Wall Street Journal: Eastern Edition is the financial newspaper of record. It provides business, financial, and world news coverage, personal and company profiles, feature reporting, special reports, and regular columns. Is it published 6 days a week.

American City Business Journals includes content from 40 city/regional business journals, including the Triangle Business Journal, the Charlotte Business Journal, and most major metropolitan areas. It also contains special content like rankings, lists and data.

All UNC Chapel Hill students now have full, year-round access to The New York Times, including smartphone, tablet, and browser access, thanks to a sponsorship from the University Library. For app downloads, visit NYTimes.com/mobile.

Access does not include e-reader editions, Premium Crosswords or The New York Times Crosswords apps. Pass users receive access to the New York Times archives, including five free articles from 1923 through 1980, per day; archive articles outside that date range are not subject to that limit. Digital access is available only during the time that our New York Times Site License is active.

Note: Students must click on "Create Account" and follow the instructions. To be eligible, you must register using your @live.unc.edu email account. Please allow up to a week for your registration to be processed.

Please consult https://guides.lib.unc.edu/nyt-academic-pass for additional information on using this resource.

Access articles for the The Washington Post in 15 years of rolling archival content to the present (2005- present for 2020). Available to all UNC students, faculty, and staff.

Provides reports for about 700 industries in the United States as categorized by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Our IBISWorld subscription also contains more than 600 "specialized" reports on new and emerging industries, and hundreds of China and Global reports. Each report contains statistics and analysis on market size, market share of competitors, and industry growth rates, including 5-year forecasts. Each report also contains barriers to entry, operating cost structure (industry averages), technology and systems, and domestic and international markets. Tables and statistics include: Industry revenue, exports, imports, wages, and number of companies in the industry. We do not have access to Company Reports or the archive of specialized reports.

Detailed analysis of consumer and industrial markets around the world across over 200 countries and 27 industries, with historic data from 1997 and forecasts. Industry analysis includes market size, company and brand shares and profiles of leading companies and brands. Also provides industrial makeup of the worlds largest economies, and data and analysis on consumer lifestyles, and population trends for every country, lifestyle and consumer type.

Note: You will be asked to login. UNC affiliates only – no walk in access allowed.

Provides global market research reports which cover changes driven by science and technology.  The reports include detailed market size forecasts which incorporate the major economic, scientific and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical and high technology organizations.

Mintel's consumer and market research reports are arranged by Sector, Theme, and Demographic. Reports give market size and trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumer characteristics, and market forecasts. Most of the reports are for the USA, UK and China. Note: Report sections may only be saved or printed out section-by-section, or multiple sections (from different reports) may be saved into the 'report basket' and saved from there as a single merged file. Some excel downloads are permitted for raw data from 2015 onwards.

Data Planet Statistical Datasets provides easy access to an extensive repository of standardized and structured statistical data. The over 12.6 billion datasets in Data Planet provide immediate access to data presented in charts, maps, graphs, and table form, via multiple points of entry. Data comes from more than 70 U.S. and international sources including Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, China Data Institute, Deutsche Borse Group, European Commission, the World Bank, and more. Subjects covered by the data include economics, crime, health, population, energy, the environment, and more. The time period covered varies. For more details consult the user guide linked here.

A web-based mapping application that enables users to quickly and easily create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic, business and marketing data. The data is from EASI Analytics, Nielsen Scarborough., and SimmonsLOCAL Consumer Insights and is derived from government and other sources. Variables include demographics, housing, income, retail sales, consumer expenditures, consumer price index, quality of life, employment and establishments by industry, census data including the decennial census and American Community Survey, and market research data. Export high resolution map images. Data can be exported in spreadsheet or shapefile format. Commercial use and republication of the data are prohibited.

Note:Access is limited to 10 concurrent users.

An online data and mapping tool that enables government, commercial, non-profit and academic institutions to access data about communities and markets across the US. Use it for research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.

Starting in July 2019, data.census.gov will be the primary way to access Census Bureau data, including upcoming releases from the 2018 American Community Survey, 2017 Economic Census, 2020 Census and more. After July 1, 2019, all new data (previously released on American FactFinder) will be released on this new data platform. This resource provides data from most US Census Bureau surveys and programs. Access data from the American Community Survey, the Decennial Census, the Economic Census, annual Population Estimates, and annual economic surveys.