Public Company Information
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ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
The ABI/INFORM Collection includes three comprehensive databases: ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. Together, they provide access to thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key business and economics publications such as The Economist and MIT Sloan Management Review. The collection also features in-depth country and industry reports, as well as major news sources like The Wall Street Journal. With broad international coverage, the ABI/INFORM Collection offers researchers a global view of companies, industries, and business trends. It also delivers valuable historical context, with content that dates back to the early 1900s.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
This database contains monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, detailed author profiles and more. Indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included.
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ecommerceDB This link opens in a new window
Detailed information for 20,000 stores in 50 countries, including detailed revenue analytics, competitor analysis, market development, marketing budget, and interesting KPIs, such as traffic, shipping providers, payment options, social media activity and many more. Note: After the database opens, log in by clicking the Log In button in the database's upper right menu. This will authenticate you.
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Gale Business Insights This link opens in a new window
Thousands of global company, country and business topic overviews featuring detailed information as well as interactive rankings and statistics, with quick links to associated content. Global Histories, SWOT Reports, Thomson Reuters Company Financials and Investment Reports, Market Share Reports, and Industry Research Essays. Full-text articles from academic journals, business periodicals, newswires and other media outlets, 200 business executive video interviews and lessons for deeper insight into issues and decision-making. Thousands of interactive LiveCharts for economic and business indicators that let researchers generate their own analyses and custom charts for reports and presentations.
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Hoovers Company Profiles This link opens in a new windowIn-depth company profiles including operations, officers, strategies, competitors, histories, locations, products & brand names, and financial information Also known as Business Market Research Collection.
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Mergent Market Atlas This link opens in a new window
Provides details on company financials, ratios, business segments, descriptions, sustainability, officers and directors and access to a multitude of company, industry, index, ESG and economic data views and reports. Mergent Market Atlas delivers the same comprehensive suite of financial information used by professionals under LSEG's Refinitiv and FTSE Russell brands. Note: Mergent Online is discontinued by the vendor. Mergent Market Atlas is the new platform for accessing content previously found in Mergent Online.
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Statista This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 1 million statistics for these topics: industries; consumer goods; internet; media & advertising; retail & trade; sports & recreation; technology & telecommunications; transportation & logistics; and travel, tourism & hospitality. Also available are government statistics, such as unemployment rates, births, and deaths. For business research, outlook reports, market research reports, country reports, dossiers, surveys, and industry reports are available. Note: The platform is integrated with your SJSUOne account
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Security & Exchange Commission - FREE for Current YearsAll publicly held companies in the USA must file financial reports with SEC. This includes foreign companies that are registered and traded in the USA.
Private Company Information
- PrivCo for Private Companies - PrivCo Website
- PrivCo from SJPL - Sign in here
This is an SJPL database, login with San Jose Public Library Card 14-digit barcode. It is good beyond graduation. Make sure to keep your library card active.
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Factiva This link opens in a new windowGeneral news and company, industry, and other business information (mostly full-text) from newspapers, newswires, magazines, trade journals in 22 languages from 118 countries. Also includes color photos from Reuters and Knight-Ridder publications, company reports, SEC filings, web contents, and transcripts from BBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, NPR and more.
Self-Paced Tutorial for Finding Company Information
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Using the Hoover's Database to find Company InformationThis is your source for conducting company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research.
Hoover’s Company Profiles has information about more than 40,000 global public and non-public companies including location, financials, competitors, officers, and more.
Company Directories
- Data Axle (An SJPL directory, login with San Jose Public Library Card, NOT SJSU Tower ID)
Formerly known as ReferenceUSA, this is the premier directory of business and residential information. Access information on over 24 million businesses. Great for job/sales leads, market & consumer research. Searches can be customized with many filters down to a street block, ethnic groups, etc.