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IBISWorld This link opens in a new windowFind analysis and graphic display of market conditions and forecasts, supply chains, and competitor activity within an industry (Archives available on the far left of page.)
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowComprehensive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowFind company, industry, and country information. (Start your company search at the Business box and then click on Company Dossier.)
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Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new windowSearch for private and public U.S. and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, and more.
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Workspace This link opens in a new window
Mergent Online retired on June 30, 2025 and has been replaced by Workspace.
Workspace is a financial analysis platform that features market trends, company financial and deals data, private equity and venture capital, breaking news, and After Market Research reports by leading analysts and firms.
Individual logins are required using your @olemiss.edu or @go.olemiss.edu email address.
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PrivCo This link opens in a new windowFind business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. (Begin searching in the search box at the top of the screen.)
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Value Line Research Center This link opens in a new windowFind stock prices and investment information. (Use the Quote box in the top right-hand corner to begin your search.)
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Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is one of the leading statistics companies on the internet. With a team of over 200 statisticians, database experts, analysts, and editors, Statista provides users with an innovative and intuitive tool for researching quantitative data, statistics and related information.
This database includes an AI powered tool. For more information see the Statista Research AI information page.
Article Databases
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowComprehensive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886.
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Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowOnline version of the Wall Street Journal available through ProQuest.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowFull text coverage of general news, business, legal, government and other topics.
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Regional Business News This link opens in a new windowIncorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Richard K. Miller Market Research Handbooks
Business Ratios
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
Classification that replaced the Standard Industry Classification (SIC).
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
Industry classification still used by a number of publishers and organizations.
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Key Business Ratios This link opens in a new windowKey Business Ratios provides access to competitive benchmarking data. Industry benchmarks are compiled from D&B's 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. Contains industry balance sheet and income statement information along with ratios organized by SIC codes
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Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial RatiosProvides financial ratios for 192 NAICS codes. Calculated from corporate IRS returns, tables are presented for corporations with net income and for corporations with and without net income. Trends for the previous ten years are also included. There is a three-year lag time from when information if gathered and when it is issued by the IRS.
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Industry Norms and Key Business RatiosProvides norms and ratios for more than eight hundred SIC codes. Included are assets and liabilities in dollars and as percentages. Ratios are provided for the upper quartile, median, and lower quartile.
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RMA Annual Statement StudiesCurrent and historical data for 375 industries arranged by NAICS code. Indexes list the NAICS and SIC codes covered.