WRIT 102: First Year Writing II
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Citation & Style
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Online Writing Lab (Purdue University)Research and citation resources
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 window
Online 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.
Databases for Company & Industry Research
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IBISWorld This link opens in a new windowIBISWorld has the worlds largest collection of U.S. industry reports. We cover 700+ industries and identify, quantify and analyze nearly 4,000 individual product segments. Each industry report provides the most detailed performance data and analysis on the market; supply chain information; forecasts; risk scores; operating strengths and weaknesses; analysis of external drivers; major player market strategies; and industry profit and costs benchmarks.
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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 windowFull text coverage of general news, business, legal, government and other topics.
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Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new windowMergent Intellect is a highly flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence. Coupling Mergent's expertise in developing products for the reference marketplace with D&B's private company database, Mergent Intellect offers new and existing clients a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much 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 windowClick the green DIRECT ACCESS button to get to the PrivCo dashboard.
PrivCo is the premiere source for business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. We currently have profiles for over 900,000 firms, 20,000 investors and 100,000 private market deals, and we are adding information and in-house analysis daily. Whether doing company, investor, M&A, venture capital funding, or private equity research, we are searchable by advanced criteria in all categories. -
Value Line Research Center This link opens in a new windowStock prices and investment information. Provides one-page snapshot of investment information of 1,700 companies.
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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.
Framework for starting your research for WRIT 102-Business Theme
Journalists, authors, and researchers (both academic and government) often write about or report on:
- companies
- brands
- products or services
- industries
While focusing on:
- events
- practices
- the business environment
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