Business databases contain Company Information, Market Research, Business News, Peer reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings. When you are carrying out your research for a piece of coursework you will need to search on more than one database to locate the relevant information. This is due to the fact that each database contains different journals so searching multiple databases is fairly important in order to locate the key information for your subject.
Eddie Davies Finance Zone resources are available on campus and consist of Bloomberg, Datastream and SDC Platinum.
Support for remote access:
The University of Manchester Library subscribes to a number of databases providing market research & industry sector data from established market intelligence providers. These databases include tailored reports, statistical data, and the latest news from a variety of sectors. The scope of information varies from database to database:
The University of Manchester Library subscribes a number of excellent sources of trade and industry news (both current and historic). Trade and industry news can provide you with an essential understanding of current events and allows you to:
Datastream gives you access to historical financial markets data and economic data worldwide.
It provides a range of charting and reporting tools that enable you to manipulate and display, or simply download that data in the way that you want.
A Microsoft Excel add-in enables you to access the Datastream database within Eikon - create and embed data requests that put the data you want straight into your spreadsheet.
Datastream data coverage:
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Access to company information is provided through a variety of databases. Basic information on the range of companies covered, and type of information provided by each database is detailed below:
The following databases are specialist research databases available mostly for registered final year undergraduate/postgraduate students and academic staff at Alliance Manchester Business School.
These databases provide very detailed current/historic information for a wide range of company and financial market data items and some do require a level of programming expertise to extract the data.
⚠ It is the responsibility of each individual user to ensure that they use our databases and datasets responsibly and in accordance with the terms and conditions specified by the vendor. For further information please contact Amar Nazir, Faculty Engagement Librarian to Alliance Manchester Business School.
The restricted access databases are described on another page.
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