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Mergent Market Atlas logoMergent Market Atlas has arrived.  This platform replaces Mergent Online, but it will provide the same information and then some. Mergent Market Atlas still provides easy access to current and historical company financials, ratios, business segments, descriptions, sustainability, officers and directors. There are added ESG and economic data contents. It is especially useful for company, industry, index, SEC filings, and other reports.
 

Ebsco Host logoIt's here: A new interface for all EBSCO databases, and a special Business Searching Interface upgrade for Business Source Complete. The new interface for BSC is fresh-looking and arranged better for efficient searching and finding most-requested magazines and journals. There is also an upgrade for Regional Business News.


map of U.S. cities covered by American City Business Journals. Non-image list available from the database link, through the 'select a city' menu at the top of the landing page.Would you like to read the business news from Silicon Valley, San Francisco or Seattle? What about Boston, Pittsburgh or Atlanta? We now have access to the 44 U.S. geographies published by the American City Business Journals. They come with their associated Book of Lists, rankings of top organizations across many business categories for their respective cities. Regional business news is especially useful for job hunters, those doing market research on companies and studying economic development. Co-funded by the Library and the Rady School of Management. Featured contents:

Note: The San Diego Business Journal is sourced from a different publisher and online vendor, as is a few of the other Southern California titles. See this dedicated link for SoCal business news feeds and Books of Lists.

Accessing Electronic Resources?

You can access thousands of e-journals, e-books, databases, and more through UC San Diego Library.

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Option 1: Connect through UC Library Search

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Class Presentations and Background

This guide primarily supports students in Rady's MS in Business Analytics program. Other researchers may find it useful if they are looking into analytics, big data, data visualization and similar topics as they relate to business intelligence and strategic management. Use the tabs to navigate the resources. Items included here range from academic journals, industry analysis, data and software resources, reference materials and news sources. Here is the slidedeck from the 2021 orientation presentation to incoming MSBA students.

Newsfeeds from Cutter Consortium

Cutter is a service that analyzes global trends in business technology, including data analytics and digitial technologies. Below is the latest RSS news feed of contents from their blog.