Business information technology: Recommended
This guide has been created to highlight resources most commonly used by those at Virginia Tech studying the following aspects of business information technology: computer systems, business modeling, decision sciences, and problem solving.
Recommended online resources
- Business Source Complete from EBSCOhostBusiness Source Complete is a citation, abstracts, and full-text database that indexes journals; books; financial data; reference works; conference proceedings; company, industry, investment, marketing, and country reports; SWOT analyses; and case studies. Full text is provides as HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1886-present; most content is 1980s-present.
- ProQuest One BusinessProQuest One Business combines multiple ProQuest business information databases to a total of more than 130 million documents. It contains more than 2,400 journals and magazines, several hundred news sources, thousands of ebooks and videos, and hundreds of thousands of reports from renowned publishiers such as J.P. Morgan, Economist Intelligence Unit, Oxford Economics, Hoovers, and others. ProQuest One Business indexes citations, abstracts, and full text news articles, market and SWOT analyses, industry reports, country reports, downloadable data sets, dissertations, business cases, working papers, annual reports from North American companies, and company profiles and histories.
- FactivaFactiva provides full-text news articles and business/industry information from newswires, newspapers, business and industry magazines, television and radio transcripts, financial reports, and photos from news services. Most content is HTML, though other formats are available for export. News sources 1979-present; financial data 1960s-present.
- Inspec from Engineering VillageInspec indexes literature for physics, computer science, electronics, and information technology. It includes scholarly articles, books, conference articles and proceedings, reports, standards, and some patents.
- Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)Wharton Research Data Service provides business data. It includes stock exchange (market-wide and company specific), balance sheet (company specific), income statement (company specific), bank, and macro economic information. CRSP (security prices), Compustat ExecuComp (financial, statistical, marketing information), I/B/E/S (earnings estimates), Dow Jones Averages (stock index data), FDIC (financial data), PHLX (Philadelphia Stock Exchange data), IRRC (Investor Responsibility Research Center), NYSE TAQ (trades and quotes), Eventus (event studies), TRACE (corporate bond market prices), and CISDM Hedge Fund/CTA Database.
Access limited to VT faculty and PhD students; you must first submit an account request. - Data Science, Big Data Analytics, and Digital Methods from SAGE Research Methods VideoThis database provides videos that covers a range of innovative and cutting edge techniques and projects across data science methods, issues and challenges surrounding big data research, and applications of computational social science research. With a focus on what new methods and data sources can tell us about human behavior, the collection contains interviews with academics developing these methods, and short documentaries exploring industry applications of data science. From basic programming techniques for those starting out, through to advanced techniques in deep learning, you will find helpful tutorials, tailored to those with different disciplinary backgrounds and experience.
- Sage DataSage Data provides data sets including subjects such as business, health, education, agriculture and the environment, government and international relations, and crime.
- DataONEDataONE searches against multiple data repositories. You can limit by date or geographic area.
- DataCiteDataCite searches metadata about research data set for which they have assigned a DOI.
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