Qualitative industry analysis and quantitative research on market trends including data on market segmentation, size and growth. Industry coverage includes: service, consumer products, food & beverage, heavy industry, life sciences, and technology & media. The primary geographical coverage is the United States.
Consumer Surveys. Each first time user MUST register a Penn email address and personal password. Use the Free Registration box to register.
International market research reports on the subjects of consumer goods, energy, financial services, healthcare, technology, telecoms, ecommerce and human relations.
Wharton Research Data Services - WRDS is a comprehensive sources of financial, accounting, economic, management, marketing, banking, and insurance data. WRDS offers access to datasets from COMPUSTAT, CRSP, Dow Jones Averages, EVENTUS, FDIC , FISD , Foreign Exchange Rates , Forrester, Global Insight (formerly DRI), GOVPX, I/B/E/S, IRI, IRRC, ISSM, LSPD, Media Metrix, OptionMetrics, PACAP, PHLX, Nastraq, NYSE TAQ, The Conference Board and Thomson Financial. Access to WRDS requires a Wharton password.
Market Research Reports. Users are required to set up a personal profile with a log in and password. Before accessing any report, you will need to log in. Covers European, UK-specific and US consumer markets. Reports analyze trends, include market forecasts and report on major players in an industry. Markets covered range from Automotive, Clothing and Fashion, Food and Travel, among others. Finance Reports are also available.
Updated daily provides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 6000 journals. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more.
Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Harvard Business Review, California Management Review,Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, etc.
The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles from Datamonitor for the world's 5,000 largest companies.
Covers all aspects of business. ABI/Inform provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information, and information on more than 60,000 companies. It gives you indexing and abstracts to articles from more than 1800 leading business and management publications, including over 350 English-language titles from outside the U.S. Dates covered vary by source.
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The American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields. Coverage is worldwide. Sources are in English and over thirty languages.
Holdings: 1887 to the present. Updated monthly.
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal materials. News sources also include magazines, broadcast transcripts, and wire services. Among the document sources included are the U.S. Code and Federal Case Law, state codes and case law, and U.S. patents.
Note that many Congressional publications including bills and laws, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register and campaign finance and voting record data which were previously available in LEXIS/NEXIS are now accessible through a companion database, Congressional Universe.
General, multidisciplinary fulltext periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstracts for more than 16,000 periodicals.
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching possible both within each title and across the whole database.
Penn's subscription currently includes all the available collections:
- the Arts & Sciences Collection I, II, III, IV, V, VI and the complement
- the Business II Collection
- the Biological Sciences Collection
- the Health & General Science Collection
- the Language and Literature Collection
- the Music Collection
Access to journals from JSTOR is restricted to current Penn faculty, staff and students.
Printing from the JSTOR database requires downloading a helper application called JPrint.
Holdings: active
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Full-text of Penn Dissertations from 1997 to present. Dissertations from selected European universities are also listed. Selected master's theses are included since 1988.
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, full-text PDF for most Penn dissertations from 1997 to the present.

