LibGuides: Newspapers: Business & Finance

Reading Audience - Business & Finance Newspapers

ABI Inform Collection (ABI/INFORM) This link opens in a new window
The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world (ProQuest)." The ABI/Inform Collection is made up of several products: ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry and ABI/INFORM Dateline.

"The focus of ABI/INFORM Dateline™ is full-text regional titles useful in studying business. It specializes in hard-to-find regional business publications with news and analysis of local companies and markets...

ABI/INFORM Global™ is one of the most comprehensive business databases on the market, offering the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels. It includes in-depth coverage from thousands of publications, most of them in full-text. With ABI/INFORM Global, users can find out about business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape. ABI/INFORM Global includes ABI/INFORM Archive, which offers a deep backfile of many of the most important business journals of the last century.

The ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry contains in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends and other topics. With ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals and many others (ProQuest)."
Barron's Backfile (from 2008) This link opens in a new window
"The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo) (ProQuest)."
Economist (The) Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
"The Economist has consistently delivered a highly intelligent and comprehensive report of the week's events and has long been a leading magazine ... Its back issues ... serve as key witnesses to the economic and political history of the last 170 years (Gale)." The Economist Historical Archive back issues are available from 1843 through 2020.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Factiva combines more than 35,000 sources to give students, lecturers and librarians access to premium content from 200 countries in 26 languages. This broad range of content provides both local insight and global perspective. Researchers can track industry developments, monitor current news, track global market activity, research a global company, and more.

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Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2016 This link opens in a new window
This archive "has chronicled the critical financial and economic events that shaped the world, from the late nineteenth and entire twentieth centuries to today (Gale)." Rice University owns access to Part 1 (1888-2010) and Part 2 (2011-2016).
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790— and is a good source for foreign newspapers.
*Previously called Lexis Nexis Academic.

Nexis Uni offers an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Wall Street Journal (Historical) This link opens in a new window
Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (1889-2000).
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text database of the Wall Street Journal.
Wall Street Journal Backfile (from 2008) This link opens in a new window
"The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo) (ProQuest)."
Wall Street Journal Online This link opens in a new window
Online access to the Wall Street Journal

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