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BUSINESS
RESEARCH GUIDE
Business Database Publisher Profiles
The Library acquires
business database products to support teaching and research at the Isenberg
School of Management. This guide lists the major business database publishers
licensed for the UMass campus. Each entry includes the company's headquarters
location, sales, employees, corporate affiliation, and licensed databases.
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ISOM
STUDENTS! Business
researchers understand business publishing.
To be effective
researchers, ISOM students should understand how business information
is produced, organized and disseminated. They should be familiar
with database publishers, database products, and the business publishing
industry. This knowledge helps business students develop effective
research methodologies and select quality information resources.
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Blackwell
Publishing
Headquarters: Oxford, UK. Sales: $358 million. Employees:
938. Corporate Family: Blackwell was purchased by John
Wiley & Sons in November 2006 for $1.08 billion in cash. Licensed
Databases: Library subscribes to 300 online journals through the Blackwell
Synergy database.
Congressional
Quarterly Inc.
Headquarters:
Washington, DC. Sales:
$35 million. Employees: 318. Corporate
Affiliation: Affiliate
of Times Publishing Company, St.
Petersburg, FL. Licensed Database: CQ
Researcher.
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
Headquarters:
Short Hills, NJ. Sales: $1.4 billion (parent). Employees: 4,700.
Corporate Affiliation:
D&B is a public company. Trades on NYSE (DNB). Licensed Databases:
D&B
Million Dollar Database, D&B
Industry Norms.
EBSCO
Information Services
Headquarters:
Birmingham, AL. Sales: $2 billion
(parent). Employees:
4,990. Corporate Affiliation:
Division of EBSCO
Industries, a private parent. Notes:
EBSCO stands for the company's founder: Elton B. Stephens. Licensed
Databases (partial listing): Business
Source Premier, Academic
Search Premier, EconLit.
EIU
- Economist Intelligence Unit
Headquarters: London, UK. Sales: $379 million. Employees:
1,000. Corporate Affiliation:
Division of the Economist
Group Limited. Notes: EIU is the publisher of the Economist
Magazine. EIU is 50% owned by UK public company Pearson plc, London (PSO).
Licensed Database: EIU
Country Reports.
Euromonitor
International
Headquarters: London, UK. Sales: $32 million. Employees:
242. Corporate Affiliation:
International private company. Licensed Database: Global
Market Information Database - GMID.
Faulkner
Information Services
Headquarters: Pennsauken, NJ. Sales: $7 million. Employees:
124. Corporate Affiliation:
Division of Information Today.
Licensed Database: Faulkner
Advisory on IT Studies - FAITS.
IBISWorld
Headquarters: Melbourne, Australia. Sales: NA. Employees:
50. Corporate Affiliation:
International Private Company. Licensed Database: IBISWorld
United States.
InfoUSA
Headquarters: Omaha, NE. Sales: $383 million. Employees:
2,695. Corporate Affiliation:
Public company trades on NASDAQ (IUSA). Licensed Database: ReferenceUSA.
Internet
Securities Inc.
Headquarters:
New York, NY. Sales: $22 million. Employees: 240. Corporate
Affiliation:
Subsidiary of Euromoney
Institutional Investor, London (ERM). Licensed Database: ISI
Emerging Markets.
LexisNexis
Headquarters:
Dayton, OH. Sales:
$248 million. Employees: 3,350. Corporate
Affiliation:
Subsidiary of UK public parent Reed
Elsevier, NYSE (RUK). Licensed
Databases: Advertising
Red Books, LexisNexis
Academic, LexisNexis
Environmental, LexisNexis
Statistical.
MarketResearch.com
Inc.
Headquarters: Rockville, MD. Sales: $82 million. Employees:
35. Corporate Affiliation:
Private company. Licensed Database: MarketResearch.com
Academic.
Mergent
Inc.
Headquarters: New York, NY and Hong Kong, China. Sales:
$58 million. Employees: 675. Corporate Affiliation:
Subsidiary of Hong Kong based Xinhua
Finance, China's leading financial services company. Notes: Mergent
purchased by Xinhua in 2004. Trades on Tokyo Exchange (XHFNY). Licensed
Database: Mergent
Online.
Mintel
International Group
Headquarters: London, UK. Sales: $36 million. Employees: 360.
Corporate Affiliation:
Mintel in an international private company. Licensed Database:
Mintel
Reports.
National
Bureau of Economic Research
Headquarters: Cambridge, MA. Sales: $10.7 million. Employees:
150. Corporate Affiliation:
Private, nonprofit research organization dedicated to promoting understanding
of the U.S. economy. Licensed Database: NBER
Working Papers.
NewsBank Inc.
Headquarters: Naples, FL. Sales: $25 million. Employees:
250. Corporate Affiliation:
Private Company. Production facilities in Chester, VT. Licensed Database:
NewsBank.
Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development
Headquarters: Paris, France. Sales: na. Employees:
1,000. Corporate Affiliation:
OECD is an intergovernmental organization comprising economies from Europe,
North America, and the Pacific. Licensed Database: SourceOECD.
Proquest
Information & Learning
Headquarters:
Ann Arbor, MI. Sales:
$463 Million. Employees: 2,414.
Corporate
Affiliation:
Division
of Cambridge Information
Group, a private parent. Notes:
Company sold to Cambridge
Information Group on December 15, 2006. Licensed
Databases: ABI/Inform
Global, Wall
Street Journal, Historical
New York Times. Others.
Reed
Elsevier NV
Headquarters: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Sales: $4.7 billion
(parent). Employees: 26,000. Corporate Affiliation:
Reed Elsevier PLC of London owns 50% of Reed Elsevier NV. Licensed
Databases: Library subscribes to 1,100 online scholarly journals from
Reed Elsevier, branded as ScienceDirect.
Sage
Publications USA
Headquarters: Thousand Oaks, CA. Sales: $81 million. Employees:
450. Corporate Affiliation: International private company. Licensed
Database: Sage online business journals are delivered to UMass via
CSA
Illumina.
SRDS
Headquarters: Des Plaines, IL. Sales: $33 million. Employees:
170. Corporate Affiliation:
Private subsidiary of VNU USA
of NY. VNU USA is owned by VNU N.V.
of Haarlem, Netherlands. Notes: VNU also owns ACNielsen
and Editor & Publisher.
Licensed Database: SRDS
Advertising Source.
Standard
and Poor's L.L.C
Headquarters: New York, NY. Sales: $1.6 billion. Employees:
5,000. Corporate Affiliation:
Private subsidiary of public parent McGraw
Hill, NYSE (MHP). Licensed Database: S&P
NetAdvantage.
Thomson Gale
Headquarters: Farmington Hills, MI.
Sales:
$88 million. Employees:
1,232. Corporate Affiliation:
Subsidiary of Canadian public parent Thomson
Corporation, NYSE (TOC). Licensed Databases:
Business
& Company Resource Center, Expanded
Academic ASAP, General
Businessfile, Others.
Wiley
Interscience
Headquarters: Hoboken, NJ. Sales: $150 million. Employees:
3,600. Corporate Affiliation:
Private subsidiary of John Wiley and Sons,
NYSE (JWA). Licensed Database: Library subscribes to 125 online
journals from Wiley.
Yankee
Book Peddler
Headquarters: Contoocook, NH. Sales: $38 million. Employees:
270. Corporate Affiliation:
Subsidiary of Baker & Taylor Inc.
Notes: Private equity firm Castle
Harlan bought B&T in 2006 for $455 million. Licensed Database:
GOBI2 - an acquisitions and collection management database. All business
books are ordered through GOBI2.
Sources: D&B Million Dollar Database, Business & Company Resource
Center, Mergent Online, Hoover's Company Reports, America's Corporate
Families 2006.
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