Welcome to Watzek Library's research guide for Entrepreneurship. This guide provides access to some research tools that can help take you beyond a Google search as you design your entrepreneurial venture. Library databases can help you examine an industry, research a company, access case studies, and more.
Easily find information on companies, industries and more in the context of timely news, statistical data, and in-depth reports.
Combines all of the content formerly found in Business & Company Resource Center with a new interface designed around the research goals and workflows of your diverse business research community. Easily find information on companies, industries and more in the context of timely news, statistical data, and in-depth reports.
Over 2,300 full-text scholarly business journals plus other sources.
Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 scholarly business journals and many other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Expanded indexing and abstract backfiles are included for the top scholarly business journals, dating back to 1965 or the first issue published (whichever is more recent).
Full text of national, regional, and international newspapers, business, and legal sources and more.
Provides full text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Includes national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; and Company Dossiers, with business journal articles, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
Selected full-text access to hundreds of newspapers, newswires, and radio & TV transcripts.
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 60 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for over 300 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
Business news for the Portland Metro Area. Access the title online by using this link, logging into Primo, and using the login information that appears on the page.
Census data on population, housing, businesses, education, income, and many other variables. Data can be filtered by country, state, city and more with datasets available to download as CSV files.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy.
The World Bank offers open access to statistical data concerning development in countries across the globe. Search by country or indicator (i.e., economy and growth, energy and mining, urban development) to view regional profiles, charts, maps, and datasets. Use the DataBank tool to compare several countries and indicators and download custom sets. Data is available as CSV files.
The dataset catalog provides access to a variety of demographic, socioeconomic, and transportation information about the Portland, OR metro area. There are a number of contributing local government agencies including City of Portland Technology, TriMet Developer Resources, and State of Oregon Spatial Data Library. Depending on the data presented, datasets can be downloaded as CSV files, text documents, or shapefiles (GIS).