Passport
This link opens in a new windowDescription: Passport provides key business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. It will be useful to students studying a wide range of areas including international business and marketing, economics, social science, travel and tourism, international hospitality management, international relations & environmental health.
IBISWorld
This link opens in a new windowAn excellent collection of industry research reports
Mintel
This link opens in a new windowMintel contains marketing intelligence reports, trend analysis and market size information for a wide range of industries and across several countries.
Business Source Complete
This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Complete is our most comprehensive business database with content from peer reviewed (scholarly) journal and magazine articles. Most articles are full text. Business reports with industry, company and country profiles are also included.AI Insights offers clear summaries of full text articles highlighting 2-5 key points, helping you quickly assess relevance of the article to your research and making better use of your research time. Short video on AI Insights: https://about.ebsco.com/resources/ai-insights-ebscoMore information and guidance: https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/Generative-AI-Insights-Beta-Summaries?language=en_US
Business Source Complete - Business Interface
Using the business interface you can search for leading publications in business subjects. You can also find company, industry and country reports.
WARC
This link opens in a new windowDescription: World Advertising Research Centre (WARC) combines current new thinking and trends with best practice, featuring access to over 6,000 award-winning case studies, in-depth trend analysis, and research reports.
Established in 1985, WARC combines its own content with that of respected industry partners worldwide and provides detailed solutions to real marketing challenges.
Statistics portal for market data, market research and market studies. Please note that Middlesex University no longer has a subscription to this database, so you will no longer have free access to it as a Middlesex University student. You can still access some limited content for free as an individual user.
Quality News Sources
FT.com
This link opens in a new windowThe first time that you access FT.com using this link you will be asked to register - Please use your Middlesex email address (@live.mdx.ac.uk or @mdx.ac.uk).
Global Newsstream
This link opens in a new windowFeatures full-text global news content from the present time to 1980s, from newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites.
Useful for 'leading indicators' such as PMI (purchasing managers’ index) and SMI (service managers’ index) and interest rates and consumer sentiment/confidence.
