MintelMintel contains marketing intelligence reports, trend analysis and market size information for a wide range of industries and across several countries. It is particularly strong for sector information in European and American countries.
PassportDescription: 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.
IBISWorldAn excellent collection of industry research reports
Business Source CompleteDescription: Business 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.
WARCDescription: 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.
COBRAPractical information for starting up a small business in the UK. This is especially useful for smaller and niche sectors and for market information in specific areas of the UK.
Key economic indicator data
Useful for 'leading indicators' such as PMI (purchasing managers’ index) and SMI (service managers’ index) and interest rates and consumer sentiment/confidence.
PassportDescription: 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.
Business Source CompleteDescription: Business 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.
CIAODescription: A wide range of scholarship including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Subject Scope: Theory and research in international affairs
FT.comThe 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).
FactivaDescription: Factiva is a global database of the world's most important and popular newspapers and trade journals (and includes alerts, newsletters, and charts about companies, topics, and people).
Subject Scope: Factiva provides access to thousands of sources in 28 languages from nearly 200 countries.
Date Range: Dependent on individual publications
Full Text:Yes
Global NewsstreamFeatures full-text global news content from the present time to 1980s, from newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites.
XpertHRThe ultimate information source for Human Resources materials. An indispensable guide to legislation, advice, case studies and surveys.
CABI - Leisure TourismA great source for tourism, leisure and hospitality information.
Access to over 190,000 abstracts (including over 9,500 full text documents), 4,250 news and review articles, and over 2,550 eBook chapters
CABI - Tourism CasesDesigned to share experiences and expertise from the Tourism Industry, these case studies offer practical, real-life examples in one easily searchable platform.
BRADThe ‘British Rates And Data’ directory, better known as BRAD, is the comprehensive online authority for essential advertising information on over 12,300 UK media titles.
BRAD empowers planners at advertisers and advertising agencies to plan the most effective media campaigns to reach the right audiences and maximise the effectiveness of their advertising spend.
An easy‐to‐use and exhaustive reference service that enables planners to save time and to assess their media options based on channel, title, circulation, editorial profile and much more.
The UK’s leading advertising and media agencies trust BRAD when planning their campaign schedules. BRAD’S clients also span marketing agencies, media owners, print services and advertising technology companies.
