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Databases and Online Sites for Design Research

Multidisciplinary Databases
Databases that cover multiple topics and are a good place to find information on a variety of subjects.
News and Newspapers
Major national, regional and international news sources.
Government Sites
A listing of many of the major government sites that contain statistics and other information.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
This multidisciplinary resource indexes thousands of Elsevier journals and books. Full text is available for some of these publications. It is especially strong in topics related to the sciences, medicine, and technology.

USDA PLANTS Database
The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

ABI/INFORM Collection
Major source for academic journals, trade publications, market and industry research reports, company annual reports, dissertations, and working papers. Also contains country profiles and economic forecasts for most major economies.
Business Insights: Essentials
A database offering 2 million investment reports, 25,000 industry reports, 11,000 company histories, 3,900 periodicals, 2,500 market research reports, and 1,000 SWOT analyses.
Business Source Complete
Full-text coverage plus indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, including Harvard Business Review.
Mergent Intellect™
Powered by Hoover's™, a Dun & Bradstreet Solution, Mergent Intellect is a flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence. Mergent Intellect offers access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.
ProQuest One Business
An intuitive and comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.