Business

Standard & Poor's Compustat is a database of financial, statistical, and marketing information. The database provides the annual and quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on most publicly held companies. Compustat files also contain information on aggregates, industry segments, banks, market prices, dividends, and earnings.

For login details please refer to the WRDS section of the 'Login instructions for popular resources FAQ'

Fame is a database for searching company information. Users can research individual companies, search for companies with specific profiles, and do detailed analysis.

Search worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.

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Business Source Complete (BSC) available via EBSCO platform is a scholarly business database providing a collection of bibliographic and full text content in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. It includes abstracts for more than 1,300 business journals back as far as 1886. Full text is available for 1160 titles and in most cases there is a 1 year embargo on issues. BSC also includes around 2800 full-text industry reports from three different providers, as well a company profiles for over 10,000 leading world companies from MarketLine (previously Datamonitor) and Life Science Analytics.

The Economist Intelligence Unit has published Country Reports since 1952, covering almost 200 countries. Each report presents detailed statistics alongside expert commentary and forecasting from the EIU’s analysts. This database presents the historical reports up to 1995, with all data from the statistical tables fully captured and downloadable in spreadsheet form. It is a unique archive of analysis and explanation of political, economic and commercial developments, together with historical statistical data.

Coverage: 1952 - 1995

Euromonitor Passport is a global market information database and analysis tool. It contains comprehensive data and reports across all industries, countries, and consumers. It is one of the world's leading providers of global business intelligence, market research data and analysis.

Using Passport's robust analysis and visualisation tools can help with designing teaching materials and projects with real-world relevance, such as strategic planning, economic analysis, industry benchmarking, competitive threats and market entry studies.

The UK Data Service is a comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data. Here you will find a single point of access to a wide range of secondary data including large-scale government surveys, international macrodata, business microdata, qualitative studies and census data.

• Access to controlled data (via our Secure Lab) is restricted to UK academic researchers and PhD students
• 2 Some of our studies which require the completion of a special licence are restricted to users in the UK
• 3 Some of the international macrodata available via UKDS.Stat are only available to UK HE/FE users. However, selected international macrodata are available to everyone
• Each study has a Discover record and details of any restrictions will be found in the 'Access conditions' section.

Note: King’s username and password for access and registration is required - please use the following link to register UK Data Service › Registration

King’s has access to the following current subject collections: 

• Business, Management and Strategy;
• HR, Learning and Organization Studies;
• Information and Knowledge Management;
• Marketing.

Access covers the most recent five years of content. 

Please note that we also retain access to previous years of the 120 titles in the old Management EM120 package that Emerald has discontinued from 2025.

To find the list of titles King's has access to please click on My Products tab after institutional logging.

The Financial Times (FT) is one of the world’s leading business news and information organisations. King's College London has an education subscription to FT.com (most recent 5 years only). 

Sign up for unlimited access to FT.com articles and tools as part of the university's subscription, using the link above, and the following instructions:

1. Click on 'Sign in' (top left)
2. Enter KCL email address and click ‘Next’
3. Click 'SSO Sign in' button

Please note if you see a Registration Page after signing in, try clearing your cookies and browser history.

The Henry Stewart Talks Business and Management Collection contains over 900 animated, online, video lectures and case studies by experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia. Topics include accounting, economics, finance, global business, marketing strategy, management and technology, and more. New lectures and case studies are released every month.

There are over 850 contributing editors, speakers and case study presenters and more than 30,000 informative slides. The collection is regularly expanded and updated.

WARC provides unbiased information and advice on advertising and marketing. It is delivered via best practice guides, case studies, research papers, special reports and advertising trend data, as well as via webinars, awards, events and advisory services. 

If you encounter problems logging in from counties outside the UK please email library@kcl.ac.uk stating which country you need access from.

Brighmine (formely known as XpertHR)  is a leading source of HR intelligence, featuring extensive information on compliance, good practice and benchmarking. Content includes case reports, salary surveys, articles, policies and documents and practical guidance.