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 Country / Sectoral Databases

CRISIL Research is the country’s largest independent and Comprehensive research coverage on the Indian economy, 69
integrated research house with strong domain expertise on Indian industries and 2000 corporates makes CRISIL a preferred service
economy, industries and capital markets. It has unique research provider to: CRISILViews, Customised Research, EcoViews,
Crisil Research Database platform and capabilities to deliver superior perspectives and Independent Equity Research, Industry Information Service, User Guide
insights to over 1200 domestic and global clients, through a range Industry Risk Scores, Infrastructure investment opportunity, IPO
of research reports, analytical tools, subscription products and Grading, Ratings Information Base, Real Estate, Retail Loan
customised solutions. Product and SME Sector & Cluster Attractiveness.

MarketLine Advantage offers company, industry, and country

MarketLine Advantage is an interactive subscription platform profiles. This includes SWOT analyses, 12,000 company , 215
Marketline- offering a comprehensive and unique collection of company, countries and 46 political and geographic groupings. The program
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Datamonitor industry, financial, and country information extending across every includes case studies and profiles, 16,500 company capsules, case
major marketplace worldwide. studies, industry profiles in management reports. A daily news feed
is also included.

ETIG database offers Equity Research Reports (more than 17000

ET Intelligence Group (ETIG), the research arm of The Economic
company research reports & recommendations), ET Quarterly
Times, India’s largest business paper, and part of The Times
Mutual Fund Tracker, Company News / Reports, Market News /
Group. ETIG is engaged in macro-economic and sectoral research
Reports, Sector News / Reports, Weekly Technical analysis,
ETIG Database  for the benefit of Indian business. ETIG undertake detailed primary,
Sectoral Portfolio Tracker, Investor's Guide Archives, 100 Fastest
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secondary and market research based studies. ETIG analyse
Growing Small Companies, Daily Derivatives, Case studies, Daily
business from various angles – sectoral, firm level, macro-
updates on the markets, Guest articles & Leader talk and Chart
economic, process and functional.
Buster – Positive Breakout / Negative Breakout companies.

The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news

Financial Times FT provides the latest news and data from the world's leading organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity
business website. It has full access to all FT news, comment, and accuracy. Providing essential news, comment, data and User Guide
Database expert analysis and tools essential for managing business. analysis for the global business community, the FT has a combined
paid print and digital circulation of almost 629,000

Indiastat.com is a cluster of 57 sites including India-specific, Sector

Indiastat is the authentic source for Indian statistics collected from
specific,Region specific and State specific sites rendering its
the best sources for information and statistics on India. Within huge
dedicated services to the research fraternity from academic,
IndiaStat database, user can easily surf through half-a-million pages that
professional and corporate world with authentic and comprehensive
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contain socio-economic statistical data and useful information on
compilation of secondary level socio-economic statistical data about
India
India and its states,Region and Sector on more than 35 variables.
 Infraline is India’s premier provider of research and consulting The Database includes a detailed overview of the Indian Power
services for energy sector professionals with focus on Power, Oil & Sector, including its evolution, latest status, recent happenings,
Indian Power Sector Gas, Upstream, Coal, Renewable, Roads and Metals & Mining policy changes, and a glimpse of key statistics related to the sector.
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Database sectors. Products and Services include real time data analysis, It contains all Acts, Policies, Guidelines, Notifications, Regulations
presented in an unbiased manner, indicating key industry trends and Orders issued by Government, its bodies and other relevant
and developments which are used for effective strategic decisions. authorities.

Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) delivers deep, rich

company and industry information, alongside the relevant
proprietary and multi-source news, research and analytics. It
delivers hard-to-get information on more than 80 emerging markets
ISI Emerging Markets- ISI Emerging Markets, a Euromoney Institutional Investor
through its award-winning online Emerging Markets Information
Company, is a pioneer of high-value emerging market business
Service. It aggregates and produces unique content including full-
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Asia and financial information.
text news articles, financial statements, company information,
industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and
market-specific information, which are derived directly from more
than 20,000 local and global publications.

Corporate Databases

AceAnalyser database comprises of: 1. Company Information:

Includes financial and non-financial information of companies &
Accord Fintech Pvt. Ltd. is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company,
sectors.2. Equity Markets: Covers BSE / NSE Stock Exchanges
set up by a team of professionals with competencies in Financial
Equity. 3. Commodities Markets: Covers MCX / NCDEX Exchanges
content, software development and database design using a variety
ACE Analyser of platforms, technologies and financial domain knowledge. A
Information. 4. Derivative Markets: Includes Future Markets and User Guide
Option Markets information of stocks and index. 5. Macro Economy:
dedicated team of financial and database analysts maintain
Covers the National Income statistics, Money & Banking,Price
information related to Company data, Mutual Fund and Insurance.
Indices and other Economic Data.
 ACE Equity Corporate Database provides latest / historical,
financial and non-financial information on more than Listed &
Unlisted Indian companies. Ace Equity provides the complete
Accord Fintech Pvt. Ltd. is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company,
information available in the Annual Report of the companies like
set up by a team of professionals with competencies in Financial
Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Cash Flow, Interim Results, Holdings,
content, software development and database design using a variety
ACE Equity of platforms, technologies and financial domain knowledge. A
Reports etc. It covers more than 1750 Financial data points with in- User Guide
depth coverage for analysis. Ace Equity financial data is presented
dedicated team of financial and database analysts maintain
in 10 standardized Industry formats namely, Manufacturing,
information related to Company data, Mutual Fund and Insurance.
Banking, Finance (Broking & NBFC), Software, Shipping, Hotel,
Media, Hospitality, Real Estate & Power with a very powerful Query
module.

The Bloomberg Terminal is a computer system provided

by Bloomberg L.P. that enables professionals in finance and other
Bloomberg Database is an online database, provides real time industries to access the Bloomberg Professional service through
Bloomberg Terminal pricing, data, history, news, analytics and research for global which users can monitor and analyze real-time financial market User Guide
financial markets. data and place trades on the electronic trading platform. The
system also provides news, price quotes, and messaging across its
proprietary secure network.

Capitaline Plus has extensive financial and non-financial

information on Indian companies. Coverage of data on each
company includes Balance Sheet, P & L, Segment Finance, Funds
Flow, Cash Flow, Forex, R & D, Key Ratios, Quarterly Results,
Capitaline Plus provides fundamental and market data on more
Finished Products, Share Price data, Raw Materials, Price Chart,
than 23,000 Indian listed and unlisted companies, classified under
Share-holding Pattern, Corporate events, Directors' Report, News,
more than 300 industries, along with powerful analytic tools.
Research & Analysis. Capitaline Plus contains more than 300
Extensive data and analysis on every company profile, directors,
industries' aggregate data of all companies in one industry on one
Capitaline Plus more than 10-year financials (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow,
screen for easy comparison. Capitaline Plus package has a Live
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consolidated financial data, segment data, forex data, R&D data,
News section, which gives a wide range of news story updates
ratios, etc), quarterly results, ownership pattern, finished products,
including market commentary, price movements of stocks, all
raw materials, share price data, directors' report, management
market reports, corporate happenings, results, IPOs, politics,
discussion, notes to account, business news, corporate events, etc.
economy, quarterly performance, research reports. Powerful
aggregation screens displaying scoreboards of companies
classified under different catalogs like Industry, House, State,
Country, Product, Stock Exchange, Index, etc.
 The Economic Outlook replaces two of CMIE's earlier services - the
The Economic Outlook provides CMIE's view on where the Indian Economic Intelligence Service and Business Beacon. Economic
economy stands and where it is likely headed. This view is derived Outlook is the underlying database. The service provides full
Economic Outlook from a careful and continuous monitoring of all new data releases. access to this database. Time series on more than a 100,000
New data releases are analysed in real-time in the context of the indicators are provided in multiple frequencies and in the form of User Guide
(CMIE) historical trends and in the context of other current data releases. several derivations. The full set of indicators including all
Economic Outlook therefore provides a comprehensive and frequencies and derivations add up to nearly a million time-series.
integrated view of the Indian economy. All these are presented in intelligently laid-out tabulations. CMIE's
statistical forecasts are provided in separate tabulations.

The service provides detailed historical data on capacity,

production, foreign trade, sales, prices, annual and quarterly
financial performance of the industry and its detailed break-up by
Industry Outlook is a comprehensive service that provides detailed
companies, new capacities built and expected to be commissioned,
information on Indian industries. It includes the mining,
Industry Outlook (CMIE) manufacturing, utilities and and services industries. A total of 193
performance of listed companies on the bourses, data culled from User Guide
the Annual Survey of Industries and from RBI's industrial outlook
industries are covered.
surveys. Industry Outlook provides insights, outlook and forecasts.
It is designed to provide a near to medium term view of Indian
industries.

The Prowess database is built from Annual Reports, quarterly

financial statements, Stock Exchange feeds and other reliable
Prowess is a database of the financial performance of over 27,000
sources. There are over 3,500 datafields per company in Prowess.
companies. It includes all companies traded on the National Stock
The database is normalised to enable inter-company and inter-
Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange, thousands of unlisted
Prowess (CMIE) public limited companies and hundreds of private limited
temporal comparisons. This enhances the usefulness of the
database in decision making. Prowess provides time-series data for
companies. It also includes a number of important business entities
the past two decades. It covers the entire post-reforms period in
that are not registered companies.
India. The database is updated every day with regular intra-day and
end-of-day updates.

The data provided by the service can be divided into 13 broad

components. These are listed below with the principal . 1.
Demographics (Census of India), 2. State Domestic Product
The States of India service provides statistics, official documents of (Central Statistical Organisation), 3. Elections (Election
state governments, comments of CMIE analysts on the data and Commission of India), 4. Agriculture (Ministry of Agriculture &
CMIE forecasts. The spectrum of statistics in States of India Cooperation), 5. Industry (Annual Survey of Industries), 6.
States of India (CMIE) includes demographic, economic, industrial and socio-economic Infrastructure (variety of sources for power, roadways, railways,
indicators. The database in the product is supported by analysis, ports, aviation, telecommunications), 7. Investments (CMIE's
charting tools and forecasts. CapEx service), 8. Banking (Reserve Bank of India), 9. Public
finance (State finance ministries), 10. Consumer prices (Labour
ministry), 11. Health (State Health ministries), 12. Education (State
Education ministries), 13. Crime (National Crime Records Bureau)
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Database The Venture Intelligence is the leading source of information and
analysis on private equity, Real Estate and M&A in India. The
Venture Intelligence Private Equity Deal Database lists cash-for-
equity investments in India-based companies by private equity and
M&A Deal Database venture capital firms. The database also includes financial
The Venture Intelligence service, launched in 2002, is the leading
investments by strategic investors which function similar to PE/VC
source of information and analysis on private equity, venture capital
firms and often co-invest with them. The Venture Intelligence
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and M&A in India. 
Private Equity in Real Estate Database lists investments in India-
based Real Estate companies and projects by private equity firms.
The database also includes financial investments by strategic
Real Estate Deal investors which function similar to PE firms and often co-invest with
Database them.

E-Journals

ABI/INFORM contains a broad array of business information, from

scholarly journals and dissertations, to company, industry and
market focused trade news. Delivering over 6,800 journals, nearly
ABI/INFORM Complete is a database of full text journals on 80% of which are in full-text, ABI/INFORM is the most
ABI/INFORM (Proquest)  business, economy and management providing a comprehensive
coverage on various micro as well as macro economic aspects of
comprehensive business database , Offering much more than
journal content, this diverse solution provides the right mix of
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various economies of the world content types to meet the needs of any business researcher. It
provides fast, easy access to information on almost 200,000
companies, with coverage from at least 1992 forward and with
back-file coverage to 1923.

EBSCO database provides the leading collection of bibliographic

and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered
EBSCO Information Services provides a complete and optimized by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important
research solution comprised of research databases and e-journals scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. It
Business Source —all combined with the most powerful discovery service and includes full text journals in all disciplines of business, including
management resources to support the information and collection marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and User Guide
Complete (EBSCO)  development needs of libraries and other institutions and to economics. Additional full text content includes financial data,
maximize the search experience for researchers and other end books, monographs, major reference works, book digests,
users. conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports,
industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company
profiles, SWOT analyses, and more.

Elsevier's Energy ScienceDirectis a leading full-text scientific database offering

Collection  journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals,
ScienceDirect is a part of Elsevier is the world's largest scientific,
20,000 books and 11,966,944 Articles. It provides access of 250+
technical and medical information provider and publishes over
full text journals n all disciplines of business, including marketing,
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2,000 journals as well as books and secondary databases.
management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, Energy and
economics.
 ScienceDirectis a leading full-text scientific database offering
journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals,
ScienceDirect is a part of Elsevier is the world's largest scientific,
20,000 books and 11,966,944 Articles. It provides access of 250+
technical and medical information provider and publishes over
full text journals n all disciplines of business, including marketing,
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2,000 journals as well as books and secondary databases.
management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, Energy and
Elsevier's Online economics.
Journals Collection 

IGI Online Journals Collection  is a leading international academic

IGI Global offers premier and peer-reviewed content in both print
publisher of more than 2,300+ reference books, 155+ journals,
and electronic formats to international researchers, librarians, and
IGI Online Journals encyclopedias, teaching cases, proceedings, and databases. It
universities, and actively publishes under five imprints —
Information Science Reference, Business Science Reference,
provides access of 152 full text journals focusing on the areas of User Guide
Collection  education, social science, library science, healthcare, business,
Medical Information Science Reference, Engineering Science
environmental science, public administration, computer science,
Reference, and IGI Publishing.
and engineering. 

JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support

JSTOR is a not–for–profit organization based United States
scholarship and teaching. The JSTOR digital archive includes more
founded in 1995 to build trusted archives for scholarship. It
than 1,500 leading academic journals in the humanities, social
provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several
sciences, and sciences. The entire back runs of journals (from
JSTOR hundred journals. JSTOR has created archive of over one
volume 1, issue 1) are always included, and in 2010 JSTOR
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thousand academic journals in both digital and print formats, and
expanded its vast collection of archival content to include the most
continues to greatly expand access to scholarly works and other
recent issues of select academic journals through the Current
materials needed for research and teaching globally.
Scholarship Program.

Proquest’s Dissertations ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database provides
online access to discover nearly 3 million doctoral dissertations and User Guide
& Theses   comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses.
master’s theses.

The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals

PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association ( 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA)
PsycARTICLES (APA)   (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and 11 from allied organizations). It includes all journal articles, User Guide
and scientific articles in psychology. letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans
1894 to present.

SAGE Humanities & Sage publishes peer reviewed journals for over four decades Sage HSS Package is comprehesive collection of academic
created in partnership with the best authors, researchers, editors, literature in social Sciences. Sage HSS Package Comprises 453 User Guide
Social Sc. Collection associations, and societies.  journals covering over 30 Subject area.

INFORMS is the world’s largest organization for advanced

analytics professionals, focused on providing data analytics and
INFORMS publishes 13 scholarly journals, including the flagship
operations research information, training and best practices to its
journals Operations Research and Management Science, an open-
members and the industry at large. Much like the American Medical
access journal INFORMS Transactions on Education, and Service
INFORMS Online Association (AMA) is to the medical industry, INFORMS is the
Science. These journals describe the latest Operations Research,
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valued thought leader for the analytics industry. Its members
analytics methods, applications and an industry and membership
provide best-in-class resources, including analytics models,
magazine with news from across the profession.
methodologies and certification best practices that are leveraged
by companies globally.
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PsycBOOKS from the American Psychological Association (APA),

includes over 38,000 chapters in PDF from over 2,500 books,
published by the APA and other distinguished publishers, and
PsycBOOKS is a full-text database that provides electronic access
includes digitized content of historical significance from the
to thousands of scholarly and professional titles published by APA,
PsycBOOKS (APA) including recent titles in psychological and behavioral science, plus
Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection . User Guide
It also contains over 1,600classic books of landmark historical
a substantial backfile of classic and historic works.
impact in psychology dating from the 1600s, and the exclusive
electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from
APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.