Operations and Business Analytics

This database provides access to statistics produced by US Federal agencies, states, major intergovernmental organizations and private groups. Datasets can be keyword searched or filtered by subject, source or geography.

This database provides access to many statistical products including the Balance of Payment Statistics, International Financial Statistics and Direction of Trade Statistics.

The iLibrary provides access to the publications and statistics produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Materials can be browsed by theme, country, or both.

The Social Explorer database provides datasets covering from 1940 to the present in the United States. Topics covered include demographics, election data, crime data, business patterns, health data, religion data and more.

This resource includes development indicators from the World Bank and other officially recognized international sources.

Statista is an online statistics portal that pulls together statistics from a wide range of resources and includes some coverage of almost any topic.

Morningstar is an investment research database that allows the user to screen lists of stocks, mutual funds or ETFs based on a number of variables. Individual company pages provide company financials and key ratios as well as analyst coverage.

NetAdvantage has detailed company financials and also allows the user to chart a number of market metrics (volume, price, etc.) and even compare the company's data to other companies, indices, etc. You can then download the charting data into Excel.

Global Financial Data is particularly useful for historical financial data (some data sets dating back hundred of years). OSU has access to the GFDatabase and the Real Estate Database.

Mergent Online has good ownership data, as well as company financials, and allows users to build a company report, or a comparison report to view the company's data against chosen competitors.