A-Z Databases

Taylor & Francis’ Sustainable Development Goals Online collection (SDGO) is a curated interdisciplinary collection of resources mapped to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGO includes resources covering all 17 SDGs, with more than 12,000 book chapters, journal articles, videos, case studies and more resources.
The SDGO resources are published under Routledge and CRC Press imprints, and include teaching and learning resources, core essays, presentations, videos, case studies, teaching guides, and lesson plans. The 17 SDGs are:
No poverty, Zero hunger, Good health and well-being , Quality education, Gender equality, Clean water and sanitation, Affordable and clean energy, Decent work and economic growth, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Reduced inequality, Sustainable cities and communities, Responsible consumption and production, Climate action, Life below water, Life on land, Peace, justice and strong institutions, Partnership for the goals

CloudSource OA provides Open Access material and digital learning objects for teaching, learning, and research, including over 40 million Open Textbooks, journal articles and readings, as well as high quality openly available teaching and educational resources (open educational resources) such as case studies, lecture notes, syllabus, activities/labs, games, and datasets for teaching and self-learning.

Crunchbase is a platform for finding business information about private and public companies. Crunchbase information includes investments and funding information, founding members and individuals in leadership positions, mergers and acquisitions, news, and industry trends.

ETF Global provides independent and objective research enabling investors to generate superior risk-adjusted returns balanced by disciplined risk management. ETF Global research model integrates four key areas central to research process: Fundamental Analysis, Behavioral Finance, Global Sentiment, Qualitative Evaluation and Risk Management.

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PitchBook contains data on start-ups, their valuations and investment deals (by Private Equity firms, VCs and angel investors), along with their exits (acquisitions, IPOs, closings) for over two decades.
Download limits:
10 daily / 25 monthly rows of company, deal or fund data.
10 daily / 25 monthly rows of people data per user.

ProQuest TDM Studio is a comprehensive text and data mining tool that streamlines the research process. It provides an easy-to-use platform for mining and analyzing content licensed from ProQuest.

The platform has two key features: the workbench and the visualization dashboard. With the visualization dashboard, you can perform topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and geographic analysis without any coding required. The workbench allows you to input your Python or R code to conduct customized analysis according to your needs.

To create your TDM Studio account, simply follow these 3 easy steps:
1. Go to https://tdmstudio.proquest.com
2. Click “Create Account” button.
3. Use your SMU email address to create your account, and follow the rest of the steps outlined in the screen.

New discovery and citation index. Search over 900M citation statements and find citations and well supported literature for your research projects.

Search and browse papers by type of citation (mentioning, supporting & contrasting), or section (Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion).
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Taylor & Francis’ Sustainable Development Goals Online collection (SDGO) is a curated interdisciplinary collection of resources mapped to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGO includes resources covering all 17 SDGs, with more than 12,000 book chapters, journal articles, videos, case studies and more resources.
The SDGO resources are published under Routledge and CRC Press imprints, and include teaching and learning resources, core essays, presentations, videos, case studies, teaching guides, and lesson plans. The 17 SDGs are:
No poverty, Zero hunger, Good health and well-being , Quality education, Gender equality, Clean water and sanitation, Affordable and clean energy, Decent work and economic growth, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Reduced inequality, Sustainable cities and communities, Responsible consumption and production, Climate action, Life below water, Life on land, Peace, justice and strong institutions, Partnership for the goals

Sustainalytics is a leading independent provider of material environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) ratings to investors. It provides comprehensive assessment of a company’s ESG performance within four dimensions, including preparedness, disclosure, quantitative performance and qualitative performance.

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UN Comtrade (United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database) is a comprehensive source of world trade statistics. Coverage includes monthly and annual trade data reported by countries, including merchandise flows by commodity and partner country. The Premium License allows additional options to bulk download large amounts of records via API.

Registration is required for premium access to UN Comtrade.
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