Databases Media, Companies and Markets
Search our selected discipline-specific reference and full text databases for journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and much more.
ABI/Inform
Covers all areas of economics, with a focus on business administration and management, The databases offers bibliographic information, abstracts and, for the most part, full texts. It primarily includes journal articles as well as dissertations, conference reports, business cases, market reports and industry reports.
Subscriptions exist für ABI/Inform Global and ABI/Inform Trade & Industry.
Further information about ABI/Inform Global
Further information about ABI/Inform Trade & Industry
Business Source Premier
The database covers economic sciences including marketing, management, accounting, finance and business. In addition to specialist journals, it also includes company profiles, industry reports, market analyses and SWOT analyses. Most of the journals are available in full-text format. Some are only available after an embargo period of one to 36 months.
Tutorials EBSCO (German)
e-newspaperarchives.ch
Old editions of Swiss newspapers digitised by the Swiss National Library and its partners. e-newspaperarchives.ch is freely accessible and the successor platform to Schweizer Presse Online. Access links to newspaper archives offered on separate platforms can also be found.
Factiva
Full-text versions of newspapers, journals, industry publications, company information and other sources from around the world. The information comes from Reuters and Dow Jones, among others. The database also includes German and international daily newspapers.
Instructions for accessing up-to-date Tages-Anzeiger articles (in German)
Title list of Swiss sources in Factiva(XLS 18,4 KB)
Gartner
Research reports and analyses on information technology.
No registration required. Automatic user recognition via ZHAW login. The database is not licensed for continuing education students.
Nexis Uni
Press, company and financial information as well as information on people from the worlds of business, politics and current affairs as well as economic analyses, country reports and legal information. Several thousand current journals, magazines and newspapers are contained in full-text versions, including the Tages-Anzeiger, the Handelszeitung, Le Monde und The Washington Post.
The database does not include company dossiers.
Title list of Swiss sources in Nexis(XLS 18,4 KB)
NZZ online
NZZ and NZZ Folio: 1993 – present
NZZ am Sonntag: 2002 – present
Downloads limited to 50 articles per session.
NZZ Online (German)
Instructions (German)
Orbis
Contains comprehensive information on companies, including banks and insurance companies worldwide. With Orbis, it is possible to analyse individual companies, search according to specific characteristics and perform various assessments.
To create an individual account in which your own search and filter settings can be saved, register using the following access data:
Username: ZFH-register, password: bvdregister
Orbis without Login (German)
Instruction (PDF 639,2 KB) (German)
Passport
Market research database of Euromonitor International. Passport provides a comprehensive data offering for country and market studies, including country data, consumption data, market volume and market size data, forecasts, statistics, profiles for large companies and much more. Visuals and graphical representations provide an overview and help to understand the data.
The reports for Europe (Western and Eastern) and Asia are licensed.
Note on use: enter the ZHAW as the organisation upon first-time use and then log in using your SWITCH edu-ID.
Statista
Bundles interdisciplinary statistical data from various institutes and sources. Covers a variety of industry categories and offers reports, forecasts and infographics.
The German-language contents as well as the contents of the international modules (English, French and Spanish) are licensed. Click on the globe to change the contents.
Swissdox essentials
Contains most Swiss daily, weekly and Sunday newspapers. It also includes articles from specialist journals, magazines, news agencies, online sources and selected international press titles.
The database offers a news ticker, a search function, full texts, a JPG view of the original and limited newspaper browsing.
Swissdox essentials (German)
Title list (German)
WISO
Database with various modules. Subscriptions are in place for the following:
Economics: references from German and international specialist literature on business administration and economics and their sub-fields.
Social sciences: references on social sciences, social work, social pedagogy, politics and international relations.
Specialist journals: full texts from journals in the fields of economics, social sciences, business psychology and technology.
WISO (German)
Instruction (German)