Alternative login route: Use https://www.ebsco.com/ then click on Person Icon, then Find your organization. Type Heriot Watt and select campus. Click on choose databases and choose Business Source Premier.
A business research database providing full text for 2,300 journals. Also contains some market research reports, company and industry reports and SWOT analyses.
Comprehensive information on companies in the UK and Ireland. You can use it to research individual companies, search for companies with specific profiles and for analysis.
Company financials, in detailed format, with up to 10 years of history
Financial strength indicators
Directors and contacts
Original filings/images as filed at Companies House and the Companies Registration Office in Ireland
Stock data for listed companies
Detailed corporate structures and the corporate family
Shareholders and subsidiaries
Industry research
Adverse filings
Business and company-related news
M&A deals and rumours
Fame covers over 8 million companies in the UK and Ireland
2 million companies in a detailed format
220,000 companies in a summary format
Details of 850,000 companies that are active but not required to file accounts or have yet to file accounts
5 million companies that are no longer active. These are included so you can research patterns in default and confirm previous existence.
Financial data set of Global Banks and Global Sovereigns, plus Global Banking and Sovereign Research.
Heriot-Watt University staff and students can request a login by emailing emeaclientservices@fitchsolutions.com.
Includes information on:-
• Standardized financial data on over 33,000 private and public banks across 200 countries, along with up to 30 years of history
• Each bank statement includes up to 550 data points per bank, 50 pre-calculated ratios and access to the
original source filing
• Annual and interim financial data for the largest 3,200 bank are available within 48 hours of filing
• Economic data and 3-year forecasts on 110 sovereigns
• Accurate and timely financials on thousands of institutions globally
• Access via the Fitch Connect platform enabling management of credit risk
Excel template available for use with Fitch Connect to extract historical financial data. See here for more information.
Access to UK and international newspapers and trade press, with foreign language news sources in over 26 languages including full text access to The Financial Times (with a 30 day embargo). Please note: access to the FT is currently unavailable due to an issue affecting all Universities subscribing to Nexis Uni. Guides to searching Nexis Uni.
Osiris has been replaced with Orbis. Please see Orbis entry above.
Registration required. Access to NLS digital resources requires a main residential address in Scotland. Some resources accessible from NLS reading rooms only.