Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database
On June 14, 2009, Kresge Library discontinued its subscription to Dun and Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database.
Kresge Business Administration Library has begun a review of the databases it makes available to the Ross School of Business to determine whether or not there is any duplication between any of them. Databases which have content that duplicates the information in other products will not be renewed, freeing up funds that the Library will use to purchase new content for use by the School.
In the past several years the Library has begun subscriptions to several databases with general and financial information about companies; these include Mergent, OneSource, and Orbis. Some highlights of these resources include:
- Mergent Online has information
on 15,000 US firms traded on the NYSE, AMEX and
NASDAQ exchanges, as well as 20,000 public firms
based outside the US. Mergent's features include the
ability to easily export fifteen years' worth of a
firm's financials to Excel.
Access Mergent Online: Ross users | UM users | Kresge guest users
- OneSource
Global Business Browser has information on
364,000 private and public firms in the Asia/Pacific
region and 12.85 million private and public firms in
the US and Canada. OneSource's features include the
ability to see sales for public firms broken out by
geographic or business segment.
Access OneSource: Ross users | UM users | Kresge guest users
- Orbis
has information on 50 million companies, including
55,000 publicly quoted companies worldwide; 22
million European companies; 17 million US and
Canadian firms; 6.2 million Latin American
companies; and 5.3 million companies in the Far East
and Central Asia (China, Korea, Japan). It also has
information on 360,000 companies in Africa, the
Middle East, and Oceania.
Access Orbis: Ross users | UM users | Kresge guest users
After comparing the content and features of Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database with the features and content of these newer databases, the Library decided to not renew the Million Dollar Database. Access to this database expired on June 14, 2009. After you try out Mergent Online, OneSource, or Orbis, please contact Nathan Rupp at Kresge Library at nrupp@umich.edu with any questions or concerns about this decision.