
This guide was created to assist teams of the AU Center for Innovation Hackathon. The left-hand navigation includes a tab for each of the three sectors: fintech, medtech, and edtech. These sub pages include various resources like open internet reports, AU Library subscription databases, and ebooks from the collection. Items chosen are meant to give groups a place to start - but are certainly not the only resources available or useful for this competition. Good luck to all the teams!
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These are some of the general resources to help you sift through the journalism and press coverage of fintech, edtech, and medtech.
Full access to Washington DC's daily Pulitzer-Prize winning newspaper featuring local, national and international news.
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Once your account is verified and subscription connected to AU's organization, sign in at https://www.washingtonpost.com to access.
The latest UK and international business, finance, economic and political news, commentary and analysis from the Financial Times.
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Authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion.
Includes mobile app and subscriber-only podcasts and events.
You can also log in in the app or at https://www.economist.com/. Select the option to Log In, choose SSO, and select American University Library (not American University) from the list of institutions.
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A major source of newspapers, web news, and industry news, containing 28,000 sources from over 200 countries in 23 languages. Includes Wall Street Journal television transcripts and newswires. Includes company profiles.
In support of the University's budget mitigation efforts, AU Library had to make cuts to our collection and cancel some resources. Unfortunately, Factiva will no longer be available after November 30, 2025.
We recommend these resources as alternatives:
Financial Times
Wall Street Journal
Hoover's
For more information about the library’s cancellation process, please see the Scholarly Resource Cancellations Subject Guide.
A statistics portal that provides data from marketing surveys and industry studies.