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Recommended Databases: Industry Information

top database picks
Business and Company Resource Center via Gale
Global business info: company profiles, industry ranking, stock prices, investment reports, industry statistics, marketing data, emerging tech reports, etc. MORE DETAILS...

Factiva
A joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters. Search the full-text of 8000 international business and general publications; Screen for U.S. and foreign companies matching your criteria; Get financial profiles for companies worldwide; Get historical stock prices as well as currency data and market indexes, etc. MORE DETAILS...



Reference USA - Business Data
C
ontains basic information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses. MORE DETAILS...

additional databases
ABI-Inform Dateline via ProQuest Direct
Focuses on hard-to-find local and regional business news. MORE DETAILS...

1985+
ABI-Inform Global via ProQuest Direct
In-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management, advertising, marketing, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+
ABI-Inform Trade & Industry via ProQuest Direct
Provides users with the latest trade and industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+

Business and Industry Database via FirstSearch
A multi­industry, international database that provides access to company, industry, market, and product information. MORE DETAILS...


1994+

Business Full Text [a subset of Wilson Omnifile]
Covers today's leading English­language business magazines. Topics include accounting, personnel, and small business. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1990+
Full text: 1995+

choose Omnifile with Business as subject
Business Intelligence Channel via Dialog1
Covers business associations and foundations, biographical info on company leaders, company details, financials, industry, product information. MORE DETAILS...

Business Source Elite via Ebsco
Covers topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. MORE DETAILS...

1990+
Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS...

1998+
Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.

The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS...

Emerging Markets from ISI
Covers Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Eastern and Southeastern Asia. For each country, info about current events, companies and industries, financial markets, macroeconomics issues, and legal and political affairs. MORE DETAILS...
FirstGov
A centralized place to find information from 20,000+ local, state, and US Government Agency websites.

US Government
Website

Hoover's Online
Covers 50,000 public and private enterprises worldwide. Business info includes news, business features, lists, stock quotes, and global industry overviews. MORE DETAILS...
Investext
Find investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. MORE DETAILS...
ISI Emerging Markets
Covers Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Eastern and Southeastern Asia. For each country, info about current events, companies and industries, financial markets, macroeconomics issues, and legal and political affairs. MORE DETAILS...

ISI Proceedings
Updated weekly, ISI Proceedings provides Web access to bibliographic information and author abstracts from papers delivered at prestigious international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. MORE DETAILS...

LexisNexis Academic
Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical and news and information from over 5000 sources. MORE DETAILS...

Marketing Channel via Dialog1
Covering aspects of marketing: business to business, business to consumer, competitive intelligence, market awareness, market demographics, news and literature. MORE DETAILS...

Mintel Market Research Database
Provides Market and Consumer Research across selected US Categories and selected European Categories.  Each study provides a synthesis of both primary and secondary data and analysis, which combine to provide you with a powerful academic research tool. MORE DETAILS...

National Trade Data Bank
The National Trade Data Bank (NTDB), part of the STAT-USA database, is the US Government's most comprehensive source of international trade data. Includes basic export information, trade statistics, market research reports, overseas contacts, how-to guides, and trade opportunities.
MORE DETAILS...

Standard & Poor's Net Advantage
Covers markets, industries, stocks, bonds, dividends, and S&P Analysis. Search by publication or by type of data, including companies, executives, industries, stocks, bonds, funds, dividends. S&P Publications included: Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, Mutual Fund Reports, The Outlook, Standard & Poor's Register, Stock Guide and Stock Report. MORE DETAILS...

STAT-USA
A service of the US Department of Commerce, this is the site for the US business, economic and trade information from the US government. MORE DETAILS...

Wall Street Journal Online
RIT Libraries has access to the full-text of the WSJ via two databases: Factiva and Proquest. Both allow you to browse and search the WSJ but Factiva is superior for browsing and Proquest for searching.

Go to WSJ in Factiva
(best choice
for browsing)


Go to WSJ in Proquest
(best choice
for searching)

Wilson Business Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Covers today's leading English­language business magazines. Topics include accounting, personnel, and small business. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1990+
Full text: 1995+

then search within Omnifile

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