Recommended Databases: Industry Information
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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
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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...
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Reference
USA - Business Data
Contains basic information on more than 12 million
U.S. businesses. MORE
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ABI-Inform Dateline via ProQuest Direct
Focuses on hard-to-find local and regional business news. MORE DETAILS... |

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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... |

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Full text: 1991+ |
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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+ |
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Business
and Industry Database via FirstSearch
A multiindustry, international database that provides access
to company, industry, market, and product information. MORE
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Business
Full Text [a subset of Wilson Omnifile]
Covers today's leading Englishlanguage business magazines.
Topics include accounting, personnel, and small business.
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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
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Business
Source Elite via Ebsco
Covers topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting,
international business and more. MORE
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1990+ |
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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... |

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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... |
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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
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FirstGov
A centralized place to find information from 20,000+ local,
state, and US Government Agency websites. |
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Government
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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... |
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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
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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
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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... |
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LexisNexis
Academic
Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical
and news and information from over 5000 sources. MORE
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Marketing
Channel via Dialog1
Covering aspects of marketing: business to business, business
to consumer, competitive intelligence, market awareness, market
demographics, news and literature. MORE
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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... |
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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
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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
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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
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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. |
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Go to WSJ in Factiva
(best choice
for browsing)
Go to WSJ in Proquest
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Wilson
Business Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Covers today's leading Englishlanguage business magazines.
Topics include accounting, personnel, and small business.
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Abstracts: 1990+
Full text: 1995+ |

then
search within Omnifile |
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