Databases by Subject - Industry

See also Business & Management, Economics and Company.

Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
ABI Inform	Provides abstracts of articles from international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines on business and management topics.Titles Indexed	1971-	N
Business and Industry	Indexes business information sources: trade magazines, newsletters, general business press, and international business dailies. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1994-	N
Business Dateline	Citations on regional business activities and trends as well as major stories on local firms, their products and executives. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1985-	N
EBSCOhost Business Source Premier	Includes full text for 2,300+ business journals, indexes 3,300+ titles, as well as industry reports and company profiles from Datamonitor. Journals Included \| Other Sources \| Tutorial	1922-	Y
ebrary	26,000+ full text books on many topics: Business & Economics, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life & Physical Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Datamonitor Industry Reports.	Current	Y
Emerald	Contains over 25,000 management articles as well as a range of engineering, applied science and technology journals. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Encyclopedia of American Industries	Searchable through the Gale Virtual Reference Library, this electronic book provides industry snapshots.	Current	Y
Gartner IntraWeb	Full text research and analysis reports on computer hardware, software and related information technology industries.	Current	Y
General BusinessFile ASAP	InfoTrac database includes business and industry articles, company directory listings, and investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries. Titles Included	1980-	Y
Google Scholar	Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
HighWire Press	From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 920+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Hoovers	Company and industry overviews, profiles, competitors, and IPO Central. Help Center	Current	Y
JSTOR	Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1800s-	Y
LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic	Full text news, legal, business, and biographical information. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Regional Business News	Search regional business news. Titles Included	Varies	Y
Standard & Poor's Research Insight - Compustat	Compustat current and historic financial company data on global corporations. Use Research Insight an analytical software to screen for companies by wide range of investment and financial criteria.	Quarterly	Y
Standard & Poor's Research Insight - ExecuComp	80 different compensation related data items on public corporations top 5 executive officers.	Varies	Y
Wall Street Journal - ProQuest	Full text of newspaper of offering coverage of global business, financial, and industry news and politics.	1984-	Y

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Reference Web Sites

Industry Analysis: Size & Data Sources

Bureau of Labor Statistics | International Labour Organization
Census Economic Indicators | Global Economic Indicators
County Business Patterns - businesses by industry to Zip Code level | See also Statistical Agencies (International)

Economic Census 2002 | More Census data - industry sales, size, establishments
Federal Reserve of Boston - New England Indicators Database

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