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
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
Thomson One Banker Analytics	Find global company financial information provided from Thomson, I/B/E/S, Disclosure, Worldscope, includes current/historical SEC filings, spreadsheet-ready financials, and more. This resource must be viewed using Internet Explorer. Search Tips \| Manual	Current	Y
Wall Street Journal - ProQuest	Full text of newspaper of offering coverage of global business, financial, and industry news and politics.	1984-	Y

Database Title

In Quick Find

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-

Business and Industry

Indexes business information sources: trade magazines, newsletters, general business press, and international business dailies. Titles Included | Search Tips

1994-

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-

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-

Emerald

Contains over 25,000 management articles as well as a range of engineering, applied science and technology journals.

Titles Included | Search Tips

Varies

Encyclopedia of American Industries

Searchable through the Gale Virtual Reference Library, this electronic book provides industry snapshots.

Current

Gartner IntraWeb

Full text research and analysis reports on computer hardware, software and related information technology industries.

Current

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-

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

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

Hoovers

Company and industry overviews, profiles, competitors, and IPO Central. Help Center

Current

JSTOR

Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included | Search Tips

1800s-

LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic

Full text news, legal, business, and biographical information. Titles Included | Search Tips

Varies

Regional Business News

Search regional business news. Titles Included

Varies

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

Thomson One Banker Analytics

Find global company financial information provided from Thomson, I/B/E/S, Disclosure, Worldscope, includes current/historical SEC filings, spreadsheet-ready financials, and more. This resource must be viewed using Internet Explorer. Search Tips | Manual

Current

Wall Street Journal - ProQuest

Full text of newspaper of offering coverage of global business, financial, and industry news and politics.

1984-

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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
Export.gov Market Research
Industry Information Resources
Industry Trade Data and Analysis, Office of Trade and Industry
Yahoo! Industry Center
CorporateInformation: Research Links by Country & Industry

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