Le Moyne College

Companies & Industries

 

 

Business 603 Research Guide

 

My recommendation

 

Business and Company Resource Center with Investext Plus   [GaleGroup]
- includes General Business File ASAP
- 1980- present, updated monthly
- covering over 2000 journals with 1300 full journals and newsletters

 Mergent Online: Moody's Investors Services 
- includes corporate financial information

  • Company Data Direct/U.S. -- An Internet-accessible subscription service covering 10,000+ public companies and their SEC (EDGAR®) filings.
  • FIS Equity and Corporate Bond Portraits -- Feature a complete analysis of the firm’s financial health, in-depth industry analysis and text commentary to provide perspective on the firm both in absolute terms, as well as relative to industry peers.
  • Company Data Direct/International -- More companies from more countries than any other international database, with global searching across databases

Net Advantage   [Standard and Poor's]
- find company and industry reports
- critical business and financial data including information on companies, revenues, executives, industries, stocks and bonds, mutual funds, earnings, dividends, strategic investment and business advice

 

Databases

 

Business & Industry [OCLC FirstSearch]

1994- present, updated daily
- Contains facts, figures and key events for international public and private companies, industries, products, and markets for manufacturing and services
- contains over 1 million records from 1200+ periodicals

Business Dateline [OCLC FirstSearch]

- 1985- present, updated weekly
- regional information vital to businesses as well as major stories on local firms, their products and executives
- citations to 450+ sources, including regional publications, Business Wire press releases, and major newspapers

Business Insights
- International Market Analysis
- market analysis reports across eight markets; eCommerce, Technology, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Healthcare, Consumer Goods, Energy and Human Resources

 Business Source Elite  [EBSCOhost] 
- often extends back to 1980 with many full-text titles back to 1990
- scholarly business, management and economics journals
- full text for 1,111 business publications

Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities
- publication guidelines and contact information for journals
- provide professors, graduate students, and researchers with the information they need to publish their manuscripts

eMarketer
-Market research and trend analysis on Internet, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies.  -A comprehensive database of e-business and online marketing statistics.

General BusinessFile ASAP (INFOTRAC)  [GaleGroup] 
- 1980- present, updated monthly
- more than 850 business, management, and trade journals, and includes business-related articles from over 3,000 other publications
- Full text is included for articles in more than 400 sources

GPO Access (US Government Documents) [OCLC FirstSearch]
- 1976- present, updated monthly
- 450,000 records for documents printed by the U.S. government
- Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by executive departments

Le Moyne College Management Division Working Papers
- a series of working papers by the faculty of the Management Division

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe

Lexis Nexis Statistical ( Power Tables Research Edition) 
- full text statistics

MarketLine Business Information Centre 
- international reports on companies and industries

  • Industry profiles offering standardized market data (including size & segmentation) and competitive analysis
  • Company profiles for 50,000 public and private companies giving detailed insight into how companies are organized and function
  • Country profiles presenting easy-to-digest summaries and standardized data

Regional Business News  [EBSCOhost]
- full text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world
- covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events

STAT-USA 
- U.S. government economics and trade statistics
- various financial and economic data from throughout the federal government and other related entities
- daily trade leads from the Trade Opportunities Program (TOPS), as well as the Department of Agriculture

Tablebase  [GaleGroup]
- full text business statistics
- tabular information of a strategic nature
- information such as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics

USA.gov 
- a finding aid to government web resources and online publications

Value Line Online Investment Survey
- full text investment reports
- - Investment information in full text reports
- over 250 data fields, over 90 industries, international vs non-international

Updated 9/27/09 by Cathy Scott

 

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