Research Guides: MKTG 470 Course Guide: Find Articles/Databases

Articles on a Topic, Company, Industry Etc.

Take a look at the Creating Search Statements tab if you want some hints about creating a good search query. To find articles in a journal, magazine, newspaper or trade publication on a specific topic, company, industry etc use the following databases:

ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window A comprehensive business database with over 3,200 journals covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. It consists of: ABI Global, ABI Archive, ABI Images, ABI Trade and Industry, Dateline, Business Dissertations, Hoovers, Oxford Research, Wall Street Journal, SnapShots North American, and EIU. Coverage: 1971 to date.
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Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window Contains coverage for more than 2,300 journals covering a wide range of business topics. In addition, the databases includes access to company profiles, country reports, industry reports, market research reports and SWOT analyses.
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Databases for Company Information

Mergent Online This link opens in a new window Summary company records and EDGAR files for over 11,000 U.S. public corporations and 17,000 non-US public companies.
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Value Line Investment Survey Online This link opens in a new window Information and advice on approximately 1700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy. Provides year-ahead to three- to five-year probable relative price performance, projections of key financial measures, and commentary on current operations and future prospects. Last 5 years worth of stock information. Allows 3 simultaneous users.
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Databases for Industry Information

Fitch Connect This link opens in a new window Covers up to 175 markets worldwide. It provides daily alerts and news stories, country risk ratings, economic analyses and forecasts. It also contains market research and forecast reports covering about 14 industries in 55 countries and a database of thousands of multinational companies.
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IBISWorld This link opens in a new window Limited to 30 downloads per session.  Covers about 680 U.S. industries written at the 5-digit level of NAICS. Each report contains key statistics, market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, performance and outlook. These reports are written by industry specialists. Each report is updated every 4 months.
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MarketResearch.com This link opens in a new window Full-text service of market research reports on many topics. Includes more than 40,000 market intelligence publications from 350 publishers worldwide.
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RMA eStatement Studies This link opens in a new window RMA Estatement Studies is the online version of RMA Annual Statement Studies. It combines Financial Ratio Benchmarks and Industry Default Probabilities and Cash Flow Measures.
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Value Line Investment Survey Online This link opens in a new window Information and advice on approximately 1700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy. Provides year-ahead to three- to five-year probable relative price performance, projections of key financial measures, and commentary on current operations and future prospects. Last 5 years worth of stock information. Allows 3 simultaneous users.
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Getting the Full Text of an Article

Looking for Full-Text?

This tab below appears in almost all of the Library's research databases like ABI Inform and Business Source Premier. Look for it in the databases you search and click on it to see if the full text of the article is available in another Library database.

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