These resources will help you find business-related periodical and newspaper articles. The indexes are primarily archival in nature, meant for researching a given time period. Some of the databases, however, are updated on a daily basis and can be used for current awareness by providing this week's, or even today's, business news. For additional current awareness sources try the internet resources page for business-related newswire and headline services.
Articles from newspapers, business magazines, trade journals, and business research journals can provide extensive information on companies, such as company histories, advertising techniques, new ventures, marketing programs, and biographical profiles of key executives, to list just a few possibilities. Articles may also be the best, or only, way to locate information on small, private companies, or on subsidiaries of publicly held companies.
Articles can also provide industry overviews. In addition, news articles related to an industry can supplement the overviews or data found in general industry resources. If general industry information was not found, news articles can collectively provide an overview of the industry.
These same resources can be used to find news and research articles on virtually any topic in business or management.
ABI/INFORM
Complete: ABI/INFORM is the premiere database for academic
research of articles on business and management topics. It provides in-depth
coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics,
management techniques, competitive and product information, and a wide variety
of other topics. It gives you informative indexing and substantive abstracts
to articles from more than 1,000 leading business and management publications,
including over 350 English-language titles from outside the U.S. Full text
is available for more than 600 of the most popular and important sources.
AVAILABILITY:
NETWORKED DATABASE:
Business & Company Resource Center: Use this
database to find articles (some available with full text online) on a wide
variety of business and management topics such as: finance, mergers and
acquisitions, accounting, international trade, money management, company
histories, and new technologies. Includes investment analysts' reports on
major companies and industries.
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Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Business News: Use
this database to find business and finance news sources and selected business
and finance stories from major newspapers. Also provides a variety of industry
and trade sources on over fifty industries and selected stories from major
US and international newspapers, business journals and business wires on
corporate mergers and acquisitions, including news on the buyers and sellers,
friendly acquisitions and hostile takeovers, proxy fights, leveraged transactions,
and the details of individual acquisition agreements.
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F & S Index: This index is a major component
of the Predicasts PROMT database. It indexes nearly 1,000 business and trade
journals.
AVAILABILITY: Reference. (HF5001 .P74)
Wall
Street Journal: Is widely acclaimed as the official
chronicle of American Business activity. .
AVAILABILITY: Reference. (HG1 .W258)
Also Online.
Business Periodicals Index: Covers nearly 350
journals in business and economics. Types of journals include general business
magazines, financial publications, practitioner journals for accounting
and personnel management, and a selection of trade journals.
AVAILABILITY: Reference. (HF5001 .B7)
Compendex:
Covers engineering related industries and industrial engineering
in general.
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Medline:
This database covers the field of medicine. It includes articles
on the health care and pharmaceutical industries as well as on the topics
of health care and hospital administration.
AVAILABILITY NETWORKED DATABASE: (Freely
Available)
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