Company & Industry Information

ABI/INFORM Collection includes important full‐text journals and titles from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, case studies, and market & industry reports.

The Business Searching Interface provides an alternative search tool for company and industry research derived from the Business Source Premier database. Included are Company Profiles, Country Reports, Industry Profiles, and Market Research Reports.

Business Source Premier provides full text for over 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. To find case studies, enter search terms (examples: "restaurant" or "advertising") in the usual boxes, then under "Document type," choose "Case Study."

CapitalIQ (formerly Standard & Poor's) NetAdvantage includes data and analysis of industries, companies, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, indexes, and current news. NetAdvantage contains the following S&P publications: Bond Guide, Mutual Fund Reports, Corporation Records, The Outlook, Dividend Record Register of Corporations, Earnings Guide, Stock Guide, Industry Surveys, and Stock Reports.

Contains disclosure documents with financial and other information filed by companies & investment funds as required by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Features a collection of worldwide business information that enables users to access private (via D&B®) and public U.S and international business data, key business ratios, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, industry profiles, and much more.

Enables users to find a company by company name, ticker symbol, Primary SIC, Primary NAICS, or MIC codes. Mergent Online also offers helpful Industry Analysis reports (Industry Analysis --> Search by Industry).

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy. The Department of Labor has a listing of SIC codes.