Business Resources

1. Current news

• Factiva covers 8,000 leading business newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, and television and radio transcripts.
• LexisNexis Academic covers nearly 5,000 newspapers, television and radio news broadcasts, and wire services from around the world.
• Several New Jersey newspapers can be searched on America's Newspapers database.
• On the Web are hundreds of Business News Sources.

2. Environmental scanning

• Business Source Premier covers business and management topics including company histories, competitive intelligence, and product development. It contains citations, lengthy abstracts, and in most cases, the full-text of articles from 8,000 U.S. and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.
• The Business & Industry Database is an index to business trade periodicals which includes abstracts, extracts or full-text for all articles covered.
• Tablebase specializes exclusively in tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics, including: company and brand rankings, imports and exports, industry and product forecasts, and market shares.
• Browse the Conference Board Research Collection for full-text reports on management topics and strategic issues.

3. Industry analysis

• Start by considering the different Industry Classification Schemes currently in use.
• The MarketLine Business Information Centre includes over 2,500 original industry research reports.
• Business Insights provides more than 100 full-text strategic management and market analysis reports on selected industry sectors: Consumer Markets, Healthcare, Energy, Financial Services, and Technology.
• Refer to the Industry Research Guide for other print and online sources of information e.g. Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys (Dana Reference Desk) for detailed overviews.

4. Competitive landscape

• The D&B Million Dollar Database is a directory of over 1,500,000 U.S. companies. The database includes all companies with more than 100 employees or sales greater than $5 million.
• MarketLine Business Information Centre provides 10,000 company profiles and 500 company SWOT analyses.
• Mergent Online is a database of corporate information covering over 22,000 U.S. and foreign public companies.
• Consult the Company Research Guide for other print and online directories, as well as many Web resources e.g Hoover's Online for company profiles and links to SEC filings.

5. Related research guides

• Finance and Economics
• General Business
• Databases
• Electronic Commerce