Research Guides: Business: Articles & Databases

Journal Indexes & Databases

ABI/INFORM Collection
While ABI/Inform is primarily an index to over 1500 scholarly business journals and trade publications, it's also another good source for industry and company profiles, along with market research reports.
1. Data & Reports, click on this at the top of the screen.
2. Industry Reports, uncheck all of the check boxes but this one on the next screen.
3. Enter an industry into the search box and click Search.
Business Source Complete
Over 3,000 industry profiles are available. They are 25-30 pages long and contain an overview of the industry, its value, the kinds of products it produces, lists of the major players in the industry and their shares of the market and also a forecast for the industry.
Also available: SWOT Analyses, Market Research, Company Profiles and Country Reports.
1. Search for: industry profile and industry name
2. Source Types: Select the Industry Profile limiter on the left side of the screen.
3. Country: Add to the search if reports are needed for a particular country.
Google Scholar
If you excel at identifying scholarly content without the convenient search limiters that are built into the databases above, Google Scholar will prove helpful. Link is proxy-enabled to allow access to articles in the library collection from off campus.
FAQ: Google Scholar Errors.

If your professor has asked you to find a specific article there are two good paths listed below:

Use the Find Articles search box that's directly below to search for the title of the article.

If that does not work look at the second box below:
Journals A-Z: Search for the title of the journal (not the article title) in the library's Journals A-Z list.

Journals A-Z List
Search for a particular journal, magazine or newspaper title in our A-Z list.