Research by Subject: Business
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Business Source Premier (Original Interface) 
Business topics: management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc. SWOT analysis on selected companies.
Note: Also available via Special Business Interface
ABI/INFORM databases
Search all three ABI/Inform databases together here, or choose one at a time below.
ABI/INFORM global
International business, finance, economics: journals, company profiles, Wall Street Journal. 1971-current.
ABI/INFORM dateline
Business, Economics: local and regional business publications. 1985-current.
Business and company resource center 
Detailed company and industry information, histories, investment reports; 1980-current.
General OneFile
Current journal and news information in humanities, education, business, science, art, politics, economics, social sciences, law, health care, computers, technology and environmental issues. Formerly InfoTrac OneFile.
Note: Formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile
LexisNexis Academic
Full-text access to continuously updated news, law, and business information. Highlights: News: news wires, transcripts, regional, national/international news, & Gallup Polls; Legal: law review articles, case law, and federal/state codes; Business: company profiles, country profiles, and SEC filings; People: directories from the entertainment industry, elected officials, executives, politicians, and obituaries.
ABI/INFORM trade & industry
Business, economics: trade and industry periodicals and newsletters. 1971-current.
ScienceDirect
Full-text scientific, technological, medical journals; subjects covered include biology, biochemistry, business management and accounting, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, environmental science, mathematics, medicine, neuroscience, nursing, physics, psychology, education, and communication. Includes access to selected full-text reference books. Indexing/Abstracts to additional titles.
Business and company ASAP
Business and management information: journals, newspapers, directories, newswire releases.
Google Scholar 
Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. Supports cited reference searching. Includes recent or unpublished work that hasn't been indexed in other databases.
JSTOR
Complete backfiles of core scholarly journals, searchable by journal (1 or more), keywords, author, title etc. Files do not include the latest 3-5 years.
PsycINFO
Bibliographic citations in psychology for journal articles, books, and book chapters. 1872-present.
Readers' guide retrospective
Database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The complete database covers the years 1890 through 1982. Use to research contemporary writings on general news areas as current events, business, fashion, politics, crafts, education, history, sports, food, science, and theater reviews.
Sociology: a Sage Full-Text Collection
Sociology journals from Sage Publishing covering Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Labor Studies.
New York Times
Full-text of NYT from 1998 - present.
Note: For archives (1851-2001), see ProQuest historical newspapers: New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
Full-text of WSJ from 1984-present.
Note: For archives (1889-1987), see ProQuest historical newspapers: Wall Street Journal
ProQuest historical newspapers: Wall Street Journal 
Complete archive covering 1889-1987, fully searchable cover to cover; full text and full image, including advertising.
InfoTrac custom newspapers
Full-text of English language newspapers from the United States and the world.
NewsBank infoweb
Full-text of local/regional news: Buffalo News, Ithaca Journal (1999-), Journal-News (Westchester County, NY), New York Post, Post-Standard (Syracuse), Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton), Star-Gazette(Elmira).
ProQuest historical newspapers: New York Times
Complete archive covering 1851-2004, fully searchable cover to cover; full text and full image, including advertising.
ProQuest newspapers
32 newspapers; incl. the former Newspaper Abstracts Complete.
Note: Scroll down to select the newspaper/s you wish to search.
National Association for Business Economics-Links
This set of links is a guide to useful and interesting information in the field of business economics. Includes micro & macro data, international links, Finance news, Federal Reserve, economic blogs and more.
Yahoo Finance
Find busness news, market news, indices, information on companies and industries including stock price, charts, etc.
Business Journalism.org : tutorials 
Combination of web & audio files provides a primer to a variety of topics such as how to cover: the Business of Health Care, Private Companies, the Business of Sports, S.E.C. filings, Financial Statements, use & interpretation of numbers and the Economy, etc.
Yahoo Industry Center
Links to a wide variety of news, information sources and statistics updated daily.
CorpWatch.org
CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism. We work to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization a diverse movement for human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice.
Bloomberg
Get news, stocks quotes, etc.
CSRwire.com
The leading source of corporate responsibility and sustainability, press releases, reports and news.
Trendwatching.com
TRENDWATCHING.COM and its 3,000+ trendspotters scan the US, Canada, European Union, Japan, South Korea, India, South Africa, Australia, Brazil and 50 other nations & regions for hot, emerging consumer trends and related new business ideas.
D&B million dollar directory : America's leading public & private companies
Call Number: REF HG 4057 .A35
Gives basic information such as name, address, contact info., CEO/President and S.I.C. code on both public and private companies in the U.S.
Encyclopedia of Small Business.
Articles on financing, financial planning, business plan creation, market analysis, sales strategy, tax planning, and human resource issues.
Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce
Covers website development, financing, and advertising. Includes profiles of the top e-commerce companies, biographies of e-commerce innovators, and coverage of events and legislation related to e-commerce.
NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System)
Uses a 6 digit numbering system to classify industries that either make a product or offer a service (such as banks)in North America. You can search the database by code or by text describing the industry. These codes can be used to generate a list of companies in an industry and to compare them using other directories found both print or online.
SIC (Standard Industrial Classification)
Search by keyword or 2,3 or 4 digit number to get a description of an industy and the code assigned to it. These codes allow one to find similar companies in an industry (either service or manufacturing) and to compare them.
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Executive department rules codified from the Federal Register.
Europa : European Union On-Line
Gateway to European Union. It provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration. Go to the Documents tab to connect to EUR-LEX (E.U. Law), the Bulletin of the E.U., and other agency materials.
Federal Register via GPO Access
Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. 1994-present
freepatentsonline
The database contains all patents published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) since number 4,000,000. New patents are published by the USPTO every Tuesday, and are automatically added to the database. Images may be viewed from the patent text pages in either the AlternaTIFF or PDF formats. Covers 1976 (December 28) to the present.
Thomas - Legislative Information
Database of United States legislative information including: bills, resolutions, the Congressional Record, treaties, Committee Reports, Public Laws, Roll Call Votes, etc.
Business Plans Handbook
Call Number: Ref. HD62.7 .B865
Sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail, and service industries. Volumes 1-4 in reference collection. Volumes 5-10 available online.
Business Plans Handbook - vol. 10
Sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail, and service industries.
Business Plans Handbook - vol. 5
Sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail, and service industries.
Business Plans Handbook - vol. 6
Sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail, and service industries.
Business Plans Handbook - vol. 7
Sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail, and service industries.
Business Plans Handbook - vol. 8
Sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail, and service industries.
Business Plans Handbook - vol. 9
Sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail, and service industries.
Business Journalism.org : tutorials
Combination of web & audio files provides a primer to a variety of topics such as how to cover: the Business of Health Care, Private Companies, the Business of Sports, S.E.C. filings, Financial Statements, use & interpretation of numbers and the Economy, etc.
Business Plan Database (SBA)
Sample business plans for a variety of business types. Developed by the Small Business Administration.
Codes of Professional Responsibility: Ethical Standards in Business, Health, and Law
Call Number: REF BJ1725 .C57 1999
Compiles the codes of ethics published by major professional organizations.
Ad*Access
From Duke University Library's J.W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History, this database contains 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. & Canadian newspapers and magazines from 1911-1955. Main subject areas include: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II. Ads can be searched or browsed.
IthacaNet
Community networking in Central New York
Economic Data - FREDŽ II-Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Federal Reserve Economic data. A database of over 3000 U.S. economic time series. With FREDŽ II you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series.
EdgarScan
EdgarScan is an interface to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC EDGAR) Filings. EdgarScan pulls filings from the Edgar Database ly to find key financial tables and normalize financials to a common format that is comparable across companies
International Financial Statistics (IMF)
Statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. Contains time series data from 1948. From the International Monetary Fund.
SEC EDGAR database
Official SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) documents such as Form 10-K, 10-Q, Proxy statements, registration statements, and merger and acquisition documents.
Value line investment survey
Information and advice on stocks, industries, the stock market and the economy. Online: current quarter only; Print: Last 3 years in Reference Stacks.
Call Number: REF HG4501 .V26
Information and advice on stocks, industries, the stock market and the economy. Online: current quarter only; Print: Last 3 years in Reference Stacks.
SEC Info
Securities Information from the SEC EDGAR database. Search by Name, Industry, Business, SIC Code, Area Code,Topic, CIK, Accession Number, File Number, Date, ZIP. You may have to join but membership is free.
Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Department of Labor
Detailed releases of a wide variety of economic statistics including:
Consumer Price Index (CPI), productivity, consumer spending, wages and earnings, employment/unemployement, inflation among others.
County Business Patterns
An annual series from the Census Bureau that provides subnational economic data by industry. Data is useful for analyzing market potential, measuring the effectiveness of sales and advertising programs, setting sales quotas, and developing budgets.
Polling the Nations
A compilation of public opinion surveys, containing the full text of questions and responses from 14,000 surveys from 1986 to the present in the United States and more than 80 other countries. Each record includes the polling organization responsible for the poll, the sample size and the date the poll was released.
Note: Limited to 4 simultaneous users only
PollingReport.com
Provides summary-level highlights from recent national polls, and includes some historical comparative data (1985- present). Primary subjects include politics and policy, business/economics, and the American scene.
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