National Newspapers
SRU faculty, staff, and students may create a free account to read The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. First-time users must register before they can access the content.
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Industry Reference Materials
North American Industry Classification System 2012 by Call Number: HF1042 .N678 2012ISBN: 9781598885491Publication Date: 2012-08-01Published every five years, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an indispensable volume of official industry codes used by businesses, libraries, and other establishments and individuals to complete tax returns, grant requests, and fill out other forms and to improve analyses and comparisons of different industries.
Encyclopedia of American Industries by Call Number: HC102 .E53 2011ISBN: 9781414486833Publication Date: 2011-06-16The Encyclopedia of American Industries provides detailed, comprehensive information on a wide range of industries in every realm of American business. Industries within are organized by SIC code.
Databases
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
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Provides a multidisciplinary coverage of scholarly information, including podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN, and videos from BBC Worldwide Learning. - Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
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Ideal for beginning your academic research or acquiring a general sense for a topic. - Business Insights: Global This link opens in a new windowProvides information about countries, company and industry profiles, SWOT reports, and financial data.
- Business OneFile This link opens in a new windowBusiness OneFile is a subsection of Gale's Academic OneFile and provides access to materials on business disciplines such as management, marketing, accounting, and more.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text articles of scholarly journals in all disciplines of business, and financial data, industry reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. - EconLit This link opens in a new windowEconLit is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature produced by the American Economic Association. All articles from all publications are indexed, including notes, communications, comments, replies, rejoinders, etc.
- globalEDGEglobalEDGE is a free resource maintained by the International Business Center at Michigan State University. It offers data on a slew of sources of interest to international entrepreneurs and students of international business, including country profiles, trade blocs, risk reports, and more.
- IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
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This online resource offers access to over 700 United States industries. Includes industry reports, industry profiles, economic and demographic information. - Key Business Ratios This link opens in a new windowOffers access to competitive benchmarking data compiled from public and private companies.
- Mergent First Research This link opens in a new windowOffers tools essential for call preparation, enhancing presentations, underwriting credit, and for quickly learning a company's key business issues.
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowProvides the company overviews, ratios, prospects, and more. This is an ideal resource for company or competitive research. (Note: This database is limited to 20 concurrent users.)
- Regional Business News This link opens in a new windowIs a collection of full-text newswires from all over the world with coverage from business, political, economic, and other international news events.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowWiley Online Library includes more than 1,400 journals with coverage from 1997-present. Access is provided for all Wiley Online Library journals; e-book access is not included.
- Westlaw This link opens in a new window
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Westlaw is a legal database that includes secondary and primary legal sources. It contains statutes, codes, and case law. Westlaw also includes the legal encyclopedias, journals, treatises, and law reviews, as well as public and private business information and coverage of news sources.
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