How to find Business Information
an online resource for JoMC 050
Electronic Information Sources








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The menu of business resources below is designed to help students quickly locate information on, from, and
about companies and their industries and market sectors. To go to these sources, follow the pathfinder or
simply click on the heading.

Business and Company Resource Center Via Gale
Pathfinder: http://eresources.lib.unc.edu>>e indexes and databases >> "B">>Business and Company Resource Center
Description: Database of company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, full-text articles, investment reports, industry overviews, and financial and trade association data. Features:
Company Profile - containing detailed contact and company information
News/Magazines - featuring relevant periodical articles
Histories - providing a detailed history and chronology of the company
Investment Reports - from Investext
Financials - providing in-depth detail on the company's financial standing
Rankings - showing various company rankings within their industry
Suits and Claims - featuring civil claims filed against the company in the area of human resources
Products - offering a complete listing of products and/or brands that a company owns or sells
Industry Overview - providing brief descriptive documents of the company's executive summary, market value, market volume, market sectors, competitive analysis
Associations - featuring contact information on relevant associations within the company's industry

 
 

Business and Industry (BusIndustry) Via OCLC FirstSearch
Pathfinder: http://eresources.lib.unc.edu>>e indexes and databases >> "B">> Business and Industry Via OCLC FirstSearch
Description: Database contains facts, figures and key events for international public and private companies, industries, products, and markets for manufacturing and service industries. It covers all the primary business information sources--from leading trade magazines, newsletters, and the general business press to international business dailies. Among the hundreds of business subjects you can search in the Business & Industry database are abstracts and the full-text versions of articles about: aerospace and defense, agriculture, automotive, beverages, building products, business services, chemicals, computers and software consumer products, electronics, energy, entertainment, financial services, food, food service, forest products, information, medical, metals, mining, packaging, pharmaceuticals, retailing, telecommunications, transportation.

Business Source Elite Via NCLive - EBSCOHost
Pathfinder: http://eresources.lib.unc.edu>>e indexes and databases >> "B">> Business Source Elite Via NCLive - EBSCOHost
Description: Access to abstracts and indexing for 1500 titles, including The Wall Street Journal, plus searchable full-text for over 770 business periodicals. Full text available.

Business Dateline (BusDateline) Via OCLC FirstSearch
Pathfinder: http://eresources.lib.unc.edu>>e indexes and databases >> "B">> Business Dateline Via OCLC FirstSearch
Description: Focuses on regional information vital to businesses. It provides online article text from more than 450 sources, including regional publications, Business Wire press releases, and major newspapers. Subjects include: agriculture, manufacturing, company profiles, marketing, corporate strategies, professional services, corporate planning, real estate, executive profiles, regional business environments, financial services, research and development, health care, retailing, high technology, service industries, human resources, transportation. Full text available.








Hoover's Company Capsules Via NCLive - EBSCOHost
Pathfinder: http://eresources.lib.unc.edu>>e indexes and databases >> "H">> Hoover's Via NCLive - EBSCOHost
Description: Provides basic information on more than 10,000 public and private companies. The data consists of addresses, phone and fax numbers, names of key officers, sales and employment figures and stock symbols.

Hoover's Company Profiles Via NCLive - EBSCOHost
Description: Provides in-depth profiles of 2,600 public and private companies in the US and around the world. Each profile provides summary of operations, history, list of officers, products, key competitors and up to ten years of summary financial data. The financial data includes sales, net income, earnings per share, stock price high and low, price/earnings, dividends per share, book value per share, debt ratio, and more. This database also includes Hoover's Company Capsules which provides basic information on more than 10,000 public and private companies.


Academic Universe
Pathfinder: http://eresources.lib.unc.edu>>e indexes and databases >> "A">> Academic Universe >> Business
Business articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, wires & transcripts. Contains full text.
Subsections include:
Company Financial Detailed financial data about companies
Compare Companies Find companies based on a variety of criteria
SEC Filings & Reports EDGAR filings, annual & quarterly reports & proxy statements
Industry & Market News from over 25 industries
Accounting Accounting journals & literature
Directories Trade show information


CEO Express
CEOExpress.com is counted among the most popular Web destinations for business users to access information, products and services. Inc. 500 CEOs named it one of the top 15 sites they go to for news and information. A tremendous resource, aggregating business-oriented sites and references onto one Web page.

UNC Libraries Reference Department >> Quick Reference - Business & Economics
(http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/quick/busecon.html)

From Davis Reference Department:
Corporate Affiliations OnDisc
Contains descriptive and financial data on approximately 16,000 major domestic and foreign corporations and their 140,000 subsidiaries, divisions and affiliates. Covers companies on the New York and American stock exchanges, companies with affiliates that are traded over-the-counter, and major private companies and their affiliates. Corresponds to the Directory of Corporate Affiliations, the International Directory of Corporate Affiliations, and the Directory of Leading Private Companies.
For additional assistance in this area, contact: Rita W. Moss, Business and Economics Librarian
moss@refstaff.lib.unc.edu

Digital Reference Center for E-commerce & E-business
This Web site was designed by Brian Carroll as a Digital Reference Collection in the area of e-commerce and e-business, with special emphases on legislative and governmental issues. Similar to CEOExpress.com, this aggregated content also includes reviews and descriptions for all of the sites included.

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This site was created for students of the UNC School of Journalism & Mass Communication's JOMC 050 Class. For more information, please contact: daikat@email.unc.edu.