Once you have identified
companies and industries that are connected to your market through magazine articles, find out more about those companies and determine the
industry trends and climate by using these databases.
The Nokia Revolution by 
America's Corner Store: Walgreen's Prescription for Success by 
WetFeet Insider Guide to the Top 25 Consulting Firms
Starbucked : a double tall tale of caffeine, commerce, and culture by 
At the creation : myth, reality, and the origin of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle, 1901-1909 by 
Inside out : Microsoft--in our own words. by Below are books available either online or in the library on selected companies. Maybe your company is represented here, but if not, the library has many other books that profile companies.
Contains over 550,000 citations with abstracts to articles appearing in 1,000 international periodicals covering business and management as well as related functional areas including trends, corporate strategies and tactics, and competitive and product information.
Use these library databases first to get started on your company research.
This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database also includes Country Monitor, Industry Yearbook Reports, country reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Wall Street Words, and detailed company & industry profiles from Datamonitor. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Over 4400 company and Industry reports covering the U.S. and foreign countries.These reports provide a wealth of information, including a company overview, history, products & services analysis, SWOT analysis, current news, etc. These reports are available via EBSCO's Business Source Premier database.
The Ebsco eBook Collection offers a number of in-browser readable (or downloadable, via Adobe Digital Editions) ebooks with additional features such as a dictionary, index, and easy keyword searchability. Currently nearly 60,000 e-books are available covering most major subjects.
Full text of selected annual reports and 10Ks. 1986-present.
Access to information on more than 13 million United States companies, public and private. Records contain company name, address, city, state, ZIP code, phone number; number of employees; estimated sales volume; credit rating code; headquarters, subsidiary or branch; ticker symbol and stock exchange information; line of business description with SIC codes; year first appeared in the database; contact name; names, titles, and gender of corporate officers. Also provides SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) code and NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) code, size (sales or employees), type of company, and key contact. (aka Reference USA)
Contains over 550,000 citations with abstracts to articles appearing in 1,000 international periodicals covering business and management as well as related functional areas including trends, corporate strategies and tactics, and competitive and product information.
To understand the big picture, learn about the environment in which companies operate.
(To view data: click on "Table of Contents" and browse that way). Presents statistics on numerous NAICS classifications in the manufacturing, wholesaling and retail industries. Covers input-output data by industrial sector as well as classifications of leading public and private corporations in each industry.