Company FAQ

News articles (magazines & newspapers)

* A Note about ProQuest:
On this page, there are asterisks before the names of four databases: they are all from the vendor ProQuest. Although the ProQuest search interface will be identical for them, their content is not. They each contain unique material.

computerb.gif (1522 bytes) Trade magazines:

Trade magazines are the Time and Newsweek for particular industries; that is, they report on current news, research and legislation of interest to the particular industry. They have industry relevant advertising and 'how to' articles. Usually, their titles alone will tell you precisely for which industry they are intended. For example, you can easily figure out who reads the magazines Candy Industy and Teacher! They are a great resource for news about companies.

Business & Company Resource Center : 1980's - present. ~2,500 journals, roughly half in full-text beginning mostly in the early 1990's. Also contains a directory database, and Investext, a database of financial analysts' reports.

Corporate ResourceNet: 1990's - present. ~3,000 journals, about two-thirds are full-text.

* ABI/Inform Trade & Industry: mostly 1990's - present. 700+ trade journals.

Local Business Magazines and Newspapers:

Local newspapers and magazines are often the only source of information about small, private, or subsidiary companies.

* Business Dateline: this database provides access to a unique and valuable resource: local business news. It also includes corporate press releases from PR Newswire and Business Wire.

* Wall Street Journal: The ultimate business newspaper in the US! Full-text from 1984 - present, indexing back to 1982.

SO02005A.gif (748 bytes) Scholarly journals:

Less likely to be helpful are scholarly journal articles. But if your company is either a big name, or in a newsworthy industry, they may be.

* ABI/Inform: ~1,700 journals; indexing back to 1971, with full-text for about two-thirds of the titles beginning mostly in 1992. The 'premier' scholarly business database.

Business SourceElite: ~2,400 journals, only ~1,000 full-text; coverage begins mostly in 1990. This is the only source for the full-text of the Harvard Business Review at present.