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News articles (magazines & newspapers)

* A Note about ProQuest:
On this page, there are asterisks before the names of three 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.

Trade magazines:

Trade magazines are the Time and Newsweek for particular industries; that is, they report on current news, best practices, 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 industries.

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

Local Business Magazines and Newspapers: 

Local newspapers and magazines are often the only source of information about small, private, or subsidiary companies. Only rarely will they also have articles useful in industry research.
The Wall Street Journal, however, is the premier business newspaper in the US--it does have very current and useful articles on industries.

• * Wall Street Journal:  The ultimate business newspaper in the US!  Full-text from 1984 - present, indexing back to 1982.
  Search Tip: Use the "Advanced Search" tab. Remember to use the thesaurus to find the 'official' heading to describe your industry. Then, most important, use the subject heading 'industry profiles' to specify that you want articles about the entire industry, not just one company!