Guides: Companies & Industries Research Guide: Articles

The Business Press

Articles appearing in magazines and newspapers are frequently the most timely sources of information on a company or industry. Corporate press releases, market research summaries and government statistics all tend to be reported as news.

Business Source Complete
Comprehensive coverage of journals and trade publications in all business-related disciplines. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, company profiles, SWOT analyses, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, and Harvard Faculty Seminar Videos.
Dates Covered: 1886-present.
ABI/Inform Collection
Includes ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. This database covers business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information.
Dates Covered: 1971-present
Nexis Uni
Not a suggested starting point for your research; consider ABI or Business Source instead if you're interested in searching a wide array of business-related publications. LexisNexis' strength is its newspaper and broadcast transcripts coverage.
EconLit
Indexes journals, books, book reviews and dissertations in economics; with abstracts.
Dates Covered: 1886-present.
JSTOR
The full text of more than 70 scholarly journals in business, finance and economics; search by keyword or browse by date. Typically there is a 2-5 year gap in coverage, so do not use for current events.
Access World News
Contains local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources including newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, newswires, and news videos.
Extent: Multidisciplinary

Target Market Research
Short, 3 minute long video outlining a search strategy for finding target market content in the business press.

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