Industries
- BizMinerOffers industry financial analysis benchmarks for business and industry market trends.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text business journals and scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.
- IBISWorldIBISWorld provides access to industry research reports, international industry reports, Industry reports for China and business environment reports. Specialized U.S. industry reports provide insight into areas of technology, life sciences, industrial machinery and online retail.
- SMA : sports market analytics This link opens in a new window
Provides searchable news and market research from the National Sporting Goods Association and other industry sources.
- Standard & Poor's netadvantage This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to major publications and company information from Standard and Poor's.
Databases for special topic areas
- ACM digital library This link opens in a new window
Contains full text of all articles from 1947 to date published in Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) journals and transactions, as well as tables of contents of conference proceedings.
- Education research complete This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic information for articles and books for topics on all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and all educational specialties.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Contains abstracts, articles, and full text of journals and books published by Elsevier in physical science and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social science and humanities
Subject areas include (chemical engineering, chemistry, computer science, earth and planetary sciences, energy, engineering, materials science, mathematics, physics and astronomy), (agricultural and biological sciences, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, environmental science, immunology and microbiology, and neuroscience), (medicine and dentistry, nursing and health professions, pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutical science, veterinary science and veterinary medicine), and (arts and humanities, business, management and accounting, decision sciences, economics, econometrics and finance, psychology, social sciences).
- WGSN This link opens in a new windowProvides trend analysis and research about all areas of the apparel, style, design, and retail industries, benefiting all business functions, including design, production, manufacturing, purchasing, merchandising, marketing, product development, and general management. Includes daily international fashion news, technical and licensing news, trade show calendars and reports, shop window photos, apparel and textile trends, market intelligence, graphics, and more.
Industry codes
- Census homepageOn the Census homepage, go to "Business & Industry". Click on the "NAICS" link. Here you can use the Census' search tool to locate the NAICS code for industries.
- Logistics WorldLook at the top of the page for the "Tools" link. This will take users to the Reference Library page. Once on this page, select NAICS and SIC codes. Here you can browse by category, search by code or keyword or use the conversion tool to move between NAICS and SIC codes.
Customer Information
- Sage Data This link opens in a new window
Provides statistical data from U.S. government publications, state and private sources, and international organizations.
- Mintel reports This link opens in a new window
Offers market research reports covering US consumer markets.
- Passport GMID This link opens in a new window
Containing millions of demographic, economic, and marketing statistics for countries worldwide.
- PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
Provides demographic, education, health, geographic data and more. Offers the user the capability of presenting the data visually through maps, tables, and reports.
Reports and Information
- The Robot ReportThe Robot Report gathers and reports industry news and tracks the business of robotics. The Robot Report features general robotics, industrial robots, robot events, FIRST, RoboCup, VEX, artificial intelligence for robots, robot software, robot hacks, robot reviews, LEGO Mindstorms NXT, and mobile robots of all types. The Robot Report also reports on space, military, industrial, commercial and medical robot news.
- Robotics Industry AssociationRIA provides information to help engineers, managers and executives apply and justify robotics and flexible automation
- 3D Body ScannerArticle from Forbes on Bodymetrics and 3D scannning.
- 3D Body Scanner: Ready-to-wearFrom Cornell University
- General Mills - Global Responsibility ReportReport on company corporate citizenship. End of report has section for Boxtops for Education.
