Step 3 - Current Developments - Company & Industry Research Tutorial

Step 3 - Current Industry Developments

Changes within the industries occur on a daily basis. Information concerning changes such as new companies in the industry, major gains or losses by a competitor, mergers & acquisitions, or industry forecasts is reported in magazines, trade journals, newspapers, newsletters and on the web.

The following resources are sources of current information for industries:

ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
Provides business information from scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Search the most important scholarly business journals. Tip: You can limit your search to a data range, as well as by publication type: newspapers, trade journals, and academic journals.
Regional business news This link opens in a new window
This database incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Wall Street Journal online
Full text access to the Wall Street Journal from 1986 - date. It also includes indexing to articles from 1889 to 1986 (Deep Back File), but the full text of most of those articles will not be available.

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Step 3 - Current Industry Developments

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