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
Designed to help business researchers balance theoretical and practical learning and acquire the research skills that will make them successful in their courses and careers, ProQuest One Business is a complete business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. This resource combines multiple business information databases which are within the ProQuest ABI/Inform Collection such as Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection, Asian & European Business Collection, Entrepreneurship Database, and J.P. Morgan Research. Replaces ABI/INFORM..
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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