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Researching Business Information

Tutorials and links for researching company information and corporate governance issues.

Other Research Resources

You can use the resources on this page to find more information.

Not seeing what you're looking for? You can contact the Business Librarian, or visit our Business Resources research guide:

Industry Analysis & Market Research Resources

ABI/INFORM

Business Source Premier

To find industry profiles:

  1. On the Advanced Search screen, enter search terms related to the industry you want to research. (Example: hotels or hospitality)
  2. Using the Publication Type filter, and select Industry Profile.
  3. Select Search.

Example:

Business source premier advanced search screen with a box around the words hotels or hospitality entered in the top box with a 1 and a box with a 2 around Filters

Business source premier advanced search screen with the Publication Type Filter selected and a box with a number 3 around Industry Profile

To search by NAICS code:

Advanced search screen for business source premier with 316992 in the search box and the selected filter, NAICS Code or Description - IC

Gale Business: Insights

S&P Global NetAdvantage

You can find the latest Industry reports in the IndustrySurveys section of S&P Global NetAdvantage:

NetAdvantage database with IndustrySurveys selected from top-level navigation and Select a GICS Industry box highlighted

 

 

Sports Market Analytics

Finding Books and eBooks

Need Help Finding a Book?

You can use Lavery Library's Big Red Box and Worldcat to find books on your topic. Want help? Contact the librarians via our Research Help services, or  reach out to the business librarian.

Find Books & eBooks in Lavery Library's Collection

  • Print books: You can browse the Library's book collection at Lavery Library or search using the Library homepage's Big Red Box.
  • eBooks: The Library has an extensive collection of ebooks in addition to our print collection.

lavery library big red box search box from library homepage

Find eBooks Using the Big Red Box

  1. Go to Lavery Library's home page.
  2. Enter your search terms in the Big Red Box.
  3. A results page will load. Use the Tweak My Results filters: under Resource Type you can select eBooks and eBook Chapters.

Books Beyond Lavery Library's Collection

To search beyond Lavery's Collection, you can use WorldCat, a book database that searches for books across many libraries.

You can access WorldCat from the Library's homepage, or use the link below.

Example Search in WorldCat

This is an example of a search in WorldCat for diversity OR race AND management coaching. 

You can select the title for any book to see if Lavery Library has it in our collections. If we don't you can use the "Request Item" option to make an interlibrary loan request. 

worldcat search results with the search terms diversity OR race AND management coaching circled, and the titles of two books in the search results circled

Need Help?

Need help? Please contact the Business Librarian, or use some of Lavery Library's other Research Help services.