Business
| This is a guide to finding selected Business resources. For in-depth assistance, please contact the subject specialist, or Ask a Librarian. | ![]() | Subject Specialist: Christine McClure email: cmcclur1@iit.edu phone: 312.567.3374 |
Use these resources to find journal articles, e-books, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.
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Business Insights 
Business Insights works in association with leading industry experts, to produce a range of market reports across a wide range of industry sectors. Some of the companies associated with Business Insights include: Reuters Health, IMS Healthcare, TNS, ComputerWire IT Industry intelligence.
Business Source Premier 
Business Source Premier, is the industry's most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals. The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
LexisNexis Academic Universe 
LexisNexis provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications including national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news. Price information on chemicals and other materials can be found in the "Industry and Market News" section.
MarketResearch.com Academic 
Provides market intelligence on consumer demographics, market size and growth trends, industry forces and structure, product trends, competitive environment analysis, and company profiles.
NewsBank - America's Newspapers 
"Electronic editions of over 700 valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers and magazines. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded."
Newspaper Source 
"Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selective full text for more than 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc."
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 
British Economist R. H. Inglis Palgrave was the original author of this dictionary, as well as an early editor of The Economist. This updated version of his dictionary remains true to the original: using articles written by noted economists from different schools methodologies to discuss classic and evolving economic theories.
Regional Business News 
Regional Business News covers 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Full-text is available for many publications.
SAGE eReference for Business & Management 
A collection of specialized encyclopedias on business topics such as ethics, leadership and organizational studies. The business topics covered include:
- Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
- Encyclopedia of Career Development
- Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Encyclopedia of Leadership
- 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook
- International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies
SAGE Journals Online 
A collection of over 450 online, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content in many disciplines including Management & Organization Studies, Communication Studies, Psychology and Sociology. Full-text available from 1999-present.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage 
NetAdvantage features comprehensive company information including industry surveys, company stock and financial reports, company descriptions, private company information, security dealers directories, investment news, and resources for mutual fund research. Includes data for domestic and international companies. Download and analyze company financial data with Compustat Excel Analytics.
Stat-USA 
Access federal business, trade and economic information made available through the U.S. Department of Commerce. One of several features includes access to a repository of economic indicators on topics such as employment, wholesale and retail prices, monetary and housing trends, gross domestic product, etc.
USA Trade Online 
The Foreign Trade Division of the U.S. Census Bureau and STAT-USA compile accurate and timely U.S. Merchandise Trade data, providing export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities worldwide.
Note: Available only at the Galvin Library. Please see a librarian at the Reference Desk for username and password.
Wall Street Journal 
Online coverage of the popular business newspaper, from 1984-present.

