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This is a guide to finding selected Business resources. For in-depth assistance, please contact the subject specialist, or Ask a Librarian. Business 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.

IIT Access Only = Restricted to IIT students, faculty, and staff.
Highly recommended = Highly recommended

Business Insights IIT Access Only
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.

Highly recommended Business Source Premier IIT Access Only
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.

Highly recommended LexisNexis Academic Universe IIT Access Only
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.

Highly recommended MarketResearch.com Academic IIT Access Only
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 IIT Access Only
"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 IIT Access Only
"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 IIT Access Only
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 IIT Access Only
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.

Highly recommended SAGE eReference for Business & Management IIT Access Only
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 IIT Access Only
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 IIT Access Only
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 IIT Access Only
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 IIT Access Only
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.

Highly recommended Wall Street Journal IIT Access Only
Online coverage of the popular business newspaper, from 1984-present.