Electronic
Resources for Business Students
From the LSU Libraries Business Subject
Guide page, http://www.lib.lsu.edu/bus/index.htm
Select the
following databases:
Business
Searching Interface: This interface is a more
powerful, more specific search engine for using the EBSCO Business Source
Complete database. Business Source Complete provides full text from
11,200 sources, including more than 1,100 scholarly business journals, and
offers information in virtually every area of business.
Use the Business
Searching Interface sidebar to search:
· Datamonitor: (Select “Company
profiles.”) Datamonitor's
Company Profiles provide insight into how the world's major companies are
organized and function. Each profile provides:
Key facts, Company overview, Business description, Company history, Executive
listings,
Product listings, Locations
·
SWOT Analysis: Company overviews-Strengths,
Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
·
Industry
profiles
·
Market Research
Reports
Factiva: Factiva is a joint
venture between Dow Jones and Reuters - two of the world's leading business and
news providers. Factiva.com combines nearly 9,000 sources to give access to
premium content from 118 countries, in 22 languages. Users have access to a
wide range of information from newspapers, newswires, industry publications,
websites, company reports, and over 3,200 journals and magazines, including
U.S., International, and Online versions of the Wall Street Journal. Please see my instructions
for accessing and searching Factiva
IBISWorld: Industry
Market Research Reports “contain key statistics and easy to digest analysis”.
Each report, of 25-30 pages in length, is updated regularly, ensuring that they
reflect the current state of an industry.”
LexisNexis
Academic – Business: This
section provides a range of sources for business information, including business
and financial news,
Demographic
and statistical
resources are also available through LexisNexis in the American Marketplace and Statistical Universe databases,
respectively. The Statistical Universe is a gateway to many government
demographic databases, including the American Factfinder,an U.S.
Census database searchable by state, zip code, town, or parish/county. Detailed
population characteristics are available.
Additional government resources include Consumer Expenditure Survey, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, which has information
on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their
expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers)
characteristics; FedStats, which “provides access to the full range of official statistical information
produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which
Federal agency produces which particular statistic”; and HUD's State of
the Cities Data system, which provides a variety of information related
to housing in specific cities. (This link takes you to
Mergent Online:
Please visit my business resources
blog for additional information and for library news and updates.
I will be available for library instruction in the 1302 Patrick
Taylor lab on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday afternoons by appointment, and in
Middleton Library at other times.
This page created and
maintained by Jo Ann J. Henson, Business Reference Librarian, LSU
Libraries