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Business & Company Resource Center

The Business & Company Resource Center is a comprehensive research tool that focuses on up-to-date topical business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies. It includes reference materials such as encyclopedias, directories, and marketing sources as well as articles from industry specific trade journals.

Industries

Advertising, marketing and public relations, Aerospace, Agriculture, Architecture and design, Arts and entertainment, Automobile, Banking,finance and accounting, Biotechnology, Business (general, international, regional), Chemicals, plastics, and rubber, Computers and office automation, Construction and materials, Containers and packaging, Economics, Electronics, Engineering and manufacturing, Fashion, accessories, and textiles, Food and beverage, Forest products, General interest, Geography, Government, Health, Health Care Industry, High Technology, Home Furnishings, Human Resources and labor relations, Insurance, Law, Library and Information Science,

Literature/writing, Mass Communications, Mathematics, Metals, metal working and machinery, Military and naval science, Music, News, opinion and commentary, Personal Finance, Petroleum, engineering and mining, Pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, Political Science, Psychology and mental health, Publishing, Real Estate, Regional focus/area studies, Retail, Science and technology, Social Sciences, Sociology and social work, Sports, sporting goods, and toys, Telecommunications, Transportation, Travel Industry, Travel, recreation and leisure, Women’s issues/gender studies.

Search Options

Company

Company Name or Ticker Symbol

Industry Code or Description

Product/Brand Name

Product/Brand Type

City, State, Country

Search includes links to Company Profile, News/Magazines (articles), Investment Reports, Financials, Rankings, Suits and Claims, Products, Industry Overview and Associations. Highlighted headings indicate available information.

Industry

Use SIC and NAIC codes to find description about industry.

Example: SIC 517212 Cellular and Other Wireless

Communications. NAIC 517 Telecommunications

Use Description to link to specific SIC and/or NAIC code

Example: Wireless will link to NAIC code 51721

Wireless Communications Carriers (except Satellite).

Articles

Search by Subject Guide, Keyword, Text in Article.

Search Limits: journal title, full-text articles,

peer-reviewed journals, newspapers & newswires,

magazines & journals and date.

Advanced Search

1. Choose a Content Area: News/Magazines, Company

Profiles/Products, Histories, Investment Reports,

Financials, Rankings, Suits and Claims, Industry

Overviews and Associations.

2. Limit search to one of the following: Company Name,

Ticker Symbol, Keyword, Full-text, SIC Code, NAICS

Code or Industry Description.

3. Document Number – at end of every article is a document

number. For example: Article A60142394

Search History

A listing of searches the user performed appears at the

bottom of the initial search screen or at the top of the

screen after the search has been completed.

Mark Articles For Printing

1. Compile list of articles from each search performed by marking each one.

2. After each search Click Update Marked List.

3. Click View Marked List to see compiled list by Content Area.

For example: News/Magazines, Company Profiles

To Print

1. View Marked Articles

2. Click Print Icon at top of list to format articles for printing.

3. Go to Toolbar and Print from File or Print Icon.

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