Library Guides: Entrepreneurship: Companies and Industries

Company Information in the Library

You can use the library databases to find company reports and profiles:

ABI/INFORM Global
ABI/INFORM Global offers business and financial information for researchers at all levels. It includes in-depth coverage from thousands of publications, most of them in full-text.
Coverage includes business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape.
The platform includes access to:
- The Economist (full text available in PDF)
- The Financial Times (with a 30 days delay)
- The Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition (full text available in HTML)
- The Wall Street Journal Online (full text available in HTML)
MarketLine Advantage
MarketLine publishes business information about industries, companies, and geographies. The content is produced by an internal team of analysts, drawing on primary and secondary research, and great emphasis is given to the accuracy and validity of data.
Content includes:
- industry profiles
- country and city profiles
- theme reports
- case studies
- analyst insights
- company news
- financial deals
and more.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni provides a comprehensive spectrum of over 11,000 full text sources, between law, business, and news.
News sources provided by Nexis Uni include:
- national and regional newspapers
- international news
- news transcripts
- newswires and press releases
Legal material includes:
- U.S. Federal and state case law
- codes
- regulations
- legal news
- law reviews
Business content includes:
- international legal information
- business news journals
- company financial information
- industry and market news.
Statista
Statista provides an extensive collection of statistics, reports, and insights, related to trends, markets, countries, demographics, and more.

Financial Information

EDGAR database
The database includes the 10-k (annual SEC filings) for individual American companies contain financial information for companies, as well as textual descriptions of business strategies, risk factors, competition, and more.
Google finance
Stock and market information for major companies and market news.
Yahoo! Finance
Stock market information and company financials for publicaly traded companies.

Finding Industry Information

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ABI/INFORM Global
ABI/INFORM Global offers business and financial information for researchers at all levels. It includes in-depth coverage from thousands of publications, most of them in full-text.
Coverage includes business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape.
The platform includes access to:
- The Economist (full text available in PDF)
- The Financial Times (with a 30 days delay)
- The Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition (full text available in HTML)
- The Wall Street Journal Online (full text available in HTML)
MarketLine Advantage
MarketLine publishes business information about industries, companies, and geographies. The content is produced by an internal team of analysts, drawing on primary and secondary research, and great emphasis is given to the accuracy and validity of data.
Content includes:
- industry profiles
- country and city profiles
- theme reports
- case studies
- analyst insights
- company news
- financial deals
and more.
Statista
Statista provides an extensive collection of statistics, reports, and insights, related to trends, markets, countries, demographics, and more.