Industry and Company Information
Finding Industry Sources and Business News
If you want to find information on a company or organization for general research or for your case studies there are several types of resources you can use:
- Newspapers - to find news stories about businesses and ethics
- Scholarly sources - to find journal articles written about ethical problems or business theories
- See ABI/Inform and Business Source Complete below
- Industry sources - these are sources that might report on legal issues with a business (such as an incident causing a lawsuit or government fines or prosecution), or special ethical issues in a specific industry or category of business
- See Gale (Business Insights), Mergent Online, and Value Line below
- Legal or government sources - if you want to know further how certain laws or regulations work, or want to explore discussions about laws related to business
- Background sources - Finding more information that will give context to your case study
- See Statista Below and Consumer information on the next page
- ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
Includes international coverage and provides researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
- Business Insights: Essentials (formerly Business & Company Resource Center) This link opens in a new window
A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories and chronologies. You can also search industry descriptions and for topics in over 4,000 business, economics and technology journals. - Business Source Complete (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Leading scholarly business database with over 1,300 publications, including peer-reviewed journals. Covers all business disciplines, including marketing, management, accounting, finance, and economics. Also includes financial data, company profiles, industry reports, market research reports, SWOT analyses, and more.
- Mergent Online / Mergent Market Atlas This link opens in a new windowMarket Atlas is the new, updated platform that will replace Mergent Online. The former Mergent interface is available here until July 2025: http://menlocollege.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.mergentonline.com/basicsearch.php
Provides access to a wide range of financial and business information, including U.S. and international company data, industry reports, global company financials, executive profiles, equity research reports, records from private companies, annual reports, risk ratings and information, ESG ratings, and global equity pricing data. Offers the ability to build custom financial reports. - PrivCo This link opens in a new window
[Note: Canceled 2025, subscription expires 7/31/2025]
The PrivCo database presents business and financial data on major privately-held companies, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies. PrivCo covers over 500,000 companies, providing information on finances, M&A and funding activity, ownership structure, and more. PrivCo also has data on more than 18,000 investors.
Click the green "Direct Access" button to access PrivCo without making an account. - ValueLine Investment Survey Reports This link opens in a new window
[Note: Canceled 2025, subscription expires 12/31/2025]
Provides the ability to search by Company Name, Stock Ticker or Industry for the most recent reports, analyst commentaries and rankings on the 1,700 stocks covered by the Value Line Investment Survey.
