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ABI-Inform Dateline via ProQuest Direct
Focuses on hard-to-find local and regional business news. MORE DETAILS... |

1985+ |
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ABI-Inform Global via ProQuest Direct
In-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management, advertising, marketing, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. MORE DETAILS... |

Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+ |
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ABI-Inform Trade & Industry via ProQuest Direct
Provides users with the latest trade and industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. MORE DETAILS... |

Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+ |
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Business
and Company Resource Center via Gale
Global business info: company profiles, industry ranking, stock
prices, investment reports, industry statistics, marketing data,
emerging tech reports, etc. MORE
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Business
Source Elite via Ebsco
Covers topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting,
international business and more. MORE
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Business
Full Text [a subset of Wilson Omnifile]
Covers today's leading Englishlanguage business magazines.
Topics include accounting, personnel, and small business.
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Abstracts: 1990+
Full text: 1995+ |

choose Omnifile with Business as subject |
CountryWatch
Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world:
political, economic, and business information. MORE
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Factiva
A joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters. Search the
full-text of 8000 international business and general publications;
Screen for U.S. and foreign companies matching your criteria;
Get financial profiles for companies worldwide; Get historical
stock prices as well as currency data and market indexes,
etc. MORE DETAILS...
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Global Market Information Database from Euromonitor
An integrated database providing key business intelligence, marketing data and reports on countries, companies, markets, and consumers from over 200 countries. MORE DETAILS... |
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Mergent
Online
Provides detailed inform about public companies in the United
States and around the world. Use Mergent Online to find basic
information like addresses and industry codes, financial highlights,
company histories, actual financial reports, annual reports,
real-time news, and insider stock holdings.
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ProQuest (all databases)
ProQuest is organized into databases of related newspapers, magazines,
and academic journals that you can use to find documents. The
information in each database varies, depending on its focus. MORE DETAILS... |

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Reference
USA - Business Data
Contains basic information on more than 12 million
U.S. businesses. MORE
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Standard
& Poor's Net Advantage
Covers markets, industries, stocks, bonds, dividends, and S&P
Analysis. Search by publication or by type of data, including
companies, executives, industries, stocks, bonds, funds, dividends.
S&P Publications included: Bond Guide, Corporation Records,
Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, Mutual Fund
Reports, The Outlook, Standard & Poor's Register, Stock Guide
and Stock Report. MORE
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Wall Street Journal Online
RIT Libraries has access to the full-text of the WSJ via two databases: Factiva and Proquest. Both allow you to browse and search the WSJ but Factiva is superior for browsing and Proquest for searching. |
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Go to WSJ in Factiva
(best choice
for browsing)
Go to WSJ in Proquest
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Business
and Industry Database via FirstSearch
A multiindustry, international database that provides access
to company, industry, market, and product information. MORE
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Business
and Management Practices via FirstSearch
Provides info on business and management issues. Covers business
methodology with emphasis on case studies and practical applications.
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1995+ |
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Business
Intelligence Channel via Dialog1
Covers business associations and foundations, biographical info
on company leaders, company details, financials, industry, product
information. MORE
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Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS... |

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Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.
The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS... |
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ebrary
A collection of 13,000+ electronic books (ebooks) online. Strong
in key academic subject areas including Business & Economics,
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life &
Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. MORE
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Encyclopedia of Associations via Gale
A comprehensive source of detailed information on over 135,000 nonprofit membership organizations worldwide: professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations, fan clubs, and other groups of all types. MORE DETAILS... |
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Gartner is provided to the RIT community by ITS. You must enter your RIT computer account for access.
This website provides online access to the following research services:
Gartner Reference
Access to Gartner Core Research, including focus area topics, Gartner blogs, Gartner Fellows, and Magic Quadrants and Hype Cycles.
Gartner Dataquest
Provides a statistical picture of more than 35 major IT and telecom markets. Five-year trends are forecasted in five key markets based on extensive Gartner data gathering across the world. |
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Hoover's Online
Covers 50,000 public and private enterprises worldwide. Business info includes news, business features, lists, stock quotes, and global industry overviews. MORE DETAILS... |
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ISI
Emerging Markets
Covers Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Eastern
and Southeastern Asia. For each country, info about current
events, companies and industries, financial markets, macroeconomic
issues, and legal and political affairs. MORE
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LexisNexis
Academic
Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical
and news and information from over 5000 sources. MORE
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Marketing
Channel via Dialog1
Covering aspects of marketing: business to business, business
to consumer, competitive intelligence, market awareness, market
demographics, news and literature. MORE
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MasterFile
Select via Ebsco
Full text from over 750 general reference, business, consumer
health, general science, humanities, and multicultural periodicals.
MORE DETAILS... |

Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+ |
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Mintel Market Research Database
Provides Market and Consumer Research across selected US Categories and selected European Categories. Each study provides a synthesis of both primary and secondary data and analysis, which combine to provide you with a powerful academic research tool. MORE DETAILS... |
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NARC Online Archives
NARC's mission is to foster truth and accuracy in national advertising through voluntary self-regulation. NARC Advertising Law Reports are provided on the partner website of the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB.) MORE DETAILS...
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netLibrary
A collection of approximately
4500 titles of electronic books (ebooks) online. Conduct
full-text searches of every word in every ebook available in
our subscription. RIT Library and other libraries have joined
together to make up the Nylink Custom Library collection. MORE
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eBooks
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1994+ |

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Regional
Business News via Ebsco
Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires
covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United
States. MORE
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Research
Library via ProQuest Direct
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of
subject areas, including business, education, literature, political
science, and psychology.MORE
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1971+ |
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Rochester
Business Journal Full Text Archive
Contains articles and features from the Daily Edition on the
Internet and the newspaper’s hard-copy publications. |

1996+ |
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Science
Direct via Elsevier
Access to the full text of 1,000+ journals icluding management
and social science, from Elsevier. MORE
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1995+ |
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SIRS
Researcher
Select full-text articles covering a a variety of social,
scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues.
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Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+ |
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Social Sciences Citation Index
Published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI); Delivered via the Web of Science platform.
The Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI®) and Social SciSearch® provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. MORE DETAILS... |

1991+ |
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STAT-USA
A service of the US Department of Commerce, this is the site
for the US business, economic and trade information from the
US government. MORE
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Thomas
Register (U.S.)
Comprehensive directory of US and Canadian manufacturers, listing
over 156,000 industrial product and services companies. |
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Thomas Global Register
Thomas Global is the most complete, up-to-date directory of global
industrial suppliers and product information. Browse through the
detailed list of industrial products and services to access companies
within these and many other categories. |
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WDI
Online (World Development Indicators)
Provides direct access to more than 550 development indicators
with time series for 207 countries from 1960 to 2000, where
data are available. Data includes social, economic,
financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.
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Wilson
Business Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Covers today's leading Englishlanguage business magazines.
Topics include accounting, personnel, and small business.
MORE
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Abstracts: 1990+
Full text: 1995+ |

then
search within omnifile |