Industry Information Research Guide

General Information

This is a guide to selected sources of information about Industry Information at FRL.

• Subject-specific materials and resources, such as books, articles, and research tools.
• Citation style guides for your subject.

Research Papers

• BCC Research

  Market research reports that can be used to garner information on various industries down to product level. Our subscription covering the following industries: Biotech, Chemicals, Energy, Healthcare, and Plastics.

• Bizminer

  Offers industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more. Types of reports: Industry Financial Profiles, U.S. & Local Market Research Reports, Area Demographic Profiles, Sole Proprietor/Startup Profit & Loss and Local Market Vitality Profile.

• Business Insights: Essentials

  Gale's core business collection, easy-to-use company fundamentals and investment research reports, industry rankings, profiles, market share data, company histories and more. Provides journal/news coverage of both industries and companies.

• EconLit (EBSCOhost)

  EconLit, produced by the American Economic Association, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature, covering all fields of economics. Indexes journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and book reviews. It contains more than 1.2 million records.

• FAITS: Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies

  Events and trends shaping computer and communication marketplace.

• IBIS World - Industry Reports

  It includes three sections: (1) Industry Market Research (2) Industry Risk Rating and (3) Business Environment.

• Marketline Advantage

  Gives a company overview including history, major products, revenue analyses, locations, SWOT reports and top competitors.

• Mergent Online

  Covers a select group of industries by geographic regions. Reports are updated at least once a year and the current and previous year's reports are available.

• Plunkett Research Online

  Plunkett covers major industry groups. This includes industries in which most of the companies are private such as Consulting and Advertising. Industry data can be found in the Market Research and Trends and the Statistics sections.

• ProQuest One Business

  Comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos, and more.

• Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (ProQuest)

  The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

• Standard & Poor's Global NetAdvantage

  Standard & Poor's electronic database that contains a number of S&P resources, including the popular S&P Industry Surveys. These well-documented surveys cover 52 major industries and over 300 sub-industries.

• Value Line

  Covers 98 industries and 1700 companies. Service is organized along industry lines and the first page of each industry section is an analysis of the industry with some ratios. This is excellent information that is updated quarterly.

Reference Works

• Credo Reference

  Reference sources for all subjects, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, etc.

• Gale Directory Library (Gale)

  Gale Directory Library offers access to two titles: the Encyclopedia of Associations, National Organizations of the U.S., a comprehensive source of information on nonprofit membership organizations in the United States; and the Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, which contains listings for radio and television stations, cable companies, and print media publications.

• D&B Hoovers (Mergent)

  Detailed company and industry profiles on over 188 million businesses, both public and private, around the world. Company profiles include description of business, company history, key financials and stock information, links to SEC filings, and list of competitors.