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Company reports and histories

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Includes Marketline company reports. Search on "Marketline" and the name of the company you are searching for.
Full text journals include, among many others, the Harvard Business Review (1985-present, including all cases originally published in the Review), Academy of Management Journal, Accounting Review, and Journal of Marketing. Also includes several hundred in-depth reports on publicly traded companies. To access, search on "Marketline" and the name of the company.
Value Line This link opens in a new window
Provides information on U.S. companies that sell stock. Information includes graphs, charts, ratings, and peer group analysis.

International Directory of Company Histories
A reliable source of historical information for many companies: American and foreign, private and public, past and present-day.
Encompass Search
Encompass Search searches for books and other resources, first in our own library, and then beyond, in other research libraries.
Browse the library stacks
Go to this call number area for company histories: 338.766.
SEC EDGAR
Contains the financial reports of publicly traded companies back into the 1990s.

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Includes numerous scholarly history journals that contain company histories.
Full text journals include American Historical Review, American 19th Century History, American Studies, Early American Studies, Journal of American Culture, Journal of American History, Journal of Early American History, and Journal of Military History.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Business Source Complete includes Marketline industry reports. For example, search on "Marketline" and "confectionery" and "United States."
Full text journals include, among many others, the Harvard Business Review (1985-present, including all cases originally published in the Review), Academy of Management Journal, Accounting Review, and Journal of Marketing. Also includes several hundred in-depth reports on publicly traded companies. To access, search on "Marketline" and the name of the company.
Value Line This link opens in a new window
ValueLine includes substantive industry reports. In the database, click on ValueLine ProPremium, then "jump to company" within your industry, then choose Industry Analysis.

Encyclopedia of American Industries
Provides detailed, comprehensive information on a wide range of industries in every realm of American business. The work consists of more than 1,000 detailed profiles of the manufacturing and service industries.
Encompass Search
Encompass Search searches for books and other resources, first in our own library, and then beyond, in other research libraries.
Browse the library stacks
The call number range for industry histories is 338.

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
The definitive database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history.
Full text journals include American Historical Review, American 19th Century History, American Studies, Early American Studies, Journal of American Culture, Journal of American History, Journal of Early American History, and Journal of Military History.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A database of both scholarly and popular publications in a wide variety of disciplines and subject areas, including psychology. Most full text is linked directly in the database; otherwise use the Check for Full Text buttons to check for full text online or in the library.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Available by library subscription. Largely full text database of scholarly and trade journals covering all aspects of accounting, business, and economics.
Full text journals include, among many others, the Harvard Business Review (1985-present, including all cases originally published in the Review), Academy of Management Journal, Accounting Review, and Journal of Marketing. Also includes several hundred in-depth reports on publicly traded companies. To access, search on "Marketline" and the name of the company.

Encompass Search
Encompass Search searches for books and other resources, first in our own library, and then beyond, in other research libraries.
Google Scholar
Free search engine for books and journal articles in all disciplines.Links may take you to free full text, or search the library's site for full text access.

Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Full text articles, 1984-present (no images).
Students, faculty, and staff also have access to the wsj.com website. The library guide linked here provides instructions to set up an account.

Harvard Business Review
Written for upper level management. Presents analysis of management problems and helpful commentary on advanced thinking and practice in all fields of management and administration.
Journal of Small Business Management
Articles, notes and other features on subjects of current professional interest in the fields of small business management and entrepreneurship aimed at small business readers and their advisors.

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources.

Or visit the Online Writing Lab at Purdue.

For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero. Directions for installing Zotero here.

For help with annotated bibliographies, visit Purdue's Online Writing Lab for definitions and format of an annotation.

Articles and books not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.

In Google, search on [name of industry] (organization or association).

Example: confectionery and (organization or association)