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Questia
Provides online access to thousands of books, journal articles, research reports (though mostly older works) for a relatively modest fee. Also, offers nice set of tools for identifying and using selected material. |
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Reuters Industry Reports
Provides financial and other data on a large number of companies across many industries. |
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Special Issues
This site has an interesting business model, provide information related to special issues of trade and business publications. In general, a special issue of a publication is one that provides "themed" coverage of an industry (e.g., new products, market trends) and is often produced on a regular basis. Accessing the full list of publications on this site is expensive. |
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Standard and Poor's Industry Surveys
Classic publication long a fixture in university libraries, these highly detailed reports provide excellent insight into an industry. Downside though is that these are very expensive and reports are available for only the 50 largest industries. |
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RDS Business Suite
Another product of Gale, this reference publication provided several options for locating industry, company, and product information. The options include TableBase, which provides information in the form of tables and covers more than 90 industries worldwide. Like similar reference products, access to this one is best obtained via a university library. |
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World Advertising Research Center
UK-based group with a fee site where subscribers can access internationally produced articles, research studies, case studies and other materials that focus mostly on advertising and promotion issues. |
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Yahoo Finance Stock Research Center
This section Yahoo Finance is targeted to investors and allows for the purchase of research reports. Users can search for reports either by entering a company's stock symbol or navigating to a company by using the Sector/Industry Analysis option. Users will also need a Yahoo account to make the purchase. |
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ZoomInfo
This site features a search engine that allows for locating background information on thousands of people who have been mentioned on the web, through news media reports and other sources. Could be quite useful for employee hiring, sales prospecting or business partnership development. |
