LibGuides: Embedded Resources: SNC: BUS 1001 (Spring 2025)

BUS 1001 (Spring 2025)

Greetings from the library!

I'm honored to be your librarian for this course.

If you'd like some one-on-one help finding company or industry information

or any other information/data

Feel free to email me directly with any questions about library resources and research:

You can also chat or text with one of our on-duty librarians. We're here for you!

If you are looking for information about specific companies, try searching in the databases listed below.

Note: You will have limited access to financial data from companies that are not publicly traded.

Business Insights Global (Gale)

Case studies, company profiles & industry research reports
Country economic reports, market research reports
SWOT analyses, and video interviews with business executives, and selective full-text articles

To search: [Company must be publicly traded for expanded information]
- Choose "Company Profile" from menu on the right of the landing page
- Type the name of the company in the search box at the top of the page.
Annual and up to date company profiles and narratives
- SWOT analyses for specific companies where available
- Financial data, revenue, etc.
- Company organization and hierarchy
- Company history, acquisitions, etc.
JWU Library has limited access to Harvard Business Cases- click here to learn more.

Note: You can also find limited company data in Statista and IBISWorld (see "Industry Information" tab)

Need data about specific state, national, or global industries?

Try the databases listed below for

Statistics, market studies & reports for over 600 international industries, 37 countries, and 60,000 wide-ranging topics
Company and industry reports

Industry research for over 700 US industries
Research on hundreds of international industries
Watch the video below for a quick tutorial on how to navigate and access global industry data and reports

Where to go to find information for your environmental analysis:

A great place to start for most topics
Mostly full-text articles from scholarly peer-reviewed journals, trade journals, popular magazines, and newspapers
If full-text is not available, click link to Check for Full Text (Providence) to connect to Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request form
To search: When searching in this database, use keywords instead of full sentences.
- For example, if your research question or topic is "What are the economic impacts of opening a textile factory in Malaysia?", your keywords are ["What are the economic impacts of opening a textile factory in Malaysia"] "economic impacts," "textile factory," and "Malaysia"