The JWU Librarians find articles; business, industry, or financial information; navigate the databases, or answer any other question.
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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
NOTE: You must click through 3 pages (2 "Continue" and 1 "Submit" page) before reaching the "Search for Industry and Geographic Profiles" main page.
Industry codes created by the US Govt. to track and classify industry data
NAICS = North American Industry Classification System
Some of the databases may require you to search using an NAICS code
Use Google to find the code of a company or industry in which you are interested
One company may be classified under multiple codes
Choose the code that is most relevant to your research topic
Choose the code for the industry that your company currently operates in
and/or where you want your company to operate
Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers
NAICS Code 424820
Alcoholic Breweries
NAICS Code 312120
Please view the following tutorial to learn how to navigate Brand Catalyst (accessed through Simmons Insights)
(navigates the same as Academic Search Complete)
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Citing sources with no author: Scribbr
For sources with no named author, the in-text citation must match the first element of the Works Cited entry. This may be the name of an organization, or the title of the source.
If the source title or organization name is longer than four words, shorten it to the first word or phrase in the in-text citation, excluding any articles (a, an, and the). The shortened title or organization name should begin with the word the source is alphabetized by in the Works Cited.
Follow the general MLA rules for formatting titles: If the source is a self-contained work (e.g. a whole website or an entire book), put the title in italics; if the source is contained within a larger whole (e.g. a page on a website or a chapter of a book), put the title in quotation marks.
First Research Mergent: Citations
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