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MGMT 5900: Special Problems - Industry Interaction

This guide provides company and industry research resources, including SIC/NAICS codes, to help students complete course assignments and projects.

Getting Started

Consider the following to understand the difference between news, trade and scholarly articles:

  • Scholarly/Peer reviewed articles are written, read and sometimes evaluated by experts in the field to inform and report on research in a specific discipline.
  • Trade publications provide information for individuals in a specific industry or field.
  • Substantive news informs or educates the general public on a particular issue or topic.
  • Popular news reflects on popular culture of the time and often brings entertatinment value.
  • Sensational new incites emotions, interest or reactions and is typically inaccurate.

Content adapted from OLIN Library at Cornell University and California State University, Chico

Below are resources for both news and scholarly articles. To get started:

  1. Click on the side navigation tab or scroll down for what you need
  2. Choose a resource by clicking the tab
  3. Read the information and tips below the tab
  4. Click the link to connect to the resource
  5. Contact your Business Librarian for help.

Magazine/Trade/News Articles

ABI/INFORM Global provides full text and abstracts of articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers covering a wide range of topics in business and industry. Dates of Coverage: 1923 – Current

Using the "Advanced Search," select "Newspapers" under the "Source type."

Business Sources Complete provides full text and abstracts of articles in more than 1,200 journals, magazines, newspapers, videos, and periodicals covering a wide range of topics in business and industry.

Click on "Newspaper" under "Publication Type" in the Basic or Advanced Search. Then type keywords associated with your topic in the search box and click the "Search" button.

Nexis Uni provides access to news, legal, and business sources including journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, newspapers, and legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes.

For news, type keywords into the "Search in all News For" search box and click the "Search" button.

Regional Business News includes abstracts for regional U.S. and Canadian business publications, including newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, and trade publications. Dates of Coverage: Varies by title.

Scholarly Articles

ABI/INFORM Global provides full text and abstracts of articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers covering a wide range of topics in business and industry. Dates of Coverage: 1923 – Current

Using the "Basic" or "Advanced Search," limit your results to "Peer reviewed" by checking the box next to the option.

Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals

For journal articles, limit your results to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" in the Basic or Advanced Search. Then type keywords associated with your topic in the search box and click the "Search" button.

JSTOR provides access to archived backfiles of journals in the arts and sciences, business, language and literature, science, ecology and botany, and music: over 2,000 academic journals, dating back to the first volume ever published.  Users can access the full-text content beginning with the first volume of each journal although recent volumes may or may not be included, so some titles may lag behind in terms of JSTOR coverage.

To check journal coverage, click "Browse by Title" then click on the first letter that the journal starts with and scroll down to the title.

Video tutorial: https://youtu.be/BDhQO9Xh_6Y

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