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Ad Age DataCenter
Ad Age DataCenter includes profiles of top advertisers, media, and agencies. Also includes job data, advertising spending, award winners, and agency family trees.
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Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios (Prentice-Hall)
Includes ratios for over 175 industries compiled from IRS information.? You must know your NAICS code to use this source.
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Reference Desk
ASBC Methods of Analysis
Provides scientific methods for brewing malt beverages.
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BizMiner (Brandow Company)
Provides industry research and data reports on more than 16,000 lines of business...
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Business Guides (JMU Libraries)
Selected resources for business researchers at JMU.
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Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
Indexing and full text for periodicals and news sources covering all aspects of business.
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COB 300 Guides (JMU Libraries)
Selected resources to support COB 300 business plan research.
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Internet
Encyclopedia of American Industries (Gale)
Detailed, comprehensive information on a wide range of industries in every realm of American business.
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Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries (Gale)
Information about business segments that are pioneering new technologies, introducing break-through marketing strategies or implementing innovative means of serving new markets.
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Encyclopedia of Global Industries (Gale)
Information on the world's most lucrative and high profile industries. Each entry covers size and economic/social impact of the industry; its organization and structure; its history and development; major countries and companies involved (including rankings); size and nature of the work force; and research.
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Encyclopedia of Products & Industries: Manufacturing (Gale)
Provides information on products and the relationships between products and their industries. Explores various aspects of a product, the manufacturers, suppliers, immediate and adjacent industries and markets. Emphasizes manufacturers of numerous durable goods such as tires, automobiles, appliances, business equipment, home furnishing and sporting goods.
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Gartner
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Contains full text Gartner Group research documents on information technology management.
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How Products Are Made: An Illustrated Guide to Product Manufacturing 7th ed. (Gale)
Provides information on the manufacture of a variety of items, from everyday household products to heavy machinery...
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IBISWorld
IBISWorld is a collection of Industry Market Research reports of over 700 United States industries. Now includes access to US Specialized Industry Reports.
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IBM Redbooks
IBM Redbooks
provide guidelines for installing and troubleshooting computer systems. The redbooks contain step-by-step guides, sample code, and other support materials.
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Manufacturing & Distribution USA (Gale)
Statistics on more than 600 SIC and NIACS classifications in the manufacturing, wholesaling and retail industries. Information is compiled from the most recent government publications and includes projections, maps and graphics.
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Material ConneXion
Comprehensive database of over 7,000 materials. Provides sample image of material, plus descriptions, processing information, usage properties, physical properties, and sustainability notes of each material.
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Mergent Horizon (Mergent)
Mergent Horizon allows users to find, filter and organize information about companies and industries...
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Mergent Online (Mergent)
Mergent contains U.S. and international publicly-held company data and reports. For a Quick Tips user guide,
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North American Industry Classification System (US Census Bureau)
Locate NAICS codes through keyword search. Browse the NAICS classification structure.
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Passport GMID (Euromonitor)
Passport GMID
is an online market research tool containing global information on consumer spending, industry information, country profiles, and much more.
Users will be asked to login with their JMU eid and password.
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SBRnet
Sports Business Research Network focuses on the sporting goods and sports marketing industry.
Sports Fan Market survey results are being posted around the site. Please view the Market Summary section for each sports category for survey data.
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Standard Industrial Classification (US Dept. of Labor)
Locate SIC codes through keyword search. Browse the SIC classification structure.
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USA Trade Online
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Access US trade data on more than 18,000 export commodities and 24,000 import commodities.
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ValueLine
Financial analysis on some 1,700 companies in nearly 100 industry sectors. Includes performance data and growth projections on stocks, mutual funds, options and other securities.
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