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• Our largest business database covering thousands of magazines, journals, and newspaper articles
• Extensive full text
• Especially strong on international economic conditions
• Provides company and industry reports from MarketLine
• Can be searched by NAICS code, Duns number, or ticker symbol. On the bottom of the main search page click on "More Options"
• 1984+
  
  

• Search any combination of 20+ databases simultaneously

• Covers 10,000+ general magazines and scholarly journals on all aspects of business and economics
• Especially strong in international and U.S. regional publications and articles about specific markets and industries
• 1980+
• Indexes several journals dealing with industrial location including Economic Geography; Site Selection; Plants, Sites and Parks; and The Annals of the Association of American Geographers

• Covers economic history and theory, microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, production, welfare, inflation, accounting, international trade, consumer finance, etc.
• 1969+

• Full-text articles from thousands of journals, magazines, transcripts of radio and television news broadcasts, newspapers, editorials, newsletters, and other sources
• Especially good for articles on current issues and for newspaper articles on issues and programs relevant to a particular geographic area
• Especially strong in international and U.S. regional publications, and articles about specific markets and industries
• A weak source for articles from general business magazines and scholarly journals
• Dates of coverage vary by publication

• The "Legal" tab includes legal news, law review articles, state and federal case law, state and federal statutory law (e.g. North Carolina General Statutes), and federal regulations (from government agencies).

• Indexes thousands of peer-reviewed science and social science journals
• Subject coverage: economic development, urban studies, planning, sustainable development, environmental studies, area studies, etc.
• No full text but links through Journal Finder to full text
• Citation database: references cited by the authors of the journal articles they cover. You can use these cited references as search terms
• Cited reference search: allows you to find articles from journals citing a book or an article
• Includes Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index
• 1955 +

• Extensive full text articles on geography, cultural geography, urban studies, and demography
• 1895+

• Citations and abstracts on global public policy and social issues, especially concerning agriculture, economics, defense, international relations, and the environment
• Covers journals, books, government reports, etc. from 100+ countries
• 1972+

• Particularly useful for local, state, or national coverage of economic issues

• UNCG Business Librarian, Steve Cramer's, guide to finding industry information. (smcramer@uncg.edu,  256-0346)

• North American Industry Classification System. These are 2- to 6-digit codes assigned by the federal government to represent a particular area of business. e.g. furniture 337
• Standard Industrial Classification codes: U.S. system of 4-digit numbers that classify particular industries or types of businesses. e.g. Furniture is 2511. Some business reference sources use 8-digit numbers for more specialized businesses within the broader 4-digit category
• Both codes are heirarchical, ie.the longer the number the more specialized the industry or business

• Lengthy industry reports covering over 8,000 publicly-traded companies within 720 U.S. industries
• Reports can be searched by keyword or NAICS codes, or browsed by sector
• Reports include statistics, industry structure, product & customer segmentation, performance analysis, major players & market share, external drivers, 5-year forecasts with forecast analysis, and more
• Reports can be downloaded into Word or Adobe Acrobat Reader
• The Library doesn't subscribe to the other sections of IBIS World

• Research and data on U.S.-based public and private companies, stocks, mutual funds, bonds, and industries from Standard and Poor's
• Furniture industry is part of Household durables
• Little available on individual furniture companies
• Includes over 20 global industry surveys
• Updated semi-annually
  

• Marketing data and reports on countries, companies, markets, and consumers
• Data can be sorted and downloaded in Microsoft Excel format
• Statistics: consumer lifestyles, retailing, consumer market sizes, and forecasts
• Market Research: market analysis reports, major market profiles, consumer lifestyles, and the retailing industry
• Companies and Shares: profiles with financial, market share, and brand information

• Provides industry & market reports from Datamonitor, Freedonia, Business Monitor International , and STAT-USA/NTDB Industry Sector Analysis (use the "Industries" section)
• Provides full text articles from trade magazines and newswires on international companies, markets, and industries (use the "News & Reports" section link in the dark blue bar)

• Covers 2,000 international industries
• Each industry profile includes 5-year historical and 5-year forecast market values, volume, and shares , segmentations, and analyses of trends, major players, and the competitive landscape
• Also called Datamonitor

• Detailed listing of millions of businesses with the ability to search by company name, type of business, geography, business size and more.
• For most companies provides an address, phone number, SIC and NAICS codes, estimated sales, number of employees, credit rating, public filings, etc.
• Complex searches, based on any combination of many values, are possible
• Data can be exported to a spreadsheet

• Steve Cramer's website with links to websites providing global, U.S. and state trade data

• Links to additional databases covering industry analysis and company information

• Most federal publications and some North Carolina documents can be identified using our online catalog

• Most valuable resource for finding statistics in U.S. and N.C. documents is the Documents staff.  Please ask for assistance if you need it

• Documents has compiled a list of local, North Carolina, United States, and international websites on a variety of issues.  In particular the link within U.S. Government to Federal Information by Subject will lead you to many useful statistical websites

• Visually displays a wide variety of U.S. data including business locations by establishments or numbers of employees (manufacturers and retailers), consumer spending by furniture type, etc.
• Video on getting started with SimplyMap
• For assistance with this database, government information, and data sets, please check with Lynda Kellam (lmkellam@uncg.edu,  334-5251)

• Federal government statistics from most government agencies.

• Excellent source of population, housing, economic and geographic data

• Links to all of the Census information including County Business Patterns, the Economic Census, economic indicators, the Census of Retail Trade, the Census of Wholesale Trade, and the various other censuses

• Annual series providing subnational economic data by industry
• Useful for studying the economic activity of small areas; analyzing economic changes over time; and as a benchmark for statistical series, surveys, and databases between economic censuses
• Businesses use the data for analyzing market potential, measuring the effectiveness of sales and advertsising programs, setting sales quotas and developing budgets

• Links to data on employment, hours and earnings

• While not a government website, this is nonetheless an excellent database for statistics of all kinds
• Over 70,000 statistical data series on many topics including population and demographics, economics, social indicators, health and mortality, voting and elections, geography, intellectual property, social services, and libraries
• Covers the United States , states, counties, cities, and other Census-designated places (over 30,000 places total)
• Data can be ranked, downloaded into Excel, or formatted into a PDF file for printing
• Dates of coverage vary but some data are available as far back as 1790

• Data on the state's economy for use by industrial clients, policy makers and the general public
• Links to several economic development websites for NC

• Links to information on financial incentives for businesses, assistance centers, and market access and logistics (transportation facilities)
• Includes a website to search for available land or buildings

• Link to Action Greensboro annual reports and other reports including McKinsey Reports #1 and #2

• The Economic Development Now newsletter provides a snapshot of the field of economic development - examining best practices, analyzing new trends, and noting federal government activity that affects the work economic developers do. Also includes the Site Selection Data Standards, a coordinated, predictable way for communities to gauge their economic strengths and weaknesses