Take advantage of the Library's subscriptions to Factiva and Lexis-Nexis to find both current news and business articles. Both ABI/INFORM and Business Source Premier (EBSCO) index, abstract, and provide full-text for leading English language business and economics magazines and journals.
OneSearch is a new discovery tool that simultaneously searches articles published in tens of thousands of our subscription sources. Step 3: Find Current News and In-depth Articles about the CompanyĪrticles published in leading business magazines and trade journals often provide added depth and insight into a company's operations, strategy and competition. It currently covers over 200,000 companies worldwide and is dedicated to producing intelligent, in-depth business and financial research on non-publicly held companies. If your company is not included in these databases you can compile your own profile from sources listed in the next steps.
PrivCo is a database that is focused solely on tracking private company financial data, private market deals, and private investor profiles. MarketLine Advantage (formerly Datamonitor360) features profiles for more than 50,000 public and private companies. OneSource is another excellent source for company profiles, compiling company information from many sources into one coherent report. Hoover's Profiles are also found in Factiva. Their subscription Profiles are more detailed portraits that include a company overview, company history, sales, profits, number of employees, principle executives, multi-year financial statements, locations, products and services, brands, and key competitors. Hoover's Online excels at concisely summarizing a company's business. All of these source are discussed further in the following steps. They are also more likely to make news and be covered in the business press. You can usually find annual reports ( Thomson Research), SEC filings ( EDGAR), stock reports and brokerage-house reports ( Investext on OneSource) for them. public companies must file reports with the SEC. Determine whether the company is publicly-owned (stock trades) or privately-held. Good starting places are Hoover's Online and OneSource. First, find out who the company is and what it does.
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