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Industry Information

Industry sources for business students

Find Articles, Books, & More

"Everything" Search - the search box on Gutman Library's home page

When you need to research industry information, one method is to check our catalog. Searching "Everything" means searching for any source type (articles, books, ebooks, videos, conference proceedings, and more) across many of our 225+ subscription databases at once. You cannot ask our catalog a question, so brainstorm for keywords first and consider trying a Boolean logic search with AND, OR, or NOT.

Boolean Operator Search Example How does it work?
AND sustainability AND "apparel industry"

AND narrows a search by retrieving sources with all your terms

Putting terms in quotation marks retrieves sources with those keywords next to each other

OR corporate social responsibility OR ethics OR broadens a search by finding sources with either term
NOT labor NOT employment NOT narrows a search by excluding sources with an unwanted term

Key Database Resources

Access library subscription databases on or off campus with your campus key and password.

Some business databases with industry information are excellent for finding articles that have been published in trade journals, magazines, and scholarly sources. These include:

Find Reports & Data

Some databases are best for locating business intelligence about industries in the form of proprietary reports and data. These include:

Includes Plunkett Analytics Reports on many industries. Click "Publications" to search for Plunkett Analytics Reports, then scroll through the list or add an industry name to the search.

*If you really don't know where to start, try IBISWorld first.

Single-Industry Databases