• Business Newstand: searches most recent 90 days. Can be up-to-the-minute. Includes full-text of selected newspapers, magazines and newswires.
• Publications Library: rivals Lexis-Nexis, searches over 6,000 newspapers and magazines, full-text back at least 10 years.
• Company and Industry Center: company financials, industry information, and links to SEC filings.

• Business Newstand: Top Newspapers
  Search: Within Wall Street Journal choose: Search this Publication, Enter: DELL
  Note how current the articles are. (If there is no date, it is the hour of today.)
  
• Business Newstand: Business Magazines
  Search: Within Business Week choose: Search this Publication, Enter: MSFT
• Publications Library
  Search:Enter Comcast in Headline Only
  Change date range to current year
  Click on Change Publications and add Industry: Computer and Communications
• Company and Industry Center, Search: MRK
  Notice financials, competitors, stock price, beta. Look at "Latest SEC filings." 8-K filings indicate recent activity not included in latest quarterly filing. (For Definitions of SEC Filing Types go to Business Reference, then SEC Filings - Definitions)

• Marketing is this database's strength. You can find information on public and private companies' markets and products.
• International in scope
• Great for finding market share forecasts and trends

• Company Name: Nokia
  Concept Term: market share and market size (Use CTRL to multi-select)
• Company Name: Cingular
  Concept Term: product introduction
• Company Name: Palm
  Concept Term: corporate strategy

• Business Library: Parallels Dow Jones Interactive's Publications Library. Academic Universe may have some journals/newspapers in full-text that DJI doesn't, and vice versa. This library does include authoritative accounting literature that DJI does not.
• News Library: Select General News, then Newletters. This is a searchable collection of very focused trade journals.

• Choose Guided News Search
  Select News Category: Business News
  Change News Source to Industry News
  Enter Merck in Company Name (select from drop down box)
  Choose date range: Previous year
• Choose: Guided News Search
  Select: General News
  Change News Source to Newsletters
  Enter Bayer AG in Headline/Lead Paragraph
  Choose date range: Previous year

• Strong in management issues, concepts
• Sources searched include scholarly publications

• Search: Merck AND (strateg? or plan?)
• Search: Merck AND joint ventures

• Good for concepts
• Sources included scholarly journals such as the Harvard Business Review and the California Management Review

• Search: Nokia in Company_Entity Field AND   strategy in Default Fields
• Search: Microsoft in publication: Harvard Business Review

• Analyst reports from major investment banks and trade associations.
• Often the company is compared to its industry; competitors may be mentioned.
• Industry reports can often be found here as well

• Great for tear sheets, annual reports (management discussion),
• SEC filings, proxies, 8-Ks, prospectus (will show you if they've filed on a foreign exchange).

• A Dun & Bradstreet database of over 1.6 million U.S. and Canadian and 1.6 million International public and private companies that have sales greater than $1 million or more than 20 employees.
• Screen for companies by industry (name or SIC); size (employees or sales); geography (state, city, county, area code, zip code, and zip code by radius in miles).
• Search by name of executive, words in executive biographies.
• Sort your list of companies by name, state, SIC, sales, total employees.

• 1. Advanced Search:
  Location:Zip Code 19104 and radius 50 miles
  SIC Description Keyword: pharmaceuticals, Browse the list and insert SIC Code: 28340000
  Sort by sales in descending order
  
  
• 2. Advanced Search:
  Executive Biographies: Wharton School

• Database of approximately 4000 U.S. and non-U.S. companies
• Screen by geographical location, company type, industry, sales.

• 1. Enter company name: Procter & Gamble
• 2. Advanced Search - Industry Name: Banking - Canada
  

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• International database of company information
• Contains information on company's corporate hierarchy

Search by SIC Code: Enter industry: Security Brokers
Choose appropriate SIC Code: 6211
Select Public and Parents