Advanced Searching - FIRE - First-Year Innovation and Research Experience 2024-25

Beyond the Basics of Searching

The search box looks through many of the library databases to help you locate what you need, but doesn't find everything.

Here are some additional resources that may be helpful for more advanced searching.

Each of these tools has specialized information about business, current topics, statistics, etc. Some of them give charts or graphs, some of them have reports, and some are in other formats. There is a wide range of information available for your research experience.

Keyword & Subject Searching

Keyword Searching

word(s) you choose are searched anywhere in the database record describing the article or item
flexible but can miss useful items if your terms are not included in relevant records
may return many irrelevant results since search terms can appear anywhere in record

Subject searching

use word(s) or term(s) designated as subjects or descriptors in that particular database that describe the content of the article
a precise way of searching a database and usually retrieves the most relevant results
less flexible since you need to know the correct subject terms for that database

To find subjects or descriptors:

check these fields in the most relevant records you find through keyword searching
look for a subjects list or thesaurus in the database you are using

Specialized Business Research Resources

IBISWORLD
Includes Industry Research Reports that provide key statistics and analysis on market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance, major industry participants.
Marketline
Provides access to resources covering company, country, industry, and product intelligence as well as business strategies and news and opinion.
Mergent Intellect
Provides private company data on over 250 million privately held companies globally.
Statista
Tool for researching quantitative data, statistics and related information from a wide range of sources.
Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA)
A reference directory that contains detailed information on nearly 12 million U.S. businesses. Good for smaller, private companies with single locations.

Quick Links to Business News (select titles)

Bloomberg Businessweek
Available from 1996- current issue
Bloomberg.com
Access via EBSCO databases
The Financial Times
Full text available from 05/31/1996 to 1 month ago.
Forbes
Forbes online magazine, articles specifically focused on Innovation
Harvard Business Review
Available in full text 1922-present
MIT Sloan Management Review
2013- present
New York Times Online
Online interface with all NYT features, including archival content back to 1851.
Available in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.
NH Business Review
Wall Street Journal
Access in HTML format to WSJ, which has extensive coverage of stock markets, finance, company news, investments and business-oriented news as well as in-depth features focusing on the national and world economy. Searchable by keyword, type of articles, etc.

Other Resources

Opposing Viewpoints
Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues.
CREDO Reference
Online reference library that provides access to a selection of reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

FIRE - First-Year Innovation and Research Experience 2024-25: Advanced Searching

Beyond the Basics of Searching

Keyword & Subject Searching

Specialized Business Research Resources

Quick Links to Business News (select titles)

Other Resources