Competitors and Complementary Business
Finding direct competitors and complementary businesses (Businesses that are not in direct competition but may be useful to your targeted market.),
Data Axel Reference Solutions (Formerly Reference USA) and Nexis Uni may be both be used to help you locate competitors and complementary businesses.
Selected Databases
- Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new windowMulti-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
- Gale OneFile: Agriculture This link opens in a new windowComprehensive view of agriculture and its related fields. Comprised of nearly 200 titles, researchers will have access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.
- Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory This link opens in a new windowMore than 1,800 titles, with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
- Business Source Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Complete covers business, management, finance, accounting, international business, and economics topics with premium full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals.
- EconLit with Full Text This link opens in a new windowFull text for more than 70 journals and 15 books, and all of the indexing available in EconLit. Subjects include capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics.
***Limited to 1 user at a time. - Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThe premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. With millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format and simultaneous, unlimited usage, researchers are able to find accurate, timely information quickly. Gale's InterLink technology intelligently connects contextually-relevant results from your library's eBook collection on GVRL within articles in a user's search results. The Topic Finder tool adds power and depth to searches, allowing students to mine their search results and develop their research focus in ways never before available.
More Databases
- D&B Hoovers This link opens in a new windowD&B Hoovers, previously known as OneSource, is a company database. It provides a one‐stop shop for information about companies, executives, industries, and current events related to business. You can use it to find such as company profiles, news, analyst reports, SWOT analyses, executive information, and company financials as well as make custom lists and reports for US and international companies.
- Gale Legal Forms This link opens in a new windowAccess a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms and resources across the most popular legal areas. Database to search legal forms. It includes forms for common legal procedures; real estate contracts, wills, premarital agreements, landlord tenant and others.
- Leadership and Management This link opens in a new windowSearch authoritative periodical content covering topics like organizational dynamics, business management, leadership techniques, and more. Updated daily.
- Nexis Uni (formerly: LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
- Regional Business News This link opens in a new windowFull text for more than 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications, including coverage back to 1990. Key resources include newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, trade publications, magazines, and newswires.
Google Scholar
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowYou can use Google Scholar to search for references when you have a citation but need the full text of an article. Type the name of the article into the search engine to find out if Maxwell Library has access.
Linking Google Scholar to BSU Library
Google Scholar is a rich source for information. To make this resource even more valuable, link your Google Scholar account to the Bridgewater State University Library. Any result that is available through the Bridgewater State University Library will appear with the text "FindIT@MaxwellBSU_WC" to the right of the result.
- Go to scholar.google.com
- Click the menu icon (three horizontal lines) in the upper right corner.
- Select "Settings," then "Library Links."
- Search for "Bridgewater State University."
- Check the box next to Bridgewater State University.
- Hit "Save."
Selected Journals
Wall Street Journal
- Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowComprehensive coverage back to 1984 from the world's leading financial newspaper.
Access Full-Text Articles for Free
If the full-text of an article isn’t available online, copy the journal title (not the article title) and check Maxwell's A to Z Journal list to see if we have access. If results appear below the search box, Maxwell Library provides access to that publication. Click on the hyperlinked database name to determine what dates access is available for.
If Maxwell Library does not provide access to the publication, check the Boston Public Library electronic journal finder. You will need to register for a Boston Public Library eCard (BPL eCard) to access any journals provided through the Boston Public Library. All residents of Massachusetts, as well as full-time students in Massachusetts are eligible to get a BPL eCard. Registration is fast and easy.
If you can't find the full text through BSU or the Boston Public Library, request it via Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Enter the item details (author, title, date, etc.) into the ILL platform. You'll receive a confirmation email, and library staff will update you on your request's status.