Company and Industry Information
Use Maxwell's D&B Hoovers' database to get corporate and financial information on your company, along with information about the industry in which it operates and its competitors.
Selected Databases
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Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
Multi-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.
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Business Source Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
Business Source Complete covers business, management, finance, accounting, international business, and economics topics with premium full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals.
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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.
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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.
Keywords for Searching
When looking for information on a topic, start by identifying core keywords that can be used to describe your topic. If you are unsure of keywords that might be appropriate, try using an AI platform like ChatGPT or Gemini to source your keywords. Open the AI platform and enter the following prompt: Please provide me with some keywords on the topic of ___. In the blank space at the end of the prompt, enter your topic.
News Sources
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Boston GlobeFull-text coverage from 1980 to the present.
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New York TimesFull text coverage from 1985 to the present.
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Wall Street JournalFull text coverage from 1984 to the present.
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.