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Resources for career and industry research

Data Axle
Directory of US and Canadian businesses as well as consumer and lifestyle information. Users can search for businesses by multiple criteria including name, geography, industry, business size. Consumer/lifestyle database is searchable by geography, housing, and lifestyle categories.
Going Global
Includes job and internship postings, updated daily, for all countries, as well as country guides and an employer directory.
IBISWorld
A comprehensive collection of detailed industry research reports. Industry reports include industry analysis, outlook, products and markets, market segments, supply chain, major players, competitive landscape, operating conditions, key statistics, and more.
This subscription includes reports for the US and China, as well as global industry reports. Specialized industry reports are also included along with US business environment data profiles. Reports are typically 35-40 pages in length.
Mintel
The Mintel database contains the following:
Mintel Reports- covers brands, companies, markets, consumers and trends. Each report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles.
Mintel Market Sizes – global market data including market size, share and segmentation data.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Site from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics with career information on job duties, education and training requirements, salary expectations, and the outlook for hundreds of occupations.

First Hand (formerly Vault: Career Intelligence)
Access rankings and reviews of top companies and schools, employee ratings and reviews, career guides, and jobs and internships postings.
Business students: For alumni access to Vault, email careers@tulane.edu and include your major and graduation year.

Use these resources to create a list of companies within an industry

Capital IQ This link opens in a new window
Capital IQ provides detailed company, industry, market, and transaction information, with screening, charting, and idea generating tools.
** Available to current Tulane students, faculty, and staff. To access this database, use the 'new user' link to create a login using your Tulane email address. NOTE: Tulane users must access Capital IQ from the library website database list. Do not go directly to capitaliq.com. **
Data Axle This link opens in a new window
Directory of US and Canadian businesses as well as consumer and lifestyle information. Users can search for businesses by multiple criteria including name, geography, industry, business size. Consumer/lifestyle database is searchable by geography, housing, and lifestyle categories.
PrivCo This link opens in a new window
Provides business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies. The database also includes information on private investors, private equity deals, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital firms. NOTE: To access information, first create a personalized account.

Newspapers & Periodicals

ABI/INFORM Complete
Searchable database for business-specific literature, incorporating 8,000 publications. Includes business press, scholarly publishing, and commercial research.
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Includes the Economist and the Wall Street Journal, as well as Experian company records, industry and market research reports, and analyses of countries and economies.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database of core scholarly publications in disciplines including marketing, management, accounting, finance, information systems, international business, and more. Also includes industry profiles, market research reports, country reports, and SWOT analyses. Entire database can be searched a number of ways, including by subject, article title, author, keywords, date range, and periodical title.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Factiva pulls together full-text coverage of newspapers, periodicals, business news, company reports, industry reports, and financial data compiled by Dow-Jones and Reuters. NOTE: Factiva allows for a maximum of 8 concurrent users.

Financial Times (London)
Financial Times is a London-based newspaper that emphasizes coverage of business and economics on a global scale. Access the current issues on FT.com on your device by signing in with your Tulane email address and password.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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. NOTE: Before searching, please change the default previous 2 years to all available dates.

New York Times Online for the Tulane Community
Create a free NYTimes.com account using your Tulane email (tulane.edu) address for a one year subscription to NYT. Academic Pass grants access to breaking news articles, archived articles, blogs, video, and interactive features. Does not include crossword puzzles or eReader editions. For web, iOS and Android.

NewsBank/ Readex This link opens in a new window
Portal page to access all the Newsbank/Readex collections that Tulane subscribes to: Access World News (which includes the Times-Picayune Collection and Louisiana Newspapers), Archive of Americana (African American Periodicals, America's Historical Imprints), World Newspaper Archive (African Newspapers, Latin American Newspapers, South Asian Newspapers), Defining a Nation: The Literature of Early America, Hispanic Life in America, and Black Life in America.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source Plus offers English-language news from nearly 500 U.S. newspapers, including USA Today, The Washington Post, and major metropolitan newspapers. It also includes full text for more than 600 international newspapers, such as The Sydney Morning Herald, Hindustan Times, The Times (U.K.), Bangkok Post, Toronto Star, The Manila Times, The Jordan Times, Kuwait Times, and Hindustan Times. The database features more than 1.6 million television and radio news transcripts from top sources like ABC News (American), CBC (Canadian) CBS News, CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 50 sources.

Wall Street Journal
Two options - select these from this database list:
ABI/Inform - Available from 1984 - Present. Click on link to publications and search Wall Street Journal.
Factiva (Current content) - Use 'Search Builder' to select Wall Street Journal.

Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
This database offers full page and article image scans of the Wall Street Journal with searchable full text of every available issue from 1889 to 2012. Select "Browse Issues" from the menu to peruse content by date.

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