Resources for Students: Industry & Company Resources

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The Global Workplace

• Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 publications, including more than 7,300 scholarly journals. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Some content goes back as far as 1887. Highly recommended for all academic subjects.
• Associations Unlimited A directory of approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.
• Business and Company Resource Center Includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
• Business Source Complete Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Some full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
• Ferguson's Career Guidance Center Provides information on jobs and industries as well as information on resume writing, interviews, scholarships, schools and internships.
• Job & Career Accelerator
• LearningExpress Online tests and tutorials for a variety of tests and subjects, including the firefighters exam, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), TOEFL, Basic Writing Success Skills, U.S. citizenship, and GED.
• LexisNexis Academic Full-text access to newspapers from around the world. Also contains legal and business information. Here is a video introducing LexisNexis.
• Research Guide: Career Research — Experiential Education & Internship Programs

• American Hotel & Lodging Association
• Idealist.org
• IEEE Computer Society
• Lycos Small Business Home Company Research
• JobWeb (Employer Search)
• Hoover's Online
• National Professional Association
• The Riley Guide
• WetFeet.com
• Vault

Industry Associations are excellent information sources. Browse The Internet Public Library's Reference section, which contains "Associations on the Net."

You can also find more books by searching the library catalog, CUNY+, using the keywords below:

• industries
• corporations
• business enterprises

The career guide: Dun's employment opportunities directory. Parsippany, N.J. : Dun's Marketing Services, c2004.
REF HF 5382.5 .U5 D86

Company profiles for students. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, c1999.
REF HG 4057 .A27

D & B regional business directory. New York metropolitan area. Bethlehem, PA: Dun & Bradstreet, c2004.
REF HG 4057 .N7 .D86

D&B million dollar directory : America's leading public & private companies / Dun & Bradstreet. Bethlehem, PA : Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., 2003.
REF HCF 102 .D8 2003

Dun & Bradstreet/Gale Group industry handbook / Jennifer Zielinski, editor. Detroit: Gale Group, c2000.
REF HF 5035 .D78 2000

Gale's guide to nonprofits. Detroit: Gale Group, c2000.
REF HD 2769.2 U6 G35 2000.

Hoover's handbook of American business. Austin, Tex.: Reference Press, Inc., c2000.
REF HG 4057 A28617 2000

International directory of company histories / editor, Thomas Derdak. Chicago : St. James Press, c1988.
REF HD 2721 .I63 1998

Standard & Poor's industry surveys.New York: Standard & Poor's Corp.
REF HC 106.6 .S74 2002

Standard & Poor's register of corporations, directors and executives. New York: Standard & Poor's Corp.
REF HG 4057 .A42 2003

Ward's business directory of U.S. private and public companies.Detroit: Gale Research, c2001.
REF HG 4057 .A575 2001