Industry Surveys. Standard and Poor’s Corporation. Ready Ref 332.67 St785i (Behind reference desk)
Includes basic and current analysis for 33 major domestic industries. Includes financial comparisons of the leading companies in each industry and is updated quarterly. Older issues are in the stacks and are available for checkout.
LexisNexis
Type in the industry name in the search box, select all types of publications and press search. Results are clustered by category. Look at results under Industry Trade News.
Business Source Elite
Provides full text articles for over 450 peer reviewed journals covering all aspects of the business world. Indexes more than 1100 scholarly usiness journals. Choosing Company Profiles will reveal a listing of Datamonitor reports on a company and their competitors.
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database indexes over 8000 journals. 4600 of those journals are full text. Use these sources to locate articles on competitive conditions, labor relations, governmental attitudes, etc for your industry.
RMA Annual Statement Studies. Ready Ref 657.3 R642s (Behind reference desk)
Contains composite financial data on manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing service and contracting lines of business. Balance sheets and income statements are shown in common size, with each item a percentage of total assets and sales (or revenues), respectively. Some industries are not represented because the sample size is too small or there were significant questions concerning the data. Older issues are in the stacks and are available for checkout.
Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios. Ready Ref 338.5 T864e (Behind reference desk)
Reports on 192 major and minor industries. Provides fundamental analytical tools needed to compare companies in the same industry and of the same asset size. Past trend analysis was not continued because of the switch to NAICS coding and additional industries. Older issues are in the stacks and are available for checkout.
Value Line Investment Survey. Ready Ref 332.6 V215 (Behind reference desk)
Provides a one page analysis of industries and is updated quarterly. Check the table of summary and index contents sheet to locate a particular industry.
Market Share Reporter. Ref 380.1 M345
Compilation of market share reports from periodical literature.
North American Industry Classification System. Ref 338.0012 N864
Allows one to find equivalent industry codes between the Standard Industrial Code (SIC) and the NAICS.
Standard Industrial Classification Manual. Ref 338 St785
U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook 2000. Ref 338.4 Un58u 2000
Encyclopedia of American Industries. 2 vols. Ref 338.0973 En56 1998
Arranged by SIC code for manufacturing or service industries.
Encyclopedia of Global Industries. Ref 338.003 En56
Arranged by SIC code.
Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries. Ref 338.003 En562
Arranged by SIC code.
