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General Business Research Guide

This guide has a wide variety of business resources. Select the following links to conduct...

BoardEX, Hoover's, Mergent, NetAdvantage, LexisNexis Company Dossier, Mergent Online.
Country Watch, Country Studies, International Financial Statistics, WDI Online.
Social Explorer, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Statistical Abstracts.
Mergent Horizon, NetAdvantage (Industry Surveys), Plunkett Research, U.S. Census Bureau: Business & Industry, Mergent Horizon.
Gartner Core Research, MarketResearch.com, SRDS: Local Market Audience Analyst, Plunkett Research
The Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and more.
 

Career Exploration

The Career Research Guide has links to resources about job hunting, interview techniques and examples of resumes. It includes databases which will help you research a company or industry.

      
     

    Gartner Research

    Gartner Core Research: The world's leading provider of research and analysis about the global information technology industry, contains detailed and relevant product information, evaluations, recommendations, and measurement services on a wide range of technology issues and trends.

    Includes:

    • Best Practices
    • Hype Cycles
    • Market Analysis
    • Magic Quadrants
    • Impace Appraisal
    • Case Studies

    Note: This resource is sponsored by the UH IT department.

     

    Databases with scholarly or peer-reviewed journals.

    Below is a small sample of the resources available for research through the M.D. Anderson Library. Click on the "Articles, Books & Databases"  tab for additional resources.

     

    • ABI/INFORM Global  
        
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      A scholarly and comprehensive business research database covering with in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also includes the Wall Street Journal.
    • Business Source Complete  
        
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      A scholarly business database, providing full-text context.
      Includes Harvard Business Review Case Studies (1922 - Present)
    • Emerald Fulltext  
        
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      The world's leading publisher of management research, Emerald publications bridge the gap between the scholarly and practitioner world of management.
    • JSTOR  
        
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      A full-text archival collection of scholarly journals. Subjects covered include Business, Economics, Finance, History, Political Science, Population Studies, Psychology, Public Policy & Administration, Sociology, Statistics and more.
    • ScienceDirect  
        
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      The leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books. Excellent resource for business and economics research.
    • SpringerLink  
        
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      Contains abstracts, tables of contents, and full text of articles, handbooks and reference works in the sciences, technology, medicine and social sciences.
    • Wiley Online Library  
        
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      The world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
     

    Corporate Social Responsibility

    CSRwire is the leading source of corporate social responsibility and sustainability news, reports, events and information.

    Business Librarian

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    Loretta Wallace, MLS
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    University of Houston
    114 University Libraries
    Houston, TX 77204-2000
    713-743-9775
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    Subjects:
    Accounting & Taxation, Business Administration, Decision & Information Sciences, Finance, General Business, International Business, Management Information Systems, Statistics, Supply Chain Management
     

    Industrial Classification

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    NAICS code or SIC code ?
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    Click on the "Industrial Classification" tab for more information.
     

    Avoiding Plagiarism

    This guide contains resources intended to provide practical tips for students on how to avoid plagiarism and to also answer some common questions regarding the topic. The guide contains the following sections:
        

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