Research Guides: Industry & Market Research: Getting Started

Local Business News

Columbus Business First
In-depth news coverage of the Central Ohio business community.
ColumbusCEO
A magazine focused on coverage of central Ohio's business professionals, corporate news and coverage of the financial arena.
Columbus Dispatch - Business News
The business section of The Columbus Dispatch.

Industry Classification

Some industry resources are organized or indexed by an industry classification number. It can be helpful to note this number when using some of the Libraries' resources to browse more effectively for relevant information.

North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS)
The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy.
Standard Industry Classification (SIC)
SIC is a system for classifying industries by a four-digit code. The NAICS was developed to replace the SIC code, but some resources still contain the SIC.

Business News Resources

Wall Street Journal [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Contains the full-text Wall Street Journal newspaper which has extensive coverage of stock markets, finance, investments and business-oriented news. We have access to articles from 1984-current.
Business Source Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
A business articles database with indexing and abstracts for more than 1,400 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals from 1886-present. One suggestion for all literature searching is to play around with the Advanced Search features and keyword search in all text, title, abstract, subject terms and more.
Factiva [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
A news aggregator database; one of the best places to access news stories from around the world. Content is often native language of publication. Also: Company profile pages and industry reports (see Companies/Markets dropdown in top menu bar). Company pages give you a good overview of a company + all the most recent relevant news stories in one place.

Columbus Business First
If you're looking for local business news the Libraries subscribes to a number of BizJournals which focus on a particular city, including an annual publication called Book of Lists which lists best local companies in a wide variety of categories.

Access Business News This link opens in a new window
This database includes business and economic content from newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs and videos around the world.
Regional Business News [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
A full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world.

Business Librarian

Ash Faulkner

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Thompson Library 222C
1858 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, OH 43210

614-514-5935

Subjects: Economics

Library Business FAQs and Instructional PDFs

Library Business FAQs
General Concepts PDFs
Instructional PDFs that simplify and explain: Company Research, Industry Research, Market Research, Literature Search and How to Find Data.