UNLV Libraries: Electronic Indexes and Databases in Business

You can limit your search by document type (article, case study, company profile etc) in the Basic Search and Advanced Search sections. The database also includes country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, CON Group and CountryWatch and 5,000 company profiles and 1,600 industry reports from Datamonitor.
Alternate name: EbscoHOST
Vendor name: Ebsco
Update frequency: monthly
Scope: International
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka; Griffis, Patrick
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Primarily a database for retrieving journal articles but allows for searching by company in the advanced search section. The ABI/INFORM database offers searchable full text of more than 1800 of the leading business and management journals in North America and the world from 1987 forward. Coverage is international and includes advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also compiles information on 60,000+ companies!
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: Updated weekly
Scope: International
Languages: English
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka; Griffis, Patrick

This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.
Alternate name: EbscoHOST, ASP
Vendor name: Ebsco
Update frequency: Updated daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: UNLV Libraries Research & Information
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Serves as the principle research tool for accounting and tax professionals. Includes indexing and abstracts for nearly 300 core accounting-related business journals, including official releases from the AICPA and FASB, as well as selective indexing from over 1000 additional sources. National and international in scope, covers accounting policies and standards, state and national tax legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans and corporate financial management. Profiles accounting firms, CPAs and management consulting firms. To obtain AICPA and FASB releases, search by Author in the advanced search feature and type in AICPA or FASB in the search box.
Alternate name: Accountants' Index.
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: Weekly
Scope: International
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick

Subject coverage in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture is particularly strong.
Vendor name: OCLC FirstSearch
Update frequency: daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
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With a scope that covers everything from a local Chamber of Commerce to the American Medical Association, and beyond, Associaitons Unlimited contains information for 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. For some 2,600 major U.S. national associations, it provides images of association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms.
Vendor name: Thomson Gale
Update frequency: International
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley

Provides citations and excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. To be indexed in Book Review Digest, a book must have been published or distributed in the United States or Canada. A work of nonfiction must have received reviews in two or more of the periodicals on the Book Review Digest selection list. A work of fiction must have received reviews in at least three of the periodicals. Reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences are excluded.
Vendor name: H. W. Wilson
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
More info: Print volumes available 1906-2003 in Index Area. Search tips.

Provides reporting and analysis of regional, national, and international news.
Vendor name: ProQuest-CSA
Update frequency: daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: UNLV Libraries Research & Information
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This searchable database of full-text reports is supplied by the Conference Board, a not-for-profit organization which conducts research, convenes conferences, makes forecasts, assesses trends and publishes information concerning management and the marketplace.
Alternate name: Business Knowledge Research Online Collection
Vendor name: Conference Board
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick
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Search for public companies using criteria like industry, trading exchange, number of employees, key executives, and financial measures like total debt, total assets and net sales.
Vendor name: Hemscott Inc

Full text of encyclopedia entries plus over 20,000 searchable images including photographs, fine art, scientific diagrams and more. Covers a broad range of topics from biography to medicine and Shakespeare to technology.
Alternate name: xreferplus
Vendor name: Credo Reference
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
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The CRSP Database provides access to NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq daily and monthly securities prices, as well as to other historical data related to over 20,000 companies. The data is produced, and updated quarterly, by the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), a financial research center at the Graduate School of Business at The University of Chicago. CRSP is available through Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS)

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses contains over 1.5 million entries, providing citations to North American and European dissertations from 1861 forward, with abstracts from 1980 forward. It also provides citations and abstracts for theses from 1988 forward. Full text of UNLV theses and dissertations available from 1996 to the present. Full text from all other institutions available from 1997 to the present.
Alternate name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Update frequency: Updated quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
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The Directory of Open Access Journal aims to be a comprehensive listing of scientific and scholarly open access journals that incorporate an element of editorial quality control such as peer-review. . Open access journals are those that do not impose charges to readers or their institutions for access to their contents. With over 2700 journals currently listed, the DOAJ covers all subjects and languages.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Haslam, Michaelyn

The e-unwto is a database of all of the United Nations World Tourism Organization publications from 1970 to the present. Access to over 500 publications and the latest tourism statistics for all the countries around the world. Advanced search features allow for easy navigation of the resources and e-alerts keep users up-to-date on the latest additions to the database.
Alternate name: WTO elibrary, World Tourism Organization Library
Vendor name: World Tourism Organization
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka

Books and other materials are arranged in five main subject areas - business and economics, career and general education, computers, engineering and applied sciences, humanities, social/behavioral sciences and life/physical sciences. The ebrary reader is required to view books and can be downloaded for free from ebrary. A free account is needed In order to access some features (i.e. saving notes and highlights).
Vendor name: Ebrary
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
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Journal articles, books, dissertations, working papers, and conference proceedings covering business and public finance; regional and urban economics; economic history, development, and forecasting; and monetary and fiscal theory. Produced by the American Economic Association.
Alternate name: EbscoHOST
Vendor name: Ebsco Publishing
Update frequency: Updated monthly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick
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Full text journals covering management, marketing, quality, human resources, production & economics, operations, library & information services, information management, training & education, and engineering.
Vendor name: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Update frequency: varies
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Haslam, Michaelyn
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Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Coverage begins in 1990.
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: Update monthly
Languages: English, Spanish
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Kotula, JD
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The full text of all editions of Dow Jones publications, the Wall Street Journal and Barron's, plus the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, three months of the New York Times, and 8,000 other publications. 20,000 company reports and 8,500 editorially selected business Web sites are also available through the Factiva service. Contains television and radio transcripts, general business and industry magazines, company reports, and historical market data.
Vendor name: Factiva
Update frequency: continuous
Languages: 22 languages
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka
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A virtual library of reports prepared and written by a team of IT researchers, computer and communications analysts, and technology specialists. Reports cover technology areas such as IT infrastructure, telecom, data networking, wireless communications, security, enterprise systems, the Internet and World Wide Web, as well as technology vendors.
Vendor name: Faulkner Information Services
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Smith, Caroline

Searchable database of public opinion including answers to questions and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935. It also contains Gallup Poll News Service articles, Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing articles, and Gallup Management Journal articles that feature in-depth public opinion and management data analyses. Replicas of historical news stories and press releases are also included.
Vendor name: Gallup Organization
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Skarl, Susie
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UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick

This integrated online information system covers over 350 markets in 207 countries. Information is accessible in four modules: statistics (quantitative data and forecasts on consumer lifestyles, retailing, countries, consumer markets), analysis (in-depth market analysis report format), companies (profiles of leading FMCG companies along with financial data, market share and brand information) and sources (lists data providers by specific subject area.) Statistical data goes back as far as 1977 (but most series start in 1990) and is forecast out to 2015. Reports generally stay in the database for 5 years.
Alternate name: Euromonitor
Vendor name: Euromonitor
Scope: International
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick

A rich source for scholars in business, economics, and history, this collection of annual reports for 800 U.S. companies dating from 1884 to the present provides information on companies, including financial performance, key officers, competitors, and market trends.
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: annual
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick
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You can search for business information by company, people, industry and news.
Vendor name: Hoover's Inc.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick
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Hospitality & Tourism Complete is a database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. Full-text coverage of over 200 publications that include the subject areas of hotel management, food service and beverage management, travel and tourism, event management, gaming, international cuisine, law, market trends, research and more.
Alternate name: Articles in Hospitality and Tourism
Vendor name: Ebsco
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka
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The IFS includes, for most countries of the world, current data on exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Series are monthly, quarterly or annual.
Vendor name: International Monetary Fund
Scope: International
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick

Over 9,000 funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities can be located in this resource. Advanced and basic search features are offered as well as links to the websites of the funding organization. The database has an alert service that allows users to be notified of relevant funding. An expertise service allows individuals to create a profile by institution for others to view their activities.
Vendor name: Illinois Researcher Information Service
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka

JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and more.
Vendor name: JSTOR
Update frequency: constant
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Finley, Priscilla
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Full text of articles from 1991 to the present. Articles do not include images.
Alternate name: LVRJ
Vendor name: ProQuest-CSA
Update frequency: daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: UNLV Libraries Research & Information
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LearningExpress Library is a full text test preparation and academic skills building database that includes practice tests for GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, CBEST, Praxis I, TOEFL and a number of other standardized job and career tests. Skills building components include Elements of Business Writing, Job & Career Success Skills (resume writing, interviewing tips), and math, reading, and writing skills. You will be asked to create your own free account and choose your own user name and password. This creates a space for you on the LearningExpress server so you can save tests and exercises and come back to them.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
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The Leisuretourism.com abstracts database contains records selected from the CAB ABSTRACTS database. It brings together an archive of worldwide information for all those interested in the research and strategic development of leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and hospitality activities, facilities, products and services. Comprising over 50,000 international bibliographic references originally published in Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts, the backfile features published research from 1970s to the present.
Alternate name: Leisuretourism.com
Vendor name: CABI Publishing
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka
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Indexes publications containing statistics published by federal, state, local, international, and private sources. Search Statistical Abstracts directly. Internet links to major statistical resources. Check at the Reference Desk for availability of other statistical resources.
Vendor name: LexisNexis
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Lowe, Sidney
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With the nation's largest editorial department, it offers extensive coverage of national, international, and local news.
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: UNLV Libraries Research & Information
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MarketResearch.com Academic provides access to a library of 200+ page market profile studies from Kalorama Information, Packaged Facts, and Specialists in Business Information (SBI) covering industries including consumer goods, food and beverages, demographics, healthcare, technology, media, manufacturing, and many others. Reports include extensive background information, forecasts and analyses on the topic, statistics, charts, graphs and tables. Reports are added to the service within 12 months after they are released to commercial clients.
Alternate name: marketresearch.com
Vendor name: Kalorama Information
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka

UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick

Part of the Mintel Consumer Intelligence database.

Mintel offers hundreds of market research reports covering the U.S. and International consumer marketplaces. Each market research report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. The database covers cover a variety of sectors including consumer goods, travel and tourism, financial industry, internet industry, retail, and food & drink.
Vendor name: Mintel Group
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka

Mediamark Research offers comprehensive demographic, lifestyle, product usage and exposure to all forms of advertising media collected from a single sample. As the leading U.S. supplier of multimedia audience research, MRI provides information to magazines, television, radio, Internet and other media, leading national advertisers and over 450 advertising agencies - including 90 of the top 100 in the United States. Mediamark's national syndicated data are widely used by these companies as the basis for the majority of the media and marketing plans that are written for advertised brands in the United States. Users must first register for a free account.
Alternate name: Mediamark Research Plus
Vendor name: Mediamark Research Inc.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka
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Nearly 500 NBER working papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals and are written for other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media.
Vendor name: National Bureau of Economic Research
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick

Browse e-books for quick research and reference or create a free account to check out items, create notes, and list favorites.
Vendor name: NetLibrary
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy

It is updated monthly. Select International Businesses from the drop-down menu or on the column on the left to begin a search.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka

Access to over 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works containing over 60,000 pages of material. Includes sources covering general reference, language, science, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and business. List of full text reference books.
Vendor name: Oxford University Press
Update frequency: Updated regularly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley

From the Public Affairs Information Service, this database provides access to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. It includes records from journals, books, conference proceedings, research and government reports, and directories.
Alternate name: Public Affairs Information Service
Vendor name: Public Affairs Information Service
Update frequency: Updated quarterly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Lowe, Sidney

Vendor name: OCLC FirstSearch
Update frequency: Updated biweekly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley

This online version of the Plunkett Almanacs contains research about major companies, emerging technologies and industry analysis. Users will also be able to locate glossaries, associations and contact information for the represented industries.
Vendor name: Plunkett Research, Ltd.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka

Vendor name: OCLC FirstSearch
Update frequency: Updated biweekly
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley

Full text of articles from major national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA Today. Also included are the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: Updated daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: UNLV Libraries Research & Information

Combines the 25 peer-reviewed bepress journals with all working paper series, postprints, preprints and other content from institutional repositories hosted by bepress. These include the bepress Legal Repository, the University of California eScholarship Digital Repository, Engineering Conferences International, and the New England Law Library Consortium.
Vendor name: bepress
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Haslam, Michaelyn

Scopus also features a citation index, allowing you to find the papers that cite a specific piece of research.
Vendor name: Elsevier
Update frequency: daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Kotula, JD; Smith, Caroline; Stowers, Eva

All journals are available in PDF format. Journal access is from 1998 to current.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick

SBRNet is a service focusing on the sporting goods and sports marketing industry. The site features market research and industry news covering all facets of the industry: sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka

UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick

Internet version of NTDB CD-ROM, with additional resources. Two-part database containing current domestic economic and financial information, daily treasury releases, and foreign trade, market research, and country information, the International Trade Library, more.
Update frequency: Updated daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick

Part of the Mintel Consumer Intelligence database.

UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Ipri, Tom

The LOCATION and CALL NUMBER information helps you physically locate each item in the library.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Del Bosque, Darcy
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Publications include The Value Line Investment Survey, The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey, The Value Line Daily Options Survey, The Value Line Special situations Service, The Value Line Convertibles Survey, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).
Vendor name: Value Line, Inc.
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick
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Vendor name: The World Bank Group
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick

This union catalog contains records of books and other items in libraries worldwide. Items owned by UNLV Libraries are indicated; UNLV students, faculty and staff may request books via Document Delivery Services.
Vendor name: OCLC FirstSearch
Update frequency: Updated daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: UNLV Libraries Research & Information; Heaton, Shelley

Alternate name: Basic Economics
Vendor name: Wharton Research Data Service
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick
More info: Limited to UNLV affiliated users. Users must request an account Accounts are approved by the Business Librarian.

Encyclopedias in many academic disciplines. Title has changed to Credo Reference.

Serves as the principle research tool for accounting and tax professionals. Includes indexing and abstracts for nearly 300 core accounting-related business journals, including official releases from the AICPA and FASB, as well as selective indexing from over 1000 additional sources. National and international in scope, covers accounting policies and standards, state and national tax legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans and corporate financial management. Profiles accounting firms, CPAs and management consulting firms. To obtain AICPA and FASB releases, search by Author in the advanced search feature and type in AICPA or FASB in the search box.
Alternate name: Accountants' Index.
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: Weekly
Scope: International
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick

Primarily a database for retrieving journal articles but allows for searching by company in the advanced search section. The ABI/INFORM database offers searchable full text of more than 1800 of the leading business and management journals in North America and the world from 1987 forward. Coverage is international and includes advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also compiles information on 60,000+ companies!
Vendor name: ProQuest
Update frequency: Updated weekly
Scope: International
Languages: English
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka; Griffis, Patrick

You can limit your search by document type (article, case study, company profile etc) in the Basic Search and Advanced Search sections. The database also includes country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, CON Group and CountryWatch and 5,000 company profiles and 1,600 industry reports from Datamonitor.
Alternate name: EbscoHOST
Vendor name: Ebsco
Update frequency: monthly
Scope: International
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka; Griffis, Patrick
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The news section delivers the full text of international, national and regional newspapers along with wire services, broadcast transcripts, magazines, and non-English language sources. The legal section contains U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews and international legal information. This includes Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789. The medical section supplies information from news and medical journals, and provides abstracts to medical news from Medline. The business section includes business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
Alternate name: Academic Universe
Vendor name: LexisNexis
Update frequency: Updated daily
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Heaton, Shelley
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Over 9,000 funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities can be located in this resource. Advanced and basic search features are offered as well as links to the websites of the funding organization. The database has an alert service that allows users to be notified of relevant funding. An expertise service allows individuals to create a profile by institution for others to view their activities.
Vendor name: Illinois Researcher Information Service
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka

UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick

Alternate name: Basic Economics
Vendor name: Wharton Research Data Service
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Griffis, Patrick
More info: Limited to UNLV affiliated users. Users must request an account Accounts are approved by the Business Librarian.

Search for public companies using criteria like industry, trading exchange, number of employees, key executives, and financial measures like total debt, total assets and net sales.
Vendor name: Hemscott Inc

Industry market research reports covering over 700 industries written at the 5-digit NAICS level which provide key statistics, market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, industry performance, key competitors and industry outlook.
Scope: International
UNLV Libraries Subject Librarian: Grays, Lateka; Griffis, Patrick
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