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UIUC Online Research Resources

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=258159

Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in many industries and fields.

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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/AU/help?l=h&u=n&u=i&u=r&u=s&s=1&locID=uiuc&n=10

Available through Proquest's ABI/INFORM Complete database, within the Browse tab.

Accessible from First Research:  http://uiuc.firstresearch-learn.com/default.aspx.

Provides industry profiles, which contain an industry overview, market trends, business challenges, financial information, and forecasts. Covers over 200 industries and is updated every 90 days.

http://www.ibisworld.com.proxy2.library.uiuc.edu/launch.aspx

Contains market research reports on over 700 U.S. industries. Also contains industry risk ratings, global industry research, and company research on over 8,000 U.S. public companies.

UIUC Online Research Resources

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=258319

It delivers hard-to-get information on more than 80 emerging markets through its award-winning online Emerging Markets Information Service. It aggregates and produces unique content including full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are derived directly from more than 13,000 local and global publications.

Select a country. Then click on Macroeconomics in the toolbar and scroll to Macroeconomic Focus and Consensus Forecast.

Through the College of Business:

http://www.business.uiuc.edu/intranet/one_source.html

An excellent one-stop place for company and market information. For companies, it has detailed descriptions, current financial data and news stories. For industries, it has market research reports, news, etc. Available to UIUC affiliates only. You must register for a free account and after that it can be accessible from anywhere.

http://www.census.gov/econ/www/servmenu.html

The Service Annual Survey provides estimates of revenue and other measures for most traditional service industries (personal, business, social, health, and professional services).  Collected data include operating revenue for both taxable and tax-exempt firms and organizations; sources of revenue, exports, and inventories for selected industries and selected industry-specific items.  Also, the survey provides the only source of annual receipts estimates for the service industries.

http://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/sicsearch.html

http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html

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A government tool that helps label products and industries. Enter industry or product type (not brand name). You may have to follow the broader categories, especially for industry overviews. NAICS is a new system meant to replace the SIC codes. Conversion between SIC and NAICS is available at http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html

http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/recent.htm

Links to annual, quarterly, and monthly business and economics reports produced by the Census Bureau. Includes the Annual Survey of Manufactures and County and Zip Code Business Patterns.

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