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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

UIUC Online Research Resources

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=258335

"FAITS reports are designed... to provide information about critical issues, emerging trends, products, services, and vendors driving the IT industry. Topical coverage areas include IT infastructure, telecommunications, wireless technology data networking, convergence, security, enterprise systems, the Internet, and technology vendors."

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http://www.faulkner.com/products/faulknerlibrary/search.htm

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.

UIUC Online Research Resources

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=339180

Provides full text comprehensive research reports and concise market insight on emerging high-technology and industrial markets in 50 countries. A typical research report includes market overview, drivers, restraints, forecasts and trends, competitive analysis, etc. Searchable by market, technology, region, or keywords.

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http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/help.pag

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.

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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