FCS 3300: Entrepreneurship in Family & Consumer Sciences: Library Resources
Wall Street Journal
- Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window(U.S. edition) A U.S. daily financial newspaper that covers news and trends relating to business, industry, finance, the economy, and international commerce. Provides extensive price and other data for securities, commodity, options, futures, foreign exchange, and money markets. Full text from 1984-present .
Microfilm: HG 5 on the Lower Level, 1920-2017.
Print copies: Keep most recent (one) week.
Resources for Creating a List of Companies by Industry and Geography
- DemographicsNow
This link opens in a new windowDemographicsNow provides users with ready-to-use and customizable demographic data reports that include population, income, housing, race, age, education, businesses and retail sales, consumer expenditures and more.
Library Databases
- ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, ABI/INFORM Dateline and ABI/INFORM Archive, featuring over 3,000 full-text journals, 25,000 Dissertations, 14,000 SSRN working papers, key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
- IBISworld This link opens in a new windowSearch hundreds of U.S. and state industry reports, including Core NAICS, Industry Market Research, Reports on the Business Environment, Industry Risk Ratings, and Global Industry Research.
Entrepreneuership Resources
The Entrepreneurial guide contains information resources available to Western Michigan University students developing business ideas including business plans, funding sources and company, industry and market research.
