1994- Contains important facts, figures and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. Updated weekly, this database offers highly-focused coverage of more than 300 core management journals and trade publications. Business Organizations FirstSearch Current year Directory of new and established organizations, agencies, and publications worldwide. Consumer Index FirstSearch 1986- Provides access to evaluations, tests, alerts, warnings, and recalls of specific products, services, and facilities as well as abstracts of articles on all aspects of consumerism and consumer protection.
Entries link to the best Internet resources and print publications for consumers.
FirstSearch 1969- Subject indexing and abstracts of journals and over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers. Net Over 400 links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider, pointers to the Web's premiere data collections, and a list of the ten best sites for finding regional economic data. A great source for finding working papers on economic research. Gale Business Resources Gale current Contains listings for 448,000 U.S. and international companies, extensive essays for 1,100 industrial categories, industry statistics, market sharereports, and company rankings. U.S. Bureau of the Census has provided conversion tables for the old1987 SIC codes.