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Business/SPEA Library
Provides access to data from numerous institutes and sources. The portal offers four languages: English, German, French, and Spanish. The German platform focuses on content about DACH-countries; the international platform incorporates international data. The French and Spanish platforms provide country specific data in their respective languages.
Mintel Reports offers product and industry market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape, supply chain, market-share size and trends, and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. Reports may be downloaded as RTF (rich-text format) files; tabular data may also be saved as CSV (comma-separated values) files.
Access and downloading instructions:
1. All users will have to agree to the Academic permissions and prohibitions, which prohibits systematic copying, use without attribution, use for commercial purposes, or distribution to non-IUB students and employees.
2. After accepting the above permissions and prohibitions, you must create an individual profile in order to download reports.
3. Select "Log into your profile..." to create a new (or log into an existing) Mintel profile.
4. After logging in, downloading is available by either using the direct download option for a report or by using the My Presentations feature which also offers the direct download option for the report.
For recent articles on what's happening with businesses owned by women, you can search Business-focused databases like Business Source Complete, EBSCO Management and Entrepreneurial Studies, and also news an popular press sources like Nexis Uni. Search the first three of these at the same time by going to any one, choosing “select databases” above the search bar and choosing the others. Try searches like:
"WOMEN-owned business enterprises"
women and entrepreneur*
or combine those phrase with other topics for more focused searches, For example:
"WOMEN-owned business enterprises" AND covid
women and entrepreneur* and (funding or investors)
Don't forget to use the date slider on the left to screen out older articles.
Regional, national and international business, financial, banking and industry publications.
Provides access to peer-reviewed business journals, covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more. Indexing and abstracts and full text are available back as far as 1886.
Use the "Research" tab to find databases by subject/discipline. The Business subject page has a curated list of business databases, or consult the A-Z Database link for a list of all the Indiana University Bloomington subscription databases. These resources must be accessed through the Libraries website or portals like this guide.
• Business/SPEA Citation Guide
Examples of how to cite business information in both MLA and APA citation formats.