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ADV 350 (Hitchon)

Company and Product Information and News

ProQuest One Business

  • Provides access to a mixture of practical and theoretical business content including company, industry, and country reports, scholarly journals and ebooks, videos, dissertations, newspapers, and more.

Advertising Age

  • Includes information specific to the advertising industry.

Business Source Ultimate

  • Features resources concerning business trends and development

Nexis Uni: Company Dossiers

  • Search by company name to find downloadable reports on financial, legal, and personnel information about different companies.

If you have problems with Nexis Uni (it asks you to login) try the following:

  • Clear your browser history
  • Search incognito
  • Above the photos on the Comm Library website, are 2 tabs “Key Resources” and “Newspapers.” Both of those tabs include links to Nexis Uni. Try those links.

News Stories

New York Times

  • Provides recent business news.

Nexis Uni

  • Provides the most recent news and business stories.

Nexis Uni: Company Dossiers

  • Search by company name to find downloadable reports on financial, legal, and personnel information about different companies. Reports include a list of recent news stories about each company.

If you have problems with Nexis Uni (it asks you to login) try the following:

  • Clear your browser history
  • Search incognito
  • Above the photos on the Comm Library website, are 2 tabs “Key Resources” and “Newspapers.” Both of those tabs include links to Nexis Uni. Try those links.

PR Daily

Strategies and Tactics

Wall Street Journal

  • Provides recent business news and information on companies, products, consumers, and trends.

Info on Consumers

Statista

  • A global data and business intelligence platform with an extensive collection of statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources in 170 industries.

Info/Bio Info on Journalists

Wall Street Journal

New York Times

D&B Hoovers

  • The news stories provide the names of the journalists and in most cases, you can click on the name and it connects you to information about the journalists.

Press Releases

Business Wire

Google

  • Google: “company name” and “press releases”

Online Style Guides

APA Style Guide

Citing Online Advertising & Business Sources in APA

  • LibGuide containing APA citation guidelines and examples for citing advertising and business sources.

Citation Generator

  • Please remember to double check your citations against a style guide. Citation generators are a good starting point, but they do make errors.

In-text Citations

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