Company and Product Information and News
- 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.
- Includes information specific to the advertising industry.
- Features resources concerning business trends and development
- Database of company, executive officer, and industry information in a searchable database. Includes parent, subsidiary, branch and competitor information business records and analytics.
If you have problems with D&B Hoovers try one or all of the following:
- Close the Hoovers tab, then reopen the link
- Clear your browser history
- Search incognito
- Above the photos on the Comm Library website, click on the “Databases” tab. Search for “Hoovers” on the page that opens, then click on the link to “Hoovers Academic Pro.”
News Stories
- Database of company, executive officer, and industry information in a searchable database. Includes parent, subsidiary, branch and competitor information business records and analytics.
- Provides recent business news.
- Provides the most recent news and business stories.
- Provides recent business news and information on companies, products, consumers, and trends.
Info on Consumers
- 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
- 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
- Google: “company name” and “press releases”
Online Style Guides
Citing Online Advertising & Business Sources in APA
- LibGuide containing APA citation guidelines and examples for citing advertising and business sources.
- Please remember to double check your citations against a style guide. Citation generators are a good starting point, but they do make errors.
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