There are many news sources available on the Web and in the Library. The following Web resources represent but a few of the many good sources freely available to researchers.

On the Web (general business):

Advertising Age  Weekly publication that covers all aspects of the advertising business.

Barron's Online  General business and financial news; Barron's Weekly counterpart.

Business Week  Lacks the depth of the print version but good for general business news.

Business Wire  Recent news of major U.S. corporations. General access is free, but you must register.

Business.com  Business search engine with a wide variety of links chosen by research analysts.

Career Magazine  Job openings, resume bank, articles, relocation resources, etc. Search for jobs by industry, or use the "Quick Job Search" tool.

CEO Express  Business oriented links page with links to business newspapers, magazines, business academic publications, and more.

Entrepreneur Magazine  Information and articles on starting a business, franchising information, home based business, sales & marketing, e-commerce, etc.

FBO Daily  CBD Today claims to contain approximately 25% more current announcements than the actual printed edition.

Financial Times  Access is free, but registration is required for certain articles. This is a London based paper which reports on international business.

FindNews.org  News resource site that includes a business news category with links in current news, books, breaking news, and news media.

Fortune  Articles on business and finance, special issues (e.g. the Fortune 500), stock quote search.

Gebbie All–in–One Directory  The daily newspaper section lists newspaper links by state and city.

Harvard Business Review  View article abstracts for free; subscription necessary for full text. Articles may be ordered.

Inc. Online  Articles and good special features such as Local News, Guide to Finance, Guide to the Internet, Guide to Biz Tech.

Industry Week  Articles of interest on business and industry; "Research" provides company & industry databases, IW rankings.

Journal of Commerce  Frequent news updates every business day on topics relating to commerce; includes a career center.

Los Angeles Times  The Business section covers national & international news, as well as news on different local business sectors.

PR Newswire  Provides up to the minute business news; news is divided on the left by today's news, subject, industry, and global.

Reed  Reed makes available selected articles from several of its business journals on this site.

Wall Street Journal  The business newspaper. Some content is free but much of it requires paid subscription.

Financial news sites:

The Economist  Authoritative information on world politics and global business, finance, & economics. Current issue is free.

Forbes  News and analysis of corporations, trends, and individuals. Many special reports.

Investor's Business Daily  Comprehensive coverage of business, financial, and national news. Registration is free.

Kiplinger Online  News and business forecasts, personal finance, retirement advice, and a section on "Kids & Money."

Money  Online version of the popular magazine with the same features and information; the finance section of the popular CNN news website.

Worth Online  Personal finance magazine with interesting annual features such as the "250 richest towns in the U.S."

The newspapers and journals listed below are available in print form in the Main Library. Some of the journals may be checked out of the Library to read at home or office. All may be used for free. While journals and newspapers online are excellent for current news and quick overviews, they often do not offer the depth of their print counterparts. Sometimes only lead stories and columns are offered in the Web versions and sometimes only summaries of articles are available without paying for a subscription to the Web product. It is also true that many people prefer to read longer articles in print form.

General business publications:

• Barron's National Business & Financial Weekly
• Business Week
• Economist
• Forbes
• Fortune
• Los Angeles Times
• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal

Barron's, Business Week, Forbes and Fortune are among the best known business magazines. They have similar coverage, focusing on news of business, finance, and industry. Fortune has longer articles that emphasize general concepts and issues. The Wall Street Journal is the premiere business newspaper, but the Los Angeles Times and New York Times also provide excellent business coverage, especially for their localities.

Publications that focus on Finance:

• Money
  Includes articles on stocks and mutual fund tips.
   
• Kiplinger's Personal Finance
  Financial advice on a wide range of topics; business forecasts.
   
• Forbes
  Articles on successful companies and individuals, industries, marketing, law, taxes, technology, computers, communications, investments, management performance and global business trends.
   
• Fortune
  Columns include features on the marketplace, tech movers and shakers, career trends, U.S. politics, and even European business. Look for their annual lists ranging on topics from "40 richest under 40" to the benchmark "Fortune 500."
   
• Investor's Business Daily
  Provides both concise and comprehensive coverage of business, financial, economic, and national news. Much of the paper's expertise comes from its sister company, William O’Neil & Company, a firm that provides research services to mutual funds, investment counselors, banks, and insurance companies.
   
• Value Line Investment Survey
  Available at the Library in both the standard and the expanded edition. It briefly but comprehensively summarizes an array of stocks based on their characteristics. Value Line has the reputation for recommending profitable stocks and publishes price–earnings ratios based analysts' estimates of future earnings to serve as an investor's guide to selecting stocks that may be presently undervalued.
   
• Standard & Poor's Credit Week
  Provides ratings, trends, and outlook for fixed income securities. It also reports on issuers who have a change in credit quality.
   
• Standard & Poor's Outlook
  Analyzes business and stock market trends and contains brief data on individual securities and buy/sell recommendations. It includes current S & P stock market indexes.
   
• Wall Street Journal
  Nation's foremost investment daily.

Use the Library's online catalog to locate these and other financial periodicals. Suggested subject headings include: Investments and Periodicals; Securities and Periodicals; Portfolio Management and Periodicals; Personal Finance and Periodicals.

Local business publications:

• Los Angeles Business Journal
  Journal of industry, news, finance, and business trends covering the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
   
• Los Angeles Times
  Reports on local, national, and international business news in the Business section.

Small Business & Special Market publications:

• Black Enterprise
  A monthly business magazine aimed at African-American professionals and entrepreneurs; provides information on personal finance, investment strategies, and entrepreneurship.
   
• Entrepreneur
  Articles, interviews, business profiles, financing, marketing, advertising and legislative news of note aimed at the small business owner or those planning to start a new or additional business.
   
• Hispanic Business
  Articles and news for and about Hispanic business in the United States.
   
• Inc.
  Articles on financial & personnel management, marketing, administration, sales and operations for executives & managers of small to mid-sized companies.

All are especially helpful to small business and niche marketing, although they are national in coverage and publish articles of interest to the general business community.

Industry Specific publications:

• Industry Week
  For management professionals in the world's wealth-creating industries.
   
• Advertising Age 
  The latest marketing, advertising, and media news.
   
• Adweek 
  For advertising executives.
   
• Agency Sales 
  For manufacturers' agents and their principals.
   
• Aviation Week & Space Technology
  Articles on the aviation and aerospace industries.
   
• Variety
  Articles & more on all aspects of the entertainment industry.
   
• Hollywood Reporter
  For the entertainment industry.
   
• Monthly Labor Review
  Research in a wide variety of fields—the labor force, the economy, employment, inflation, productivity, occupational injuries and illnesses, wages, prices, and many more. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

To locate journals on a specific business or industry, consult Business Organizations, Agencies, and Publications Directory, Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory, or Standard Rate & Data's Business Publications volume. To search the online catalog, use a subject search for the name of the industry plus the term "periodicals." For example, "advertising periodicals" or "banking periodicals."

Go to the Library catalog

On the Library network:

• InfoTrac OneFile
  A large periodicals database featuring the full text and citations for a wide range of newspaper and magazine titles including many business publications; indexes over a thousand periodicals from 1980 to the present.
   
• Business and Company Resource Center
  A comprehensive research tool that meets the business research needs of the businessperson, student, job seeker, or casual investor. It offers dynamic, accurate, and up-to-date company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies.
   
• Newsbank
  Consists of two databases: America’s Newspapers, which indexes the full text of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Orange County Register, San Diego Union-Tribune, USA Today, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle from roughly 1985 to the present; and Noticias en Español, which provides full text articles in Spanish. Search for full text newspaper articles on business in both databases.

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