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This guide lists resources that provide overviews or reports on particular industries. Start here for trends, challenges, projections, key players, statistics, or tips on analyzing a company in a specific industry.
Resources differ in their content, sources, and methodology; consult more than one.
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Books
Use the Books tab to find industry-specific resources.
Articles
Use the Articles tab to search the core article databases and Lexis-Nexis Academic for recent information or comments and analysis from other industry experts or market research firms.
Broad Industry Level
- Standard & Poor's Netadvantage Choose "Industry Surveys" for U.S. and international reports in HTML or PDF format. Also view "Stock Reports" in company profiles. Surveys and the "Trends and Projections" are retained historically in print.
Eisenhower Stacks HC 106.6 S75 - Mergent Online In-depth reports from Mergent analysts cover the major industries by region (North America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe).
- Value Line Investment Survey Use Company Lookup for analysis on companies and their competitors. Use Industry Lookup for industry-specific reports. Also refer to the guides for Value Line's unique ranking system for companies and industries.
Narrower Industry Level
- MarketResearch.com Academic Current and archived market research reports, by ICON, Kalorama and Packaged Facts, are provided by Market Research.com for consumer goods, health care, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and other industries. Includes reports on demographic groups.
- Mintel Oxygen U.S. and international reports on consumer goods and services. Includes data on brands, products, and consumers. Users must set up their Mintel profile from a JHU computer, using their JHU e-mail address, before accessing remotely.
- Marketline Business Information Center Over 2,000 national, global, and country-specific reports at a more specific industrial level. Includes reports from Datamonitor.
- Business Insights Issue-driven reports on market drivers and hot topics.
- Gartner Advisory Intraweb Analysis on the technology and communications industry. Use Advanced search to search within subscribed content. Users must access Gartner via the JHU Portal regardless of their location.
Other International Industry Reports
Print Resources:
Panorama of EU Industry
Government Publications I-EC 28:
Websites:
Export.gov
Search by country and then industry.
Databases:
Stat-USA
Click on GLOBUS/NTDB to view international industry reports and other trade publications.
PAIS International
International industry overviews for specific markets
EIU Country Profiles and Reports
In-depth annual reports and quarterly updates on individual countries or regions, by the Economist Intelligence Unit
SourceOECD
SourceOECD is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Includes publications pertaining to OECD member countries.
World Bank E-Library
Publications from the World Bank
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