indicates a resource for which access
is restricted to current Rensselaer students, faculty and
staff, and walk-in users of the Libraries. If you are accessing
such a database via a non-Rensselaer Internet Service Provider,
you will be prompted to use your RCS
ID and password or library account to log in.
Trade publications, business magazines, newspapers, and news
wires are excellent sources for information on new
technologies. For example, you can do a key word search for the
word biotechnology and the phrase "new technology" or "new
technologies." The library has a number of databases which
should be useful. For tips on search techniques such as
phrase searching in databases, see
Trade Publications & Newspapers at Folsom Library. Use
the following online sources to search for information:
Help Guides
Trade Publications & Business Magazines
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry 
- Provides US and international information on
advertising, economics, human resources, finance, marketing,
computers, companies, and more. Coverage from 1971 on.
Includes full text
ABI/INFORM Global
- Search more than 750 business periodicals
and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users
with the latest industry news, product and competitive
information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other
topics. Contains publications on every major industry,
including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and
many more. Coverage from 1971 on. Includes full
text.
ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery)
- Over 31,000 full-text articles published in
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) periodicals, 1985 to
present, and ACM and ACM SIG proceedings, 1991 to present.
Indexing and TOCs from 1985. ACM SIG newsletters will be added
when available. Includes full text.
Business & Company Resource Center - Provides business and industry content for
periodical and news articles; press releases; domestic and
international companies; industry associations; corporate
hierarchies, chronologies, and histories; brand and product
listings by company; industry and company rankings; investment
reports; financial overviews for companies; and human
resources' civil claims filed against companies.
Includes full text.
Business Source Premier - Provides full text for over 2,710 scholarly
business journals covering management, economics, finance,
accounting, international business and much more. This database
is updated on a daily basis. Includes full
text.
LexisNexis Academic
- Provides access to a wide range of news,
business, legal, medical and reference information. Coverage
dates back more than 20 years for many areas. Includes
full text. Directions: Click on Business.
ProQuest Health Management - Find complete, full-text information from
leading publications covering all aspects of health
administration, including public health and safety, hospitals,
finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies,
labor relations and law.
Research Library - Coverage of a broad range of subjects
including arts, business, children, education, general
interest, health, humanities, international, law, military,
multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and
women's interests..Coverage from 1971 on. Includes full
text
Newspapers & News
Wires
The Albany
Business Review - Includes coverage back to 1976; Produced
by Bizjournals, the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan
business newspapers.
ABI/INFORM Dateline
- Search a unique resource focusing on
hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large
corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups,
executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news.
Provides access to business information not typically found in
national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information
on local markets, and more gathered from major business
tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city,
state, and regional business publications. Coverage from 1985
on.
Barron's - A weekly publication for investors. Provides
in-depth articles examining companies and industries to
spotlight possible investment opportunities.
Business & Company Resource Center - Provides business and industry content for
periodical and news articles; press releases; domestic and
international companies; industry associations; corporate
hierarchies, chronologies, and histories; brand and product
listings by company; industry and company rankings; investment
reports; financial overviews for companies; and human
resources' civil claims filed against companies.
Includes full text.
Crayon - Links
to U.S. and foreign newspapers. Some sites include search
engine. Content can be free of fee depending on newspaper.
Chicago Tribune
- Provides reporting and analysis of
regional, national, and international news.
LexisNexis Academic
- A full text news wire database that
incorporates business wires from all over the world, including
regional news. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Includes full text.
Los Angeles Times
- Major daily newspaper from Los Angeles.
With the nation's largest editorial department, it offers
extensive coverage of national, international, and local
news.
National Newspapers (ProQuest)
-Includes coverage of 27 newspapers
including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and
Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and
minority interest papers.
New York Times
- Abstracts and full-text of articles
available from last 90 days. Full images of charts, tables and
other types of illustrations are not included. Full
text: last 90 days; abstracts: 1994 on.
NewspaperSource (EBSCOhost)
- Provides full text for 245 regional US
newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six news wires,
and nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor, and
The Los Angeles Times for a total of 194 full text newspapers
and other sources. Includes full text.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost) - Provides comprehensive full text coverage for
regional business publications. Regional Business News
incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and
newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the
United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Wall Street Journal
- Abstracts and full-text of articles from
1995 on. Full images of charts, tables and other types of
illustrations are not included. Coverage is 1995 on.
Includes full text.
