Industry-Specific Trends
- Passport
Country, industry, and consumer statistics and market research: Passport offers integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, comment from expert industry and country analysts as well as thousands of sources of further information. - Statista
Easy to use statistics search engine with access to more than a million statistics and facts.
- Deloitte Industry OutlooksOverviews of industry trends in technology, energy, health, finance, organizations, and more!
Brand/Company Information
Library Databases
- International Directory of Company Histories
Provides histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors. - Business Source Complete
This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. - ProQuest One Business
A comprehensive business database containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. Includes the full text of the Wall Street Journal. Formerly called ABI/INFORM Collection - StatistaEasy to use statistics search engine with access to more than a million statistics and facts.
- Nexis Uni
Replaces LexisNexis Academic.
More than 15,000 news, business, and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. - Data Axle Reference Solutions
Directory information for publicly and privately owned companies in the United States, as well as information about individual consumers. Formerly called Reference Solutions / ReferenceUSA.
Freely Available Web Sites
- Kantar BrandzLists of brand rankings and information about global brands. View the entire report, a chart, or an infographic. Free registration required to download the report.
- InterbrandView articles, reports, and lists of best brands in a variety of countries and industries.
Megatrends
- MegatrendsPrice Waterhouse Cooper's description and analysis of the five major trends impacting all areas of life and society now.
- Global Trends to 2030This extensive report, done by ESPAS, European Strategy and Policy Analysis System, looks at trends in Europe that also impact the world. There are sections on the trends, and suggested actions.
- What the Future?Ipsos' monthly trend magazine describing trends in society and how they will shape our world.
- Trendwatching: 2023 Trend CheckGreat descriptions of megatrends happening now, and how they will effect business and society into the future
- Bain & Company Macro TrendsUse the pull down menus to view trends by industry, service area, and type of information (article, video, etc.)
- GlobeScanWeekly insights about social, technology, and business trends.
World Trends
- World Resources Institute (WRI)WRI provides information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems by working with organizations and individuals throughout the world. At this website you’ll find environmental data and full-text research reports.
- Opposing Viewpoints
"Pro" and "con" arguments on controversial issues. Includes full-text materials drawn from print series such as Opposing Viewpoints, Current Controversies, At Issue, Contemporary Issues Companion, and Gale Information Plus series. It also provides full-text periodicals, newspapers, journals, pamphlets, primary source documents, statistics, images, web sites, and student research tools. - CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher provides award winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. Our reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked.
US Trends
- Urban InstituteThe Urban Institute gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs relating to social and economic issues. Research reports are available on their website.
- Pew Research CenterA non-partisan research group that collects and presents data, opinions, and reports on American attitudes, activities, and trends. Browse by topic, or type in your search.
Citing Your Sources
Whenever you do research, you will need to cite the information sources that you use. Most business scholars use APA style. Here are some tools that can help you with this task:
Gleeson Library's guide to citations: How? Why? When?
- APA 7th Edition Citations for Business SourcesAn excellent guide to using APA 7th edition style for popular business sources. Scroll through the guide to find an example for the business source you are using in your research. Compiled by librarians Naomi Schemm, Marcia Dellenbach, Zachary Grisham, Marianne Hageman, Natalia Tingle, Matt Trowbridge, and Amanda Wheatley
- Citing Business Databases in APA: Michigan State University GuideThis guide was created to help with citing some common business databases
- Citing Business Databases from the University of North Carolina at GreensboroThis guide has some additional business database examples in APA style.
- MLA Business Citations: Youngstown State UniversityScroll down the page to see citations for specific business web sites, reports, and databases cited in MLA style.
- Purdue OWLOur favorite style guide web site is the OWL from Purdue University.
- RefWorks
RefWorks allows users to create personal databases to manage, store, and share the information citations/references. Users can automatically insert references from their database into their papers and generate formatted bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds. See our RefWorks Guide for information about creating accounts, adding references, and using add-ons.
Getting Help!
There are several ways to obtain assistance with your research. Read on!
The School of Management has a library liaison named Penny Scott, and you can contact her for help.
Her contact information is: email: plscott@usfca.edu * phone: 415-422-5389
It is best to call or email ahead, or make an appointment, to make sure she is available!
If Penny is not available, or any time you need help, you can always get help, just Ask a Librarian!