The Business & Company Resource Center provides business, company, and industry information in a variety of formats. More than 11,000 U.S. and international companies and 53 industries are covered. The database indexes and abstracts articles from approximately 4,400 periodical titles, of which more than 2,800 are full-text and more than 700 are peer-reviewed. Coverage varies greatly by title.
Search options are name, ticker symbol, industry code number, product/brand name, or geographic location. Industry search options are industry code and industry description. Article search limits include full-text, peer-reviewed, and date. Advanced Search allows you to select a content area (news/magazines, company profiles, investment reports, suits and claims, etc.); select a field (keyword, full-text, SIC code, subject, journal name, etc.), and limit your search (by date, full-text, peer-reviewed, etc.).
Use AND, OR, NOT to create a narrower or broader search.
Use the “*” symbol at the end of a word stem to search multiple endings of a word (example – econom* would retrieve economy, economics, economies, and economize). Use the “?” to replace one character within a word (for example: wom?n would retrieve woman and women). You may use more than one “?” in a word.
Enter phrases using quotation marks. For example, “business plan”
You can print or email records that you retrieve.
Articles which are available in full-text are identified in the results listing with either Text, Text with Graphics or PDF. If full-text is not available, clicking on the SFX button will identify other UCF databases that may provide access to the full-text of the article
Online help instructions are available by clicking on Help or Search Tips in the upper middle of the screen.