Datamonitor company reports can be found in the database called, "Business Source Elite."

Business Source Elite is listed on the Rod Library Business Portal. It also is listed on the Rod Library home page under Databases A-Z.

After connecting to Business Source Elite, click the Company Profiles link in the middle near the top of the page. After reaching the Company Profiles part of the database, enter a specific company name such as Hy-Vee in the search box or browse by letter of the alphabet. After reaching the page that lists the company, click on "Datamonitor Report" in the PDF Complete Report column.

Datamonitor company profiles usually include sections such as the following: Business Description, History, Major Products and Services, SWOT analysis, and Top Competitors. The SWOT analysis includes a summary table plus a few paragraphs on each factor listed in the table.

The Business Source Elite entry on the Library Business Portal page includes a short video that shows these steps.

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Business journal databases like ABI/INFORM Global provide a way to limit results to academic (or scholarly or peer-reviewed) . This method does not work perfectly, but it will get you to academic journals faster. In the case of ABI/INFORM, check the box for Scholarly Journals at the bottom of the search box, or click the Scholarly Journals tab after you get the search results.

Let's say the management concept is social responsibility. If you want articles that deal with some specific company, such as Nike, enter the term like this in Basic Search in ABI/INFORM:

nike and social responsibility

If you want to find articles on social responsibility in regard to a specific company, and it doesn't matter which company, enter the search like this:

case studies and social responsibility

This tends to get articles that discuss a specific company or companies and the other specified topic.

The search can be tightened up in some cases by going to Advanced Search and looking for
cases studies [dropdown: in Subject]
and
social responsibility

ABI/INFORM is available from the Rod Library home page under Databases A-Z and also from the Rod Library Business Portal.

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Rod Library recently subscribed to an electronic journal package from the American Accounting Association (AAA). It contains the latest six years of the 13 journals listed below. AAA says it does not plan to drop any coverage, so the number of years covered will grow.

Use the UNISTAR Journal Title index or the Article Finder on the Rod Library home page to get to the electronic versions of these titles. Electronic versions of some of these journals are available for other years in other databases. For example, The Accounting Review is available electronically from 1926 - 2002 in JSTOR.

Print copies will no longer be collected. The ones already received will not be withdrawn, though, and can be found in the periodicals areas of the bottom floor of the library.

•"The Accounting Review"
•"Accounting Horizons"
•"Issues in Accounting Education"
•"Accounting and the Public Interest" (e-only)
•"AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory"
•"Current Issues in Auditing" (e-only, open access)
•"Behavior Research in Accounting"
•"Journal of the American Taxation Association"
•"Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting"
•"Journal of Information Systems"
•"Journal of International Accounting Research"
•"Journal of Legal Tax Research" (e-only)
•"Journal of Management Accounting Research"

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