FDU LibGuides: ENGW 1002 (Millman): Food: Library Databases

Recommended Databases

The following databases are most likely to contain information needed to complete assignments in ENGW1002 - Food.

ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window ABI/INFORM Complete consists of three Business databases, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Combined you can search over 4000 business periodicals on advertising, economic, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, regional business publications and more.   Database Guide 
Useful for:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Management – including HR management
- Marketing
Includes:
- Scholarly journals
- Case studies
- Conference proceedings
- Dissertations and theses
- News
- Industry reports (Plunkett Analytics)
- Company profiles
- Content of ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform Dateline, and ABI Inform Trade and Industry
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Using ABI/INFORM Complete

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Business from Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window Provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
Useful for:

Management
Finance
Economics
Marketing
Accounting

Includes:

Academic journals
News
Videos (extremely limited)

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Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles covering marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics going as far back as 1886, with searchable cited references back to 1998.
Useful for:

Accounting
Finance
Marketing
Management Information Systems
Management
Entrepreneurship

Includes:

Journal Articles
Company Profiles (MarketLine Reports)
Industry Reports (MarketLine Reports & Barnes Reports)
Harvard Business Review Articles
Newspapers

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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window Communication & Mass Media Complete provides research solutions in areas related to communication and mass media. Offers full text for over 500 titles and contains citation coverage for over 620 additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered.
Culinary Arts Collection This link opens in a new window Provides more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content.
D & B Hoovers This link opens in a new window This database provides in-depth profiles of international companies (including key executives and detailed financial information), as well as industry analysis, global business news, and RMA Industry Norms.
Useful for:
Finance
Market research

Includes:

Industry reports (Freedonia and MarketLine)
Company reports
Financial analyst’s reports
Company financial statements
Company News Alerts (triggers)
Competitors
Company financial ratios
Corporate Structure
Company Executives
RMA industry norms
SWOT
Stock Report (incl. valuation tearsheet)
SEC filings
News
Products/Operations

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Diversity Studies Collection This link opens in a new window Provides 150 journals exploring cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community.
Environmental Studies in Context This link opens in a new window Focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment. Topics include global warming, food safety, access to health care, and the impact of economic development on international relations.
Health & Wellness Collection This link opens in a new window Provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.
Mintel This link opens in a new window Mintel is a consumer research database with an international scope. In over 600 market research reports, it provides data for entrepreneurial studies, sales marketing, and target markets, as well as key current statistical information. Mintel can be used across academic disciplines to retrieve timely cultural, demographic, and environmental trends and statistics that affect international economic conditions.  Database Guide 
Useful for:

Marketing
Market research
Entrepreneurship (secondary)

Includes:

Industry reports
Consumer Markets and Industry Reports
Company market share
Brand market share
Market size and forecast
Demographics
Target market
Market opportunities
Consumer survey data
Competitive strategies
News
Trends

Guide:
Searching Mintel

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Plunkett Research Online This link opens in a new window Plunkett Research Online provides industry analysis, research, trends and timely industry specific statistics. If you are looking for competitive intelligence information, account plan or sales guide data, market research material, industry marketing data, product strategy data, specific industry trend analysis, industry statistics, job search data, company profiles and executive lists this is the database you should consult.
Useful for:

Economics
Entrepreneurship
Market Research

Includes:

Industry trends
Industry statistical data
Financial statements
Executives
Company profiles
Compensation data (limited)
Industry associations
Job and career information

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Business - Marketing
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive research database covering sociology as well as related areas: It provides full text for some 890 journals dating back to 1908, as well as full text for over 850 books and monographs and over 16,800 conference papers. Indexing is provided for more than 4,000 journals, with abstracts for over 1,300 "core" journals dating back to 1895.

See below for some recommended databases for scholarly articles, culture and gender studies topics, marketing, production, and distribution information, and nutrition and health topics..

Databases

ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window ABI/INFORM Complete consists of three Business databases, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Combined you can search over 4000 business periodicals on advertising, economic, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, regional business publications and more.   Database Guide 
Useful for:
- Accounting
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Management – including HR management
- Marketing
Includes:
- Scholarly journals
- Case studies
- Conference proceedings
- Dissertations and theses
- News
- Industry reports (Plunkett Analytics)
- Company profiles
- Content of ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform Dateline, and ABI Inform Trade and Industry
Guide:
Using ABI/INFORM Complete

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Business from Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window Provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
Useful for:

Management
Finance
Economics
Marketing
Accounting

Includes:

Academic journals
News
Videos (extremely limited)

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Business - General
Economics & Theory from Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window Provides access to full-text academic journals and magazines including more than 1,800 titles.
Useful for:
Economics

Includes:

Journals articles on various aspects of business with an emphasis on economic theory and application
Magazine articles
News

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Business - General
Business Market Research Collection‎ This link opens in a new window This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
Useful for:

Economics
Market Research
Entrepreneurship

Includes:

Industry reports
Country reports
OxReach articles – analytical articles
Company description – includes marketing strategy, geographic reach and acquisitions
Company history (limited and not available for all companies)
Company financials
Competitors
Competitive Landscape – comparing financial data including ratios to competitors
Executives including biographies

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Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles covering marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics going as far back as 1886, with searchable cited references back to 1998.
Useful for:

Accounting
Finance
Marketing
Management Information Systems
Management
Entrepreneurship

Includes:

Journal Articles
Company Profiles (MarketLine Reports)
Industry Reports (MarketLine Reports & Barnes Reports)
Harvard Business Review Articles
Newspapers

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Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Business - Management
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window Communication & Mass Media Complete provides research solutions in areas related to communication and mass media. Offers full text for over 500 titles and contains citation coverage for over 620 additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered.
Mintel This link opens in a new window Mintel is a consumer research database with an international scope. In over 600 market research reports, it provides data for entrepreneurial studies, sales marketing, and target markets, as well as key current statistical information. Mintel can be used across academic disciplines to retrieve timely cultural, demographic, and environmental trends and statistics that affect international economic conditions.  Database Guide 
Useful for:

Marketing
Market research
Entrepreneurship (secondary)

Includes:

Industry reports
Consumer Markets and Industry Reports
Company market share
Brand market share
Market size and forecast
Demographics
Target market
Market opportunities
Consumer survey data
Competitive strategies
News
Trends

Guide:
Searching Mintel

Similar Resources:
Business - General
Business - Marketing
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Plunkett Research Online This link opens in a new window Plunkett Research Online provides industry analysis, research, trends and timely industry specific statistics. If you are looking for competitive intelligence information, account plan or sales guide data, market research material, industry marketing data, product strategy data, specific industry trend analysis, industry statistics, job search data, company profiles and executive lists this is the database you should consult.
Useful for:

Economics
Entrepreneurship
Market Research

Includes:

Industry trends
Industry statistical data
Financial statements
Executives
Company profiles
Compensation data (limited)
Industry associations
Job and career information

Similar Resources:
Business - General
Business - Marketing
Business - Company/Industry Profiles

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window Communication & Mass Media Complete provides research solutions in areas related to communication and mass media. Offers full text for over 500 titles and contains citation coverage for over 620 additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered.
Diversity Studies Collection This link opens in a new window Provides 150 journals exploring cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community.
Pop Culture Collection This link opens in a new window Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive research database covering sociology as well as related areas: It provides full text for some 890 journals dating back to 1908, as well as full text for over 850 books and monographs and over 16,800 conference papers. Indexing is provided for more than 4,000 journals, with abstracts for over 1,300 "core" journals dating back to 1895.

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window Communication & Mass Media Complete provides research solutions in areas related to communication and mass media. Offers full text for over 500 titles and contains citation coverage for over 620 additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered.
Contemporary Women's Issues This link opens in a new window Provides full text access to articles, “gray” literature and alternative publications on women and women’s issues from over 190 countries. Includes publications in journals and newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, and government and international agencies.
Diversity Studies Collection This link opens in a new window Provides 150 journals exploring cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community.
Gender Studies Collection This link opens in a new window Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive research database covering sociology as well as related areas: It provides full text for some 890 journals dating back to 1908, as well as full text for over 850 books and monographs and over 16,800 conference papers. Indexing is provided for more than 4,000 journals, with abstracts for over 1,300 "core" journals dating back to 1895.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, alternative and complementary medicine, consumer health, health sciences librarianship, and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, it offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, and book chapters. Full text, dating back to 1937, is provided for over 770 journals; indexing is provided for over 4,600 journals.
Useful for:
Nursing
Pharmacy
Allied Health

Includes:

Scholarly journals
Case studies
Clinical trials
Evidence-based care sheets
News
Standards of practice
Systematic reviews
Videos
CEU

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Culinary Arts Collection This link opens in a new window Provides more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content.
Health & Wellness Collection This link opens in a new window Provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.
Health and Medicine This link opens in a new window Covers a complete range of health care topics. With more than 2,500 full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries,
MEDLINE This link opens in a new window MEDLINE with Full Text includes the authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more found in MEDLINE, but additionally provides full text (dating back to 1965) for over 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE.
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new window Provides information on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies.

Agriculture Collection This link opens in a new window Provides access to more than 600 journal titles is focused on agriculture-related fields.
Culinary Arts Collection This link opens in a new window Provides more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content.
D & B Hoovers This link opens in a new window This database provides in-depth profiles of international companies (including key executives and detailed financial information), as well as industry analysis, global business news, and RMA Industry Norms.
Useful for:
Finance
Market research

Includes:

Industry reports (Freedonia and MarketLine)
Company reports
Financial analyst’s reports
Company financial statements
Company News Alerts (triggers)
Competitors
Company financial ratios
Corporate Structure
Company Executives
RMA industry norms
SWOT
Stock Report (incl. valuation tearsheet)
SEC filings
News
Products/Operations

Guide:

Using D&B Hoovers

Similar Resources:
Business - General
Business - Company/Industry Profiles
Environmental Studies and Policy This link opens in a new window Provides 300 journals and book reference content covering issues in environmental studies.
Environmental Studies in Context This link opens in a new window Focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment. Topics include global warming, food safety, access to health care, and the impact of economic development on international relations.
Gardening And Horticulture Collection This link opens in a new window Provides more than 100 journals, as well as more than 20 reference titles devoted to the field.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

Other Useful Databases

While not subject-specific, these resources cover a wide range of topics, and so may be useful for finding additional resources.

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window A collection of more than 8,000 journals covering a variety of academic disciplines — from science, technology and medicine to the humanities.  Database Guide 
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed publications.
Access World News This link opens in a new window This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics.   Database Guide 
General OneFile This link opens in a new window General OneFile is a collection of more than 8,000 journals with full manual indexing, a robust backfile and coverage of a variety of academic disciplines — from science, technology and medicine to the humanities. The majority of the content is peer-reviewed and available in full-text (both HTML and PDF).
JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new window The JSTOR journal archives provide full-text collections of core scholarly journals across a variety of disciplines from the arts to the sciences with a strong emphasis on the humanities.  Database Guide 
Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database that provides 200 topics, each with an overview, point, and counterpoint.It contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 600 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.
Research Library This link opens in a new window Search ProQuest for information from over 3,300 newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, and physical sciences.  Database Guide 
SAGE Premier This link opens in a new window The SAGE Premier collection consists of over 640 peer-reviewed journals from SAGE Publications in the fields of business, the humanities, the social sciences, science, technology, and medicine. Articles from January 1999 to the present are available in full text.  Database Guide

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