Now that we no longer subscribe to Hoover’s, we’re seeing a number of students asking where it is and how to access it. Many of those students looking for Hoover’s are in BUS 1000 and have been using the Beginner’s Guide to Business Research tutorial, which points them to that database as a way to get basic company info.
Louise says that we’ll get that tutorial updated so it no longer mentions Hoover’s. In the meanwhile, she recommended to me that we steer students to Mergent Online, which will give them the basic info they need (including the ability to generate a stock price chart for a company to which you can add data for up to four other companies). She also suggested we send students to Business & Company Resource Center.
I’d also like to note that with the redesign of the EBSCOhost interface, there is a slightly less circuitous route to get to the thorough company profiles in Business Source Complete that are published by Datamonitor. Here’s the fastest way to find a Datamonitor company profile in BSC:
- From the main search screen, click “More” in the top navigation bar (up where it says “New Search | Publications | Thesaurus | Author Profiles”
- When you click “More,” select “Company Profiles” from the drop down list of options
- On the Company Profiles page that opens, search by company name and then click the corresponding PDF icon for the company in the search results list.
Thanks for mentioning the path to those datamonitor reports – they’re a key resource and were needlessly hard to find after ebsco’s previous redesign.
Although we no longer subscribe to the Hoover’s database, I would like to point out that Westlaw Campus has the Hoover’s company records in the shortcuts under the News Tab. Also, if you search Lexis-Nexis sources for Hoovers, the private and public company records are available. I have shown these to students who have told me that they were told to use Hoover’s. A BUS 1000 student I helped last week was in an entry level class. You can easily email the results, in either database, which the student appreciated. (We do have a limited number of simultaneous users to Westlaw campus.)
Also, private company information can be found in the D&B Company Database on Mergent Online. As D&B and Hoovers are now merged, the information should be similar, if not the same, as what’s on Hoover’s.
“Beginner’s Guide to Business Research” still mentions the Hoover database as of 09/07/2012.
Thanks for mentioning it! We’re working on having that tutorial updated as soon as we can.