Related Guides
Exploring a Company's Website
Here are the types of documents you can find by browsing the site map of the example website we used in class:
- annual reports
- presentations for investors
- progress reports
- fact sheets
- supplier list
- press releases
- SEC filings
- investor/shareholder directory
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Wayback MachineThis is an archive of the web. You are able to type in a URL and look at historic "snapshots" of what that webpage looked like at selected dates in the past.
Handouts for Finding Company Information
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Company Profiles in Business Source CompleteHandout with step-by-step instructions
Nonprofit Research
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Nonprofit Explorer Tool From ProPublicaUse this database to view summaries of 3 million tax returns from tax-exempt organizations and see financial details such as their executive compensation and revenue and expenses. You can browse IRS data released since 2013 and access more than 14 million tax filing documents going back as far as 2001.
Databases
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Business Source CompleteFind articles about business in magazines, newspapers and journals, author profiles, and country economic reports. Coverage varies, as early as 1886 to present. See handout titled "Company Profiles in Business Source Complete" for step-by-step instructions on locating information on a specific company.
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Academic Search CompleteFind articles in all subject areas in over 17,000 journals and magazines, with full text for most. Updated daily. Dates vary, some as early as 1865 to present.
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JSTORFull-text scholarly journals in many subject areas. We have Arts & Sciences I through X and Life Sciences. JSTOR has the beginning of each journal to 3, 4 or 5 years ago. How-to videos.
Local/Regional Business Information and National News
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Access World NewsA full-text collection of over 6700 primarily U.S. newspapers. Source for the New Orleans Advocate and Times-Picayune.
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New Orleans CitybusinessNew Orleans Citybusiness is the business newspaper of Metropolitan New Orleans covering news on business, banking, technology, real estate, construction, law, retail, and development.
Data Sources
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data.census.govData.census.gov is the new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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City of New Orleans Open DataIn 2016 the City of New Orleans adopted its first ever data policy with goals for cataloging and opening City data. Includes maps (food truck zones, grocery stores, restaurants - as indicated by occupational licenses, business associations, urban gardens, festivals and markets) and datasets (Certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise directory).
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Greater New Orleans Community Data Center (GNOCDC)New Orleans demographics, disaster recovery indicators, and actionable data visualization. Includes easy to use maps, high–demand downloadable spreadsheets and slideshows, video briefings, and objective analyses.
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Census Business Builder: Small Business EditionSmall Business Edition is primarily for small business owners who need key data for their business plan or to better understand their potential market. It presents data for a single type of business at a time.
examples of industry specific databases
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Hospitality & Tourism IndexIndustry and scholarly articles on the tourism and hospitality industries from more than 500 journals and magazines. Dates vary, some as far back as 1950 to present.
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CINAHL Plus with Full TextProvides citations to most English-language nursing journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, and journals from allied health disciplines. Also covers consumer health, health sciences librarianship, chiropractic, and health services administration literature. Covers 1982 to present.
Systems & Information Resources Librarian
Local Startup Information
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Greater New Orleans Startup ReportThe Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Tulane University has launched the Greater New Orleans Startup Report to address the need for regional benchmarking for the startup and early-stage economy. Thanks to overwhelming community support, for the very first time we have ecosystem-wide data that facilitate insights on revenue and hiring needs and provide clues as to what it will take to help our companies grow. https://freeman.tulane.edu/greater-new-orleans-startup-index