The Fashion Industry:  Sociological, Psychological and Economics Impacts (Fischer)

Online Catalog: Books and other library materials

Use NUcat (the online library catalog) to identify books that the library has, as well as journal titles--not journal articles , microfilm, videos, and other catalogued material. NUcat will also tell you whether material is in the main library or in another Northwestern University library.

To obtain materials from other libraries, use the request forms from the Interlibrary Loan Department.

Business Resources: Company, Industry, Marketing, and Management Information

Business Articles

ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest)
Business articles from more than 2,000 U.S. and international English-language business and management journals. Full-text is available for a majority of articles. Covers topics such as accounting and auditing, advertising and sales, data processing and information management, economics, finance and financial management, law and taxation, management science, marketing, and human resources.

Business Source Premier
Business articles from magazines, journals, and trade publications, as well as company, industry,
and marketing reports on a variety of topics.

Company Information

Hoover's Online access to "Pro" version
Excellent source for all kinds of public and private company information. The Kellogg School of Management subscribes to the Pro version for the NU community. Free version at www.hoovers.com (outside of NU domains) provides access brief profiles rather than full profiles of US public and private companies.

Industry and Marketing Information

Mintel Market Research Reports
First-time users must create a login profile. Covers US, European and some Asian markets in the following: automotive, consumer lifestyles, food, household, media, retail, beauty, health, drink and tobacco, leisure, technology, clothing, electrical goods, travel, life stages, personal finances, and miscellaneous.

MarketResearch.com Academic
Market research reports covering business services, consumer goods, food and beverages, demographics, heavy industry, life sciences and technology and media.

Statistical Abstract of the United States Unrestricted
Contains a wealth of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States from across multiple federal agencies. Covers population, health, education, law enforcement, government finances, labor, income, business enterprise, agriculture, natural resources, construction, trade, manufactures, trade, arts, recreation, and comparative international statistics.


Finding the full text of an article in a database

If the article citations you find in databases do not include full text, click on Find it @ NU which searches across many other indexing databases to find electronic full text of the article, if it exists, in the NU Library electronic environment. Find it @ NU will also lead to a link to NUcat, the library catalog.

Link into NUcat if no full text of the article is available online. You can then search NUcat by the Journal Title (not the article title) to determine if our library owns the article you need in the paper copy.

General and Multidisciplinary Article Databases

News Article Databases

LexisNexis Academic
Full text articles from several thousand news, legal and business publications.
Note: The New York Times full text is available from 1980 to current.
The Washington Post is available from 1977 to current.

Chicago Tribune
Full text articles from 1985 to current.