Industry Codes
- What Are Industry Codes and How Do I Find Them?Finding SIC and NAICS codes.
Periodicals
- Business History ReviewThis periodical is a good secondary source on American business history, including history of labor relations and personnel management.
- Business Source CompleteBusiness Source Complete provides full text for scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,800 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for top scholarly journals, including the Harvard Business Review. It also includes industry and country reports from Euromonitor and company and industry reports from Datamonitor.
- EconLit with Full TextAbstracts, indexing, and full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics.
Statistics and Data
Additional links to economic statistics can be found at Catherwood's Labor Economics guide.
- CEIC Data ManagerCEIC Data contains economic, industrial and financial time-series data. Our Global Database offers unprecedented coverage of 221 countries in Asia, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East, Africa and the Americas. EIC also offers 18 macro-economic concepts, and 1,400,000 time series. Data comes from analysts on the ground and the prime national and regional statistical agencies and major industrial data issuing organizations of each country covered. The CEIC Data Manager provides access to the entire CEIC database from within the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application. Times-series can be directly retrieved from the database and imported into Excel for quick analysis.
- Federal Reserve Economic DataThis site offers a wealth of economic data and information to promote economic education and enhance economic research. The widely used database FRED is updated regularly and allows 24/7 access to regional and national financial and economic data. Using ALFRED, ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data, you can retrieve vintage versions of data that were available on specific dates in history. FRED is a database of over 3000 U.S. economic time series. With FRED, you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series.
- EIU Data ServicesFrom the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), this is a comprehensive database of economic indicators with historical series, estimates and forecasts, covering 278 series for 117 countries, as well as 40 regional aggregates, over the period 1980 - 2005+. [The number of countries covered, as well as the time period in this database changes over time, usually the numbers increase.]
- Employment Research Data Center (W.E. Upjohn Institute)The Upjohn Institute serves as the data repository for many research and evaluation projects sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. Data from these projects (along with specific information related to the data) and final reports are offered via download at no charge.
- Federal Reserve Archive (FRASER)FRASER preserves and provides access to economic and banking data and policy documents, including materials published across the Federal Reserve System.
- Historical Census Data BrowserUVa's Fisher Library site for historical censuses back to 1790
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Millenial Online EditionThis is a comprehensive collection of tables with hard-to-find historical statistics. Find stats on workers and immigrants. Also available in print.
- ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S.The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Data begins in 2013. For historical data, see separate listing, hosted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Publications of the U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFind scanned copies of BLS catalogs that list BLS publications from 1886-1998. Full text of the publications described in the catalogs can be found in U. S. libraries as well as in some historical subscription databases.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States (U.S. Census Bureau)Find a wide range of government-produced statistical tables from 1789-2012. Be sure to look at the tables' footnotes for find the recording agency. After 2013, data published as ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S., listed separately.
- U.S. Census Economic Data and InformationSee all the surveys and programs conducted by the U. S. Census Bureau that pertain to industries, companies, and business.
Searching Library Catalogs
For specific types of businesses, try searching with subject headings as follows:
- Construction— United States — History
- Railroads — United States — History
- Newspaper publishing — United States — History
To find industry-specific periodicals or membership directories, use subject headings such as:
- Trade Associations — United States — Directory
- Chemical Industry — periodicals
- WorldCatUse this multi-library catalog to find books and periodicals in a library near you.
Additional Resource Guides
- Historical Industry Research (LOC)An overview of print and electronic resources useful for historical industry research, including statistical sources.
Locating Archives
- Directory of Corporate Archives in the U.S. and CanadaPublished by the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Business Archives Section.
- Labor Archives in the U.S. and CanadaDirectory prepared by the Labor Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists (SAA).
- ArchiveGridIncludes a searchable database for catalog records for archival collections and items, and full-text guides to specific collections.