This guide supports entrepreneurial research connected to FSU's JMC curriculum, co-curricular activities such as the Big Idea Competition and any FSU-affiliated business mentoring program. This guide is only a start to the diversity of resources available in the FSU entreprenuerial ecosystem.
Through this guide, you can access the following kinds of resources:
For information and resources for non-FSU Tallahassee entrepreneurs, please visit our "Business Resources Available to the Public" Research Guide!
Use your FSU email address to create an account for access to the WSJ.com website and app. Faculty and staff must refresh their access (check your fsu.edu email) once a year.
Abbreviation: wsjcom
Vendor: Dow Jones & Company
Type: Newspapers and Newswires
Navigate to https://www.nytimes.com, select Log In, and then the “Continue with work or school single sign-on” link. Login with your FSU email address to access the NYtimes.com website and app. If you had a prior personal account, please contact the New York Times directly for assistance in canceling, before creating your FSU account. Find them at nytimes.com/help, or 1-855-698-1157, or edu@nytimes.com.
Abbreviation: nytcom
Vendor: The New York Times Company
Type: Newspapers and Newswires
A collection of Industry Market Research and Industry Risk Ratings. Coverage includes over 700 U.S. industries in over 1100 industry-specific reports. Research reports contain trends, statistics and analysis on market size, market share of competitors, forecasting, and industry growth rates. Performance analysis includes emerging trends, recent production performance and 5-year forecasts. The U.S. Specialized Industry Reports series covers niche industries such as pawn shops, boat insurance companies, air gun manufacturers and circus operators.
Abbreviation: ibisworld
Vendor: IBISWorld
Subjects: Business, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Hospitality, Marketing
Type: Reports
Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full-text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,300 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 40,000 most-cited authors in the database. This database is a strong source for full-text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Abbreviation: bscomp
Vendor: EBSCO
Coverage: 1886–Current
Subjects: Business, Business Legal Studies, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Hospitality, Insurance, Management & Strategy, Marketing, Real Estate, Retail Entrepreneurship, Sport Management, Urban and Regional Planning
Type: Datasets / Statistics, E-Book Collections, E-Journal Collections, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, Proceedings, Reports
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