LibGuides: Supply Chain & Operations Management: Overview

Introduction to Guide

This guide is intended to help you begin your research paper and/or project and direct you to a variety of resources from the Thompson Library related to supply chain and operations management:

Reference books (print and online) that may be useful starting points for research.
Books --over 14 million books available through UM library system.
Article Databases (scholarly journals) covering your topic (over 75,000 journals)
Databases covering Company Information, Financials and Statistics
Industry Information and Statistics
Search tips for the library catalog and article databases

This Guide is intended for the use by University of Michigan-Flint students and employees. Users outside of UM-Flint may not be able to access many of the links provided.

Instructors wishing to investigate having a library Course Guide created for any course taught through UM-Flint, please contact your liaison librarian to discuss creating one.

Frequently Used Business Databases

Business Source Complete
1886-present. Case studies, company profiles, conference proceedings, country reports, financial data, industry reports, investment research reports, market research reports, monographs, SWOT analyses, trade journals. All aspects of business.

Due to license restrictions, access to the 500 most popular articles from Harvard Business Review is read-only--no printing, downloading, or direct linking to these 500 articles is permitted. All other HBR articles are fully accessible to all current U-M students, faculty, and staff with no such restrictions.

Use Policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of EBSCO Business Source Complete."
ProQuest Business
Collection of databases relating to business.
Includes the following databases. which may also be searched individually:
- ABI/INFORM Collection
- EconLit
- Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports Archive (1952-1995)
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: Business
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- ProQuest Historical Annual Reports (1844-present)
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Wall Street Journal (1889-1996)
- ProQuest Research Library: Business
- Women's Wear Daily Archive
ABI/INFORM Collection
Combined access to all three ABI/INFORM business databases: ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline.

Includes thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Featured content includes: Business Monitor International (BMI) Industry Reports; Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Data, Country Finance & Forecast Reports, and ViewsWire; First Research industry reports; Just-Series Market Research Reports; Oxford Analytica Daily Brief Service and Country Profiles; Oxford Economic Country Briefings; Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) Working Papers; and over 5,000 business case studies from Ivey, Thunderbird, Idea Group, and Darden.
Mergent Online
Current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock, and insider trading for US and foreign companies.

Provides access to current and historical financial information on 15,000 US and 20,000 foreign companies, both active and inactive, including firm description, statistics, and financial information, as well as annual reports. Mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock and insider trading are also provided in the company records. Historical data is available for the past 15 years. Company reports and financials can be exported to Excel.

Includes Mergent Horizon data about a firm's products; its relationships with its major customers, suppliers, and partners; its competitors; its financials; and the industry space in which it operates.
D&B Hoovers
Information on nearly 24 million companies, including large and mid-sized companies in the US, Canada, and worldwide

Information on nearly twenty-four million companies, including large and mid-sized companies in the United States and Canada, and hundreds of thousands of companies world-wide. Includes contacts and emails, analysis of company operations, actions and changes, plus additional data points such as technologies (software, etc.) used at a company. D&B Hoovers aggregates and enhances content from over 30 diverse content providers representing 2,000 separate information sources including Reuters, CorpTech, Investext, RMA Industry Ratios, StatUSA.
Wall Street Journal Complete (1889 - present)
All available editions of the Wall Street Journal.
Keyword(s): United States
Combined access to all content from multiple editions of The Wall Street Journal, including:
- Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition (1889-present)
- Wall Street Journal Online (1/8/2010-present)
- Wall Street Journal Americas (4/30/2009-2/17/2017)
- Wall Street Journal Asia / Asian Wall Street Journal (1/7/1991-10/6/2017)
- Wall Street Journal, Europe (1/2/1991-9/29/2017)
- WSJ: The Magazine from The Wall Street Journal (6/2011-4/2013)
Content from the most recent 17 years is available in text-only format. Content from more than 17 years ago is available in full image with illustrations, photos, etc.

Supply Chain & Operations Management

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Frequently Used Business Databases