Explore Product Launch Analytics

Product Launch Analytics provides detailed, searchable data on many consumer products, from food, beverages, personal care, household, pet care and more. Find product ingredients, nutritional value, product innovation, packaging, countries where available and other details. You can search or browse, and run comparative analysis reports.

If you’d like to learn more about this resource, contact Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian, at 413-545-6822

Mergent Horizon and Mergent Intellect on Trial

Mergent Horizon is another source of financials for public companies actively traded on AMEX, NYSE, and NASDAQ. Companies are put in hierarchies of industries, competitors, suppliers, partners, customers and more. You can search by ticker symbol or company name or browse by industry sector. A calendar displays company stock events. You can find detailed financial analysis and generate reports of sectors, portfolios, competitors by product or merger and acquisition scenarios.

Mergent Intellect is a searchable directory of global private and public companies, employers, executives, and personal and business residences. You can search by company type, location type, name or ticker symbol.

Both trials continue through December 31, 2013. Contact Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian, at 413-545-6822 with questions or comments.

Trial for Freedonia Focus Collection of Market Research Reports

Freedonia Focus Collection offers over 600 research reports covering 18 industries in the United States and international markets. You can browse by industry or by date published, or search by title, date, global region and NAICS code. Reports cover market size, historical and forecasted demand by product and markets, and profiles of the market leading companies.

Send questions or comments about this resource to Mike Davis, Business Reference Librarian, at 413-545-6822. The trial goes through August 24, 2013.

Explore ProQuest Historical Newspapers

The Libraries have purchased the digitized and searchable versions of the following newspapers on the ProQuest platform:

These newspapers from historically black communities provide primary source coverage of cultural, political, social, athletic and economic events of their time. You can search each individual newspaper or across newspapers by keyword, author, dateline, document type and more to retrieve scanned images of the newspaper pages.

If you have questions about these sources, contact Isabel Espinal, Afro-American Studies Liaison Librarian, at 413-545-6817. Isabel has created a short video guide to the newspapers.