Subject and Course Guides: Business Research Guide: Consumers and Market Information

Finding Articles

Articles can provide information on very specific products or markets.

ABI/INFORM Global
ABI-INFORM Global is a business research database with full-text articles from business and economics journals and other business publications. The full-text of the Wall Street Journal is included.
Access World News Research Collection: 2023 Edition
Access World News provides extensive coverage of newspapers--local, state, national and international.
PsycINFO
This psychological database includes research in consumer behavior and marketing.
PsycINFO contains bibliographic citations and abstracts from materials in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Updated weekly.
Wall Street Journal - Eastern edition (1984 - current)
(1984-present)
Published daily by Dow Jones Factiva Corp. with online full-text from 1984, and images, tables and graphs from August 9, 2006 to present.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is an extensive business research database, with full-text articles from journals, newspapers, and other business publications.
Nexis Uni
Includes newspapers, business journals and broadcast transcripts. Good international coverage.

Mintel Academic
U.S. and European market research reports and data on consumer products and trends, covering forecasts, consumer attitudes and behavior. Includes Mintel Reports, Market Sizes for market share and forecasts, and GNPD (Global New Product Development, for trends in nutrition, packaging, and ingredients.

This resource was acquired with funding from the Library/IT Assessment.
Passport GMID (Euromonitor International)
International marketing statistics and reports on consumer products and services, as well as demographic and economic data. Users need to register for an account using their UIC email address .

Cook County Connect
Demographic data for Cook County. Includes geospacial data and well as ESRI Business Analyst.
Mergent Intellect
Has easy to access demographic data. Includes Nielsen Prizm.
SimplyAnalytics
A mapping application to create custom maps and reports. In addition to data from the Census, there is business and market data from EASI, PRIZM and Simmons.
To save your searches, you must sign up for an account using your UIC email address. Access restricted to 5 concurrent users.
Statista
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22500 sources on over 60000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database.