Business Information

[Tom]

As I guessed, the University has access to a vast online database of business journals: "Business Source Premier As the world’s largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 3,650 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost."

You can access them from home but to do so you need to obtain an Athens Number from the Library. Even if you are not going to be a big user it is worth registering with Athens to get a glimpse of a sector of the Invisible Web. See Online Databases (http://www.greenwich.ac.uk/directory/library/products/dbase.html).

You can for example do a search on Ebay and come up with loads of .pdf documents about the company.

[Tom]

The easiest-to-access source of business information for students is http://www.reutersbusinessinsight.com. It has a full archive of business intelligence, including ecommerce and technology. Use the following:

USERNAME: greenwichuser+1
PASSWORD: greenwichuser+1

You will be able to find lots of info for discussion logs (eg re eBay and Yahoo). Some of the reports are free and others cost £700.

I have you have obtained an Athens number from the library and learned how to configure a proxy server then you can access the entire content of the Business Source Premier fulltext database of 4,400 business journals. Ditto for the Emerald Fulltext business (and FAME and Mintel). You can't access FT.com this way but there should be enough information to work with!