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MEL’s Database of the Week for 5/6/11

May 6th, 2011

Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL).  These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.

Database name: Corporate Affiliations, from LexisNexis.

Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.

Description/focus: Corporate Affiliations is a database showing corporate-family information, including information about the executives, for about half a million US and international businesses.

Start with this hint: The interface for Corporate Affiliations is different from other LexisNexis products.  The home page is fast and easy to navigate, and most of the features are intuitive.  The page you will land on from our drop down is the company Quick Search.  Find a public company by entering the name (General Mills, for example) or ticker, or look for an industry by entering an SIC or NAICS code.  Corporate Affiliations includes information about private companies.  If you scroll across the navigation bar across the top and hover on Features, you can link to other search capabilities such as Merger News, or Bio, where you can search by parameters such as education (try Purdue).  Hover over  Learn More or open the User’s Guide to see details on other features.

Why you should know this database: For an example of the unique features in Corporate Affiliations, open a company profile and click the link labeled Compare All Years.  The resulting page displays a grid showing changes over time in the company financials, products, SIC, stock exchange, providers of outside services (accounting, legal, advertising), executives, and board of directors.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: With Corporate Affiliations students can find extensive information about a company, including subsidiaries, brands, corporate hierarchies, competitors, and actions such as mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, and downsizing.

Cost: Paid annually by the Libraries.

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