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Foster Business Library
Databases:
The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of business databases on its homepage; see under Business Databases; see
also the four folders at the top of that list for lists of Foster databases by topic: Books,
Articles--Full
Text, Articles--Citations and Abstracts, and Company and Industry. For more
information on the
three dozen Foster business databases, click here.
For more information on which of the
three dozen Foster business databases to use, click here.
For more information on
accessing Foster databases from off campus, click here.
For information about responsible database usage, click here.
See the Hoovers Online company factshee for Carnival Corporation
as well as the extensive company overview for Carnival, with Financials and the company's Competitive Landscape.
See also the industry fact sheet for Travel Agencies & Services.
Go to Business and then to SEC Filings to obtain the 10-K annual filings
for Carnival Corporation, using the ticker symbol CCL. Lexis-Nexis has 133
SEC
10-K filings (or parts of filings), going back to 1987.
A search in this database, in titles, for Travel and Tourism, produced 76 reports,
the
most recent dated April 2003, on the World Market for On-Line Tourism; see also the July
2002 market report on Travel and Tourism in the USA.
A company search for CCL produced a list of over 800
reports.
A keyword search for Carnival Cruise Lines produced a list of five
reports. An industry search
for Leisure Recreation produced a list of over 16,000
reports.
A search in this database for the subject "Passenger ships" retrieved 62
tables.
Complete financials for CCL are available in this
database and its backfiles.
Demographics related to Cruise Ships may be found
in Travel, Real Estate, Insurance.
Go to Financials,
SEC filings,
and Annual
Reports, back to
1997.
See the links to information on Carnival
Corporation.
See Water Transportation Occupations.
See the company profile for Carnival Corporation as well
as the
company's dominant position among its competitors
in terms of
market capitalization in the General Entertainment industry.
See the company profile for Carnival Corporation as well as the excellent
Ratio
Comparisons for the company, its industry, its sector, and the S&P 500.
See Cruise Lines on pages 76 to 80.
See the industry survey, dated August 2002, for Lodging & Gaming in volume
three;
Carnival Corporation is one
of the companies featured in the Comparative Company Analysis at the end of the
survey (under Hotels).
See Carnival in volume six, pages 367 to 368, with an update in volume 27, pages 90 to 92.
See Carnival Corporation on page 178; Royal Caribbean Cruises on
page 343; Top 20 Cruise Lines on page 61; and North American Cruise
Lines Statistics on page 62. See also references to Cruise Lines on
pages 14 and 15, and page 92.
See the Cruise Line Industry on pages 264 and 265, in tables 1202 and
1203.
See Cruise Lines on pages 327 and 328, in tables 1218 and 1219.
Demographics of Cruise Ship customers may be found in
in Travel, Insurance, Real Estate, starting on page 247,
in volume P-5.
See Cruise Ship Vacations demographics on pages 726 to 729.
See Carnival in book I, on page 178.
See Carnival Cruise Lines on page 1958
See Carnival in book I, on page 154.
See Carnival Corporation, in the Recreation Industry, in the standard
volume, edition number 12, dated February 2003, page 1846; see also the
Recreation Industry summary on page 1841.
For Carnival, see volume three, under Panama, pages 8103 to 8104.
For Carnival on pages 1063 to 1065.
Foster Business Library
Books:
Circulation status is indicated in the box in the middle of each
online catalog record, on the right. Check Shelf indicates that the book should
be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check
out. Due and a date indicates that the book is already checked out
to someone and is due back on the date indicated.
The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster
Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The
arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the
far west end).
A subject search for Cruise Lines retrieved a list of nine
records in the UW Libraries, none in the Foster Business Library.
The only result of a subject search for Carnival Corporation was the company's Annual Report.
Foster Business
Library Corporate Annual Reports:
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of several thousand
annual
reports for hundreds of U.S. and foreign companies. These reports are
filed in
lateral filing cabinets near the Foster Reference desk under the sign
Corporate Annual Reports. Annual reports for companies in an
industry can be a valuable source of information about the industry
itself. For a list of all the companies in the Corporate Annual Reports collection, click here.
For an index to corporate annual reports in the collection by industry sector, click here. For an index to companies in
the collection with headquarters outside the U.S., click here.
The collection includes the
Carnival Corporation
as well as many
other companies in the Leisure sector.
Foster Business Library Articles:
Of these three main sources, all but
Factiva are available from any computer on the campus
network (as well as from home) via the UW
Connectivity
Kit or via the
Libraries' proxy server.
The easiest of these databases to use is ABI/Inform Global.
For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off
campus, click here. For more information about business databases, click here.
This database offers full text articles for over 800 journals.
To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase
into the
search box.
ABI/Inform Global includes journals but not national or Washington state newspapers (though
the Wall Street Journal is included). It also does not include valuable trade and industry
and other periodicals. Your searches will span the widest possible array of publications by
expanding your search to all databases in ABI/Inform. To expand your search to include all
collections in this database, click on
Select Multiple Databases, to the right of the search box. Click then on Select All Databases.
Your search terms will be
highlighted in red in each
article. For tips on searching this database, click here.
As an example, a search for CO(Carnival Corp), in all collections, produced a list of over 780
articles. Another search, for CO(Carnival Corp) and SUB(Cruise lines) produced a list of over 400
articles.
To find more specific articles, add terms to your initial company search. As an example, a search for
CO(Carnival Corp) and Strategy, in citations and abstracts, produced twenty
articles. Expanding the search for this phrase throughout the full text of all articles produced a list of 64
articles.
Try other searches with this company name and other terms.
For research guides on a wide variety of industries,
products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.
Need help with writing or revising the written part of your assignment?
The Business Writing
Center, in Lewis Hall 304, provides consultations on business class
writing assignments (as well as cover letters, and resumes) with an
advanced business student trained in critiquing drafts and coaching
writers. Need help citing sources? Try our guide to Citing
Sources.
Unlike library databases, these Web resources are available wherever
you have web
access; they do not require that you access them via the UW Connectivity Kit or the UW
Libraries Proxy Server for authentication. When using web resources, be sure to
evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the
Foster Business Library homepage.
Foster
Business
Library Reference Collection:
The Foster Reference Collection is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster.
This newly-published title covers the economic aspects of the travel industry, including
economic perspectives, travel, hotels, casinos, amusement parks, and tourism.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: G155 .A1 .V64 2001.
This three-volume set provides 30-page profiles on 52 industries
with a focus
on the current economic environment, trends, regulation and outlook for
each industry.
Major companies in each industry are profiled, with references to sources
of additional industry information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.6 .S74
Studying the history of leading companies in an industry is a good
way to learn more about the history of an industry. This
set of more than thirty volumes covers over 4,700 company histories worldwide, with each
history running just two to four pages; check the company index in the latest volume
to locate a specific company history or update as well as any other
references to that company in other company histories. There is also
an index by industry.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2721 .I57
This almanac offers information about major industry trends, industry
statistics, industry information, major companies in the industry, with
indexes by state, country, region, etc. The major part of the almanac
provides one-page profiles of companies in the industry, with directory
information, growth plans and special features, contacts, brief
financials, brief salary and benefits data, and women officer-director and
advancement information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HE9803 .A2 .P58 2003.
Annual compilation of U.S., Canadian and Mexican market share data for companies, products and
services, arranged by SIC code, and with indexes by product, company and
topic.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5410 .M35 2003.
An annual compilation of market share information for worldwide companies
culled from thousands of periodical articles; use
the company, product or brand indexes in the back of the volume to
identify the company that you are researching.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5410 .W67 2001/2002.
This reference work, in about two dozen volumes, provides data on consumers' lifestyles and buying habits
for
hundreds of consumer products from accessories/clothing to yogurt. Data is offered in breakdowns by age,
sex, race, income, education, geographic region, and many other categories. There is no product index
but for each product type, there is an indication of products covered at the beginning of the volume.
This source offers demographics of typical buyers for a product,
market shares of competing products, and
data on media usage (such as newspapers/magazines read, radio listened to, TV and cable watched, etc.).
There is an explanation in each volume of how to interpret the data in the rows and columns.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5415.3 .M43 Spring 1998.
Also available online on public PC #19, with 2001 data.
Market analysis information including demographic, geographic and lifestyle
information to identify who customers are, where they live, how they spend their
time and money and how to reach them.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5415.33 .U6 .L54 2002.
This two-volume work reports paid advertising expenditures in major media
categories for companies and
brands in America.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5801 .A18 January-December 2001.
This annual two-volume publication is the most
comprehensive
source for information on the advertising practices of 24,000 U.S. and Canadian companies spending a
minimum of $200,000 on national and regional advertising. Companies may be accessed by 54 business
categories or by state, province or city. Entries for companies advertising include SIC codes, business
descriptions, statistics, personnel, approximate advertising expenditures, and media. Entries for ad
agencies often include the companies and brand names handled and the executive assigned to each account.
Volume two includes indexes by product by state or province, by brand name, by SIC code and by personnel.
There is also a geographic index volume.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5805 .S7 2002 (volume 1: businesses)
This two-volume work reports and itemizes all paid advertising space and
expenditures in ten major media
categories for
companies and
brands in America, in several hundred consumer and Sunday magazines, in
newspapers, outdoor advertising, television,
and radio.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5813 .U6 .C68 2001.
This large two-volume investment advice service provides regular reviews of 3,500 company
stocks and their
expected performance. The arrangement is not alphabetically by company; instead, use the
index in a pocket in the front of the standard or expanded volumes to locate which volume your
company is in and the issue number in which it appears.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4501 .V26
This four-volume work covers 11,000 international companies in 117 countries, arranged
alphabetically by country, with
extensive information about companies, including history, chronology, acquisitions, mergers,
spinoffs, properties,
joint ventures, subsidiaries, officers and directors, consolidated income and balance sheets
for three and two years,
respectively, long term debit, options, etc.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4509 .M66 2002.
This one-volume work covers 700 rail and transportation companies in 117 countries, arranged
alphabetically by company, with information about the companies, including history, chronology, acquisitions, mergers,
spinoffs, properties,
joint ventures, subsidiaries, officers and directors, consolidated income and balance sheets
for three and two years,
respectively, long term debit, options, etc.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4971 .M74 2002.
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on
all business topics, including many books useful for country research.
To identify relevant books, go to the UW Libraries Catalog on the Foster Business Library homepage
(under Business Databases).
Try searching by
keyword.
Use the
Limit/Sort feature
to create a list of books in the
Foster Business Library and in order from newest book to oldest. To do so, use the
pulldown menu under WHERE item is located to specify Foster Business Library and
click on the box near the bottom Sort results by year. Then click on
Limit/sort items retrieved using above data. Clicking on the titles in the
resulting list will bring up the full catalog record, indicating which Foster area
has the book (general stacks, reference, reserve, etc.), the call number and the
circulation status.
In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection,
the Foster Business Library offers access to 11,000 full text periodical
articles through its full text article
databases such as: ABI/Inform
Global,
Factiva, and Lexis-Nexis Academic
Universe.
These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed alphabetically under Business
Databases or in the Articles: Full Text folder.
The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed
nearly all of the hours that the library is open.
The
staff at the desk
will be happy to help you find business research tools and resources, exploit business databases to the fullest or
advise on research strategies.
For
e-mail
questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For
assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.