Foster Business Library
Databases:
The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of business databases on its homepage; see under Business Databases. 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 company fact sheet for JetBlue Airways Corporation;
see
also the link to Financials.
See also their Competitors.
In addition, see the industry fact sheet for Airlines
and the related Industry
Overview.
A company search for the ticker symbol JBLU produced a list of over 440
reports, from research firms such as Morgan Stanley, Raymond James, and Smith Barney Citigroup. An industry search for the Air Transportation industry produced over 11,500 reports.
This database includes 13 SEC 10-K filings (or parts of filings) for JetBlue, with chapters on the company's strategy, competitive strengths, competition and industry, customer service, marketing and distribution, yield management, and risks to the company and industry.
A search for JetBlue retrieved sixteen reports.
A search in this database, in titles and in text, for JetBlue, produced no reports. A search for Airlines was more productive, with six reports, for the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and one on Airlines in the USA, dated July 2003.
The company is included in this database, with
extensive information.
See JetBlue and Air Transport are included in this database, with reports dated September 10, 2004.
Airline data may be found under Travel.
See pages 12 to 14 for travel industry demographics and chapter two for air travel, pages 35
to 72.
See the chapter on Travel and Tourism, on pages 627 to 639. See Civil Aviation
on pages 616 to 621.
See index page 975 for references to many tables on Air Transportation and the Air
Transportation Industry
See the chapter on Travel and Tourism, pages 418 to 421. See Civil Aviation
on pages 410 to 412.
See the industry profile for Airlines in volume one. Most of this profile has a U.S.
orientation but international markets are addressed on pages 13 and 15.
See also the Industry References for listings of periodicals,
books, news services, trade associations, and regulatory agencies that are relevant to the
industry. JetBlue is one of the companies included in the Comparative Company Analysis at the end of this survey.
See the industry study for Airline Service: The Evolution of Competition Since Deregulation, on pages 143 to 169.
See Air Transportation, starting on page 1058, for an excellent global overview of this industry.
See JetBlue in volume 44, on pages 248 to 250.
See JetBlue on page 272. See airline industry trends on pages 7 to 17 and travel data on pages 19 to 39, with airlines on pages 48 to 60.
See Airlines on pages 301 to 306, with references to JetBlue in tables 1279, 1280, and 1300 on pages 301 and 305.
See lifestyles such as Foreign Travel, Frequent Flyer, Travel for Business, Travel for
Pleasure, Travel in USA
under Good Life on pages 770 to 777 and pages 930 to 941.
JetBlue may be found in the Airlines--Major section, along with nine
competitors, on pages 8 and 9 of the February 2004--July 2004 issue.
See Jet Blue (two words) on index page 1025.
Foster Business Library
Books:
Circulation status is indicated on the right of each online catalog record, on the right. Available 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. You can have the Request/Place Hold feature to recall the book for your use.
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 keyword search for JetBlue retrieved just two records, the company's hard copy Annual Reports and:
A search for the subject Aeronautics,
Commercial Passenger produced a list of over 45
records, with six records in the Foster Business Library.
The airline industry is covered by the subject Airlines, for which there are over 1,000 records in the UW Libraries, including over 125 records in the Foster Business Library. Recent relevant titles include:
See also the subject Aeronautics,
Commercial Passenger Traffic, where a search produced a list of over 40
records, with six records in the Foster Business Library's collections.
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 annual reports for JetBlue as well as other airlines such as
Alaska Air Group,
American Airlines,
Delta,
Northwest,
Southwest, and
United.
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 on all of the databases.
Your search terms will be
highlighted in red in each
article. For tips on searching this database, click here.
For example, a search in all databases, for
JetBlue, produced a list of nearly 3,000
articles, including three articles in scholarly journals, over 90 articles in magazines, over 800 articles in trade and industry publications, and over 1,300 articles in newspapers. A search for JetBlue and Management produced over 90 articles; JetBlue and Problems, over 115 articles.
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.
Demographic trends and forecasts, economic indicators, labor force, trade,
energy, environment, consumer expenditures and market size, and retailing
information for the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania; companion volume
to European marketing data and statistics.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA42 .I56. 2003.
Information about many industries as well as demographic information;
check index for references to tables. The sources for each table are
often a valuable source of additional information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA202 .U56 2003.
Demographic trends and forecasts, economic indicators, labor force, trade,
energy, environment, consumer expenditures and market size, and retailing
information for European countries.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA1107 .E87 2003.
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.
This excellent reference work provides essays, mostly by professors of economics, about 14 significant industries: automobiles, beer, broilers, pharmaceuticals, steel, airline service, retail commercial banking, casino gambling, electric power, health insurance, motion pictures, nursing homes, microcomputer platforms, and telecommunications.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC106.8 .I53 2002.
Twelve-page descriptions of 125 global industries, with background and
development
information, current conditions, industry leaders and further reading.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD2324 .E53 2003.
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 small paperback, published in Great Britain by the magazine Airline Business, covers fleets and industry
forecast, world airports and traffic, the top 100 airline groups and airline operations, regional airlines, IT trends
in the industry, and alliances, all in 122 pages. There is unfortunately no index.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD9768 .A46 2001.
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 2002.
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 2004.
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 2003.
Statistical data on 3,000 companies in 137 industries, with ranking, key
financial information, operating data and ratios.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4961 .M68
This new title provides a wealth of information about airlines, both foreign and domestic (but with a decidedly
American
orientation),
airports, governmental agencies, safety, and the aerospace industry, in just over 1,000 pages.
There is a good index.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: TL501 .A95 2002.
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on
all business topics. 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 Modify Search feature to restrict your list of books to the
Foster Business Library and in order from newest book to oldest. To do so, use the pulldown menu under Location to specify Foster Business Library. 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.
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.
