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Foster Business Library Databases:
See the company factsheet for Elan, as well as the longer Company Overview, with company history, competitors, list of acquisitions, etc. and the link to the company's Competitive Landscape. See also the link to the company's industry information, for Pharmaceuticals Manufacturers as well as to the related Biotechnology Industry and the Hoovers Online Industry Overview for this industry.
Under Industry News, click on Biotechnology News and try the keywords
Joint Ventures;
this search retrieved over 500 articles published in the past year on this
topic. A search for the keyword
Elan for the same time period retrieved over 150 articles; narrowing
this search with the term Joint
Ventures cut the number of articles to 55.
Under SEC Filings & Reports, search by company name Elan.
Since Elan is not headquartered in the U.S., it does not have to file 10-K reports
with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The company does have to file SEC 20-F
reports, however, and Lexis-Nexis has 27 such reports (or parts of reports) for
Elan.
There were no articles retrieved in a keyword search for joint ventures and biotechnology. An industry search for Biotechnology retrieved over 13,000 reports. A company search for ELN produced a list of over 900 reports about the company from sources such as Merrill Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney, Lehman Brothers, and Morgan Stanley.
The Elan Corporation website includes a search engine; a search for joint venture produced a list of ten hits. The website also offers more recent SEC filings and corporate annual reports in PDF format.
See the 2002 Industry Outlook for Drugs, entitled Hardball in Washington, Mergers in Biotech, in the January 14, 2002 issue. See also the 2001 Industry Outlook for Drugs.
See their guide to the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals industry.
See the Biotechnology Industry Review.
See the company profile for Elan as well as the company's position among its competitors in terms of market capitalization. Quicken places Elan in the Drug Delivery Industry.
See the company profile for Elan Corporation as well as the excellent Ratio Comparisons for the company, its industry, its sector, and the S&P 500.
See the industry profile for the Drug Manufacturing in the United States.
See the link for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; among other things, see its Information about the Products We Regulate.
See the links to 2001 Industry Primer and to Quick Facts. See also their Pharmaceutical Industry 2003 publication (in PDF format) including chapter five for strategic alliances and chapter eight for global intellectual property protection.
See Biotechnology and Genetics.
Foster Business Library Reference Collection:
See index page 957 for many tables on
Drugs and Medicines; see also
See Chapter 11, page 11-13 for Drugs and Pharmaceuticals.
See Biotechnology in volume one and Healthcare: Pharmaceuticals in volume two.
See BiotechnologyPharmaceuticals, starting on page 114.
See Drugs in the section for Chemicals; look for SIC code 2834.
See Drugs in the section for Chemicals; look for SIC code 2834.
Find Elan Corporation listed alphabetically under Ireland in volume two, for a chronology of acquisitions and joint ventures.
Elan is not covered in this service but the Biotechnology industry is; see issue 4 in each volume for this industry.
See Biotechnology under industry code 075; Elan is not one of the companies included in this review.
The Foster Business Library General Stacks collection contains 70,000 business-related books. These books may be found by searching the UW Libraries Catalog. The UW Libraries Catalog may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Business Databases or at the top of the left menu under FIND IT).
Look under Keywords for the company of your choice; limit by library Location to the Foster Business Library when doing a Keyword search for business topics. For help in searching the UW Libraries Catalog, click HELP.
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. Books that are already checked out to someone else, or books at the Bothell or Tacoma campus libraries (or elsewhere on the Seattle campus) may be reserved for your use and sent here to Foster by using the Request button on the upper menu. Books unavailable in any of the University of Washington Libraries may be available in the collections of Central Washington University, Eastern Washington University, The Evergreen State College, Washington State University, or Western Washington University through the Orbis Cascade online catalog. To search Cascade, use the menu button for Repeat Search in Cascade. It can take from a few days to a week or more to obtain books from other libraries and to have them sent to Foster for you to pick up so use this option only if you can afford to wait.
A keyword search for Joint Venture, limited to the location
Foster Business Library,
produced a list of over 130
records;
some of these books may have chapters or sections that refer to joint ventures in the pharmaceutical industry.
Changing this search to the keywords Joint Venture and
Pharmaceutical produced just one
record.
A keyword search for Biotechnology, limited to the Foster Business Library,
retrieved a list of almost 50
records, some of which may have chapters or sections that refer to joint ventures in the industry. Many books on
this topic are shelved around the call number HD9999
.B443.
A subject search for Joint Ventures, limited to the Foster Business Library,
retrieved a list of 130
records. For the subject Joint Ventures--Accounting, there are four
records in the Foster Business Library.
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 with headquarters outside the U.S., click here.
Corporate annual reports are also often available on company homepages. A good source for those annual reports is Hoovers Online on the Foster Business Library homepage, under Business Databases.
The Corporate Annual Reports collection does not include annual reports for Elan Corporation. The collection does include reports from such pharmaceutical companies as Abbott Laboratories, American Home Products, Bristol-Myers, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Pfizer, and Pharmacia, and other companies in the Drugs Industry. Some of these reports may address issues associated with joint ventures.
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 this database for Joint Ventures and Biotechnology, in
all databases, produced a list of more than 750 articles.
In another example, a similar search in this database for
Joint Ventures and Elan produced a list of over 100 articles.
A subject search for Biotechnology Industry, under Topic Guide, produced a list
of more than 1,100 articles, with the ability to narrow searches for this
subject to 12Acquisitions & Mergers to
Technology Change.
A subject search for Joint Ventures produced a list
of more than 44,000 articles, with the ability to narrow searches for this
subject to 169Account Reviews to
Wireless Carriers, as well as to many industries--but not biotechnology.
The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all the hours that the library is open. The staff at the desk will be happy to help you find research tools on any business subject. For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.