Web Resources:

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.
• Seattle Genetics, Inc.:   Company websites often provide extensive amounts of corporate information including histories of the company, investor information such as annual reports and Securities and Exchange Commission filings, historical stock prices, executive biographies, company news and press releases, etc. Look for this information under headings for Investor Relations, About The Company, etc. Go to About in the top menu for corporate information and links to their history, management, business strategy, and alliances. See their News & Investor Information for S.E.C. filings, financial reports, etc., including annual reports from 2001 to 2003.

• Yahoo! Finance:   This site is excellent for company and investment information as well as an excellent source for financial ratio comparisons with industry, sector and S&P 500. See the company profile for Seattle Genetics and their Key Statistics, as well as the excellent Competitors and Ratios sections. See also the link to Yahoo! Finance's Biotechnology and Drugs Industry Center.

• Business Full Coverage (Yahoo! Daily News):   Yahoo! Daily News for business includes Business Full Coverage webpages for four dozen important business topics of high interest. These full coverage reports collect articles, webpages, and links to relevant organizations, audio, video, and recent news stories. See Biotechnology and Genetics.

• Industry Profiles (Wetfeet.Com):   This job hunting site from Wetfeet.Com offers profiles of 31 industries, with an industry overview, trends, industry organization, job prospects, what's great and what's to hate in the industry, from the viewpoint of a jobseeker, major companies in the industry, and example job descriptions and tips on how to get hired in the industry. There are also links to industry associations and a profile of an individual working in the industry. The amount of industry information makes up for annoying popups. See their lowdown on the Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals industry.

• Biotechnology Information Directory:   This site is an information portal for biotechnology, with links to sources of information, publications, products, services, clinical trials, software, companies in the industry, education, and more.

• About Biotech:   This site is part of the offerings of the National Health Museum, intended to provide "high school biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. The program was originally developed and launched by Genentech Inc., a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets human pharmaceuticals for significant unmet medical needs." This site is a good starting point for understanding the biotechnology industry, with links to the chronology of biotech, biotechnology in pharmaceuticals, food, farms and forensics, and biotech issues and ethics. See the Biotechnology Industry Review.

• Biotechnology Industry Organization:   "In 1993, when there were but a handful of biotechnology drugs on the market and the sequencing of the human genome was pegged for completion somewhere around 2005, two small Washington-based biotechnology trade organizations merged to create the Biotechnology Industry Organization, better known as BIO. One of the founding organizations, the Industrial Biotechnology Association (IBA), primarily represented larger, established companies on Capitol Hill and before federal regulatory agencies; the other, the Association of Biotechnology Companies (ABC), represented emerging companies and universities, and focused on technology transfer issues, meetings and other business development activities. BIO united the organizations' 503 companies and 18 employees under one umbrella." See their Guide to Biotechnology and Industry At A Glance.

• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America:   "The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies." See the link to their Industry Profile 2004 (61 PDF pages).

• Biopharmaceutical Industry Contributions to State and U.S. Economies:   This 215-page report, in PDF format, from the Milken Institute, assesses the state of the biopharmaceutical industry and its economic and job impact on the states and on the U.S. economy. Access to this report requires free registration. For a summary of the report's stated impact on Washington state, see "Slowdown seen in state's biopharmaceutical industry" (by Brad Wong, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 12, 2004).

• The Business of Biotech:   This article in the online edition of the June 2000 issue of the Harvard Business School Bulletin describes where the industry is headed, with comments from industry veterans and experts.

• U.S. Food and Drug Administration:   This government agency regulates the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S. as well as the medical product and devices marketplace. See the link for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; among other things, see its Information about the Products We Regulate.

• U.S. Office of Biotechnology Activities:   This office, part of the National Institutes of Health, "monitors scientific progress in human genetics research in order to anticipate future developments, including ethical, legal, and social concerns, in basic and clinical research involving Recombinant DNA, Genetic Technologies, and Xenotransplantation," among many activities.

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.

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 Seattle Genetics retrieved just one record, for the annual report noted below.

A search for the subject Biotechnology Industries retrieved over 170 records in the UW Libraries, with over 40 records are in the Foster Business Libraries' collections, including:

• Biotech industry: a global, economic, and financing overview   (2004)
• The biotech investor: how to profit from the coming boom in biotechnology   (2003)
• Building global biobrands: taking biotechnology to market   (2003)
• Hungry corporations: transnational biotech companies colonise the food chain   (2003)
• Leading biotechnology alliances: right from the start   (2001)
• International strategy and market performance in new biotechnology firms   (1999)

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 Seattle Genetics as well as companies in the Drugs & Pharmaceutical sector.

Foster Business Library Articles:

Electronic journals on Biotechnology, available to authorized UW users, include:
• Biotech Business
• Biotech Business Week
• Biotech Equipment Update
• Biotech Financial Reports
• Biotech Software & Internet Report
• Biotech Week
• Worldwide Biotech

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.

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.

• ABI/Inform Global:

  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 CO(Seattle Genetics), produced a list of over 40 articles, including two articles in magazines, 14 articles in trade and industry publications, and over two dozen articles in newspapers. As an example, see "Bio-Boom: Seattle Genetics sees three years of rapid revenue growth" (Puget Sound Business Journal, July 23, 2004).

  A search for CO(Seattle Genetics) and Strategy produced just two articles:  "Seattle Genetics names its top scientist as CEO" (Seattle Times, November 28, 2002) and "Biotechs making a comeback here" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 17, 2000).

  A broader search, for SUB(Biotechnology Industry), produced a list of over 2,900 articles, including over 160 articles in scholarly journals, over 200 articles in magazines, over 1,200 articles in trade and industry publications, and over 800 articles in newspapers.

  A narrower search, for SUB(Biotechnology Industry) and Market Share, produced just eleven articles,

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.

For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.

• Team Consultation Course/Program Index      (BA Assignments)
• Team Consultation Industry Index      (Drug Industry)
• Team Consultation Quarter Index
• Team Consultation Title Index
• Team Consultation and Research Guide Index      (Biotechnology Industry)