Historical annual reports and business articles

[nkp007]

In an effort to study the history of various companies, I have attempted to locate some old annual reports.

 

I found the following sources:

http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/pq_hist_annual_repts.shtml

Looks perfect, but unfortunately does not have trials for individual users

and

 

http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/business/guides/annual_reports.html

Looks interesting, but only has a very limited number of reports online.

 

I'm going to seek out the proquest data at a library, but in terms of reading old annual reports from home, does anyone have any suggestions?

 

In addition, I'd love to look through reams of old, business related newspaper articles. Any suggestions?

 

 

[VAL9000]

I recently came across the NY Times archive search:

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html

 

Probably not the most business-centric news source, but the search tool and archive are very well implemented.  It's not that pricey if you are a digital subscriber of the Times.

[nkp007]

That's great! Effective searching is key. Thanks.