• About the Business & Company Resource Center.
• Locate journal articles on corporate responsibility.
• Locate a company history or corporate chronology.
• Locate annual reports or SEC filings in Mergent Online.

The Business & Company Resource Center (BCRC) provides more than 10 million articles from 1,000 leading business journals and trade magazines. BCRC also provides company histories and corporate chronologies from the International Directory of Company Histories. To learn more about BCRC content and coverage, review the BCRC Journal Title List.

Follow the step-by-step instructions to locate articles about a company's record of corporate responsibility. This research requires you to scan through large lists of articles. There may not be an article that directly answers your corporate responsibility question. Instead, you should piece together the answer by reviewing a broad range of articles about your company.

1. Connect to the Business & Company Resource Center.
2. Click the Articles Icon on the opening screen.
3. Enter the company name in the Search Term box and click the green Search button.
4. The Results screen may list your company multiple times, accounting for both parent and subsidiary listings. Select the listing with the most articles and includes a Narrow by Subdivision button. Your search results should look like this example: Dell Computer Corp.
5. Click the Narrow by Subdivision button below the company name and review article ordered by subject subdivisions. Check these relevant subdivisions carefully:
   

• Accounting and Auditing
• Cases
• Corrupt Practices
• Discipline
• Economic Policy
• Environmental Policy
• International Trade
• Investigations
• Labor Contracts
• Law and Regulations
• Moral and Ethical Aspects
• Mediation and Arbitration
• Personnel Management
• Political Activity
• Public Relations
• Recycling
• Safety Measures
• Social Policy
• Standards
• Waste Management

In addition to journal articles, the Business & Company Resource Center provides online access to the entire sixty volume International Directory of Company Histories. Use company histories to identify major legal and ethical issues affecting your company from its inception. For example, here's the Dell company history.

1. Connect to the Business & Company Resource Center.
2. Click the Advanced Search icon on the opening screen.
3. Select Histories from the Content Area drop-down menu.
4. Type the company name in the search box and click the green Search button.

Mergent Online delivers annual reports on 15,000 US public companies and 20,000 non-U.S. companies. Also included are SEC filings (e.g., 10-K, 10-Q, Proxy), and Annual Reports in PDF format. Coverage: Company financials for 15 years (annuals or quarters). Annual Reports since 1997. SEC filings since 1993. For annual reports prior to 1993, use the Library microfilm collection called the SEC File.

1. Connect to Mergent Online.
2. Type a company name or ticker symbol in the Basic Search box, then click the Search button.
3. On the Results screen, select the Annual Report tab for annual reports. Select the EDGAR tab for SEC filings.