Welcome to the Pace University Library's guide to industry research, providing starting points for finding information about global industries. Questions, comments, additions? Go to asklibrary.pace.edu to contact Pace librarians, or email the guide's owner (see the profile on the left side of the page).
Many databases and reference tools use these standardized codes for identifying industries to organize their information, and many library databases can be searched using these codes. There are two systems of codes in place at this time, one legacy/historical system that classified older material and one current code for contemporary information (post-1997).
Concordances for translating SIC codes to NAICS codes, and from one edition of the codes to another, can be found on the Census Bureau's NAICS Reference Files page.
There is an online SIC to NAICS crosswalk at the website of the NAICS Association and another crosswalk at SICCOM.com (both private data companies).
