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Business Insights: Global (CH, Feb’12, 49-3045)
Gale Cengage Learning
($$)
Euromonitor Passport
Euromonitor International
($$)
MarketLine Advantage (CH, Oct’12, 50-0645)
Progressive Digital Media
($$)
Mergent Online (CH, Jan’06, 43-2586)
Mergent
($$)
NetAdvantage
S&P Global
($$)
OneSource Global Business Browser (CH, Mar’07, 44-3649)
Avention
($$)
Statista (CH, Aug’12, 49-6646)
(&)
AtoZdatabases
Database USA
Corporate Affiliations
LexisNexis Group, a division of Reed Elsevier
($$)
Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Database(CH, May’06, 43-5027)
Dun & Bradstreet & Mergent
($$)
Gale Directory Library (CH, Jul’08, 45-5894)
Gale Cengage Learning
($$)
Hoover’s (CH, Jul’07, 44-6011)
Dun & Bradstreet
(&)
Leadership Directories (CH, Sep’08, 46-0051)
($$)
Mergent Intellect
($$)
Orbis
Bureau van Dijk
($$)
ReferenceUSA (CH, Mar’07, 44-3650)
Infogroup
($$)
ThomasNet (CH, Oct’11, 49-0622)
Thomas Publishing
Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies (CH, Feb’92, 29-3084)
Gale Cengage Learning
($$)
Annual Reports at Academic Business Libraries
Purdue Univ.
Columbia Historical Corporate Reports (CH, Aug’10, 47-6615)
Columbia Univ. Libraries
Finding Historical Stock Prices
New York Public Library
ProQuest Historical Annual Reports (CH, Dec’06, 44-1890)
($$)
What to Do with an Old Stock Certificate
Enoch Pratt Free Library
Annual Retail Trade Survey
U.S. Census Bureau
Annual Survey of Manufactures
U.S. Census Bureau
Baker Library/Bloomberg Center Research Guides (CH, Feb’07, 44-3032)
Harvard Baker Library
BizMiner
The Brandow Company
($$)
Economic Census (CH, Jun’13, 50-5704)
U.S. Census Bureau
Freedonia Focus Reports
Freedonia Group
($$)
IBISWorld (CH, Apr’06, 43-4410)
($$)
BMI Research
Business Monitor International Ltd.
($$)
BRASS Business Guide: International Business
ALA’s RUSA BRASS
CIA World Factbook (CH, Feb’06, 43-3171)
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Country Analysis Briefs (CH, Apr’07, 44-4220)
U.S. Energy Information Administration
Country Insights (CH, Aug’06, 43Sup-0451)
Canada’s Centre for Intercultural Learning
Country ViewsWire
Economist Group
($$)
Doing Business (CH, Oct’13, 51-0967)
World Bank Group
Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports Archive (CH, Mar’16, 53-2904)
Economist Group; ProQuest
($$)
EMIS (Emerging Markets Information System)(CH, Nov’07, 45-1214)
Euromoney Institutional Investor
($$)
Export.gov (CH, Aug’05, 42Sup-0443)
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Fortune Global 500
Time Inc.
globalEDGE (CH, Aug’05, 42Sup-0446)
Broad College of Business, Michigan State Univ.
IHS Connect
($$)
International Monetary Fund>IMF Country Page (CH, Feb’03, 40-3527)
IMF
(&)
International Trade Administration (ITA)
U.S. Department of Commerce
Latin American Network Information Center(LANIC) (CH, Feb’09, 46-3422)
Univ. of Texas at Austin
Market Explorer
Economist Group
($$)
NationMaster (CH, Jun’06, 43-5663)
OECD iLibrary (CH, Mar’11, 48-3639)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Really Useful Links for International Trade(CH, Jan’14, 51-2756)
Federation of International Trade Associations, GlobalTrade.net
UN iLibrary
United Nations
(&)
World Bank Open Data (CH, Sep’10, 48-0059)
World Bank Group
World Development Indicators (CH, Sep’04, 42-0432)
World Bank Group
Business Plans and Profiles Index (CH, Mar’07, 44-3633)
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Office of Management and Budget to the General Services Administration
Entrepreneurial Studies Source (CH, Jun’11, 48-5448)
EBSCO
($$)
Entrepreneurship Database
ProQuest
($$)
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) (CH, Apr’14, 51-4537)
Global Entrepreneurship Research Association
SBDCNet
U.S. Small Business Administration
SCORE (CH, Jul’14, 51-6265)
Small Business Reference Center
EBSCO
($$)
Small Business Resource Center (CH, Jun’08, 45-5358)
Gale Cengage Learning
($$)
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) (CH, Aug’05, 42Sup-0456)
ABI/INFORM Complete (CH, Oct’10, 48-0621)
ProQuest
($$)
American City Business Journals
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Business Source Complete (CH, Feb’07, 44-3035)
EBSCO
($$)
Factiva (CH, Apr’09, 46-4202)
Dow Jones/News Corp
($$)
LexisNexis Academic (CH, Jun’08, 45-5305)
LexisNexis Group, a division of Reed Elsevier
($$)
Regional Business News
EBSCO
($$)
BigCharts (CH, Aug’05, 42Sup-0463)
Dow Jones/News Corp
Bloomberg Professional Service (the Terminal)
Bloomberg Finance
($$)
Center for Research in Security Prices(CRSP)
Booth School of Business, Univ. of Chicago
($$)
Compustat Research Insight
S&P Global
($$)
EDGAR, Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (CH, Jul’16, 53-4616)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Eikon
Thomson Reuters
($$)
FactSet
FactSet Research Systems
($$)
GFDatabase
Global Financial Data
($$)
Intelligize
($$)
Investext (CH, Nov’07, 45-1225)
Thomson Research
($$)
Morningstar (CH, Apr’11, 48-4248)
(&)
Rank and Filed
Maris Jensen
SEC Live
(&)
SEC.gov
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Value Line (CH, Oct’06, 44-0714)
(&)
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania
($$)
Yahoo! Finance (CH, Jul’06, 43-6642)
Campbell R. Harvey’s Hypertextual Finance Glossary (CH, Feb’07, 44-3037)
CFTC Education Center
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
FINRA Investor Education Foundation
Financial Industry Regulation Authority
Investing in Bonds
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)
Investment Company Fact Book
Investment Company Institute
Investopedia (CH, Jul’01, 38-6292)
Investor’s Clearinghouse (CH, Nov’06, 44-1636)
Alliance for Investor Education
Smart Investing@Your Library
American Library Association
Stock & Commodity Exchanges
Ka-Neng Au, Rutgers University Libraries
Automotive News Data Center
Crain Communications
($$)
eMarketer
($$)
EvaluatePharma
Evaluate
($$)
Forrester
($$)
Gartner
($$)
GlobalData Medical
GlobalData
($$)
GlobalData Power
GlobalData
($$)
Medtrack
Pharma Intelligence, from Informa Business Intelligence
($$)
Sports Business Research Network (CH, Jan’08, 45-2393)
SBRnet
($$)
AdAge Datacenter
Crain Communications
($$)
American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) (CH, Nov’08, 46-1254)
Ross School of Business, Univ. of Michigan
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BusinessDecision
CIVICTechnologies
($$)
DemographicsNow: Business & People (CH, Sep’12, 50-0038)
Gale Cengage Learning
($$)
Marketing
MIT Libraries
Mintel (CH, Jul’10, 47-6023)
($$)
MRI
GfK
($$)
Nielsen Datasets (Consumer Panel Data,Retail Scanner Data)
Kilts Center for Marketing, Booth School of Business, Univ. of Chicago
($$)
REDBOOKS
($$)
Simmons OneView
Experian Marketing Services
($$)
SimplyMap (CH, Dec’09, 47-1791)
Geographic Research
($$)
Social Explorer (CH, Mar’11, 48-3644)
($$)
SRDS Local Market Audience Analyst
Kantar Media
($$)
SRDS Online Databases
Kantar Media
($$)
U.S. Consumers/Lifestyles, U.S. New Movers/Homeowners
Infogroup
($$)
BoardSource
($$)
Certified B Corporations
B Lab
Charity Navigator (CH, Feb’08, 45-2927)
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
(&)
Foundation Directory Online
Foundation Center
($$)
Give.org
BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Better Business Bureau
GuideStar (CH, Mar’06, 43-3789)
GuideStar USA
(&)
National Center for Charitable Statistics (CH, Dec’12, 50-1803)
Books 24x7
Skillsoft
($$)
Ebook Central
ProQuest
($$)
EBSCO eBooks
($$)
Gale Virtual Reference Library (CH, Dec’10, 48-1793)
Gale Cengage Learning
($$)
Safari Books Online Business Library
ProQuest
($$)
ScienceDirect (CH, Sep’06, 44-0034)
Elsevier
($$)
Springer Book Archives (CH, Nov’13, 51-1208)
($$)
Wiley Online Library (CH, Jan’11, 48-2411)
($$)
Barron’s
Dow Jones/News Corp
(&)
Business Insider
(&)
CNN Money
Time Warner
(&)
The Economist
Economist Group
(&)
Financial Times
(&)
Fortune
Time Inc.
(&)
MarketWatch
Dow Jones/News Corp
(&)
Money
Time Inc.
(&)
MSN Money
(&)
New York Times
(&)
Wall Street Journal
Dow Jones/News Corp
(&)
Capital IQ
S&P Global
($$)
Deal Pipeline
The Deal
($$)
PitchBook
PitchBook Data
($$)
Preqin
($$)
Private Equity Demystified, 3rd ed.
By John Gilligan and Mike Wright, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
PrivCo
PrivCo Media
Zephyr
Bureau van Dijk
($$)
MarketResearch.com (CH, Aug’04, 41Sup-0405)
(&)
ReportLinker (CH, Jul’13, 50-5957)
($$)
American FactFiner (CH, Dec’05, 43-1925)
U.S. Census Bureau
Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Data-Planet Statistical Datasets
Data-Planet by Conquest Systems
($$)
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)(CH, Jan’14, 51-2766)
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Finding Statistics
Univ. of Michigan
Government Information
Anderson School of Management, Rosenfeld Library, UCLA
Occupational Outlook Handbook (CH, Oct’12, 50-0646)
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
SAGE Business Stats (CH, May’16, 53-3791)
($$)
Statistic Brain
Statistic Brain Research Institute
Statistical Abstract of the United States (CH, Dec’07, 45-1769)
ProQuest
($$)
Statistical Abstracts Series
U.S. Census Bureau
Statistical Insight Collection
ProQuest
U.S. Census Bureau>Business & Industry(CH, Feb’12, 49-3060)
Best of the Business Web
Robert Berkman
Biz Ref Desk
Terese Mulkern Terry
Business & Finance Division
Special Library Association
The Business Blog
Chad Boeninger, Ohio Univ. Libraries
Business Reference and Services Section
BRASS, RUSA, ALA
Business Reference Essentials
BRASS, RUSA, ALA
BUSLIB-L: Business Librarians’ Discussion List
Northern Arizona Univ.
Citing Business Databases in APA Format
Walter Clinton Jackson Library, Univ. of North Carolina Greensboro
Citing Business Databases in APA Style
Gast Business Library, Michigan State Univ.
Information Advisor’s Guide to Internet Research
Information Today
(&)
Lippincott Datapoints
Lippincott Library, Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Periodic Table of Business Research Databases
Alacra
Business Information Portal
Peter Z. McKay, Univ. of Florida