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Resources
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Barron's Online*
Updated daily, Barron's Online, the subscription-based online version of America's premier financial weekly magazine, combines exclusive online articles with analysis, and statistics.
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Biznar
Biznar is a free, publicly available business search site. Using state-of-the-art federated search technology from Deep Web Technologies, Biznar accelerates your search by returning the most relevant results from across the World Wide Web, including blogs, wikis, mainstream searches and deep web sources to one, easily navigable page. Each search is done in real-time, searching the sources you select as if you were entering the search term on each individual website yourself. Duplicates are removed, the results weighed for relevance and then ranked according to how closely it matches your search word or phrase. Clicking on any of the results will take you directly to the source website where you can view your information directly
Business Leader Profiles for Students*
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Covers 350 prominent individuals who have made significant contributions to business and industry. Profiles range from 1,250 to 2,500 words in length.
Business Plans Handbook*
Business Plans Handbook is a collection of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America. Typical business plans include type of business; statement of purpose; executive summary; business/industry description; market; product and production; management/personnel; and financial specifics.
Business Source Premier*
Provides full text for more than 3,650 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.
Business Stages for Entrepreneurship
Business Stages for Entrepreneurs is a free online information resource for entrepreneurs and small businesses to help them grow.
Directory of Women Owned Businesses
Crain's Cleveland Business has created this directory to help raise the profile of women doing business in Northeast Ohio. The directory is a tool for individuals and companies that are looking to do business with women-owned companies, and will be a resource for women-owned businesses that want to support each other. To browse the directory, click on the particular category or county you wish to search by.
eNews for Small Business
A subscription eNewsletter from the IRS designed to provide tax information for small business and self-employed individuals. It is distributed every other Wednesday.
First Research*
Hudson Library and First Research have partnered to deliver you critical knowledge tools that equip you with the targeted understanding needed to engage key prospects and deepen client relationships. First Research's knowledge tools (Industry Profiles, Call Prep Sheets, State & Province Profiles) are essential for call preparation, enhancing presentations, underwriting credit, and for quickly learning a company's key business issues.
Available: Library Only
Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute
A resource devoted to better understanding America’s small business owners. It combines ground-breaking research the Institute commissions with the expertise of people within the Guardian Life family who have deep experience in the small business community, to yield deeper knowledge, insights and wisdom about small business owners and the businesses they build. Collectively, America’s small businesses account for 50 percent of U.S. gross domestic product and 44 percent of the nation’s payroll.
The Institute resides within The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a corporation with a vast national small business customer base. For nearly 150 years, Guardian has provided individual protection and employee benefits solutions to America’s small business owners.
Hill Library Special Issues Index
The Hill Library Special Issues Index is a one-of-a-kind collection of industry overviews, company rankings, and more from hundreds of websites and industry and trade journals. Browse the Special Issues Index by subject or journal, or keyword search across report citations. Individual articles can be ordered via the Hill Document Delivery service. The Special Issues Index was selected as one of the Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2010 by the American Library Association.
Hoovers*
The Hoover's Online database provides access to in-depth company profiles for more than 40,000 companies, public and private, worldwide, as well as to financial information, news, and industry information. This database is an excellent starting point for company research.
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Morningstar*
Morningstar Investment Research features detailed, independent information on more than 20,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. In addition, library patrons have access to an online, interactive Investing Classroom, featuring hundreds of courses covering every aspect of stock and fund investing and portfolio building. Short quizzes, training seminars, and interactive investing courses teach you critical investing lessons and techniques you can immediately apply what you learn to your own portfolio.
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Proquest Entrepreneurship*
ProQuest Entrepreneurship provides unprecedented access to a wide array of resources and tools for starting your own business or supporting the study and practice of entrepreneurship. The database offers a vast collection of content types together in one product: business journal articles (updated weekly), video clips, market research, start-up plans, templates and forms, business cases, working papers, conference proceedings, and full text dissertations. The interface for ProQuest Entrepreneurship was designed for entrepreneurs wanting quick access to the latest information on business topics and quick links to the most highly sought information, regardless of their research experience.Remote access provided, 24-hours a day.
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ReferenceUSA*
Directory information for 11 million U.S. businesses, 1 million Canadian businesses, 120 million U.S. households, 11 million Canadian residents, and 683,000 U.S. health care providers. Search for businesses by SIC code, sales volume number of employees and more.
Survey of Current Business
A U.S. Department of Commerce monthly publication that provides data on U.S. business on the regional, national, and international levels. Among statistical series covered are personal income, inventories and sales, national income and product accounts, foreign direct investment in the United States, U.S. direct investment abroad, international transactions, and gross state product.
ThomasNet
Manufacturers, distributors and service providers. ThomasNet includes Thomas Register
Valueline Investment Survey*
The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
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World Factbook(CIA)
Compiled by the CIA, this resource provides economic,demographic, political and vital statistics data along with other useful information on virtually all countries in the world. To find a basic country overview, start by clicking the ‘References’ tab at the top of the page and then “Guide to Countries’. Use the pull-down menu on the upper right side of the page to select your country of interest.
