General Business Resources

Full-Text Resources

Business Source Complete

Searchable database of articles from scholarly business journals and other sources. Subjects include management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Covers: 1965 - current, though a few select journals are available from the 1940's and 1950's

Academic Search Complete

Full-text articles and citations to popular and scholarly sources in many subject areas.

Lexis-Nexis Academic

Full-text business news, company and industry reports, accounting; coverage varies by source.

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Profiles and Reports

Searchable database of profiles and reports in HTML and PDF formats. Provides analysis and forecasts of the political, economic, social, and business environment for more than 180 countries. Country profiles are typically around 70 pages of textual analysis and data on a specific country, while the updating reports areabout 30 pages in length. Covers: 1996 - present.

International Encyclopedia of Business & Management (2d ed.)

Ref HF1001 .I53 2002 (8 vols.)

Indexes & Abstracts

EconLit

Database of citations with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature; includes coverage of over 400 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

Bibliographic records of U.S. Government information products, with links to Federal agency online resources; coverage begins with January 1994,  new records are added daily.

PAIS

Citations and short abstracts for journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories. Subjects include government, international relations, legislation, political science, statistics, and related areas. Covers: 1972 - present, abstracts start at 1985. PAIS Archive Provides historical perspective on many public policy, political, economic, and social issues worldwide. Covers: 1937-1976

Sociological Abstracts

Citations for articles from journals, books, conference papers, and dissertations in sociology and other social and behavioral sciences; citations after 1974 contain abstracts; covers: 1963 - present.

Indexes By Subject

Business Reference Guides - Library of Congress

BPubs

(Business Publications) Free articles grouped by subject.

CIBER: Michigan State U.'s Center for International Business Education & Research

International business resources.

globalEDGE

(formerly International Business Resources Index)

Company Research

SEC Filings

Search EDGAR from the Securities and Exchange Commission

10K Wizard: SEC EDGAR Filings

EdgarScan

Offers technology for parsing the key financial data detailed in SEC documents; user can create charts and graphs using the Benchmarking Assistant function.

Lexis Nexis Academic

For SEC Filings & Reports: select the "Business" tab then select "SEC Filings and Reports" from the left navigation bar.

Lexis Nexis Academic

For Company Financial Reports: Select the "Business" tab then retrieve the Company Dossier (search by name, ticker symbol, etc.) and select "Financial Information" from the left navigation bar. (Includes Disclosure(R) Online Database-US Public Company Profiles, Annual Reports - Corporate (AICPA), 1984-1995, Annual Reports - Corporate (AICPA); 1972-1984, Archived, Nelson's Company Research Reports, Nelson's Consensus Earnings Estimates, Vickers Institutional Holdings, Vickers Securities Report, Zacks Investment Research, Inc. Consensus Earnings Projections.)

Company Directories

Lexis Nexis Academic

For Company Financial Reports: Select the "Business" tab then retrieve the Company Dossier (search by name, ticker symbol, etc.) and select "Financial Information" from the left navigation bar. (Includes Disclosure(R) Online Database-US Public Company Profiles, Annual Reports - Corporate (AICPA), 1984-1995, Annual Reports - Corporate (AICPA); 1972-1984, Archived, Nelson's Company Research Reports, Nelson's Consensus Earnings Estimates, Vickers Institutional Holdings, Vickers Securities Report, Zacks Investment Research, Inc. Consensus Earnings Projections.)

Hoover's Online: Companies A-Z

The free portion of Hoover's

Hoover's Handbook of American Business

Ref HG4057 .A28617

Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies

Ref HG4057 .A28618

Hoover's Handbook of World Business

Ref HG4009 .H66

Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies

Ref HG4057 .A28616

Lexis-Nexis Academic

To Compare Companies: Select the "Business" tab and then select "Dossier Compare Companies". This search will compare balance sheet, income statement, and ratio information.

MSN MoneyCentral: Find Ticker Symbol

solusource

International manufacturer, distributor, and product information.

System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR)

The EDGAR of Canada; public company filings, annual reports, press releases, mutual fund filings.

Wright Research Center, aka Corporateinformation.com

For Company Profiles: Requires free registration. Detailed analysis of over 20,000 companies. See "Research Reports" to match a company with its competitors. 

Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives

Ref Desk HG4057.A43; annual directory of 75,000 companies, including 10,000 foreign companies, and 437,500 executives. Sales, number of employees, and SIC codes are provided. Biographical sketches are included for 72,000 executives.

Principal International Businesses (D & B)

Ref HF54.U5P74; world marketing directory listing approximately 50,000 leading enterprises in 140 countries that are the largest employers worldwide. It includes mining, manufacturing, agriculture, forestry, fishing, power generation and distribution, construction, communications, transportation, financial institutions, insurance, real estate, films and other service businesses, and autonomous government entities. This publication is divided into three sections listing businesses by geographic location, by product class, and alphabetically.

Directory of Foreign Firms Operating in the U.S.

Ref HG4057.D155 2002; Lists 2,400 foreign firms and 5,700 businesses in the U.S. owned by foreign firms. The Directory is organized by country, but also provides two alphabetical listings.

Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries

Ref HG4538.A1D5; A three-volume directory of American companies with subsidiaries or affiliates outside the U.S. A total of 2,450 companies and 30,000 branches, subsidiaries, and affiliates are covered. Volume 1, part 1 lists U.S. companies with operations abroad in alphabetical order. Volume 1, part 2 and Volumes 2 and 3 lists the companies by country.

D & B Regional Business Directory -San Francisco Area

Ref HG4058.S4D86; public and private companies included; ranked by sales, number of employees; includes company record info; listed by SIC number and geographically.

Value Line Investment Survey

Ref HG4501.V26; (Current edition of parts 1 and 3 at Reference Desk, current year of part 2 in Reference Stacks.) Company and industry profiles for the investor. Also available online (check with McHenry Reference Desk; select "log in," then select "Print Subscriber Services" at left side, then enter username/password, then select the first choice, "Value Line Investment Survey®Online.").

D & B Million Dollar Directory

Ref HF5035.D82; directory of America's leading corporations, public and private; provides the ame, address and phone number for headquarters and single locations; public/private ownership designations; D-U-N-S number; SIC Codes; founding/ownership dates; and, where available, information on annual sales volume, total number of employees; names, titles and functions of officers; names of directors; import/export designations; principal banking and accounting relationships; sticker symbol and stock exchange; state of incorporation; and parent company.

Annual Reports

The Public Register Online

Links to thousands of reports; links to corporate homepages are also provided, and  you can order print versions of annual reports for free. Registration required.

Lexis Nexis Academic

Select the "Business" tab then select "SEC Filings" from the left navigation bar and change "Source" from drop-down menu to "SEC Annual Reports to Shareholders." Reports are in ASCII format, no graphics.

U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)

A good place to find additional information, especially about private company holdings.

Company Rankings

Hoover's Lists

See tables at the front of Hoover's Handbooks

Price's List of Lists

A legendary vast compendium of links to lists of top ranked industries, organizations, schools, products, and people.

Fortune 500 and 1000

IndustryWeek IW 1000

World's 1,000 largest publicly held manufacturing companies based on revenue.

Web 100

Forbes.com Company Lists

Financial Times 500

Advertising Age 100 Leading National Advertisers

STORES Magazine

Top 100 retailers, specialty stores, internet retailers, global retailers.

AsiaWeek 1000 Biggest Companies

D & B Business Rankings

Ref HG4057 .A237; Ranks over 25,000 of the nation's leading private and public businesses by size as measured by sales volume and number of employees. These indicators are also used to rank these businesses within each state, within industry categories, and within the private/foreign-owned designation. Organized by SIC classifications.

The Inc. 500

Inc.'s Annual List of America's fastest-growing private companies.

Employee Ownership 100

America's largest companies that are over 50% employee-owned through an ESOP, stock purchase plan, or other broad-based ownership plan.

Washington Post's Top Private Companies

BusinessWeek Global 1000

Company History

Mergent Manuals (formerly Moody's)

Ref HG4961 .M (etc.); The Manuals contain basic information on a company's history, products, property, divisions, subsidiaries, address, directors and officers, financial position, corporate debt, and stock price range. The material presented is factual rather than advisory. It is possible to get historical information on companies by searching older versions in Stacks

International Directory of Company Histories

Ref HD2721.I63 5 vols. (Note: our set is incomplete. Approx. 40 vols. have been issued; check other area libraries.) Profiles of the historical development of the world?s leading companies. 

Who Owns Whom (D&B)

Ref HG4009 .W468 (North & South America)

Ref HG4009 W466 (International)

Directory of parent, associate and subsidiary companies. For North and South America: v.1 corporate family trees (ultimate parent and all subsidiaries); v. 2 index to all companies in North and South America showing subsidiary-ultimate parent relationships.

America's Corporate Families and International Affiliates

Ref HG4057.A15 (3 vols.); Provides the corporate structure and basic company information for 12,700 parent companies in the United States. Subsidiary companies are listed alphabetically with a note identifying the corporate ownership. There are indexes by company name, geography (state and city), and SIC code. Volume 3 covers U.S. family members of foreign ultimate parent companies as well as foreign subsidiaries of U.S. parents. 

LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations

Ref Desk HG4057.A22; Provides the corporate structure and basic company information for 15,513 U.S. and non-U.S. parent companies. Volumes 1 and 2 include the master indexes. Volume 3 lists U.S. public companies, while volume 4 lists U.S. private companies. Volume 5 lists international public and private companies. Subsidiary companies follow the parent company in order of reporting hierarchy. For help using this directory, use the help guide at the front of each volume.

Industry Research

Standard Industrial Classification Search (SIC)

Many company directories use SIC codes to classify types of industry; search the 1987 version SIC manual by keyword to access descriptive information for 4-digit SIC codes.

In print: SIC Manual - Ref HF1042 .A55

North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) and SIC Compared

NAICS is the new version of the SIC, but many sources continue to use SIC codes. Search for the 1997 NAICS code for an industry, or use the site's correspondence tables to find an SIC code's equivalent in NAICS.

In print: NAICS Ref HF1042 .N6

Fortune.com: Industry Rankings

Industry Reports from Hoover's Online

U.S. Census Bureau Economy Overview - by industry

Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries

HC102 .E54 1999

Arranged alphabetically by industry; covers specific businesses as well as broad business sectors with significant growth potential.

Fuld & Company, Inc. - Internet Intelligence Index

Links to over 600 intelligence-related internet sites, covering everything from macro-economic data to individual patent and stock quote information.

Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios

Ref HF5681.R25I525 (Desktop ed.; 1 year coverage; older issues in Stacks)

From Dun & Bradstreet; covers over 800 lines of business, arranged by SIC code. Presents "typical" balance sheets and income statements for the industry and 14 key ratios for the median, upper, and lower quartiles.

U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook

Ref HC106.5 .A17

Analyses of the major U.S. industries and sectors; industry-specific outlooks for international trade; discussions of domestic and global economic actions; 650 easy-to-read tables and charts; 100s of industry reviews, analyses, and forecasts; geographical snapshots of industry and trade trends.

Lexis Nexis Academic

For Industry & Market News: Select "Sources" tab then select "Industry" in the "1.By" menu.

Federal Statistics

U.S. Census Bureau: Current Industrial Reports (CIR)

U.S. Census Bureau: Manufacturing & Construction Division (MCD)

Current industrial reports, manufacturing profiles, instruction manuals.

Market Share

Market Share Reporter

Ref HF5410 .M35

World Market Share Reporter

RefHF5410 .W67 2001

Advertising Age: Leading National Advertisers

Stock Performance

Standard & Poor's Quarterly Dividend Record

Ref HG4908 .S76a

Handbook of Common Stocks (Mergent/FIS)

Ref Desk HG4501 .M59

Big Charts Historical Quotes

SiliconInvestor

Includes historical quotes; search current prices by company first.

Zacks.com

Coverage of 6,000+ publicly traded companies, compiled from over 3,000 analysts at more than 240 different brokerage houses.

Yahoo!: Historical Quotes

Select "Historical Quotes" from Research Tools; access to historical quote data in tabular format in several timeframes: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Dividends. Historical Quotes feature includes notations for all splits and dividend distributions during the date range covered. Open, high, low and close quotes are not adjusted for splits or dividends, an Adjusted Close column is provided which is the close price adjusted for all splits and dividends. Historical quotes typically do not go back further than 1970. Displays maximum 200 rows at a time.

Wright Research Center, aka Corporateinformation.com

(Requires free registration) Company analyses, investment commentary, recent economic news, investment committee presentations.

S & P's Security Owner's Stock Guide

Ref HG4915.S67

S & P's Bond Guide

Ref HG4661.S78 2001

Chicago Mercantile Exchange

NASDAQ

NYSENET

New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Amex Equities, etc.

Nikkei.com

Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse

Detailed information relating to federal class action securities fraud litigation; identifies 1044 issuers that have been named in federal class action securities fraud lawsuits since passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Also contains full text searchable copies of more than 2000 complaints, briefs, filings, and other litigation-related materials filed in these cases.

Market Research & Demographics

County Business Patterns

Data at the two digit SIC code level for all counties, states, and national totals

Library of Congress Country Studies

Description and analysis of historical setting and social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

Country Briefings from Economist.com

Listed by country; includes articles from The Economist, background profiles, forecast and statistics from The Economist Intelligence Unit, market and currency updates, news headlines and links.

Consumer Expenditure Surveys (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

U.S. State Dept. Country Commercial Guides

Along with an assortment of other market research material. Annual reports by U.S. embassies presenting a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis

International Trade Administration: State Exports to Countries & Regions

Watson Library International Resources for International Business (Columbia U.)

International links, by region, on developing economies and emerging markets

U.S. Census Bureau - Data Access Tools

Links to various Census datasets.

IPUMS-USA (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series)

National census database spanning 1850 to 1990.

SRI - Statistical Reference Index Annual

Ref HA214.S73

A guide to U.S. statistical publications both private organizations and state government sources

Brands & Advertisers

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

Advertising Age Datacenter

Online Popular Publications

Barron's Online

Bloomberg.com

Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Kiplinger

Fortune.com

CNN Money

News & Press Releases

PR Newswire

Updated company & industry news & information.

BusinessWire.com

Standard & Poor's Corporation Records: Daily news section

Ref HG4501 .S7664

S & P's Outlook

Ref HG4905.S732; Investment advisory newsletter for individual investors (new material, old binder).

S & P's Creditweek

Ref HG4905.S7312; Current year only. Provides industry analysis and market commentary on the key developments and  issues affecting global credit quality.  Feature articles, ratings news, trends.

Management

Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Quick MBA

Other

Lexis Nexis Academic

Accounting Literature : Select "Business" tab then "Accounting" in left navigation bar.

U.S. Patent Office Full-Text and Bibliographic Database

Occupational Outlook Handbook (U.S. Dept. of Labor)

JobStar California

Salary surveys, general and profession-specific.

National Debt Clock

Updated daily

U. of Michigan Documents Center

Central reference point for government documents ( local, state, federal, foreign or international).