Business Information Resources

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Business Information Resources Workshop

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Metasites	Company Information	SEC Filings	Finance	Small Business
Glossaries and Dictionaries	Industry Information	Market Research	International	Real Estate

Looking for publications that evaluate business resources ? Here are a couple:

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Metasite examples

Public Libraries

Seattle Public Library Business and Finance Page http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=collection_db_list&dbPage=3
KCLS Business Databases and Web Resources http://www.kcls.org/pathfinder/buspath.cfm
New York Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library Research Guides http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/guides/
Multnomah County OR Public Library Research Guides http://www.multcolib.org/ref/topics.html

University Libraries

University of Washington Foster Library Business Research Guides http://lib.washington.edu/business/guides/
Harvard Business School Baker Library Research Guides http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides/
University of Chicago Library Business and Economics Resources http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/busecon/
Wharton University Lippincott Library Research Guides http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/guides/business/rguides.html

Other

Best of BusLib-L (see “where to find it” section) http://www.montague.com/review/buslibbest.html
The Invisible Web Directory
http://www.invisible-web.net/database.html?category_selected=Business+and+Investing
Superstar Investor
http://www.superstarinvestor.com/directory.html
Internet Public Library Business & Economics Subject Collection http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/bus00.00.00/

Glossaries, Dictionaries, Definitions

Foster Business Library Research Tools http://lib.washington.edu/business/researchtools.html
Investopedia Dictionary
http://www.investopedia.com/dictionary/
Investorwords.com
http://www.investorwords.com/
Yahoo Finance Glossary
http://biz.yahoo.com/f/g/
Dictionary of Marketing Terms (from the American Marketing Association)
http://www.marketingpower.com/mg-dictionary.php
Accounting Terminology Guide (from the NY State Society of CPAs) http://www.nysscpa.org/prof_library/guide.htm

Company Information

Company web site information - examples (see if you can figure out how to find your way through the sites to these pages)

Company structure (subsidiaries, divisions)
General Electric: http://www.ge.com/en/company/businesses/index.htm
Company History
LL Bean: http://www.llbean.com/customerService/aboutLLBean/background.html
Executive directory / biographies
Weyerhaeuser: http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/aboutus/leadership/seniormanagement.asp
Financial results
American Express: http://ir.americanexpress.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=64467&p=irol-irhome

Other company information resources

Hoovers
http://www.hoovers.com
Reference for Business
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/businesses/
Yahoo Finance (example)
Ford Motor Co. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=F
Google Finance (example)
Eddie Bauer: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=eddie+bauer
Magazine profiles (example)
Ikea cover story in Business Week: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/05_46/B3959magazine.htm

Industry Information

IndustryPro
http://www.industrypro.com/default.aspx?pg=industryreports
Yahoo Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/
Current Industrial Profiles (Census Bureau)
http://www.census.gov/cir/www/index.html
U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook (Department of Commerce Office of Trade and Industry Information) Still being moved to the web…
http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/outlook/index.html or http://ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/industry_sector/tables_naics.htm
Internet Public Library’s Associations on the Net Industries
http://www.ipl.org/div/aon/browse/bus41.00.00/

SEC Filings

SEC Edgar
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
SECInfo
http://www.secinfo.com/

Market Research

MarketResearch.com
http://www.marketresearch.com
Export.gov Market Research
http://www.export.gov/marketresearch.html
Market Research Portal (UK based, non-profit) http://www.export.gov/marketresearch.html

Yahoo
http://finance.yahoo.com
Google (brand-new as of March 21)
http://finance.google.com
MSN MoneyCentral
http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp
Morningstar
http://www.morningstar.com
Big Charts (historical quotes back to 1970)
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/
Investor Home
http://www.investorhome.com/

International Business

CIA Factbook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
U.S. Census Bureau International Statistics Agencies
http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html
World Bank Countries and Regions
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/0,,pagePK:180619~theSitePK:136917,00.
World Bank Private Sector Development
http://rru.worldbank.org/
Federation of International Trade Associations Portal
http://www.fita.org/
Yahoo International Finance Pages
http://finance.yahoo.com/international

Small Business

U.S. Small Business Administration
http://www.sba.gov/
Business.gov
http://www.business.gov/
Smallbusiness.com
http://www.smallbusiness.com/
SCORE
http://www.score.org/
Doing Business in Washington (from www.wa.gov)
http://access.wa.gov/business/index.aspx
Seattle Public Library Small Business Resources (Washington-state focused) http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=collection_db_list&dbPage=3#Small%20Business
King County Library System Business Planning Resources http://www.kcls.org/pathfinder/buspath.cfm#plan
Foster Business Library Small Business Resources
http://lib.washington.edu/business/guides/small.html

Real Estate

Chamber of Commerce (example)
Boulder Colorado: http://www.boulderchamber.com/life/demographics.asp#econinfo
National Association of Realtors Research
http://www.realtor.org/research/index.html
Moving.com City Profiles
http://www.moving.com/Find_a_Place/Cityprofile/
Northwest Multiple Listing Service Statistical Recap http://www.nwrealestate.com/nwrpub/common/mktg.html