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The James J. Hill Reference Library is a private non-profit business reference library, located in Saint Paul, MN. Scroll down to “Hill Library Online Resources” then select “Best of the Business Web”
http://www.jjhill.org/research_online/best_of_the_business_web.cfm
Boston Public Library - Business Branch
http://www.bpl.org/research/kbb/kbbhome.htm
This site has some excellent links that can be found through their “Business Bookmarks” (rates, census, indexes, and historical stock quotes) and “Selected Business Websites by Subject.” Their links include national and international directories, trade and export data, news, investment resources (stocks, bonds, IPO’s), economic, industry, rates, indexes, statistics, demographics, and links to other business libraries among many others.
Librarian Selected Sites:
Librarians Index to the Internet - Reliable business websites chosen by librarians
http://www.lii.org/pub/topic/busfinjobs
Internet Public Library
University of Michigan sponsored site with a variety of business websites.
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/bus00.00.00/
Social Science Information Gateway
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/business/
UK based site sponsored by universities with “high quality…social science, business, and law” resources.
University of South Carolina Libraries
http://www.sc.edu/library/pubserv/selsites.html
http://www.sc.edu/library/pubserv/reference.html
Categorized list of sites including reference materials online and special “business search” sites.
Government Sites
The United States federal government gathers tremendous amounts of information and statistics on a wide array of subjects. The Websites below are excellent places to start searching for business, economic, financial, and industry information on the World Wide Web.
Business.gov
http://www.business.gov/topics/research_resources/
Government links for business including country and trade data, business and employment data, and free government publications.
FedStats
This webpage is called the “gateway to statistics” for over 100 U.S. Federal Agencies. You can quickly search for data by topic or agency.
FirstGov
This site is sponsored by the General Services Administration and claims to be “the gateway to all United States government information.” In addition to a browsable directory of government information, it includes a search engine that aims to index all Federal (and state) government Web sites.
Google US Government Search
http://www.google.com/ig/usgov
Google has created a special portal that searches exclusively for government information on the web. Local, state, and federal government sources are all included and the front page includes recent news headlines.
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Economic, consumer, wage, employment, industry, demographic, spending, occupational, safety and health data are all available from this excellent and well organized site.
US Securities and Exchange Commission
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
This website offers free financial data including quarterly and annual reports on most U.S. public companies such as 10K and 10Q filings. In addition to corporate filings, news, laws and regulations, a quick EDGAR tutorial is offered on this site.
Commercial Sites
You should always look critically at information on websites, especially commercial websites!
Big Charts
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/
This website offers a variety of options to create stock charts and graphs. The historical stock information is particularly useful (see historical quotes.)
BRINT.com - Business/Knowledge Management/Technology Network
This site is a large and well organized collection of resources for business researchers especially in areas such as KM & Technology.
Polson Enterprises - Market and Industry Research Tools
http://www.virtualpet.com/rtools.htm
This page has their method/suggestions on how to conduct industry research. You many find some of the links
useful. http://www.virtualpet.com/industry/howto/search.htm
Google Insights - use search data to research your market or company
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
CEO Express
http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp
A site with an extensive list of business, news, government, reference, law, and technology links.
CNN Money
This site has concise information on US and global markets as well as stock market data.
Fuld & Company
http://www.fuld.com/Tindex/I3.html
An established competitive intelligence firm (business and industry research.) Their website offers links to numerous and useful free online resources.
Google Business Directory
http://directory.google.com/Top/Business/
Thousands of business links and resources online.
Wall Street Executive Library
http://www.executivelibrary.com/
Hundreds of useful links for business people and researchers.
Yahoo Finance
A substantial amount of free information and data including news, financials, stock research including current and historical data, and currency data. Yahoo has created an “Education Center” with some interesting glossaries and tutorials.
Other
Research Small Businesses Online - Manta.com
Registration required. Able to search 57 million small and medium sized businesses. Our Hoover's database
provides access to information on large public corporations. Access our electronic databases by logging into
the webcampus portal if you are off campus or clicking on electronic databases from our library homepage at
http://www.wilmu.edu/library/index.aspx
Local Business Resources
http://www.delawarebusinessblog.com/