Business Resources

 BUSINESS DATABASES

 ABI-Inform - the premier business database from ProQuest.  Provides citations and abstracts for articles in over 1,000 journals published worldwide and includes the full text for over 500 periodicals. coverage is worldwide and includes advertising, computers, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, and taxation. The file also includes information on 60,000 plus companies.  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb

This subscription database is accessible from PBA/PalmNet connected computers or via the library Proxy Server.

 Business & Company Resource Center - Formerly General BusinessFile ASAP, this resource brings together in a single database company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals  http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/west87348

 This subscription database is accessible from PBA/PalmNet connected computers or via the library Proxy Server.

 

BUSINESS SOURCES AND SEARCH ENGINES

 Business and Economics Resources - Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/bus00.00.00.html

 CEO Express - http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp

 Dow Jones Business Directory - created to show where quality business information can be found on the Web - http://businessdirectory.dowjones.com/

 Excite: Business & Investing - http://quicken.excite.com/

 HotBot: Business & Finance - Use HotBot's "Browse By Category" feature. Select Business & Finance and then browse the headings to quickly pinpoint your interests. - http://www.hotbot.com

 Library Spot – Business Info - http://www.libraryspot.com/businessinfo.htm

 Magellan Business Topics - http://www.mckinley.com/magellan/Reviews/Business/index.magellan.html

 Online Financial Search Engines - http://199.72.15.157/financiat.htm

 School Business Officials Internet Pathfinder - http://mailer.fsu.edu/~kshelfer/chase/homepage.htm

 Sources of Financial Information –Florida State Unniversity - http://www.fsu.edu/~finance/

 WWW Virtual Library: Finance and Investments - a resource that Ohio State's Department of Finance provides to academia and investors alike. It is an excellent place to start - http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/overview.htm

 Yahoo! Financehttp://quote.yahoo.com

 

COMPANY AND ANNUAL REPORT INFORMATION

Annual Reports Library – a megasite to over 1.45 million original reports (and proxies) from corporations, foundations, banks, mutual funds and public institutions. Includes link to PRARS which provides free annual reports - http://zpub.com/sf/arl/

BizWeb - Web business guide to almost 35,000 companies listed in over 190 categories -  http://www.bizweb.com/

 Bloomberg Website - http://www.bloomberg.com/bbn/index.html

 Charles Schwab Online - http://www.schwab.com/

 CompanyLink: Company Look Up - A web publication from NewsEdge News Page,"Companylink" allows the researcher to search itsdatabasefor stock quotes, business news, and profiles on 65,000 companies - http://www.companylink.com

 Daily Stocks - http://www.dailystocks.com/

 Foreign Exchange Rates - http://www.uta.fi/~ktmatu/rate-datamenu.html

 Hoover’s IPO Central - http://www.hoovers.com/ipo/0,1334,23,00.html

 Hoover's Online - http://www.hoovers.com/

 Hoover’s Stock Screener - http://www.hoovers.com/search/forms/stockscreener/0,2221,71,00.html

 Internet 800 Directory - Locate 800 & 888 numbers for businesses and large corporations -  http://inter800.com/search.htm

 European Business Directory - http://www.europages.com/

 Fortune 500 - Provides company snapshots of Fortune 500 - use pull-down menu for lists - http://www.fortune.com/

 Fortune 500 Annual Reports - For each company, you will see: name and address, phone number, Fortune 500 rank, SEC 10-K reports (both current and old), a link to the company's web page (when available), ticker symbol along with stock price and historical information (when available), news articles about the company, and high and low resolution scanned images of the company's annual report. Both current reports and past ones, back to 1996 are included when available. (The PBA Library has additional reports on microfiche, back to 1987) - http://buck.com/cgi-bin/arcgi.exe

 This subscription database is accessible from PBA/PalmNet connected computers or via the library Proxy Server.

Global 500 -  http://www.fortune.com/ - use pull-down menu for lists

 NASDAQ – Financial Executive Journal - http://www.nasdaq.com/

 SEC Online - http://www.sec.gov/

 SEC EDGAR Database - Edgar is a free database of corporate financial filings including 10K and 10Q reports -http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

 Thomas Register of American Manufacturers - Free Registration. Contains listings for 155,000 companies and links to over 1000 company web sites. Search this large directory by company, manufacturer and brand names. http://www.thomasregister.com/

  

CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATES

 Currencies and Currency-Exchange - Good starting point for currency research. This reference source has three categories: Currencies; Exchange Rates; and Currency-Converters -  http://www.gwdg.de/~ifbg/currency.html

 CNNfn Currencies Market - Part of the CNN Financial Network, information is arranged in tables and by geographic area - http://cnnfn.cnn.com/markets/currencies/

Daily Currency Exchange Rates - Choose a currency and then select the currency to compare it with. Rates are provided by the Federal Bank of New York. The site is usually updated daily – http://www.dna.1th.se/cgi-bin/kurt/rates

 Foreign Exchange Rates - http://www.uta.fi/~ktmatu/rate-datamenu.html

 Universal Currency Converter - If you know exactly how much money you want to exhange then begin here.- http://www.xe.com/ucc/

 UN Operational Rates of Exchange - gopher://gopher.undp.org/00/uncurr/exch_rates

 

ECONOMICS

 American Economic Association - http://www.eco.utexas.edu/AEA/

Business Cycle Indicators - http://www.globalexposure.com/

Daily Stocks - http://www.dailystocks.com/

Economics Working Papers Archives - http://econwpa.wustl.edu/Welcome.html

European Economic Data - http://www.europages.com/business-info-en.html#G-SECTOR

Federal Reserve Bank of New York - http://www.ny.frb.org/

FedStats - http://www.fedstats.gov/

FINWeb - http://www.finweb.com/

Foreign Exchange Rates - http://www.uta.fi/~ktmatu/rate-datamenu.html

International Monetary Fund - http://www.imf.org/

National Bureau of Economic Research - http://nber.org/

Regional Economic Information System - http://fisher.lib.Virginia.EDU/reis/

Resources for Economists on the Internet - http://rfe.wustl.edu/EconFAQ.html

STAT USA - http://www.stat-usa.gov/

Statistical Resources for Economists -  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html

Statistical Resources on the Web - http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stecon.html

Universal Currency Converter - http://www.xe.com/ucc/

WebEc – World Wide Web Resources in Economics - http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc/

 

FINANCE

 

Home Owner's Finance Center - http://homeowners.com/

 Wall Street Directory - http://wall-street.nyc.ny.us/

 FINWeb Homepage - http://www.finweb.com/

 Loan Rates, HSH Associates - http://www.hsh.com/

 MasterCard - http://www.mastercard.com/

 Mortgage Calculator - http://www.interest.com/hugh/calc/

 Relocation Salary Calculator - http://www.homefair.com:80/homefair/cmr/salcalc.html

 StockMaster - http://www.stockmaster.com/

 VISA International - http://www.visa.com/main.html

 

INDUSTRY

 Industry Research Desk - Web site provides tools for researching companies, industries and manufacturing processes - http://www.virtualpet.com/industry/rdindex2.htm

 Individual.com NewsPage - http://www.office.com/news/business/

 Deloitte & Touche PeerScape Industry Reports - A comprehensive Internet industry resource. Note: ACROBAT READER is required to view reports - http://www.peerscape.com/industry/industry.htm

 NewsPage Home Page - Good source for current industry news including industry group overviews and financials - http://www.newspage.com/browse

 StockSmart Industry/Sub-Industry Listing - View industries by size, valuation and PE ratios, performance for current day, week and month - http://www.stocksmart.com/industryspro.html

 Standard Industrial Classifications (SIC) Index - http://www.wave.net/upg/immigration/sic

 TechSavvy - http://www.techsavvy.com/

 

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

 American Export Register - http://www.aernet.com/

Country Commercial Guides - prepared by US Embassy Staff once a year, these guides contain information on the business and economic situation of foreign countries and the political climate as it affects U.S. business. Each CCG contains the same chapters, and an appendix, which include topics such as marketing, trade regulations, investment climate, and business travel. http://www.usatrade.gov/website/ccg.nsf

 Expo Guide –Trade Shows - http://www.expoguide.com/

 Export Declaration - http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/foreign-trade/www/correct.way.html

 Export Today  - http://www.globalbusinessmag.com/

 Foreign Exchange Rates - http://www.uta.fi/~ktmatu/rate-datamenu.html

 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States - http://www.usitc.gov/taffairs.htm

I-Trade - http://www.i-trade.com/

 International Resources on the WWW –Michigan State University - http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp

 International Telephone Directories - http://www.infobel.com/World/

 Tradeport - http://www.tradeport.org/

 Universal Currency Converter - http://www.xe.com/ucc/

 World Factbook - http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

 

MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS, TELEVISION

 Academy of Management On-Line - http://www.aom.pace.edu

Advertising Age - http://www.adage.com

Business Week - http://www.businessweek.com

CNN Business News - http://cnnfn.cnn.com/news

CNNfn (CNN Financial Network) - http://cnnfn.cnn.com

The Economist - http://www.economist.com

Forbes - http://www.forbes.com/

Fortune - http://www.fortune.com

Harvard Business Review - http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/products/hbr/index.html

Marketing Week -http://www.mad.co.uk/mw

Money Magazine - http://www.money.com/money

Mutual Funds Online - http://www.mutual-funds.com/mfmag/

NASDAQ – Financial Executive Journal - http://www.nasdaq.com/

The New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com

Rand Journal of Economics - http://www.rje.org

Wall Street Journal – 
For the official WSJ page, go to http://public.wsj.com/home.html
For full text articles and indexing, from 20 years ago until yesterday, use Proquest on PBA Library website

Proquest is a subscription database accessible from PBA/PalmNet connected computers or via the library Proxy Server.

 

MARKETING

 American Marketing Association - http://www.ama.org

 Direct Marketing Association - oldest and largest trade association for users and suppliers in the direct, database and interactive marketing fields - http://www.the-dma.org/

 iMarket - http://www.imarketinc.com

 USAData Local Market Data Resource - http://www.usadata.com

Yahoo Marketing Directory http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Marketing_and_Advertising

 

RESEARCH

 Business and Economics Resources - Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/bus00.00.00.html

 Library of Congress - Business Reference Services - starting point for conducting research in the subject areas of business and economics - http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/business/

 HBS Working Knowledge - compiled by staff members from the Harvard Business School (HBS) Baker Library, this site contains information about current research and publications done by the HBS and includes abstracts and notes about the contents. Information is arranged by 13 management topics including "E-Commerce," "Innovation and Change," and "Knowledge and the Information Economy." http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/

 

STOCKS AND INVESTMENTS

 American Stock Exchange - http://www.amex.com/

(Dreyfus) Historical Stock Prices - Provides historical data for up to one year. Type in the company's ticker symbol, and then use the pulldown menu to get prices from 5-360 days.   http://www.tradepbs.com/pbscgi/hstqtetd

 Investorama - "The most complete directory of investing sites on the web, with more than 9,350 links in 124 categories, each with a brief description." - http://www.investorama.com

London Stock Exchange - http://www.londonstockexchange.com/

Nagoya Stock Exchange (Japan) - http://www.nse.or.jp/index-e.htm

Paris Stock Exchange - http://www.bourse-de-paris.fr/

StockMaster - http://www.stockmaster.com/

Mutual Funds - US: from The Mining Company - http://mutualfunds.miningco.com/

New York Stock Exchange - http://www.nyse.com/

Nasdaq Stock Market - http://www.nasdaq.com

Wall Street City Historical Stock Quotes - Historical quotes up to 5 years are available for open, high, low, close and volume stock statistics. The site is easy to use, but knowledge of the company symbol is required. Enter the company symbol, and then use the pulldown menu to select the type of report: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, and intraday. - http://host.wallstreetcity.com/wsc2/Historical_Quotes.html


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Compiled by Reference Faculty of  the PBA Library

 

Sources: 
                Palm Beach Atlantic College Library Reference Bookmarks

FSU Library- http://www.fsu.edu/~library/

FAU Libraries - Finance and Economics -http://www.library.fau.edu/subj/busfinan.htm

                Baylor University Libraries - http://www.baylor.edu/Library/BeyondLib/business.html#company

                Illinois State University  - http://www.mlb.ilstu.edu/

                College of DuPage Library - http://www.cod.edu/library/

University of Miami Library - http://www.library.miami.edu/