Library Guide to Business Resources

The links on this page have been selected by the librarians as good resources for library patrons to consult when looking for information on the World Wide Web. If you need any assistance, please ask a Reference Librarian! Stop by the information desk in the library, call 375-2164, or send e-mail to ref@sbu.edu . 

Books and Other Media

• Browse St. Bonaventure University Library Catalog 
• Browse materials in libraries worldwide--WorldCat 

If you are looking for books in the Friedsam Memorial Library, use the Library of Congress letter H as your starting point.  

• H-Social Sciences (general)
• HA-Statistics
• HB-Economic theory/demography
• HC-Economic history and conditions
• HD-Industries/land use/labor
• HE-Transportation and communications
• HF-Commerce
• HG-Finance
• HJ-Public finance

Recommended Databases

        ABI/Inform [Dateline, Global and Trade & Industry] (ProQuest)
        Business Source Complete (EbscoHost)
        Academic Search Complete (EbscoHost)
        Business and Company ASAP/Resource Center (Gale) 
        JSTOR
        Lexis-Nexis Academic
        Morningstar
        Mergent Online [on campus access only]
        ProQuest Central Research Library (ProQuest) -- Includes Hoover's Company Records
        Regional Business News (EbscoHost)
 

Websites

Accounting

• AccountingNet: http://www.accountingnet.com/ 
• Accounting Today: http://www.accountingtoday.com/global/current-issues.html 
• AICPA Online:  http://www.aiicpa.org  
• American Accounting Association: http://aaahq.org/index.cfm 
• IFRS (International Accounting Standards Board): http://www.ifrs.org/Pages/default.aspx
         

Advertising/Marketing

• Emergence of Advertising in America:1850-1920: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/ 
• KnowThis.com, Knowledge Source for Marketing: http://www.knowthis.com/ 
• Marketing Charts: http://www.marketingcharts.com/ 
• MarketingPower.com, American Marketing Association: http://www.marketingpower.com/Pages/default.aspx 
• Market Research: http://www.marketresearch.com/ 
• Web Marketing Today: http://webmarketingtoday.com/
         

Annual Reports

• Annual Reports Online: http://www.zpub.com/sf/arl/arl-www.html 
• Public Registrar's Annual Report Service: http://www.prars.com/index.php
         

Business Plans

• Bplans: http://www.bplans.com/ 
• Business Plan Center: http://businessplans.org/
         

Company Profiles

• 20th Century American Leaders Database: http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/index.html 
• EDGAR Database of Corporate Information: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml 
• Hoover's Online:  http://www.hoovers.com  
• Thomas Registrar of American Manufacturers: http://www.thomasnet.com/ 
• World Franchising: http://worldfranchising.com/
         

Economics

• Antitrust Case Summary Browser: http://www.stolaf.edu/people/becker/antitrust/ 
• BEA: Regional Economic Accounts: http://bea.gov/regional/index.htm 
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: http://www.federalreserve.gov/ 
• Bureau of Economic Analysis: http://www.bea.gov/ 
• Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://stats.bls.gov/ 
• C-span.org: Economic Stimulus: http://www.c-span.org/stimulus/ 
• CNN Financial Network: http://money.cnn.com/ 
• Coface: Country Risk & Economic Research: http://www.coface.com/CofacePortal/COM_en_EN/pages/home/risks_home 
• The Conference Board: http://www.conference-board.org/ 
• Council of Economic Advisers: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/ 
• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean: http://www.eclac.cl/default.asp?idioma=IN 
• Economic Education Web: http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/ 
• Economic Mobility Project: http://www.pewstates.org/projects/economic-mobility-project-328061 
• Economic Research Service (US Dept. of Agriculture): http://www.ers.usda.gov/ 
• Economist Country Briefings: http://www.economist.com/topics 
• The Economy: Crises and Response: http://www.frbsf.org/econanswers/portal.htm 
• IDEAS: Economic and Financial Research: http://ideas.repec.org/ 
• Library of Economics and Liberty: http://www.econlib.org/ 
• National Bureau of Economic Research: http://www.nber.org/ 
• Research Papers in Ecomonics: http://repec.org/ 
• Resources for the Economist on the Internet: http://rfe.org/ 
• St. Louis Fed: Economic Data: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ 
• UN Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Database: http://w3.unece.org/pxweb/Dialog/ 
• WebEc: http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/
         

Ethics

• Business Ethics: http://www.web-miner.com/busethics.htm 
• Business & Human Rights Resources: http://www.business-humanrights.org/ 
• Ethics Resource Center: http://www.ethics.org/ 
• Institute for Business & Professional Ethics: http://commerce.depaul.edu/ethics/
         

Finance & Banking

• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: http://www.frbsf.org/ 
• Federal Reserve Board: http://www.federalreserve.gov/ 
• Finance Professor: http://financeprofessor.com/ 
• Finance Resources on the Web: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~igiddy/ 
• Financial Web: http://www.finweb.com/ 
• International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm 
• Money-Past, Present, & Future: http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/money.html 
• Office of Management and Budget: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ 
• USB Dictionary of Banking: http://www.ubs.com/global/en/DictionaryOfBanking.html 
• Wachowicz's Web World: Websites for Discerning Finance Students: http://web.utk.edu/~jwachowi/wacho_world.html 
• World Bank Group: http://www.worldbank.org/ 
• Yahoo! Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/
         

General Business sites

• AllBusiness: http://www.allbusiness.com/#axzz2GaJL8hwk 
• Better Business Bureau: http://www.bbb.org/ 
• BSD Global: http://www.iisd.org/business/ 
• Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov/ 
• Business.gov: http://business.usa.gov/ 
• Business Dictionary: http://www.businessdictionary.com/ 
• Harvard Business: http://www.harvardbusiness.org/ 
• Industry Research Desk: http://www.virtualpet.com/industry/
         

Nonprofit Companies

• Nonprofit Good Practice Guide: http://www.npgoodpractice.org/
         

Small Business Information/Entrepreneurship

• The Entrepreneur's Reference Guide to Small Business Information: http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/guide/guide2/guide2_main.html 
• Entrepreneurship Corner: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/index.html 
• US Small Business Administration: http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/
         

Statistics

• Aging Stats: http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/main_site/default.aspx 
• Government Data: http://www.data.gov/ 
• Housing and Urban Development: http://www.huduser.org/portal/ 
• Industry Snapshots from the Economic Census: http://www.census.gov/econ/census/snapshots/index.html 
• Penn World Tables 6.2: http://datacenter.chass.utoronto.ca/pwt/index.html 
• U.S. Census 2010: http://www.census.gov/2010census/ 
• US Credit Conditions: http://www.newyorkfed.org/householdcredit/ 
• USA Spending: http://www.usaspending.gov/ 
• The World Bank Open Data: http://data.worldbank.org/
         

Stocks

• Dailystocks: http://www.dailystocks.com/ 
• Dow Jones Global Index Analysis: http://dowjones.investiq.com/dowjones/ 
• Forecast Center: http://www.forecastcenter.com/ 
• The Whisper Report: http://www.earningswhispers.com/Default.asp
         

Tax

• Tax Policy Center: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/
         

Trade

• FITA: International Trade Web Resources: http://www.fita.org/ 
• International Trade Administration: http://www.ita.doc.gov/ 
• World Trade Organization: http://www.wto.org/index.htm 

This library guide was originally created by Nikki Rosetti, Summer 2011.
Last updated: January 2013