2008* Business 'Core' or Essential Reference Tools Results

Print -- Free Web-Sites -- Govdocs Sites -- Fee-Based Web-Sites

  1. Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys
  2. Market Share Reporter
  3. RMA Annual Statement Studies
  4. Business Plans Handbooks (Gale), Capital Changes Reporter, Daily Stock Price Records, Demographics USA, Encyclopedia of American Industries, Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios, Lifestyle Market Analyst, Mergent Industrial Manual, NAICS Code
  5. Small Business Sourcebook, Hoover's Guides, Ward's Business Directory

Print -- Free Web-Sites --Govdocs Sites -- Fee-Based Web-Sites

  1. Yahoo! Finance - http://finance.yahoo.com/
  2. Google– http://www.google.com, Hoovers.com – http://www.hoovers.com, Thomas Register - http://www.thomasnet.com/
  3. BigCharts.com - http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/
  4. GuideStar– http://www.guidestar.org, Trade Association Websites
  5. Individual company Web sites, Zimmerman's Research Page - http://www.lexis.com/infopro/zimmerman

Print -- Free Web-Sites --Govdocs Sites -- Fee-Based Web-Sites

  1. US Census Bureau/American Factfinder - http://www.census.gov or http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html
  2. Bureau of Labor Statistics - http://www.bls.gov, PubMed - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
  3. U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission/EDGAR - http://www.sec.gov or http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
  4. U. S. Small Business Administration - http://www.sba.gov
  5. State government agency business support Web sites, USA Trade Online - http://www.usatradeonline.gov, STAT-USA - http://www.statusa.gov/, NAICS -- North American Industry Classification System - http://www.census.gov/naics

Print -- Free Web-Sites -- Govdocs Sites -- Fee-Based Web-Sites

  1. ABI/INform - http://www.proquest.com, LexisNexis - http://www.lexisnexis.com/
  2. Reference USA - http://www.referenceusa.com/
  3. Business Source Premier (EBSCO) - http://www.ebscohost.com/
  4. Business and Company Resource Center (Gale) - http://www.gale.cengage.com/, Mergent Online - http://www.mergent.com/
  5. Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage - http://www2.standardandpoors.com, Hoovers - http://www.hoovers.com/

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*This survey was posted in May and in August 2008 to:

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