2005* Results 'Core' or Essential Reference Tool Survey: Business Reference

1. What are the essential 3-5 print reference sources that you can't work without in answering business reference questions (e.g., company reports, marketing information, financial and other business or industry news - see other surveys for other subjects that might be business related within a specific special library)?

Some reference tools tied in the voting:

1. Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys - http://www2.standardandpoors.com
2. ValueLine Investment Survey - http://www.valueline.com
3. Statistical Abstract of the U. S. and RMA Annual Statement Studies
4. Market Share Reporter and Ward's Business Directory
5. Encyclopedia of Associations and Mergent (all copies)
6. Daily Stock Price Record, Directory of Corporate Affiliations, Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios, International Directory of Company Histories (Gale), NAICS and SIC handbooks, Thomas Register, and Wall Street Journals

2. What are the essential 3-5 Web-accessible or other electronic databases that you can't work without in answering business reference questions (e.g., company reports, marketing information, financial and other business or industry news - see other surveys for other subjects that might be business related within a specific special library)?

1. ABI/INform - http://www.proquest.com and Reference USA - http://www.referenceusa.com/
2. Business Source Premier (EBSCO) - http://www.ebscohost.com/, LexisNexis - http://www.lexisnexis.com/ and Mergent Online - http://www.mergent.com/
3. Business and Company Resource Center (Gale) - http://www.gale.cengage.com/, Factiva - http://www.factiva.com/ and Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage - http://www2.standardandpoors.com
4. Economic Censuses (U. S. Census Bureau) - http://www.census.gov and Hoover's Online - http://www.hoovers.com/free/
5. ProQuest Business Module - http://www.proquest.com
6. Bigcharts - http://www.bigcharts.com, ProQuest News & Magazines - http://www.proquest.com and Thomson Research - http://research.thomsonib.com/

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*This survey was sent to Buslib-L**, Libref-l, Publib, LIS-LINK, DIG_REF, ERIL-L, LawLibRef, Law-Lib@ucdavis.edu, LawSource, livereference, and Govdoc-L in Summer 2005.

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