2006* Results 'Core' or Essential Reference Tool Survey: Business Reference

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1. What are the essential 3 print resources that you can't work without in answering Business Reference questions (e.g., company reports, marketing information, financial, etc.)?

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

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2. What are the essential 3 Free (not Government published) Web-accessible databases that you can't work without in answering Business Reference questions (e.g., company reports, marketing information, financial, etc.)?

1. Yahoo finance - http://finance.yahoo.com/ and Google - http://www.google.com
2. United Nations (various resources) - http://www.un.org
3. EdgarScan - http://edgarscan.pwcglobal.com/servlets/edgarscan
4. Thomas Register Online - http://www.thomasregister.com, Hoover's Online - http://www.hoovers.com/free/ 
5. Economagic. Com - http://www.economagic.com, Direct company access, Business Plan and Profiles Index - http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html, Better Business Bureau - http://www.bbb.org

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3. What are the essential 3 (.gov) Government Published (State, Federal, Local, International) Free Web-accessible databases that you can't work without in answering Business Reference questions (e.g., company reports, marketing information, financial, etc.)?

1. U. S. Census Bureau - http://www.census.gov
2. U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission - http://www.sec.gov
3. USA Trade Online - http://www.usatradeonline.gov, STAT-USA - http://www.statusa.gov/ and Bureau of Labor Statistics - http://www.bls.gov/
4. American Factfinder - http://factfinder.census.gov, U. S. Business Advisor - http://business.gov, THOMAS Library of Congress - http://thomas.loc.gov, state business sites, Statistical Abstract of the United States - http://www.census.gov/statab/www, and NAICS -- North American Industry Classification System - http://www.census.gov/naics
5. Internal Revenue Service - http://www.irs.gov and FRED - http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

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2. What are the essential 3 Fee-based Web-accessible databases that you can't work without in answering Business Reference questions (e.g., company reports, marketing information, financial, etc.)?

1. Business and Company Resource Center (Gale) - http://www.gale.cengage.com/, and Business Source Premier (EBSCO) - http://www.ebscohost.com/,
2. Reference USA - http://www.referenceusa.com/ , Factiva - http://www.factiva.com/ and Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage - http://www2.standardandpoors.com
3. Investext - http://www.investext.com/, LexisNexis - http://www.lexisnexis.com/ and Mergent Online - http://www.mergent.com/
4. ABI/INform - http://www.proquest.com, ProQuest Direct - http://www.proquest.com, Hoovers - http://www.hoovers.com/
5. TableBase - http://www.gale.cengage.com/, RDS - http://search.rdsinc.com, LivEdgar - http://www.gsionline.com/livedgar/, and Global Market Information Database - http://www.gmid.euromonitor.com

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*This survey was posted to Buslib-L@listserv.boisestate.edu, DIG_REF@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU, ERIL-L@listserv.binghamton.edu, Govdoc-l@lists.psu.edu, Law-Lib@ucdavis.edu, LawLibRef@lists.washlaw.edu, LawSource@yahoogroups.com, Libref-l@listserv.kent.edu,Livereference@yahoogroups.com, Publib@sunsite3.berkeley.edu, ELDNET-L@u.washington.edu, STS-L@ala.org, Medlib-L@LIST.UVM.EDU., Medref-l@listserv.kent.edu,  CAPHIS@hslc.org, genealib@lists.acomp.usf.edu, and LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU during Spring 2006.

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