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Return to the Research Guides...
Scope: Company information and resources.
Books & Audio-Visuals - Periodicals - Internet
Clicking on the links will take
you the corresponding searches in the TNCC online catalog, and
show the location and availability of materials.
General Searching Tips:
Call number areas to browse:
HB Economics
HC Economic history
HD Land, Agriculture, Industry, Labor
HE Transportation and Communications
HF Commerce
HG Finance
Keywords to search:
business software, resume writing, business finance, corporations
Subjects to search (Library of Congress):
Accounting
Advertising
Business enterprises
Commerce
Industrial management
Management
Marketing
Profit
Small business
Trade
regulation
Vocational Guidance
Wealth
PERIODICAL AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
IN THE LIBRARY:
Access to the subscription-based resources from off campus is available for TNCC faculty,
staff, and registered students through the use of a proxy server. Click the link for instructions. Remote Access
- ACM Digital Library - for computer hardware and software information.
- Business Source Complete - provides access to research in business journal. Using the enhanced business searching interface gives access to company profiles, country reports, industry profiles, and market research.
- EconLit - from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Note: this only gives you the citation and
abstract; you would have to find the full article in print or on microfilm at
TNCC or at another college.]
- CIAO - Choose atlas link for maps and country information.
- Congressional
Information Service - to check on the progress of a bill. It also has a feature called Political News and Hot Topics.
- Daily Press Archive - to
search for local news back to 1989.
- Factiva - allows you to search for articles by using free-text terms or by using
their Intelligent Indexing. You can also use this database to get a companyprofile. It helps focus your efforts to take advantage of their Intelligent
Indexing.
- Hospitality and Tourism Complete - research and news relating to the hospitality and tourism industries. Subjects covered include demographics and statistics, development and investment, market trends, management and administrative practices.
- Mergent Online - company profiles, executive information, SEC filings, industry reports, country profiles
- Project Muse Full-text Journals - Go
to the subject listings to find several journals in Economics, Marketing, and
Public Policy (among others)
- ReferenceUSA Online Business
Database
- Regional Business News - access to 75 business journals, newspapers, and newswires.
- Stat-USA - source for federal statistics on business, trade, and economic information.
- Worldscope
GLOBAL - provides phone number, address, ticker symbol and basic
stock information, SIC codes, industry classifications, description of the
business, and product line for over 9,000 largest companies.
INTERNET RESOURCES
- Big Charts - Investment research web site provides access to professional-level
research tools like interactive charts, quotes, industry analysis,
intraday stock screeners, as well as market news & commentary.
- Bloomberg - Broad range of information on
stocks, the markets, and personal finance.
- CasePlace: Business
cases and social impact management teaching materials - "a free,
online service for business school faculty, students and
businesses. Browse by discipline or topic, or search by key word
to find case abstracts, with info on how to obtain the entire case
study.
- Census Bureau - source for economic statistics and census data, economic indicators, foreign trade statistics, and NAICS.
- eSignal
Trading Tools - Includes AMEX, Dow Jones Industrial Average,
S&P, major market indices, live charts, historicals, etc.
- Fortune
Magazine - Careers, companies, investor, small business as
well as other financial information.
- Hampton
Roads Economic Development Alliance - Marketing the region
nationally and internationally under the Hampton Roads banner.
- Harvard
Business School Working Knowledge - "offers
tips, techniques, and observations about business research. It is written by
the staff of Baker Library at Harvard Business School." Recent topics
including researching telecommunications, bankruptcies, labor statistics, and
corporate governance.
- Hoover's
Online - Links to news, lists, stock quotes, and other
products such as Hoover's Industry Snapshots (global industry
overviews). Hoover's offers more than 13,500 company capsules (brief
company descriptions and financials).
- How
Much Is That Worth Today? - Value comparisons over time.
- Industry Information Resources - links
to industry resources for over 250 industries. Individual pages for
each industry list resources available from trade associations,
publications, and research firms which address subjects such as
industry overview, issues, trends, and outlook, financial ratios and
benchmarking, compensation surveys, and valuation resources.
- Internal
Revenue Service
- NAICS
(North American Industry Classification System)
- Securities &
Exchange Commission - EDGAR Database of corporate information .
- Small
Business Administration - Provides financial, technical and
management assistance to help Americans start, run, and grow their
businesses. In particular, see their Marketing
Plan Information and Business
Plan Information
- Texas
Prairie Rivers Marketing Plan (Adobe .pdf file)
- U.S.
Dept. of Commerce - gateway to U.S economic and industry data
- Virginia
Business & Employment - provides resources to state information on business and employment.
- Virtual Chase - sources for finding information about companies on the
Web.
- Yahoo Company
information - Small business information, and everything else. Finance.yahoo.com includes historical daily quotes for Dow Jones Industrial Average,
NASDAQ, S&P, and more.
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