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| 2001 County and City Extra Annual Metro, City and County Data Book | Tenth Edition Publisher: Bernan Press,
a division of Kraus Organization Limited
Frequency: Annual Call #: HA203 .C68 2001 County and City Extra Annual Metro, City and County Data Book provides the most up-to-date statistical information available for every state, county, metropolitan area, congressional district and all cities in the Unites States with a 1990 population of 25,000 or more. The main body contains 5 basic tables, covering States, State and Counties, Metropolitan Areas, Cities, and Congressional Districts. The subjects covered include: population, households, vital statistics, crime, education, income and personal taxes, construction and housing, labor force and employment, agriculture, land and water, manufacturing, construction, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, finance and insurance, real estate and rental and leasing, utilities, professional, scientific, and technical services, arts, entertainment, and recreation, health care, and social assistance, accommodation and food service, exports, federal funds and grants, government finances, government employment, election results a There are six appendices which include: definitions, sources, a listing of metropolitan areas with component counties listed alphabetically and within state, a list of cities by county and maps of the metropolitan areas and counties. Related Sources: A majority of the data in County and City Extra Annual Metro, City and County Data Book is from Federal Government sources and source notes are included in the Appendix. Other similar sources are Editor & Publisher Market Guide. |
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| ABI/Inform Global | For a detailed overview of ABI/Inform, see
http://www.proquest.com/products/pt-product-ABI.shtml.
Publisher/vendor: ProQuest Information and Learning Company. Also available from: Dialog (Files 15 and 215), FirstSearch, and SilverPlatter. Accessible through the GSLIS Library Quicklist (Internet product). Also available from ProQuest in CD-ROM and licensed database formats. Coverage: Overall dates of coverage are 1971 to present. (Dates of coverage of individual publications will vary.) Subjects covered: "One of the world's first electronic databases," ABI/Inform is a database of over 1,000,000 records consisting of abstracts and full text of articles from over "1,000 premier worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers and more." The publications range from the popular press (e.g., Time magazine), to trade publications (e.g., Call Center Magazine), to the scholarly (e.g., Columbia Law Review), with an emphasis on the scholarly. About 350 of the included publications are English-language titles published outside the United States. A list of the included publications is available, with an icon indicating full text availability (currently about 750 publications). It is also possible to search the list for individual publications by title. The database also includes information on 60,000+ companies. Organization/overview: Simple, labeled icons ("Collections," "Search Methods," "Topic Finder," "Browse Lists," "Results," and "Search Guide") appear at the top of every screen. The records themselves are divided into three files: current (1999-present), backfile (1986-1998), and deep backfile (prior to 1986). Searching and search tools: Five search methods are available: basic, advanced, guided (the GSLIS Quicklist defaults to this method), publication, and natural language. The "Topic Finder" also allows browsing by topic (e.g., Business & Industry). Searches can be limited by publication type, by date, to peer reviewed articles, and to full text articles. The online "Search Guide" provides useful information on how to search. It explains truncation, wildcards, Boolean and other operators, and provides a list of stop words, a thesaurus, and a list of classification codes (which allow precise searching by topic, industry or market, geographical area, or article type). Originally an abstracting/indexing product, ABI/Inform's strength remains its indexing. For each article, up to 20 elements (called "search fields") are indexed using a controlled vocabulary of over 8,000 subject terms. Extensive lists of "basic" and "other" search fields, along with explanations and examples of each search field, are available in the Search Guide. In addition to bibliographic fields, these search fields include useful fields for business researchers, such as company name, personal name, product name, DUNS number, SIC/NAICS codes, and ticker symbols. Also, the "index" field can be used to locate all occurrences of search words in any searchable index field. The extensive controlled vocabulary used in the search fields can be browsed (through the thesaurus in the Search Guide) and includes signals familiar to information professionals (e.g., use for, use instead, broader term, narrower term, and scope notes). Results: Results can presented in cite/abstract, full text, "page image," and "text + graphics" formats. Results can also be emailed or saved as durable links. In the cite/abstract and full text formats, helpful indexing information appears at the top of each article. For example, in an article about a company, information included six-digit SIC code, DUNS number, subject terms, personal names, company name and ticker symbol, and bibliographic information. Use for/FAQ: ProQuest advertises ABI/Inform as being useful for, among others, "[a] business student gathering international trade data, a top executive formulating overall corporate strategy, and an analyst examining the market." Researchers can "track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide." As discussed in class, ABI/Inform is most useful for scholarly subject overviews, rather than news or current company information. Similar resources: Business Source Premier (from EBSCO) and GeneralBusiness File ASAP (from Gale Group).
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| AdCritic.com |
Publisher: AdCritic.com Frequency: Updated Daily AdCritic.com is the leading portal for getting the most interesting, latest breaking broadband ads direct to your desktop in broadband and in fullscreen. Members choose their advertising, by giving them the ability to rate, review and answer surveys on all the ads. AdCritic.com provides valuable research and broadband media services to the advertising industry, helping them evaluate the effectiveness of their offline advertising. AdCritic.com offers affordable means to reach consumers and the industry by posting advertisement reels in broadband. They maintain direct contact with all the agencies, advertisers and production houses by phone, by email, or in person. AdCritic.com prides itself on its editorial selections of great ads on the "Television" section of the site. That has been the case since the beginning. Although now, to maintain the site, they need to make a living, AdCritic.com will not post ads on the hugely trafficked (up to 1.8 million unique viewers per month in January 2001) Television editorial section of the site without reviewing the content first. AdCritic.com's editorial stance is based on if: the ad is well shot, of high quality, is either funny, moving, or entertaining, and it is done with a great deal of creativity and style. As stated on the AdCritic.com website, "AdCritic.com delivers a compelling upscale broadband audience of consumers and industry professionals. With a 26 minute on average stickiness, and 1.5 million unique viewers per month, AdCritic.com can help your clients reach a targeted demographic. AdCritic.com is one of the 10 most trafficked broadband sites in the world, and in January 2001, was the single most downloaded video website in the world. AdCritic.com has developed an extremely popular brand through a successful formula of robust and proprietary video technology and compelling editorial content. The site currently showcases its library of over 2000 broadband commercials to an audience that is comprised of both consumer and advertising industry audience. AdCritic.com has average traffic rates of 100,000 unique visitors and completes 1.5 million successful video requests per day." Use For: Whether you want to measure the effectiveness of your advertising through spot surveys or use AdCritic.com's proprietary research tool to benchmark your spots against competitors, there are several research services for the advertising industry. They can measure the effectiveness of your advertising through spot surveys, use the proprietary research tool to toggle results to your target demographics or consumer behavior, compare results against benchmark data from previous campaigns, aggregate category data, or even competitors' ads, conduct confidential custom research for pre-launch testing in our secure private screening room, receive expert analysis from the AdCritic.com research team. Spot surveys are available now so researchers can see how fast and easy it is to learn what consumers think of their product, service, or how they react to their advertising. The AdCritic.com research staff will work with you to create a survey designed to meet your campaign goals, and interpret results based on your demographic or geographic targeting requirements This resource is not available in a print format. The only form of searching is keyword searching. Similar reference source: Political Ad Critic - http://political.adcritic.com/ ; Clipland - TV Commercials Database - http://www.clipland.com/index_tvc.shtml ; Commercials and Trailers - http://atlas.spaceports.com/~commerce/ ; USA TV Ads - http://www.usatvads.com |
| Almanac of the 50 States: Basic Data Profiles with Comparative Tables | Publisher: Information Publications
Frequency: Annual Call #: HA214 .A445 This is a ready reference resource covering the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia. The book is divided into two parts, State Profiles and Comparative Tables. Each state profile includes data in 13 subject categories. The categories are state summary; geography & environment; demographics & characteristics of the population; vital statistics & health; education; social insurance & welfare programs; housing & construction; government & elections; governmental finance; crime, law enforcement & courts; labor & income; economy, business, industry & agriculture; and communication, energy & transportation. There is also a summary profile for the entire United States. Fifty-four comparative tables are included in Part 2. There is a table for each characteristic included in Part 1. States are listed in rank order. Subjects were chosen in order to appeal to the broadest cross section of users. In order to facilitate comparative analysis between states, data for each characteristic were taken from the same source. Sources for the data are federal government reports, business and trade organization publications. The introduction provides valuable information about the tables. It includes definitions for each subject category. Also mentioned are the source publications for each category. The profiles and comparative tables are easy to read and use, with clear titles for each subject area. The layout of the book makes it easy find information fast. It would be useful to students, the public and businesses. Use for: State overviews and rankings; comparisons between states. Similar sources: State rankings: A statistical view of the 50 United States (HA203 .U17); CQ's state fact finder : rankings across America (HA214 .V36 1993); US Census Bureau website: http://www.census.gov/ (provides access to state profiles, rankings and quick facts). |
| Amadeus | Bureau van Dijk (BvD)
Started in 1994 Information on Amadeus may be found at http://suite.bvdep.com or http://www.bvdep.com/ProductPage.asp?product=AMADEUS. Also available on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. Amadeus is part of the BvD Suite of products. You can sign up for a free trial on their website, however you must either send them an e-mail or use a form that you then fax or mail to them. There is no "easy" way to access the free trial option. Amadeus is an extensive database containing information on approximately four million public and private companies located in 34 European countries. At the most basic level Amadeus is used to retrieve company profile reports. For example, if you were looking for information on a specific company you could search for that company and would retrieve a report containing information such as their address, telephone, fax, website, year of incorporation, names of senior managers, auditors, number of employees, industry codes, assets, profits, balance sheets, subsidiary information, and shareholder information. In terms of financial information, the reports contain (where available) up to ten years worth of information including twenty-two balance sheet items, twenty-two profit and loss account items, and twenty-one ratios. There are both easy and advanced search options on Amadeus. The easy option uses a standard set of five search criteria to be able to find answers quickly. With the advanced search option you can look for a single company or multiple companies based on specifications you select. There are over one hundred criteria you can use to construct a search including, but not limited to; company name, industry, country, city and region within a country, ownership, number of employees, financial data, and ratios. One of the many advanced features of Amadeus is the ability to display your search results in a number of different ways. The search results can be sorted by different criteria. Examples include: ranked by number of employees in descending order or ranked by cash flow in ascending order. Additional advanced features include being able to display the aggregated balance of a group of companies, classifying companies using the distribution of a variable, calculating the distribution of a variable for a subset of companies, and conducting concentration analysis. You can also compare companies to each other and define criteria such as currencies, sets of variables, and years, as well as look at the median and average of the group, quartiles and deciles, and the standard deviation of the group. Amadeus is relatively easy to navigate. The reports seem to be easy to manipulate and print according to selected criteria. There is clearly a huge wealth of information here, and this has the potential to be a very powerful database if used to its fullest extent. Use For: Finding information on public and/or private European companies, from basic information to detailed financials, using either basic search criteria such as company name or location to advanced searches using specific financial requirements. Can be used for benchmarking and peer analysis, marketing research, acquisition and merger information etc. Use for creating reports compiling information on multiple companies or a single company. Similar Sources: I believe Amadeus is unique in regards to the extent of its information and its capabilities. However, similar information on European companies could be found in print sources such as European Business Rankings and Principle International Businesses. |
| America's corporate families | Publisher: Dun's Marketing Services
Frequency: Annual Call #: HG4057 .A147 A three volume set directory of corporate linkage throughout the world. Listing U.S. and foreign parent companies' structures with complete information on their headquarters, subsidiaries and major branches. Volumes one and two, titled America's Corporate Families, provide a comprehensive directory of approximately 11,000 U.S. corporations or parent companies and their 76,000 U.S. subsidiaries, division, and branches. Volume three is a directory of approximately 3,000 foreign parent companies and their 11,000 U.S. subsidiaries as well as 3,000 U.S. parent corporations and their 18,000 foreign subsidiaries. The information complied in this three volume directory was obtained from Dun & Bradstreet's Database. A database compiled by Dun & Bradstreet from Dun & Bradstreet International, U.S. Business Information reports, telephone interviews and annual reports. The ultimate or parent companies listed in this directory must meet certain selection criteria to be included. Only those corporations that operate from at least two business locations, be it U.S. or foreign, and have one or more subsidiary, be it U.S. or foreign. For the ultimate or parent company to be included in this directory its net worth must exceed $500,000. Therefore, corporations operating solely within the U.S or those operating solely within countries outside the U.S. are not included in this directory. Volume one (white pages) contains the listing of ultimate parent companies in alphabetical order by company name with branches and divisions listed separately below the parent alphabetically. Subsequently, the subsidiaries of the parent are listed alphabetically by hierarchical level within the company family. The parent company profile lists such information as business name, address, state of incorporation, up to six SIC codes, business description, net worth, founding date, fiscal year, and titles and functions of officers and directors. Volume two contains the three cross-reference sections of all the companies - parent, branches, divisions and subsidiaries. The companies are cross-referenced alphabetically (green pages), geographically (yellow pages) and by industry classification (blue pages). Use for: To locate relationships and hierarchies of companies both within the U.S. and internationally by name, geographic location and industry. Similar reference sources: Directory of Corporate Affiliations. This directory is a detailed and comprehensive resource of corporate linkage. Listing over 131,000 parent companies' affiliates subsidiaries and divisions. The level of detail of this directory allows the researcher to start their search with just a product name. |
| America's Corporate Finance Directory |
Publisher: Reed Publishing, Inc. Frequency: Annual. Please note that the most recent edition is 2001; the volume at Simmons is only 1994, and should just be used for class purposes Call #: HG4057 .A15647 This resource contains information on U.S. public and private companies with revenue income and/or pension assets in excess of $100,000,000/year. Large subsidiaries of foreign corporations and American parent and subsidiary companies are also listed. Information on each company includes: company location; company contact information; stock exchange symbols; number of employees; years in business; financial data (where available); pension information; state of incorporation; SIC code; officers; parent company/subsidiaries; and names of officers/those holding positions with financial responsibilities. This resource provides for ease of quickly finding useful company data through its comprehensive indexes. The highlight of this resource is the variety of ways the information is indexed. There are six indexes; 1) Financial Responsibilities - names of individuals listed by their responsibilities sorted into the following categories: cash management, employee benefits, human resources, international finance, investor relations, leasing, merger/acquisition contracts, pension administration, personnel training and development, planning and development, purchasing, and real estate, and risk management. 2) Personnel Index - people listed by last name. 3) S.I.C. Index - companies listed according to their S.I.C. code. 4) Geographic Index - companies alphabetically by city within each state. 5) Private Companies - alphabetical list of private companies. 6) Companies - alphabetical list of all parent and sub-companies (useful if you do not know who owns a company). Each index entry leads you to the main entry for a company. The company information is mainly self-reported. Companies fill out questionnaires and are asked to update their information for each edition. Additional information is drawn from business publications and annual reports. The 2001 edition (viewed at Harvard Business School's Baker Library) is similar in format and scope to the 1994 edition, although obviously much more current. Uses: company contact information; determining if a company is public vs. private; determining parent and subsidiaries; finding key financial personnel by name or by position; geographic listing of companies; finding a company's stock exchange symbol; determining how long a company has been in business; number of employees; finding a company's SIC code; locating companies by line of business via S.I.C. code. Similar sources: Directory of Corporate Affiliations; Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies (Beatley Ref HG4009.W35) |
| American Generations : Who They Are, How They Live, What They Think | Author: Susan Mitchell
Publisher: New Strategist Publications, Inc. Edition: Simmons has the second edition (1998); the third edition was published in 2000. Call #: HC110 .C6 M545 1998 Subjects covered: The author, a demographic writer, extracts and analyzes mainly government statistics on the five generations of living Americans (The Millennial Generation, Generation X, The Baby-Boom Generation, The Swing Generation, and The World War II Generation). The book analyzes and predicts trends in ten broad aspects of these generations' lives: Attitudes & Behavior, Education, Health, Households, Housing, Income, Labor Force, Population, Spending, and Wealth. This book is geared toward consumer marketers and promises an edge in the "competitive consumer marketplace of the future" by allowing marketers to understand and market to the differences between the five generations. Organization/overview: The book is organized into an introductory essay on "why generations matter [to marketers]," followed eleven chapters. The first chapter explains the characteristics of the five living generations and how they differ. Within the ten broad aspects listed above, the subsequent chapters analyze very specific elements of the generations' lives. Each chapter includes numerous illustrative charts and tables. Special features: a glossary, a bibliography of print and online resources, and an index. Use for/FAQ: While this book is geared toward marketers, its very specific and diverse types of information (e.g., sections ranging from "Few Gen Xers Count on Social Security" to "Young and Old Are Drawn to Different States") and detailed charts and tables (e.g., "Households by age and generation of householder"), also make it useful for scholars and writers in a variety of disciplines, from sociology to journalism. Similar resources: The data contained in this book can be found in numerous federal government resources, but this author analyzes and presents the information in an apparently unique way. The book is part of "The American Generations Series," which includes several books on American consumers by generation.
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| Analysts' Handbook |
Publisher: Standard & Poor's Frequency: Annually Call # HG 4519.S77 (Beatly copy 1998) The Analysts' Handbook reports income and balance sheet information from the Standard and Poor's group stock price indexes from 1965 to the present. Each industry in the Standard and Poor's group is featured with statistics on sales, profit margins, earnings, dividends, book value capital expenditures, assets and liabilities. This handbook does not report on specific companies, but the composite of companies on S&P index. Online: Standard & Poor's has a variety of information for analysts use on their web site: http://www.standardandpoors.com/ Used for: Useful for the professional and the private investor who are making decisions on what stock to buy or sell. They could consult the latest edition of this handbook to compare their particular company's performance to the industry groups listed in the handbook. Looking at performance over time by industry would be useful in making buy/sell/hold decisions. |
| Annual Report Gallery | http://www.reportgallery.com/
Report Gallery, a division of IntraGrafix, was purchased by Cornerstone Investor Relations, Inc. on March 13, 2000. Cornerstone Investor Relations is a company that publishes financial data online. Report Gallery provides over 2,200 annual reports from almost all of the Fortune 500 companies, among others. Report Gallery.com (claims to be) the preeminent investor relations' electronic conversion service with client list includes: Disney, Boeing, K-Mart, Ziff-Davis, Amgen, Lockheed-Martin, Pfizer, Budget, American Express, Kimberly Clark, Phillip Petroleum, ITT, Times Mirror, Toys 'R us, and many other Fortune 500. There is a search mechanism, but the best way to get reports is browse for them. The reports are browsable alphabetically, with each letter of the alphabet given several sections (AA-AK, AL, AM, etc.) The listings are given in a table. Company Home Page Stock Tracker Snapshot Annual Report Symbol Exchange The first column is the company name (with link to Web site), link to a stock tracker (which contains commentary about the stocks; not all stocks have a tracker available), a stock snapshot (giving a thumbnail of the company, earnings estimates over several quarters, and current analyst ratings for the stock), the annual report itself (a link to the part of the corporate site containing the report, framed by ReportGallery.com), the stock symbol, and the exchange on which it trades. There's not a lot of information on the site itself, but it organizes a lot of financial information quite well. An improvement would be for the stock symbol to be linked to other news sites for that stock. Be sure to take a look at Tips for Reading an Annual Report and pull up "buzz reports" for each company to see what popular media sources are saying. Be aware, not all of the links to the Annual Reports are active. A quick check of ten company Annual Reports produced three "dead links". Annual Report Gallery is a quick resource for such FAQ's as what is the stock symbol for xyz company, what are analysts saying about xyz company, and a quick locator for a company's website. A comparable resource (though not of such high quality as the others) would be Corporate Information and Hoover's Online. This resource provides only thumbnail sketches of companies, but of course it is free. |
| Annual statement studies. Robert Morris Associates: |
Publisher: RMA Call Number: HF 5681.B2 R5 Subjects Covered:Contains 16 financial and operating ratios along with assets, liabilities and income data for over 375 industrial groups for current year and 5 preceding years. Information obtained via that surveys that members of the RMA (Robert Morris Associates-national organization of bank officers) for samples of businesses seeking bank financing] book are in the table of contents. Overview: In one volume Book is organized by the Standard Industrial Classification Number (SIC- four digit number) in general in an ascending order The book is broken down into 17 major business classes. "SIC"- page guide and "NAICS"-page guides are provided at the front of the book. In additon, descriptions of the SIC codes listed in the book are contained in the table of contents. Special Features: Bibliography of books that have more specialized ratios located in the front of this source Tips/hints: Recommended to call the Census Bureau (1-888-75NAICS) or naics@census.gov if you do not know the SIC number Definitions of the ratios used in the book located in the preface Companies are catagories by their primary product SIC number only Use for/FAQ: Used by bankers, accountants, financial analysts and researchers Should be used as general guidelines with other financial analysis (not absolute norms) since Statistics are not obtained via random sampling. Similar Sources: Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios (Dun and Bradstreet Business Credit Service), Almanac of Business and Industry Financial Ratios (Prentice Hall, Inc.) |
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| Balance of Payments Statistics |
Publisher: International Monetary Fund Call#: HF1014.I5 Frequency: Annual Available also on CD-ROM and computer tapes The Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook contains balance of payments and international investments position data that member countries have reported to the International Monetary Fund and is published annually in two volumes comprised of three parts: 1)Country Tables; 2) World and Regional Tables; 3) Methodologies, Compilation Practices, and Data Sources. Part 1 provides 8-year detailed tables on balance of payments statistics for approximately 165 countries, including statistics for goods, services, and income, and international investment position data for 64 countries. Part 2 includes tables of regional and world totals of major balance of payments components. And Part 3 contains technical descriptions of selected reporting countries. Notes on the tables accompany each country section. There are also six annexes to this Yearbook, which include information such as an analytic presentation of balance of payments components arranged in a summary form and an explanation of the data coding scheme. This Yearbook is mainly for use by libraries, universities, and students, although it is accessible to a more general readership also. |
| BestCalls |
BestCalls is a public directory of investor conference calls and events. This site lists the schedules and access information of over 2,600 publicly traded companies' teleconference calls such as quarterly earnings announcements, shareholder meetings and management interviews. The site is described as the "TV Guide of Investor Conference Calls". According to the site's creator, Mark Coker, "we tell you what's playing when and how to tune in, and we'll leave the production and broadcasting to the other fine services." The investor research information available through these conference calls allow the individual investor to make investment decisions from information that was once only available to analysts and institutional investors. Webcasts allows the investor the opportunity to listen to the information not always included in press releases or annual reports, as well as, listening to what senior management has to say about their business. The site is geared mainly toward the individual investor although the depth of the directory lead World Investor Link, the provider of Vcall.com, to partner with BestCall to provide a broader market to their Clients. BestCall was actually developed by Mark Coker, who as an individual investor was frustrated when he learned that at the time 80% of public companies had policies restricting individual investors from their conference calls. Around the same time the SEC's Fair Disclosure regulation, which went into effect in October 2000, required that all publicly traded companies reveal market moving information to all investors at the same time. Webcast hosting sites such as BestCalls became a portal through which companies can broaden their public access to shareholders and comply with the SEC ruling. The home page of BestCalls has an extensive listing of companies' upcoming calls and archived calls by date. Membership is free. Features of the site include the CallTracker, which allows the member to receive emails notifying them of upcoming calls and the BestCalls Portal, which connects the investor to investor resources, news and informational websites. Other features designed for the individual investor include information on "How to Listen to Conference Calls", "A BestCalls Guide to Benefiting from the Call", and step by step checklists. You can search archived calls by company name or ticker, but there is no ticker lookup tool available. One of the drawbacks is that the archive is limited to a few days. Forbes.com named BestCalls "Best of the Web" and Barron's named it the "Internet's number one conference call site". Other related sites that host Webcasts include World Investor Link's Vcall (www.vcall.com) and Corporate Communications Broadcast Network's (CCBN) CompanyBoardroom (www.companyboardroom.com). Vcall was recently acquired by World Investor Link from Investor Broadcast Network in March 2001. Vcall provides free access to live and archived corporate communications such as quarterly earnings, annual conferences, merger and press conferences, shareholder meetings and special product announcements, etc. CompanyBoardroom owned by CCBN provides free access to the "latest corporate information" including live webcasts, free annual reports, snapshot profiles, management presentations, company information, calendar information on earnings releases, conference calls and corporate actions. In comparing these two sites to BestCalls I found Vcall to be limited to a select number of companies. Vcall's format was similar to BestCalls in that the home page lists the upcoming and archived calls by date but the list was much more limited than BestCalls. CompanyBoardroom's format separates out the type of live webcasts and company information by category - this format is more geared toward the analyst or institutional investor. As well, on CompanyBoardroom in order to get to some of the information such as annual reports and earnings releases you had to drill down on the indexes available. I did feel though that the CompanyBoardroom was a more rounded tool for the audience type than Vcall. Vcall's conference call search was more advanced as opposed to BestCalls and CompanyBoardroom - you could search by company name, ticker, industry date and event. But for the "at home" or individual investor I found BestCalls to be the most user friendly. Other related sites are Yahoo Broadcast (http://broadcast.yahoo.com/home.html) and On2 Financial I-Network (http://www.on24.com/). |
| Best Customers: Demographics of Consumer Demand |
Publisher: New Strategist Publications Frequency: Unspecified, last published in 1999 Call #: HC79.C6 R87 1999 Best Customers is a "unique examination of how changing demographics are reshaping the consumer marketplace." This one volume book provides information about the best and largest customers for over 300 products and services. This book uses unpublished data from the 1997 Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey. It examines American spending habits by analyzing household spending by age of householder, household income, household type and region of residence. The book makes a key distinction between "best customers" as those who spend the most and "biggest customers" as those who control the largest amount of market share. Best Customers is divided into nineteen alphabetical chapters. Each chapter focuses on major spending category such as apparel, computers, education, entertainment, food at home, gifts, health care, personal care, reading materials, transportation and travel. Within each chapter, information on individual products and services is arranged alphabetically. A typical product entry includes a description of the product, an overview of its best customers and future customer trends. It also includes a statistical breakdown of spending on this product by age of householder, household income, household type and region. This work includes a helpful "How to Use This Book" section in the introduction, which explains all of the major analytical categories used in this book such as indexed spending and market share. There is also a helpful glossary and an index. Best Customers can be used to answer many types of questions involving consumer behavior, such as what age group spends the most on an item or a comparison of how different households spend on particular products. Several other sources also provide information regarding consumer spending patterns. The Statistical Handbook on Consumption and Wealth in the United States offers broader demographic details of consumption on a national scale, as well as racial and ethnic demographics about consumption. The American Marketplace also offers some figures on spending patterns and consumption, but without such a detailed statistical breakdown. Online: More information and some tables from the Bureau of Labor's Consumer Expenditure survey can be found at http://stats.bls.gov/csxhome.htm. |
| Bizjournals.com | http://bizjournals.bcentral.com/
Bizjournals.com is a free resource on the Internet, but requires user registration to access content. Primarily, this news service provides business information from regional business newspapers in 40 geographical markets. Use this resource to keep abreast of current business headlines in a specialized industry. There are twelve main industry fields listed in a quick pulldown menu; Agriculture, Banking & Financial, Business Services, Economic View, Energy, Healthcare, High Tech, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Retailing and Restaurants, Sports Business, and Travel. Use of this pulldown will retrieve current pertinent articles related to the selected industry and displays them as links which can be accessed by logging into the service. The article links are arranged alphabetically by their geographical source of origin. Clicking a link will reveal a full article, along with the ability to email the article link to a selected email address, or print it in its entirety. This resource also provides customization ability on its 'My Industry Page.' Customization allows the user to select only the exact types of information needed rather than having to log on to the main site and navigate through the pulldown menu each time. Each of the twelve major industries listed above are further broken down into more categories. For example, High Tech is further subdivided as Cable, TV & Radio , Computers, E-Commerce, Internet, Networking, Semiconductors, Software, Telecom, and Wireless, Palms & PDAs. Any or all of these subcategories can be selected as information retrieval targets. Further, geographical area can be combined with selected categories, for example, searches on Semiconductors could be limited to only articles in the Boston area. Once customized, the information can be retrieved directly. An email version of the customized site is available in a kind of digest format. Many users will like the convenience of the emailed version. Use this resource for questions like "What's new in today's headlines on insurance?" "Can you find any articles on Emerson Hospital's deficit?" "Can you locate any articles on real estate in Atlanta?" Some weaknesses in this resource exist. What this tool does not do is provide full article content for a specific journal. When the link for Boston Business Journal was accessed, a hot button for subscribing appeared with pricing information. The site's most likely intent is to tease readers with snippets of current information in hopes of getting them to purchase affiliated journals. Additionally, advertising banners and a cluttered frames layout are somewhat distracting. The site uses cookies, therefor those concerned with competitive intelligence issues may want to carefully review the privacy policies of the site before providing company specific information such as a business email address. The site archives are a solid way to research information on a particular business within a region. Its search engine is pretty standard, but will adequately pull up a reasonable amount of information. While this resource is not as comprehensive as many of the pay-for services, it's a fine way to garner a quick thumbnail sketch of a, industry within a region, or to keep abreast of current business information nationally within an industry. |
| Bloomberg Professional Service |
Publisher Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg is available as "a stand alone" at the Simmons GSM library. The workstation has two screens that can run different features simultaneously. It also has a special keyboard with color-coded keys for different commands and selections. According to the company fact sheet it charges over $1,600 per month per workstation for a single user. Bloomberg is a "real time" on-line provider of minute by minute news and financial information. It integrates worldwide data, news, analytics, multimedia reports, and e-mail into a single platform. It includes feeds from the world's exchanges, over a dozen different news wires, currency information from interbank trading floors and descriptive, research and financial statistics for 150,000 public companies worldwide. Bloomberg provides the following types of informationfor all international markets: beta, moving averages, money flows, balancesheets, earnings and EPS estimates, ratios, public filings, bonds, interestrates, exchange rates and more. Prices include bonds, currency, spot energy,derivative and other over-the-counter prices. The News & Research section contains over 3,000 stories per day on companies, industries and global markets. Bloomberg Professional Service is a very powerful, complex information source. There is no other product that compares to the robustness of Bloomberg. The user is a highly trained business professional who makes daily decisions on the purchase and sale of stocks, bonds and commodities.
Bloomberg.Com is available on Internet and, according to the Bloomberg fact sheet, it is one of the top five sites visited in the U.S. for financial news and information. It draws its information from Bloomberg Professional Service. This is the information source that would be used by the business reference librarian. It is similar to Yahoo Financial and Hoover's Online (Free part) in terms of company news and information, but it is backed by Bloomberg L.P. and therefore has deeper coverage of business news and information. |
| Book of Lists |
Publisher: Boston Business Journal Frequency: Annual Call # HD3163 .B6 B6 The Book of Lists is a compendium of lists about Boston area businesses, organizations, and people. Summary information about companies and business-related services is presented in 102 topic lists in easy-to-read table format. The lists include top public and private companies, construction companies, real estate agencies, insurance companies, banks and credit unions, hotels, hospitals, radio stations, labor unions, and many other businesses and services. General company information, officers, employment figures, financial data, and a brief description of services or area of business are provided in many of the lists. An overview of top businesses in the Boston area is given in the form of lists for highest paid CEOs, fastest growing companies, and largest employers. Business-related lists for trade shows, planned conventions, office building space, and top performing Massachusetts stock are also included. Although the main focus is on business, information on colleges and universities, sports attractions and facilities, tourist attractions, movie theaters, museums, and other features and services in the Boston area is also included. Ready-reference lists for highest paid athletes, top selling cars, largest apartment communities, most expensive zip codes, and busiest public transportation lines are found in this source as well. The book is organized into broad categories, or Sections (Public Companies, Private Companies, Banking and Finance, High Technology, Business Services, etc.), but the categories are not very specific and are not always helpful for locating a specific list. Occasionally, items appear with unrelated lists, so it is wisest to consult either of the two main indexes. The alphabetical index in the front of the book is the most useful for locating a particular list, and the alphabetical Index of Companies and Individuals at the back of the book is the quickest way to find a information on any specific individual or business. Use for: Researching the Boston area business community, services, and attractions, as well as ready reference on popular Boston subjects. Another related resource is Doing Business in Boston (HF5068 .B7 D64), which focuses on detailed financial information about Boston businesses and does not include the non-business ready-reference type of information found in the Book of Lists. The Book of Lists is complied from lists published in the Boston Business Journal during the course of the year. The Boston Business Journal is available online through Infotrac Onefile for 5/90 - present and online at http://boston.bcentral.com/boston/. |
| BPubs.com |
The Business Publications Search Engine Owned by the Engage Business Media advertising network BPubs.com is an indexed collection of over 3,000 articles from a variety of free Internet business publications. Structured in a Yahoo-like directory format, PBubs.com is best suited for browsing although basic search capabilities are also provided. BPubs.com's content is very current, and new links are added several times a week. However, "dead links" do exist on the site, and it does not appear that URLs are regularly verified and maintained. BPubs.com contains ten major subject categories: Economics, Entrepreneur, Finance and Accounting, Human Resources, Industry Publications, Intellectual Property, Internet and E-Commerce, Management Science, Marketing and Sales, and SOHO and Small Business. Each major subject category is further divided into 4-19 sub-categories. Where applicable, related sub-categories are also identified and cross-linked. Each sub-category contains links to related business articles. Each link provides the title, author, publisher, and a brief 1-2 sentence summary of the business article. Links open in the same window of your browser to the full-text of the article at the publisher's Web site. All links lead to an HTML-formatted document, although in some cases the actual article may be in PDF format that is accessible from the HTML-formatted title page. BPubs.com's collection policy emphasizes articles about "a business issue, business challenge, or of a theoretical nature." Examples of publications and publishers include The Economist, The Atlantic Monthly, FastCompany, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the National Labor Management Association. BPubs.com provides basic search capability: a "Business Publications Search" by ALL keyword(s), or a "Focused Search" by keyword or phrase using ANY or ALL search terms. Word stemming is automatically applied, yielding interesting, but often undesirable results: a search for "Information Technology" yields articles that often have "IT" in their title or description, but a search for "IT" yields only articles that have the letters "it" within a word or contain the word "it". Browsing is a better, albeit more tedious, option. Other features of BPubs.com include BPubs.Tradepub.com, and K2B, or "Knowledge to Business". BPubs.Tradepub.com is a sub-site of BPubs.com that provides links to nearly 150 trade journals offering free subscriptions. Organized alphabetically by subject, a wide range of journals are listed. Each listing provides a brief summary of the journal's content, frequency of publication, etc. Examples include: InfoWorld, Pig International, Law Enforcement Technology, Technology & Learning, and Health Products Business. K2B is a free, email-based alert service that provides the "best of the business web" to subscribers bi-monthly. BPubs.com is a useful resource for small business owners, business executives, and others who want to find business and management related articles on a variety of topics without conducting an extensive search or sifting through thousands of search engine "hits". Business librarians and information specialists will probably find this resource less useful due to its limited search capabilities. While there are really no print equivalents of BizPubs.com, there are many similar online resources that provide links to full text business articles. A few examples include Bizjournals.com, Northern Light's Special Collection and Special Edition, FindArticles.com, and JournalSearch.com. However, Bizjournals.com and JournalSearch.com require user registration to access content, FindArticles.com and JournalSearch.com include many categories/topics other than business, and Northern Light's full-text business publications are often accessible only on a "for fee" basis. |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics | URL: http://www.bls.gov
What exactly is the Bureau of Labor Statistics? It is the department of the federal government that provides every fact imaginable on labor economics and statistics. The home page at first appears to be overwhelming with its initial presentation of link upon link upon link to various topics with no introductory text. Upon closer examination, however, it becomes clear that there is a definite organization to the information offered here. Home page topics are broken down into 16 major areas: 1. inflation and consumer spending; 2. wages, earnings, and benefits; 3. productivity; 4. safety and health; 5. international; 6. occupations; 7. demographics; 8. employment and unemployment; 9. at a glance tables; 10. publications and research papers; 11. industries; 12. business costs; 13. geography; 13. a children's page; 14. other statistical site links; 15. BLS information offices; and 16. latest numbers on payroll employment, the average hourly earning, etc. The home page also presents a "regional resources" map that connects to statistical information on any state or region in the country with just a click on that state or region. The home page also includes a list of current questions asked by site users, such as "What are the potential effects of September 11 events on BLS data?" And finally, at the top of the page are links to a BLS glossary, jobs at the BLS, Topics A-Z, What's New, economic news releases, information on the BLS and its mission statement, and a link to more detailed statistics, where you can find, e.g., the most recent Consumer Price Index. At the bottom of the home page,the user can also search for information by keyword or advanced search. The wealth of information offered here is almost too much to include in one glossary entry. Suffice it to say that the odds are extremely good that whatever someone wants to find out in the area of labor statistics will be available at this site. And if it can't be found, the user can email his or her question to the Bureau for an answer. As an example of the complexity of this site, look at one of the 16 major topics on the BLS home page - Employment and Unemployment. This is then broken down into subtopics: National Employment, National Unemployment Rate, State and Local Employment, State and Local Unemployment Rates, Mass Layoffs, Employment Projections, Job Openings and Labor Turnover, Employment by Occupation, Longitudinal Studies, State and County Employment, and Time Use. Selecting, for example, Employment by Occupation, we learn that the OES (Occupational Employment Statistics) program compiles employment and wage estimates for more than 700 occupations. It provides estimates (not including people who are self-employed) of the number of persons in a given occupation and what their salary is. The user can find these numbers by state, metropolitan areas, and country. There are links on this page to the National Compensation Survey, the Standard Occupational Classification, and current employment projections. The sidebar contains current user questions on occupational employment statistics and a clickable list of the most current numbers, such as those employed and salary for National Cross-Industry Estimates for occupations in Management, Computer and Mathematical, Legal, Education, Architecture and Engineering and other fields. The date that the page was last modified is always given at the bottom of the page. Who would visit this site and how would the information be used? For each major area listed on the home page, there is a list showing who typically uses the data provided and how it is used. For example, the Occupational Employment information could be used for development of occupational projections, vocational counseling and planning, and market analysis. The BLS doesn't come across as a particularly browsable site. It would appear to be most useful to researchers and people who have a topic or question in mind who can begin their search and one of the 16 broad topics and then continue to dig down through the topic. The deeper one digs at this, the more information becomes accessible. Some of the information available at this site can also be found in the publications and websites listed under Publications and Research Papers such as the Occupational Outlook Handbook, Monthly Labor Review Online, and Occupational Outlook Quarterly, among others. |
| Business Histories | http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/res/bushis/
Leiden University is a university located outside of Amsterdam, and the Business History Class within the History Department has complied a list of links to firm's history pages. It also contains bibliographies and an occasional academic paper. It appears to be common knowledge in the business community that most company's history pages have very little information value. The hopes of this sites is to encourage firms to step up the quality and access to their historical information as well as providing people with where to find the history within each site. Most of the information gathered comes from the Global Fortune 500. Within the website, each firm is listed by country and are directly linked to the corporate website. It also tells you where on the website to find the history information. If there is no company history found on the website, it is noted in italics. The homepage is divided into countries and parts of the world. It includes Rest of Europe, Germany, The Netherlands, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Rest of the World, United States, Canada, and Japan. It also contains a General Link. In the general information are links to topics such as "How to Write a Business History," the "global 500," and "Business History in Europe." When you go to one of the country links such as the United States, the page is then divided by topics. It includes such topics as automobiles, electronics, food & drink, oil, and retailers & wholesalers to name a few. When you choose a topic it then brings up the links to the firms websites and where to find the company history. For example, the brewing company Anheuser-Busch corporate history is found under overview. A company's corporate history can tell you information such as the companies start date and the start dates of its family companies. Some company histories include brief bios on the founder and a timeline of events. Most companies however simply include links to the company profiles, annual reports and highlights for the year. This website can help those who are looking for historical information on a company, when it was created, who began the company, where it is located, etc. The Business History website itself is very easy to use, clear cut and not busy. The directions and links are straightforward. Through no fault of it's own however, it is a hit or miss with the company histories. Some company's such as Peeps (marshmallow chicks) have great history info., while Fleming Retailing offers virtually nothing. It is nice to have companies from all over the world in one place. The closest print companions would probably be Hoovers and International Directory of Company Histories. |
| Business plans handbook : a compilation of actual business plans developed by small businesses throughout North America. |
Publisher: Gale Group Call number: HD62.7 . B865 Note: 7 volumes Subjects covered: Detailed business plans for a myriad of small enterprises: bed and breakfast, Gift shop, Coffee house, etc. special features: resource list of 750 Small Business Development Centers, gives extremely detailed business plans for small businesses ranging from out of the home to offices. Overview: A basic resource made up almost entirely of 33 actual service, product, high tech, non-profit, food virtual reality and other business plans. Does not include worksheets. Includes a glossary of small business terms and a resource list of 750 Small Business Development Centers in the United States and an extensive bibliography of resources for business owners. Use For: locating specific details of cost estimates for small businesses, such as renting a photocopier, salaries, etc. Excellent for start-ups. print/electronic counterparts: n/a |
| Business Source Premier | For a product overview see http://www.epnet.com/database.html#bu.
Publisher/vendor: EBSCO Publishing. Accessible through GSLIS Library Quicklist (an Internet product through the EBSCOhost interface). Also available on CD-ROM. Coverage: Indexing and abstracting go back as far as the late 1960s and early 1970s for some journals, although for many indexing and abstracting begin in the last ten years. Full text begins in 1990 for many journals. Subjects covered: Business Source Premier ("BSP") is a comprehensive database that indexes and abstracts over 2,800 business periodicals and provides "full text for 2,270 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and much more." BSP includes several of the top business publications, notably Harvard Business Review in full text from 1965 to the present, and popular business publications such as Forbes and Fortune. Nearly 1,000 of the covered publications are peer reviewed, and over 1,200 journals include images. A list of included publications indicates for each publication its ISSN, publisher, dates of coverage for indexing and abstracting, dates of coverage for full text, any embargo period, whether the journal is peer reviewed, and availability of PDF images. The list of publications is searchable. BSP also provides basic company directory information from Dun and Bradstreet (address, telephone number, line of business, approximate number of employees, sales range, and DUNS number). More detailed D & B Business and Credit Reports can be purchased online with a credit card. BSP also includes Economist Intelligence Unit country reports and WEFA Country Monitor and Industry Reports. Organization/overview: Blue and green labeled icons appear in the top menu bar: "New Search," "Subject Search," "Wall Street Words," "Publication Search," "Company Directory," "Image Collection," "Library Holdings," "Choose Database," and "Online Help." Searching and search tools: There are three search methods: basic search, guided search (the GSLIS Library Quicklist defaults to this method), and expert search. Using the "Subject Search" feature, it is also possible to browse by the following categories, based on BSP's authority file: "all," "people," "products & books," "companies," and "subjects." Except for the "all" category, the user must enter a term to be searched, which generates a browsable list of terms and subdivisions with the number of references to each. Help can be found both through the "Online Help" icon and through the "Search Tips" link on the search screen, although the Online Help provides more detailed information. In addition, clicking on the "Business Source Premier" link at the top of the search screen takes the user to a "Database Information Screen," which concisely provides an overview of the database, tips for Boolean searching, a list of searchable fields, definitions of the fields, and examples of how to use them. Searches can be limited to, among others, full text, specific journals, peer reviewed journals, journals owned by Simmons, and by date. Of special interest to business researchers are the following search fields ("limiters"): product name, NAICS/industry code, company/entity, DUNS number, ticker symbol, articles on several companies, articles on several industries, articles on several people, and articles on several products. It is also possible to search within the full text of articles. BSP's thesaurus can be used by selecting the "also search for related words" option. Results: Results can be presented in citation/abstract, full page image (PDF), full text, and XML full text formats. Results can also be emailed. Use for/FAQ: Like ABI/Inform, BSP is useful mainly for scholarly subject overviews, although it contains popular business and not strictly business (e.g., Newsweek) publications and trade publications (e.g., Travel Agent). In addition, while BSP's search capabilities are not as strong as ABI/Inform's, BSP remains an important resource because it because it "contains nearly 500 important full text titles not found in competing collections." A reviewer recommended BSP for "academic libraries supporting coursework in business and management," and emphasized the strength of its recent journal content. Special features: Graphics and new PDF images are in color. BSP also includes "Wall Street Words," a useful online business dictionary. Similar resources: ABI/Inform (from ProQuest) and GeneralBusiness File ASAP (from Gale Group).
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| Business Statistics of the United States |
Publisher: Bernan Frequency: Annual Call #: HC101.B82 Business Statistics of the United States is a basic desk reference for anyone requiring recent or historical information about the U.S. Economy. It contains about 2,000 economic time series, mostly from federal government sources, which present a wide selection of the data needed for analysis of economic trends and patterns. There are also extensive background notes to help the reader understand the data, use them properly, and seek additional information from the source agencies. The first twelve chapters cover the economy as a whole. The next nine chapters present the data by major industry group, following the SIC system. The next three chapters contain additional historical data from 1970 through 1999 for each state and region. This information includes personal income and its major components, as well as employment and population. Each of the first 21 chapters begins with a chart and brief text highlighting some of the major trends reflected in the data. Two articles are also included to give background information. The notes section provides information about data sources, definitions, methodology, revisions, and sources of additional information. Use For: locating current United States business statistics. Similar reference source: Annual Survey of Corporate Contributors. |
| BusinessNation.com | http://www.businessnation.com/library/
This resource offers several things that would be useful for the small business professional. The site is a fairly comprehensive source of form letters as well as templates for business forms used in day-to-day operations. The site boasts of over 1,000 such resources. While some are fairly generic, such as letters of apology for various common problems such as delay of shipment, or late payment, some are well-worded and specific to particular business needs, for example, the copyright permissions form. Additionally, the resource puts the small business owner in touch with solid resources organized by state, particularly the local Small Business Associations, the state's governmental address, as well as statistical information about the state culled from various governmental agencies such as the U.S. Census report. Econo-line.com information is available as well. Librarians are likely to find that this kind of information, while quick and easy, may not be as complete or comprehensive as the information available through the full governmental search engines. Use this resource when you want ease and convenience, but with a caveat-not all the links were current as of this writing. A 'new' feature on the site was the inclusion of 'articles' on various business topics submitted by people with affiliation to various industries. Like many e-pubs, this feature may or may not be of use to librarians. The editorial processes of BusinessNation are probably not as comprehensive as those of their print counterparts, however the articles themselves may serve as starting points for more information. Best to 'proceed with caution' in this area. The site includes links to web sites in various business categories, which are further broken down within category by type of resource, such as directories, and products and services. Use this resource to answer questions like "Where can I find a form on how to bill customers?" "Can you help me find the SBA in my area?" "I need a few web sites on legal aspects of healthcare. Can you help?" |
| Business.com: The Business Search Engine | www.business.com
This site claims to be the Internet's only business-focused search engine and directory. It was developed by "industry experts and library scientists" specifically to help business professionals find what they are looking for. It currently contains more than 400,000 listings in 25,000 subcategories of industry, product and service. They are trying to be better than the general search engines, but not necessarily replace the specialty subscription databases. This site does include paid placements. Each page on the site has 3 banner or box advertisements, but they are not overly obtrusive. The opening page is a directory listing 24 categories from Accounting to Transportation & Logistics. Also on the opening page is a "search the business Internet" querry box, which is essentially a Google search, and a "company name" search box, which searches listings within the directory. Clicking on one of the directory categories brings up a secondary directory page of sub-categories that include related associations, reference and news. The reference links include government and commercial sources. The news links include DowJones and many other sources. It does a good job screening for subject but does not seem to be comprehensive. The item listing includes a short abstract of the article; selecting it brings back a full text display without going to the provider's site. On category and subcategory pages the Search function can be limited to the category/subcategory and works quite efficiently. A useful feature is the "you are here" bar across the top of each page that indicates where it is in the directory. If you are on a company page, this will tell you what industry it's in and provides a quick way to browse it's competitors. However you get to a specific company information page, once there you get contact information and a link to its web page, and links to news items, and to financial information. The news page list items from the past 3 or 4 months, noting date and source (DowJones, Reuters,CNBC, etc.), and links to its own full text presentation. The financial information is actually on pages at CBS MarketWatch; links to SEC filings, balance sheet, income statement, etc. take you directly to the proper page at CBS. (Once at MarketWatch you can poke around anywhere there, of course. Their "recommendations" page includes a summary table of all recent analyst reports of the subject company.) Note that for some small companies, the only information provided is a link to their web site. This site would be good for getting a quick view of news items on an entire industry or specific company or business related association. It would also provide a quick way to find industry and trade associations in a specific industry or governmental agencies related to an industry. It is also a quick (and free) path to company specific information that is more efficient than the general search engines. No single print resource that compares to this site. Similar coverage can be found through Hoovers although some of the same information might be for subscribers only. (http://www.hoovers.com) About.com also has an "Industry & Business" page that includes 17 category pages maintained by individual experts; they provide good company and association information but are not good for current news items. (http://www.about.com/industry/index.htm?PM=59_0225_T/)
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| CareerSearch |
Accessible through GSLIS Library Quicklist CareerSearch contains US Company information on "more than 1.5 million employers (public and private) from every major sector in business and academia". Its target audience is job seekers but it is useful to anyone who needs to make lists of companies. Data is complied from specialized industry publishers, selected for their accuracy, timeliness, and breadth of content. The database is updated frequently as new material becomes available. There are three main selection criteria used for querying the database: industry, location and keyword. CareerSearch has over 30 major industry classifications and over 3000 detailed classifications allowing the searcher to be very specific. Location can be chosen by region, state or zip code. A useful feature is the ability to select distance from zip code. Select a zip code and a commuting radius and the search will only turn up companies within that distance. You can also search by keyword in selected fields: company, street, area code, description, contact name and contact title. Company profiles include directory information, some basic financial data about the company, contact names with job titles, a map and directions. Also included is a competitor list. The competitor list is made up of companies in the same location and industry class. Search results can be displayed by choosing among the many report forms. Results can also be downloaded in a variety of formats (ex. Excel, text, Word) for further processing. Accessible from CareerSearch's home page are Top-Rated City Guides and Salary Wizard. Top-Rated City Guides include city profiles that contain background information, the city's rank in a number of areas (ex. Most livable city, best city for women), economic, demographic, and businesses statistics. Salary Wizard takes you to Salary.com's compensation database which provides salary reports including base salary for the selected location, a job description, the national average for that position and links to salary sites available on the web. CareerSearch is very easy to use database. The navigation buttons make it hard to get lost. Searching capabilities are powerful. There is a great amount of flexibility in choosing criteria. There are many reporting and downloading options as well. The competitor list can be a very useful feature. Use for: Creating lists of companies by industry and/or location. Lists can include company directory information including contact names of key executives, as well as competitors of a company. Also good for salary information and job descriptions. Similar Sources: Reference USA, FIS Online, Onesource - all of these include company directory information and the ability to make lists of companies, although career search includes much more information on each company than ReferenceUSA, and many more small and private companies than FIS or Onesource. |
| Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide |
Publisher: Rand McNally Call # HF 1023.R3 1997 (shelved with the oversized atlases in Beatly) Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide brings together economic and geographical information available in 1997. This atlas combines maps, tables and charts with demographic and business data. The Atlas is divided into six sections: United States Maps & Metropolitan Area maps; Transportation & Communications Data; Economic Data; Population data (1990 census); State Maps; and An Index of Places and Statistics by State. The maps are very detailed and easy to read. This is the best feature of this book. The statistics in this Atlas is useful in a historical context. A researcher could find business statistics by county or city in 1992 in this book. The communication and transportation data is out of date. This section lists area codes, zip codes etc. which have changed in the last few years. Alternative sources: Bureau of the Census would give more current data on population trends geographically. Statistical Abstracts would also have similar inforamtion. Both of these sources are online. |
| COMPUSTAT |
Compustat is a very useful analytical tool that is widely used in finance and accounting. The database contains financial (i.e. cashflows, balance sheets, income statements) and market data information. There are a few different versions of the database consisting of Compustat Global, North America, and a Classic version. Compustat Global contains information on over 11,000 companies in over 70 countries. The market data includes over 80 local market indexes, in over 110 different currencies. The North America version covers over 10,300 active US and Canadian companies and 11,000 inactive companies that have filed with the SEC, 550 ADRs, over 300 financial ratios including dividends, growth rates, profitability, and market performance. It spans over 1,500 indexes (such as S&P, Dow Jones, and Russell). NA covers 20 years worth of annual financial data, 12 years of quarterly reports, and 240 months of stock prices. It provides company names, business descriptions, addresses and officer information. Earnings expecations are also supplied by IBES. Compustat classic covers over 22,000 active and inactive North American companies, and has non-restated historical data. One value add feature of Compustat is its calculating and exporting features, which are useful in creating reports and analytical studies. >From a user's point of view, the database is not very intuitive, and has sharp learning curve. For more product overviews see the S&P website at http://www.compustat.com/www/db/me_lev3_01_db.html |
| Corporate Finance Bluebook | Publisher: National Register Publishing,
A Reed Reference Publishing Company
Frequency: annual Call #: HG4057 .A15647 The Corporate Finance Bluebook is a directory of public and private American companies and their financial personnel. The 1993 edition has entries for 5,095 (NON-FINANCIAL) companies and numerous indexes for looking up those companies, their financial personnel, and the companies they hire to perform financial duties. Each entry includes company name, address, phone number, company officers, top financial personnel, industry descriptions including SIC codes, annual sales figures, number of employees, and companies hired to perform financial services. A number of indexes are included to enable the user to find companies and people by a variety of criteria. A company name index lists the companies alphabetically and gives parent or subsidiary information when applicable. Parent companies are printed in bold face and entries for subsidiaries include their parent’s name. A geographical index lists the companies within each state by city. An SIC code index lists companies by industry. A list of all SIC codes and their descriptions is provided at the beginning of the index. An index of the companies that provide financial services to the companies profiled in the directory provides WHAT information about these companies and a list of their clients. Two indexes list financial personnel in the profiled companies, one by last name and the other by job responsibility. Both include company names. Other company directories have some of the same information. What is unique about this source is the information about the companies’ financial personnel and outside vendors. The publisher also publishes The Corporate Finance Sourcebook which lists financial services firms and investment sources. The name of this source has changed since Simmons’ 1993 edition. It is now America’s Corporate Finance Directory. According to Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory there is also a magnetic tape edition. Questions that can be answered with this source: -Who is in charge of employee benefits at A&W Foods, Inc.? -How many employees do they have? -Do they hire an outside auditor? Which one?
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| Corporate Information | URL: http://www.corporateinformation.com
Corporate Information is a comprehensive site compiled by the Wright Investors' Service, which is owned by the Winthrop Corporaton, and contains business links aplenty to to approximately 174 countries of the world from Aghanistan to Zimbabwe. The home page at first appears overwhelming but is actually quite straightforward. The lefthand side of the page lists current news of the world divided into late breaking, business, and high tech. The main part of the page is divided into eight main search options: 1. Research a company. The user can search 350,000 company profiles by ticker symbol or company name. Searching AOL retrieved 12 research reports and profiles. The Wright-produced profile was listed first and separately. 2. Research a country's industry. The user can select from a pulldown menu of 30 industries and 65 countries. Choosing the computer and software industry in Ireland retrieved five company profile links and three links to that industry in Ireland as well as two industry overview reports published by the US Dept. of State County Commercial Guide. Also on this page is the list of the other industry links for ease in searching. 3. Research by country. Choose from 100 countries to find information on companies, industries, and economic information, including 300,000 company profiles and 15,000 company research reports. Here you can also search by publicly-traded company, privately-held company, regional based sites, and a list of links to worldwide companies (e.g., the Forbes 800, Fortune 500). 4. Research reports on over 15,000 companies that analyze sales, dividends, earnings, profit ratios, research and development, and more. Choose a country from the dropdown menu and the letter of the alphabet you want to scan. 5. Figure out company extensions. This area explains those often mysterious abbreviations in company names such as GmbH and S.A. de C.V. The lists explains a bit about the extension and tells which country uses each one. 6. Currency rates. This section provides a currency converter that gives the exchange rate of, e.g., the U.S. dollar against a list of approximately 25 key currencies of the world. 7. Research by state. Click on any state on the map of the U.S. provided to find company profiles and retrieve a list of relevant links for researching other businesses in that state. For example, for the state of Maine, the top ten companies by market capitalization are listed, followed by business directories, corporate records databases, court decisions, top Maine businesses, and some current news in Maine. 8. Read news from around the world. Recent press releases from companies around the world are given here. A message board is also provided at this site. Corporate Informaton is very user-friendly although some of the information does seem to be aimed specifically at business professionals. However, students, researchers, librarians, marketing people, and economists would no doubt find a lot of useful information here as well. I'm sure that there are some print sources that provide some of this type of information but I doubt that any print source could provide the wide scope and timeliness of this site.
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| Corporate Statements: The Official Missions, Goals, Principles and Philosophies of Over 900 Companies |
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. Call #: HD30.285 .H37 1998 This is a collection of 900 actual corporate statements from public and private companies. The majority of the companies included are US-based and range in size from small to very large. A few foreign companies are included because of their industry prominence. The entries are in alphabetical order by company name. Each entry consists of name, address (mail and web), and telephone number; ticker symbol; a brief description of the company; and corporate statement. Corporate statements can consist of "vision and mission statements, guiding beliefs, corporate values, objectives, overviews, goals, credos, mottoes, slogans, corporate philosophies, strategies and environmental statements." The comprehensive index includes company names, companies listed by state and by industry. Information for this collection was collected from various sources including annual reports, 10-K reports, miscellaneous corporate reports, and press releases. Use for: Information about a company's priorities, objectives and corporate culture; Comparison of corporate statements within an industry. Similar sources: Edgar Online: http://www.edgar-online.com/ (provides access to 10-K and Annual Reports); Report Gallery: http://www.reportgallery.com and Online Annual Report Service: http://www.annualreportservice.com/ (provides access to Annual Reports); The Mission Statement Book: 301 Corporate Mission Statements from America's Top Companies. |
| Country Commercial Guides | Publisher: (from website) "Released by the
Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs" (of the U.S. Department of State)
URL: http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/2001/ Subjects Covered: Country Commercial Guides are published one per country. Each includes information about the country such as Economic Trends and Outlook, Political Environment, Marketing U.S. Products and Services, Major Newspapers, Leading Sectors for U.S. Exports and Investment, A List of Best Prospects for Non-agricultural Sectors, Trade Regulations and Customs, Investment Climate (i.e. Openness to Foreign Investment, Conversion and Transfer Policies, Expropriation and Compensation, Dispute Settlement, Performance Requirement and Incentives, Right to Private Ownership and Investment, Protection of Property Rights, Transparency of the Regulatory System, Efficient Capital Markets and Portfolio Investment, Political Violence, Corruption, Bilateral Investment Agreements, OPIC and other Investment Insurance Programs, Labor, Foreign Trade-Zones/Free Ports, Foreign Direct Investment Statistics, Trade and Project Financing, Banks that are Established in the Country, Business Travel, Economic and Trade Statistics, and U.S. and Country Contacts. Overview: (From website) "Country Commercial Guides (CCG's) are prepared annually by U.S. embassies with the assistance of several U.S. government agencies. These reports present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis. The CCG's were established by recommendation of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC), a multi-agency task force, to consolidate various reporting documents prepared for the U.S. business community." On the homepage of the website, there is a Geographic Regions Directory. It links users to the Country Commercial Guides of the following countries: Region listed in Directory Country Commercial Guides (2001) available Africa Benin, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe East Asia and the Pacific Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam Europe, Russia and the New Independent States Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela Middle East and North Africa Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen South Asia and the Pacific Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka These Country Commercial Guides are all available in pdf format. Tips/hints: (from website) This website "is a permanent electronic archive of information released prior to January 20, 2001. Please see www.state.gov for material released since President George W. Bush took office on that date. This site is not updated so external links may no longer function." Also, "[e]xternal links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained" in this site. Similar sources: (as noted in the Tips/hints section of this entry) http://www.state.gov Print counterparts: If these are available in print, they appear to be difficult to obtain. There is no advertisement for the print version of this source on the website. Also, I called the State Department Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, and the people with whom I spoke were not aware of any such publication. Special Features: Links to Country Commercial Guides Index, Business Affairs Home Page, and Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs are available on the home page of this site. Use for/FAQs: Where can I find a list of the more prominent commercial banks in Australia? Where can I find information on major trends and outlook in Pakistan? |
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| Datastream | Datastream, formerly owned by Primark Corp.,
is now owned by Thomson Financial. The two companies announced a merger
in August 2000
Datastream provides international financial, economic, stock market and company data. It includes coverage of equities, stock market and bond indices, economic statistics, foreign exchange rates, interest rates, fixed income instruments and derivatives. It is a sophisticated research tool used by academic researchers, equity analysts, fund managers, economists, corporate financiers, retail brokers, traders, information centers, and government organizations all over the world. Datastream provides over one billion items of data from more than 140 countries and 60 markets spanning over 40 years. Based in London, Datastream data collectors (over 200 analysts) provide real-time and standardized information. Data is also incorporated from leading international and local suppliers such as MSCI, IFC, The Financial Times, Salomon Smith Barney, Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan. Datastream covers all aspects of the securities industry (stocks and bonds), which includes price performance, dividends, market value, PE ratios and other fundamental data sources. Datastream Equity Research and Datastream Bond Research provide next day and historical coverage of over 40,000 equities and 70,000+ bonds, including a 10-year rolling history, on 14,000 global companies, 42,000 equity issues, 50,000 quotes, 12,000 global market equity indices, and 298 currencies. Extensive worldwide economic data for governments and international organizations such as the IMF and OECD also are included. "Datastream comprises of key data sets from both developed and emerging markets - equities, market indices, company accounts, macroeconomics, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, commodities and derivatives.
PiranhaWeb ( http://www.piranhaweb.com ), allows users to search and screen across Primark's financial databases, such as A-T Financial, I/B/E/S, Disclosure, and Worldscope and links users to company filings data and more than 700,000 research reports from 375 brokers throughout the world. The Financial and Statistical service at Princeton University provides a basic overview and explanation of how to navigate the various Datastream programs to output data. http://www.princeton.edu/~econlib/ds/ Examples of FAQs & Advanced Uses of Datastream
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| Dialog |
Publisher: Dialog Frequency: Updated Daily Dialog is the worldwide leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance, and law. Its products and services, such as Dialog, Profound, and DataStar, offer organizations the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than nine billion pages of key information, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise Intranets. Dialog offers information on a subscription, flat fee or pay-per-view basis, depending on the product used and the number of users. With unparalleled breadth and depth of content, Dialog is able to deliver a unique combination of technology and information. Dialog serves over 20,000 corporate clients in 120 countries. The number given for corporate clients designates site subscriptions, not end users, so one annual subscription often represents a site where Dialog products are rolled out to hundreds of desktops. Dialog's content collection has been built up over nearly three decades, and contains over 12 terabytes of high-value information. This equates to more than nine billion pages of text and over three million image documents, all contained in more than 600 main databases. This also contains over seven thousand full-text journals. Dialog has several different products that include: DialogWeb, DialogClassic, Dialog1, DialogSelect, Profound, DataStar, as well as several Intranet-based programs and companion CD-ROMs. There is a specific search language that must be learned before any proficient search can be done using a Dialog product. However, once this search logic is learned and mastered there is almost nothing a researcher cannot find. Use For: Searching for just about any form of information that has been published in a private or public publication. For business information, DIALOG provides market research including market share and sales figures, competitive intelligence, corporate finance, business directories, and financials on 14 million U.S. and international companies. Information sources include Dun & Bradstreet, Standard & Poor's, Frost & Sullivan, FIND®/SVP, and SEC filings. For search examples, see: http://training.dialog.com/quick/solutions/#busnews Similar print resources can be found, yet they will not be packaged and all placed in one convenient place. Most of the over 7,000 journals can be accessed in print, yet it is unlikely that these will be found as easily as they will be with one of the Dialog products. Similar reference source: Lexis.com and Nexis.com |
| Direct Marketing Market Place 2001 | Publisher: National Register Publishing
Frequency: Annual Call #: HF5415.1.D57 The Direct Marketing Market Place (DMMP) is a comprehensive resource featuring the entire direct marketing industry from direct marketing companies to service firms to associations. The directory includes 10,000 organizations in the direct marketing industry, with approximately 16,000 key personnel listed. There are 43 sections divided into five major chapters: Direct Marketers (catalog and retail sales, financial, associations, publishers, etc); Service Firms & Suppliers (printers, list brokers and compilers, telephone marketing consultants, etc.); Creative Services (agencies, art services, copywriters, etc.); Associations, Courses & Events, and a Bibliography. Featured are direct marketing statistics and lists of prominent direct response advertising agencies, mail order companies, and DMA members in the Fortune 500 ranking. The publication contains a bibliography, an index to companies and individuals, an index to advertisers, and an index to direct marketers by geographic location. Similar reference source is: the Statistical Fact Book, published annually by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA). DMMP is available online through Lexis-Nexis. Refer to the DMA site at http://www.the-dma.org/ and www.dm.news.com for further online information and FAQ's. Can be used for finding company information such as: the dollar amount a company has allocated to its direct marketing budget; how long a company has been in business and the number of employees; product/service descriptions; and contact information.
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| Directions of Trade Statistics |
Publisher: International Monetary Fund Frequency: Annual Call #: HF91.I65 The Directions of Trade Statistics is a comprehensive source outlining the values of merchandise imported and exported by trade partners for the years 1993-1999. Covering 186 countries as well as those bodies of land not considered a country in the classical sense such as a non-sovereign territorial entity; Trade Statistics provides figures relating to import/export values. Following a classification system by International Financial Statistics is a country composition for each country or land mass. Each country falls into one of three categories, Industrial, Developing, or Other. The index provides an easy search by country along with written data this reference material also provides world and area tables, memorandum tables and country tables. All figures are presented in U.S. figures. Use For: Directions of Trade Statistics can be used to locate information on the value of imports from a country and the value of exports to their country. It identifies the most important trade partners; it has summary tables for world, industrial and developing countries, and has detailed trade data for the last seven years. Similar Source: Yearbook of International Trade Statistics (HF91.U473) |
| Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries |
Publisher: Uniworld Business Publications, Inc. Frequency: Approximately every 2-3 years Call #: HG4538.A1 D5 Revision: 16th ed., 2001, 3 vol. The Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries is a directory of approximately 2,600 American companies with nearly 35,000 subsidiaries and affiliates in 190 foreign countries. Volume 1 - Part 1 alphabetically lists American companies that have operations abroad. Each entry provides the company’s U.S. address, telephone/fax number, principal products or services, and lists its foreign countries of operation. When provided, key personnel are noted: president or CEO, foreign operations officer, and human resources director. When available, the company’s Web site address (URL), annual revenue, and number of employees is also provided. Volume 1 - Part 2, and Volumes 2 and 3, list by country the American firms’ foreign operations. Each country listing provides, alphabetically, the U.S. parent firm, address, telephone/fax, Web site address (URL), principal product or service, and the name and address of its branch, subsidiary, or affiliates in that country. Also available from the same publisher are regional and individual country extracts of this directory. Regional volumes include Africa, Asia, Australia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, and Central America. Custom editions, arranged by city-state or sales-region are also available. The directory is also available on CDROM as a subscription-based service (see URL: http://www.uniworldbp.com for additional information.) A companion reference source is the Directory of Foreign Firms Operating in the United States. Directories are valuable sources for locating contact information and basic company information of subsidiary firms and their parent organizations. This directory provides an authoritative source of information on American firms for anyone interested in American business activities abroad. |
| Directory of Foreign Firms Operating in the United States |
Publisher: Uniworld Business Publications, Inc. Frequency: Approximately every 3 years Call #: HG4057.A21943 Revision: 10th ed., 2000 (Simmons has 8th ed., 1995) The 10th edition of the Directory of Foreign Firms Operating in the United States is a directory of over 2,400 foreign firms in 75 countries, and the more than 5,700 American businesses that they own, wholly or in part. This single-volume directory has three parts: the main body of information and two cross-references. Part 1 groups the foreign firms alphabetically by country. Each company listing provides the address of the firm, and, if available, the CEO, phone/fax/telex numbers, number of employees, and principal service or product. Also provided is the American firm(s) owned wholly or in part by the foreign firm, its address, and, if available, the CEO, phone/fax/telex numbers, number of employees, percentage of foreign ownership, and principal product or service. Part 2 is an alphabetical listing of all foreign firms in Part 1. Each listing provides the name of the foreign firm, a country abbreviation, and the Part 1 page number where the complete listing is found. Part 3 is an alphabetical listing of all American subsidiaries, branches, and affiliates in Part 1. Each listing provides the name of the American affiliate, a country abbreviation in which its parent foreign firm is located, and the Part 1 page number where the complete listing is found. Also available from the same publisher are regional and individual country extracts of this directory. Regional volumes include Africa, Asia, Australia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, and Central America. Custom editions, arranged by city-state or sales-region are also available (see URL: http://www.uniworldbp.com for additional information.) A companion reference source is the Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries. Directories are valuable sources for locating basic company information about subsidiary firms and their parent organizations. This directory provides an authoritative source of information on foreign firms for anyone involved in any form of international commerce or investment. |
| Directory of Multinationals | Publisher: Stockton Press, 1992
New editions: 5th ed. - 1998 : 6th ed. - 2001 Call #: HD2755.5.S78 The 4th edition of the Directory of Multinationals is a two volume set which provides in-depth coverage of 428 large global manufacturing enterprises, those having foreign sales of at least $500 million and total sales of $1 billion. Each company entry consists of a five year (1987-1991) financial summary of sales and earnings, R&D expenditures and assets; company background information -recent mergers/takeovers; product mix - major areas of activity; personnel-lists of directors; and shareholders and holdings - all major interests named. The directory includes a "geographical analysis" and "product analysis" (division/sector level data) for each company. The same data collection methodology is applied to each company, making comparisons between them easy. Sales are represented in terms of absolute values and percentages with a breakdown between home country exports and overseas production. Financial information is obtained from company annual reports, professional and statutory bodies, and general publicity. A table at the end of Volume 2 ranks firms by the size of foreign sales, providing a good source of comparative statistics. The newer editions published by Gale Group include profiles of companies outside of the manufacturing sector such as Microsoft(high tech) and AT&T (telecommunications). Though dated, the 1992 edition still provides adequate information about gigantic companies. It is an excellent model of comprehensive financial information analysis. The Directory of Multinationals is a valuable resource because it provides information that is challenging to find elsewhere, such as sales and profits by product division. Tips/Hints: Although many subsidiaries have the same name as the parent company, some do not. Be aware - there is no name index to assist users in locating data. Information found online in Gale Group databases such as Business and Company Resource Center and Infotrac. Similar reference sources are: Moody's International Manual, Dun & Bradstreet's Principal International Businesses, and Ward's International Business Directory. P> |
| Doing Business in Boston |
Publisher: Boston Business Journal Frequency: Every three years Call #: HF5068.B7 D64 Revision: 3rd ed., 1998 Doing Business in Boston is a comprehensive source of detailed information about 1274 industrial, financial, and service companies that are either headquartered in the Boston five-county metropolitan area, or are divisions/subsidiaries with major operations in the region. Included are 356 public companies, and 918 private, nonprofit, subsidiary, and other (cooperative, employee-owned, foreign, and mutual businesses) companies. Geographic areas covered in this directory include Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, and Suffolk counties, Massachusetts. The directory focuses on companies with more than 100 employees, but includes few government related entities. Doing Business in Boston is divided into three segments: public company profiles; private, nonprofit, subsidiary, and other company profiles; and indexes. The first segment ranks the 356 public companies by total assets, employees, and revenues; followed by alphabetically-arranged profiles of each company. Each profile provides a detailed description of the company, a listing of officers, up to five years of financial data, a list of divisions and subsidiaries, and a biographical sketch of the company's CEO. Supplemental information provided includes primary SIC code, total employees, year established and state of incorporation, stock symbol, number of shareholders, commons shares outstanding, and special designations such as "Fortune 500". The second segment contains alphabetically-arranged profiles of 918 private, nonprofit, subsidiary, and other companies. While not an inclusive listing of all private companies in the Boston metropolitan area, these companies represent a cross section of industries operating within the area. Each profile includes a company description, a listing of officers, a primary SIC code, human resources and purchasing contacts, number of employees, revenues, and year of establishment. The third segment provides six indexes to the directory: executive biographies, officers, SIC codes, geographic locations, zip codes, and an alphabetical listing. Reference sources containing similar information (wholly or in part) include nationwide, statewide, and local business directories, or directories published by special interest groups such as Chamber of Commerce or specific industry affiliations. For example, Boston Business Journal Book of Lists, available in print, CDROM, Palm OS, or electronic download editions from the same publisher (see URL: http://boston.bcentral.com/boston for additional information.) Doing Business in Boston is a concise, factual source of information on Boston's business community, particularly useful for identifying and researching potential employers and for people relocating to the Boston area. |
| Dun & Bradstreet's Guide to Doing Business Around the World |
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press Frequency: Irregular Call #: HF1416.M78 2001 Dun & Bradstreet's Guide to Doing Business Around the World is designed to help business people enter the global market. It includes "vital data and guidelines" for conducting business with the top 40 trade partners of the United States. This guide covers countries such as Argentina, China, Egypt, Japan, Russia, and Saudia Arabia as well as many others. Each country is presented in a separate chapter. A typical chapter begins with basic demographic data such as per capita income, population figures, and a list of major cities. A brief cultural overview covers holidays, the typical workweek, as well as any major religious or social influences on the business climate. Each country chapter also provides five major cultural tips to help businessmen avoid social mistakes. A brief economic overview of each country is also provided with a list of the country's largest businesses, the GDP and income level, trade flows, a country risk profile, monetary policy and trade policy. Finally, a brief political overview provides information on the heads of state, political influences on business, informational contacts in both the U.S. and the specific country, as well as communications information. This work is easy to read and fairly informative. It includes several useful appendices such as a list of informational websites, sample documents frequently used in international trade, a list of abbreviations, a list of conversion factors and an index. There are various other print works that cover this type of information, although in a less succinct format. Price Waterhouse publishes a series of informational guides such as "Doing Business in Korea" that include much more detailed investing and economic information about various countries. These guides however are expensive and are also updated on an infrequent basis. For example, the guide to Korea was last updated in 1996. Online: The State Department has made a series of "Country Commercial Guides" available as PDF files on the World Wide Web. They can be found at http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/2001. These guides offer extensive information regarding economic trends and outlook, the political environment, trade regulations and barriers, as well as country contacts. The information that is provided is much more extensive than that offered in the D & B Guide to Doing Business Around the World. |
| Dun's business rankings | Imprint Parsippany, N.J. : Dun's Marketing
Services, c1982- Call No.: HG4057.A3 D86 2001
This resource's primary strength is its company rankings by size, within state, and within industrial category by SIC. Private and public companies are ranked by size as well. Within each of these rankings, each is broken into sales volume and employee size. There is an alphabetical cross-reference included as well to facilitate easy use. This is a fast source for locating the biggest and best, and smallest and weakest companies, although extrapolating these value judgments is a matter of interpretation of the data. Its use of SIC codes is recommended by the publisher in the introduction to the resource as a good source for job seekers, sales personnel, advertisers, economists, and marketing personnel. The entire resource would be useful to same. This volume is akin to Ward's Business Directory, but is probably more affordable to many libraries even though it is less comprehensive and lacks company executive contact information. This would be a good resource for answering questions like "What company is ranked 47th in the state of North Carolina?" or "How any people work at Socrates Technologies Corp?" or "What's the telephone number of "American Oil Corp?" |
| Dun's Consultants Directory | Publisher: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
Frequency: Annual. Simmons has the 1997 edition. Call #: HD69 .C6 D86 Cost: $415.00 Subjects covered: The Directory covers over 30,000 U.S. consulting firms in a variety of business fields, such as finance, business management, marketing, engineering design and data processing and trades such as mining, construction, transportation, communications, utilities, medical technologies and entertainment. Organization/overview: The Directory is organized in three sections. (1) Consultants alphabetically: This section provides complete consultant profiles listed alphabetically by firm name. Complete profiles provide a wealth of information, including DUNS number, firm name, trade style, address of headquarters location, telephone number, primary business services and consulting areas, SIC codes, the year the firm was started or last changed ownership, most recent sales volume, total number of accounts, number of employees, primary clientele, geographic area served, names and titles of principal officers, complete "other location" listings, and state of incorporation. Symbols indicate public ownership and corporate family membership. If the firm is publicly held, the profile also includes its ticker symbol and the stock exchange on which the firm's stock is traded. (2) Consultants geographically: Firms' headquarters and branch locations are listed alphabetically within states and cities. This section provides basic information with cross references to the corresponding complete profiles. (3) Consultants by consulting activities: This section categorizes firms by their consulting activities. Within these categories, firms are listed in alphabetical order within city and state. This section also includes cross references to the corresponding complete profiles. Special features: Helpful "how to use this directory" pages make use easier and suggest some of the many purposes for which the Directory could be used (e.g., identifying all consulting firms within a particular consulting activity or geographic area). Other tools include a list of abbreviations and symbols used in the Directory and a short glossary. A short section explains SIC codes, how they are used and who uses them. This section is followed by numerical and alphabetical lists of SIC codes. Similar reference sources: Consultants & Consulting Organizations Directory; The Consultant Directory; Directory of Management Consultants.
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URL: http://learningnetwork.ebrary.com/ Ebrary provides secure online access to copyrighted content from leading publishers and online organizations on the subjects of Business/Economics; Classics; History; Philosophy; Political Science and Social Science. All of the books inclued on this site can be searched and viewed for free. Using a model similar to photocopying, Learning Network visitors pay only to print or copy the information they need. The website’s homepage is organized into three sections. On the left-hand side of the page there is a navigational bar that remains as a constant fixture throughout the site. This left-hand menu contains a search box and has buying and account information for registered users. The next area of content on Ebrary’s homepage contains the administrative and logistical details of how to use Ebrary. This section contains: an explanation of how to get started in using this site; search tips; information on setting up an account; a “Quick Tour” of the type of content that one will find using Ebrary; and lastly there is a link to download Ebrary InfoTools. InfoTools is a software plug-in for browsers that allows users of Ebrary to navigate, browse, copy or print full-text documents and makes every word a portal to more information and knowledge. A user can access definitions, encyclopedia entries, maps, translations, or biography information for any term in a document. Finally, the last section of Ebrary’s homepage contains abstracts and color images of featured titles in Ebrary’s main subject areas. There are three “levels” of searching for material on Ebrary. First, if an end-user does not wish to download Ebrary’s innovative software, they may search for Ebrary’s titles but may only view the following information: title; author; subjects covered; publisher; year published; Dewey number; ISBN; and the number of pages. These titles may be retrieved by full text searching, or by searching by title, author, or subject. However, if an end-user wishes to view, copy or print any material that is retrieved from a search, then Ebrary’s InfoTools software must be downloaded. At this level, one may also link-out from any individual words to additional relevant information (e.g. definitions, encyclopedia entries, maps, translations, or biographical information). Finally, if a user wishes to copy or print any information from these copyrighted sources, then the user must create an account and purchase the requested information. Additionally, users may also choose to buy the entire book or books from their favorite online bookseller. The intended audience for Ebrary would be anyone who is ever searching for a particular book or simply browsing books by subject. The one major advantage to using Ebrary would be that the end-user may purchase relevant excerpts of books right from their desktop. This website is also unique in that it allows its users to view the full text of a wide variety of titles, including fiction. This site appears to be relatively unique in providing full text on every title, however, Amazon.com and other online book sellers provide similar services on their sites without requiring their users to download specialized software.
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| Economist Intelligence Unit's Country Reports and Profiles |
Access: Simmons does not have access to the full version of EIU Country Reports. Access to the reports of about 60 countries are available through Business Source Premier. The Intelligence Unit of the Economist Magazine creates annual reports and monthly profiles on 177 countries worldwide. These provide an unbiased, in-depth analysis of current political, policy and economic trends with an 18-month outlook. Quarterly and annual statistics are available from reliable sources and reviewed by EIU's analysts to provide consistent, objective and impartial coverage. The two primary publications are: Country Profile: Background and historical context of current economic and political events; analysis of the infrastructure and major industrial sectors; map and tables of keys economic data for past 5 years and Country Report: political and economic analysis and forecasts, political scene, economic policy, economy, and foreign trade and payments. The cost for one country report is $135 and for a year's subscription to one country $435. There are region-wide subscriptions, or all countries, costing about $55,000/yr. The online Web version includes a five-year archive of Country Report and Country Profile for each country. The Country Reports are quarterly reports of about forty pages each and eight monthly updates of about eight pages each. They provide an analytical digest of important developments in a country. The same data is provided for each country, making comparisons easy. Each quarterly main issue includes a summary of the main political and economic events, the political structure, economic structure, outlook (forecasts for 12 to 18 months), a review of political and economic developments, graphs of economic trends and statistical appendices with national and foreign trade data. Use For: Current background information on a country; in-depth analysis of a particular country's current political outlook, domestic economy or economic forecast. Similar Sources: While no one provides such detailed, objective country overviews at the EIU, there are other soruces for general country information online, such as the Library of Congress, the CIA, and the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Library of Congress Country Studies site contains online versions of the Federal Research Division/Department of Army country handbooks, featuring countries not covered by other popular sources - 101 countries "notably not including Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations, as well as a number of African nations." These are in-depth reports, typically more than 30 pages long. (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html) The CIA World Factbook has brief online reports on about 250 countries. The coverage is about the same depth as the Economist, but there are more countries and no ads. Each report follows the same format; facts are easy to find. (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html) The Department of Commerce, in its "usatrade" series of pages, aimed at new exporters, has a series of 149 "Country Commercial Guides" - very deep reports prepared by the US consulate in the country. (http://www.usatrade.gov/website/ccg.nsf/)
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| EDGAR |
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml EDGAR is the Electronic Data Gathering, Anaylsis, and Retreival system of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It was established to provide efficient and timely receipt and dissemination of corporate information filed by U.S. public companies with the SEC. All public domestic companies with more than $10 million dollars in assets and 500 shareholders are required to file registration statements, quarterly and/or annual reports (10-K), tender offers, and other forms regarding the companies' finances. There are some documents that are not required to be filed electronically or are voluntary, and that information may not be available on EDGAR. The most common filings that can be found on EDGAR include the Annual Report to Shareholders, Prospectus, Proxy Solicitation Materials, Investment Company Registration Statements, Trading Registrations, Tender Offer and Acquisition Reports, reports regarding corporate changes and voting, and filings by investment companies or security holdings by insiders and institutions. Commonlt filed forms include Form 8-K (Current Report), Form 10-K (Annual Report), Form 10-Q (Quarterly Report), Form 13F (Quarterly Report of Equity Holdings by institutional investment managers), Schedule 13D (disclosing beneficial ownership of registered entity securities), and Schedule 13E-4 (Issuer Tender Offer Statement). Information Statement or Schedule 14C (disclosure requirements for information statements). Security ownership and transaction reports filed by corporate insiders (Forms 3, 4, and 5) and notices of proposed sale of securities (Form 144) may be found on EDGAR, as well as a filing by foreign corporations, although those filings are only voluntary. Not all corporate filings are available as companies were phased into the electronic filing requirement over three years (ending in May 6, 1996). All public domestic companies were required to make their filings electronically on EDGAR after that date, including third-party filings such as tender offers and Schedules 13D. Data entered in EDGAR prior to September 28, 1995 was provided by Lexis/Nexis. The information on EDGAR is free and downloadable and the site includes links to the SEC forms for filers. The site provides a good overview of the most frequently filed SEC forms and identifies the agency division and office responsible for interpretative responsibility. The Full Indices (company index, form index, and master index) are available to download as Mac (.sit), PC (.zip) or Unix (.Z) files. The Quarterly Indices for the years 1994 to 2000 are available on the Archive Indices page. There is also a useful tutorial that explains how to search for company information in EDGAR. There are search options for mutual funds, exhaustive mutual funds, prospectus, and current events analysis (filings within the previous week). Filings are posted 24 hours after the date of filing. Use for: locating accurate, official, and timely corporate financial data for public U.S. companies meeting the filing requirements specified above. Related Resources: The alternative free source for SEC filings is Free EDGAR (http://freeedgar.com/). This site gives free access to basic SEC filings and allows searching by ticker symbol or company name. Additional information is available through Free EDGAR's subscription service EDGAR Online. It is geared toward professional and business users and offers "real-time SEC filings" and advanced searching. There are also a number of alternative sources for SEC filing data available through subscription services. These include (1) Annual Report to Shareholders-SEC Filings (reports of major corporations) available through Lexis-Nexis, (2) Compact D (financial profiles of companies worldwide, including SEC data) available through Primark online or on CD-ROM, (3) Disclosure SEC Database (selected publically held companies of a certain size who have filed a 10K or 20F report in the past 18 months) available through Dow Jones, Lexis-Nexis, DataStar and others and on CD-ROM, (4) Edgar Plus (filings from over 5,000 companies traded on the NYSE and AMEX and selected NASDAQ companies) available through Primark and Lexis-Nexis and on CD-ROM, (5) Global Access (investment information, insider trading, and brokerage reports, as well as SEC data) available from Primark; (6) EDGAR Edge from Mergent/FIS; (7) Dialog Files 100 (SEC), 534 (EDGAR Plus), and 773-780 (for various specific SEC filings); (8) SEC-10K (covering 10K and 20F reports of more than 4,000 companies traded on the NYSE and AMEX and select NASDAQ companies) available through Lexis-Nexis and on CD-ROM; and SEC Online (filings of over 5,000 companies traded on NYSE and AMEX, and selected NASDAQ companies from July 1987 to present) available by subscription through Dialog, Lexis-Nexis, West Group, Dow Jones, Primark, and others, online through Dialog, and on CD-ROM. SEC information is also available on CD-ROM as SEC Online from Silver Platter and by subscription through Investext. |
| Editor & Publisher Market Guide | Frequency: Annual
Publisher: ASM Communications, Inc. A subsidiary of BPI Communications. Call #: HF5905 E.38 Editor & Publisher Market Guide is the only publication providing exclusive data on all U.S. and Canadian markets where daily newspapers are published. Data is based on a yearly survey and the forecast model is based on 91 variables. The market data ranges from ethnic breakdowns to shopping mall information on more than 1,600 cities and 3,141 counties in the United States and Canada. Editor & Publisher Market Guide includes the latest census and estimates for the 2001 and 2006, current estimates for population, housing and income data, and retail sales amounts. A ranking of all Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and comparable data in 16 categories across 1,436 markets is included. The sixteen categories include: location, transportation, population, household, banks, passenger autos, electric meters, gas meters, principle industries, climate, tap water, retailing, retail outlets, military installations, colleges and universities and newspapers. There is an exclusive index for better living, crime and cost of living and a special section of retail sales and retail sales forecasts. Beginning with the 2001 edition, the Editor & Publisher Market Guide's U.S. retail sales categories are based on the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS). Editor & Publisher Market Guide is arranged alphabetically by states and city for U.S. and by province and city for Canada. The data is presented in six sections: market ranking tables, individual market surveys- United States, population age and ethnicity tables, housing income and education tables, retail sales tables and individual market surveys and tables- Canada. There is a helpful definitions and notes page. Editor & Publisher Market Guide is also available on CD-ROM. Similar reference sources are County and City Extra: Annual Metro, City and County Data Book. |
| Employment & Earnings | Publisher: U.S Department of Labor
Frequency: Monthly Call # HD 5723.A4532 Employment & Earnings is published through the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is prepared in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics. The data is collected by the Bureau of the Census and State Employment Security agencies. Each issue reports historical, seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted data on national, state and regional employment statistics by age, ethnicity. educational background and by industry. It also reports average weekly earnings and hours worked by industry. Each issue also has special commentaries that are helpful for background information on trends. The commentaries include explanations of how the data was compiled or how the data can be interpreted. The statistical tables are very detailed. In addition special statistics are featured in certain monthly issues e.g. Statistics on womwn employees are featured in the March and June issue and minimun wage data and employee absences are featured in the January issue. online: These satistics are also available online at http://stats.bls.gov. used for: Economists who look at employment/unemployment trends or government budget analysts who need to follow employment trends to project revenues. |
| Encyclopedia of Associations | Publisher: Gale
Frequency: Annual Call #: HS17 .G332 The Encyclopedia of Associations is a comprehensive source of detailed information on over 81,000 nonprofit membership organizations worldwide. The multivolume set includes National Organizations of the U.S., which covers more than 22,200 American associations of national scope; International Organizations, which covers some 10,400 multi-national, bi-national, and non-U.S. national associations; and Regional, State, and Local Organizations, which covers more than 48,000 U.S. associations with interstate, state, intrastate, city, or local scope or membership. The Encyclopedia of Associations provides addresses and descriptions of professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations, fan clubs, and other groups of all types. Each entry includes year founded, chief officer, brief statement of activities, number of members, publications, budgets, meetings. Also available online as Associations Unlimited. Similar reference sources are: National trade and professional associations of the United States; Business organizations, agencies, and publications directory. Trade associations are particulary valuable sources for specific industry information, especially niche industry statistics. |
| Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands |
Publisher: St. James Press Call#: HF5415.3 .E527 1994 This encyclopedia has three volumes covering approximately 600 of the most popular consumer brands in the United States. Each of the three volumes focuses exclusively on one category of consumer brands: Vol. 1 – Consumable Products; Vol. 2 – Personal Products; and Vol. 3 – Durable Goods. (Beatley Library only has Vol. 1) The brands that were chosen for inclusion in the resource have been leaders in their respective brand categories and have either made a large impact on American business or in “pop” culture. Therefore, these brands possessed the following combination of elements: top sales & leading market share in their field; strong public recognition; and longevity. Each entry is a bit unique based upon the content that is relevant to the brand, however, here are some of the typical categories of information that is available for each brand entry: brand logos, overviews, brand origins, marketing strategy, brand development, brand extensions, packaging, advertising, health claims, performance evaluation, future predictions and further reading In addition to the alphabetical listing of brands, this encyclopedia also has four cumulative indexes: Brand Names; Companies & Persons; Advertising Agencies; and Brand Categories. Those who will find this resource most useful: students, librarians, job seekers, advertising & business people. Similar Sources: Brands and their Companies; Companies and their Brands |
| European Business Rankings | compiled by Oksana Newman & Allan Foster
Gale Research International, Ltd. - London
HG 4132. N496 1992 This book contains ranked lists of people, countries, and companies that are prominent in the European business community. Data is complied from over 800 periodicals and newspapers from throughout the world. Lists are grouped by subject and arranged alphabetically. Subject headings are primarily chosen from LC headings and use "see" cross-references to locate correct headings. Entries are composed of a descriptive title, such as 'Largest European Mining Companies', ranking criteria, such as 'by sales', dates, units of measurement, the total number of items listed, the actual list, and finally the data source. A bibliography and index showing all the rankings a particular entity appears in are included. The work has some great data with very comprehensive and unique listings. However, it was published almost a decade ago and much of the information is now out-of-date. Similar Sources: Gale now publishes the World Market Share Reporter, which has similar data and is updated annually. Online: much of the data in these print sources is included in Tablebase and other databases to whom RDS licences their data. |
| European Marketing Data and Statistics |
Publisher: Euromonitor Frequency: Annual Call #: HA1107.E87 The European Marketing Data and Statistics is a compendium of statistical information on the countries of Western and Eastern Europe. It provides a wealth of detailed and current statistical information relevant to international market planning in 25 different subject areas. The data is presented in spreadsheet form along with some graphs, tables, and maps. Coverage includes a number of long-term trends, which allow for the analysis of socio-economic trends and forecasting. All countries in Europe are covered on topics including international trade, transport, industrial output and agricultural resources. There are also sections on service industries such as tourism and retailing. The handbook contains a full alphabetical index and a section summarizing the major sources of international information, which have been used in the compilation of the data. A companion volume of marketing data called International Marketing Data and Statistics is also available for worldwide context. This source is available in two electronic forms. All data is available in the World Marketing Data and Statistics CD-ROM, which also includes all data from International Marketing Data and Statistics. All data is also available on Euromonitor's pay web site, which is updated monthly and features keyword searching. Use for: Comparative international marketing data and statistics. Similar reference sources: International Historical Statistics: Europe; Europe & Eurasia Facts and Figures Annual |
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| FIS Online | Mergent Inc.
www.fisonline.com and through Simmons Libraries Electronic Resources FIS Online contains nine major databases:
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| Foreign Exchange Currency Converter | Publisher: OANDA, Inc.
URL: http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic Subjects Covered: (from home page) "FXConverter (Foreign Exchange Currency Converter) is a multi-lingual Currency Converter with up to date exchange rates provided from leading market data contributors and is filtered for validity." One can use it "[t]o get the exchange rates for any of 164 currencies . . . as well as the date, language, and amount for which you would like to conduct the currency conversion." Overview: In addition to the Currency Converter, this site also contains "Quick Links" to several types of and ways to access conversion information. These include Currency Tools, Forex Investors, as well as "Quick Links" specifically geared for Businesses, Travelers, Community and PDA and Wireless. Specific types of information included via these Quick Links include: Currency Tools FXCheatSheet, a currency cheat sheet for Travelers; FXDaily, a daily one-to-many currency table; FXHistory, historical currency exchange rates for over 164 currencies; FXPense, to calculate your international, multi currency expenses online; FXBrowser, a quick currency converter you can add to your browser and calculate prices in your home currency; Visual FXConverter, a quick table of currency rates for 26 of the most important currencies; FXLookup, a quick currency ISO to country lookup; a Customizable FXConverter; Customizable FXCheatSheet Forex Investors OANDA FX trading system information; OANDA Financial Data Services; OANDA Decision Support Tools; Currency and Foreign Exchange News Businesses Currency Information for Your Site; Currency Localization Services; Currency Content; Currency Data Services; Payment Solutions; Customized Currency Solutions Travelers Checklists of what one needs to figure out with regards to currency before he or she goes, and when he or she is coming home; links to resources such as booking flights, hotels, etc. Community Currency notes; FX Gallery (collection of world currency notes and bills) PDA and Wireless Advertisements for currency converters for the palm pilot; advertisements for currency converters for WAP enabled mobile phones Tips/hints: Detailed instructions on how to use the currency converter are listed below it on the web site. Also, from the website, "All currencies are listed with the name of their country first. For example, the "Peso" for Mexico is listed as "Mexican Peso." Similar sources: Many exist. One can retrieve other foreign exchange conversion websites by doing a Google, Dogpile, etc. search. Print counterparts: N/A Special Features: Currency Converter Help Pages Use for/FAQs: What were the average, the high and the low rates of conversion between the German Mark and US Dollar on 10/17/01? What is today's exchange rate between the US Dollar and the Japanese Yen? |
| Forrester Research |
Forrester Research is an independent market research firm that focuses on emerging technology. The firm is based in Cambridge, MA with North American and European regional offices. They provide research for their Clients that studies and analyzes the Internet and technology and its impact on business, consumers and society. Forrester's competitive analysts and sales executives monitor their Client's marketplace and provide competitive intelligence via published reports and online tools available only to its Clients. Forrester has close to 2,500 corporate clients some of who are Fortune 100 companies as well as emerging startups. According to Forrester their goal is for their Clients to focus their "attention, time, and resources where they will have the greatest return " and Forrester provides the reporting, tools, market news and analyses to assist them in this goal. As a market research firm in the high tech industry one of Forrester's claim is that they provide information in a concise and "distilled to essential clarity" so that they save their Client's time by providing "reports are lean and easily read in a single sitting". I did find Forrester's site to be concise and to the point, easy to navigate and locate information, although I wasn't able to view many of the reports since I am not a Client. Forrester's homepage is broken into sections including: Research & Analysis - research & analyst briefs complied by Forrester (have to be a Client or can sign up as a guest to read the articles), eBusiness Tech Rankings - one of Forrester's products, an Assessment tool that provides research and rankings of technology products. Forrester states that this tool can save Client's time and money when they are looking to improve or purchase new technological products. Other sections: Buy Reports Online - Clients can purchase industry specific reports (these reports cost $500.00 each), notification of upcoming Events, conferences and seminars, sponsored by Forrester for the technology market. News - these are press releases from Forrester. You can search Forrester's on-line products and services by "Coverage Areas" - industries, regions, technologies and consumer segments, Within theses "Coverage Areas" are related publications, market research and data advisory services and a listing Forrester's market analysts that cover these particular segment(s). To become a Forrester Client via online you are required to complete a form that indicates your company's areas of market research need(s) and a Contact information form. As a Client you purchase access to a "Coverage Area" of 3 years of archived research. The pricing on the package depends on the number of users and the number of years of access - the estimate would be in the higher thousands. There is another type of Client access called Baseline. This access is for small companies or entrepreneurial firms. The access is only to small excerpts of Forrester reports and research - the estimate would be in the lower thousands. Forrester also has an option to register as a Guest which Forrester allows a guest viewer to their website access only to reports Forrester makes available. Other sources that provide similar services via on-line are: Jupiter Media Metrix (http://www.jmm.com/index.html) - Jupiter like Forrester provides third party Internet and emerging technology analysis and measurement for its Clients. Jupiter provides its Clients with access to research and consulting information, tools and studies. Similar to Forrester, you had to be a registered Client to obtain access to this information. Jupiter's website is not as detailed orientated as Forrester's. Jupiter's information available to the non-Client was very limited as compared to Forrester's and to me a less marketable tool than Forrester's. In other words, if I were a potential Client, I would find more information on the products and services via Forrester's website as opposed to Jupiter's. The Yankee Group (http://www.yankeegroup.com/) - The Yankee Group, a Boston based firm, like Forrester and Jupiter provides third party research and consulting services to Client's on the Internet, e-business markets, technologies and global communications. I found The Yankee Group to be very comparable to Forrester. They offered the same type of access and to press releases and product services for non-Clients. Similar to Forrester and Jupiter you need to be a registered Client. Although Yankee Group did not make available the option to register as a Guest. |
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| Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data, 4th ed., 2000 | Publisher: Bernan Press
Frequency: Annual Call #: HD8051 .A63 The Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics is a comprehensive one-volume source which provides current data on population, employment and unemployment by industry, hourly and weekly earnings, consumer and producer prices, export and import prices, consumer expenditures by household type, employment costs, productivity, employee benefits, and international comparisons. The Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics is the successor to the discontinued Bureau of Labor Statistics publication. The historic and recent data is derived from the Census Bureau Current Population Survey. The handbook is organized by subject in ten chapters and includes more than 100 tables of comprehensive statistics profiling a wide range of labor market topics. The tables represent the wealth of historical data collected by the federal government (e.g., consumer and producer price information back to 1913 and payroll employment figures to 1919). The chapters are grouped by subject matter preceded by descriptions of the data, and a section of special tabulations such as employment status of women with children of different ages. New in the latest edition are projections of employment and occupation to 2008 and tables on employee productivity, contingent workers, and consumer expenditures. Geographic breakdowns are mainly national and regional, with occasional state and metropolitan area comparisons. Available online at Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Data website http://www.bls.gov/datahome.htm, see section "Most Requested Series" section. Employment and Earnings data is accessible at Infotrac's Expanded Academic ASAP database. Similar reference sources are: Employment and Earnings; Statistical Abstract of the United States. For current data and analytical articles see Monthly Labor Review and The Report on the American Workforce (biennial) published by the BLS. Sample FAQ's source can be used for: How rapidly have prices risen for food? Which occupations offer the best job opportunities in the years ahead? What percentage of all women work?
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| High Technology Marketplace Directory |
Publisher: Princeton Hightech Group, Inc.
Frequency: Annual
Call Number: HC110 .H53 H53
Subjects Covered/Overview: The High Technology Marketplace Directory provides information detailing the history, background, businesses, products, employees, directors, officers, properties, principal locations, mergers, and acquisitions of more than 5,000 U.S. and International High Technology Corporations.
Corporations included are those involved with such technologies as advanced materials, aerospace and defense, automation, biotechnology, chemicals, computers, medicine, pharmaceuticals, and communications.
The directory is organized into three sections titled Market, High Technology Corporations, and High Technology Info-Source.
The Market section includes lists of various company types ranked by sales or market position.
The High Technology Corporations section includes profiles and indexes of public, private, and foreign companies arranged alphabetically. Information for this section was obtained from company reports, news releases, SEC documents, and other sources.
The High Technology Info-Source section includes information about venture capital firms, outplacement firms, executive search firms, international management firms, international law firms, financial advisers, and several other indexes.
Other Sources Providing High Technology Company Information: 1. Corporate Technology Directory (HG4057 .A16 1998 @ GSM Library) 2. Massachusetts Technology Resource Guide (HD9696 .A3 M37 1992-93 - Note: Be Cautious of Publication Date) 3. The MHT Directory of Massachusetts High Tech Companies (T12 .M37 1997 @ GSM Library)
Print/Electronic Counterparts: Available in print format only.
Special Features: "Fully indexed for quick access to all information." (www.phgi.com/serv00.htm, accessed 10/01/01) Over 1,000 pages of information. (www.phgi.com/serv00.htm, accessed 10/01/01)
Use for/FAQ: Determining "who owns whom" - subsidiary, parent, division, and affiliation relationships; marketing, sales, and competition research; identifying investment opportunities; finding quick facts and figures about the high technology market and its products; compiling company financial information; locating employment information; and assisting with fund raising efforts.
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| Hoover's handbook of American business |
Publisher: Reference Press Frequency: Irregular Call # HF3030.H66 Hoover's lists profiles of over seven hundred American enterprises. It aims to cover the companies that its customers would be most interested in. It uses size, growth, and visibility as selection criteria, and also tries to provide breadth of coverage by including some more offbeat companies, such as sports teams. The businesses covered are primarily publicly held, but it does cover some private enterprises. Each company's entry includes an overview of what the company does, a brief history of the company, a list of the major players in the company (and salaries, in the case of publicly held companies), contact information, and information about the geographical distribution of the company's product. It also includes the brand names, services, products, and divisions of the company, its key competitors, and a 10-year view of the company's financial performance. Hoover's provides an index to brands, company names, and people named in each profile. Entries are very readable and easy to digest - they are organized under headings such as when, who, where, how much, key competitors. It is also available online at www.hoovers.com There are several similar sources, such as America's corporate families, Ward's business directory of U.S. private and public companies, and Standard & Poor's register of corporations, directors and executives. ELECTRONIC VERSION: Publisher: Hoovers Inc, Austin, Texas access: http://wwww.hoovers.com This electronic source offers both free and subscription information about companies, people and products. Its subtitle is the "Business Network". It offers information on over 12 million companies, about 17,000 are profiled by Hoover's in-house staff. Hoovers has international coverage. Hoover's company information is also available through affliations with Factiva, ProQuest, Lexix-Nexis to name just a few This is a very "commercial" site with lots of advertising. There are six "tabs" of this web site: Companies and Industries, Money, Career Development, News Center, Business Travel and Purchasing Center. Business Travel and Purchasing Center are the most commercial. The most useful part of the source to a business information specialist is the Companies and Industries section. You can search the entire site with a company name or use the A-Z List. The advanced search feature of the site is available to subscribers only. The Company Directory feature organizes the companies by industry, company type and region. Hoover's has information on public, private, ipo's, subsidiaries and non-US companies. Information available for free is the "company capsule" This includes contact information, corporate heirarchy, manufacturing branchs, a brief summary of the company, the three top competitors, subsidiaries/affiliates and some finacial information. It also includes current news stories about the company, but to do a journal/publication search you must be a subscriber. A subscription is required to get more in depth finacial information, information on competitive landscape, product and operations by segment and more detailed information on board members and key people. It has an industry section which gives industry overviews and descriptions. A "freeby" which is useful is the "List of Lists" under the Company tab. This is a series of external links to publications that have lists by "the Best, "the Biggest", "The Emerging" and the site organizes these sections by catagory - US Companies, Non-Us Companies, Brand/ Products, People, and Locations. You need to scroll through the lists. Another way to access this information is to do a simple search of the entire site. The Lead Finder feature allows the user to create mailing lists and contact lists, but there is a charge of $1.50 per record and a $22.50 minimum order for non-subscribers. Simular sources: Amadeus for European Company Information (this requires a subsciption); Annual Report Gallery (http://www.reportgallery.com)for company profiles and detailed financial information., Career Search for creating lists simular to the "lead finder" feature of Hoover's. Corporate Information (http://www.corporateinformation.com) has international coverage of companies and links back to Hoovers for the free company capsule. |
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| Jobstar | http://www.jobstar.org
Jobstar is a free online library service maintained by the Bay Area Library Information System (BALIS) and partially funded by the Wall Street Journal's Careerjournal.com. Jobstar, formerly known as JobSmart, has been providing free career services to Northern California since 1996. Since that time, it has expanded to include the Los Angeles area as well as Hudson County, New Jersey. While specifically supplying patrons in its regional markets with reliable information for finding a job, much of the information can be applied nationally. Jobstar Jobbank, for example, links to Careerjournal.com, and Jobstar Executive links to Wall Street Journal information on careers and job hunting. Jobstar aggregates web sites, identifies them by category, provides annotations to each site, and links to them. Links include guides to specific careers, the hidden job market, a guide to printed surveys, and over 300 salary surveys and summaries. Salary surveys and summaries contain links to general periodicals, local newspapers, trade and professional journals, trade and professional associations, and recruiters and employment agencies. General salary surveys include the Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. News Career Guide, Working Woman Salary Survey, and Careerjournal.com Salaries and Surveys. There are also links to profession specific salary information. Jobstar also links to related topics such as salary issues (minimum wage, stock options, benefits), information for new graduates (hiring forecasts), salary negotiation strategies, and a salary I.Q. quiz. A similar resource, Careerjournal.com provides similar salary information along with additional features such as Wall Street Journal articles on 39 different industries and job functions. Careerjournal.com has salary tables for various job sectors, different job titles, and types of institutions and industries. For librarians alone there are 38 different institution and industry types listed. A salary calculator compares the cost of living by geographic area. Added features provided through WSJs website include job hunting advice, executive recruiters, negotiation tips, career indicators, and a resume database. Jobstar can be accessed at http://jobstar.org. Careerjournal.com's Salary page is located at http://www.careerjournal.com/salaries/index.html |
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| Manufacturing USA: Industry Analysis, Statistics, and Leadings Companies: |
Publisher: Gales Research Inc. Frequency: irregular (edition reviewed: 6th, 1998) Call #: HD9723 .M36 Manufacturing USA (MUSA) is a two-volume source of statistical information on 458 manufacturing industries. The information is taken from Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies, Census of Manufacturers, Annual Survey of Manufacturers, County Business Patterns, U.S. Industrial Outlook, Benchmark Input-Output Accounts for the U.S. Economy (1982), and Industry-Occupation Matrix of the U.S. Department of Labor. The data is organized by SIC code and covers 1982 - 1995, with projected figures for 1996 - 2000. The introduction provides a detailed overview of the information provided and the volumes are indexed by SIC code, products, company names, and occupations. Comprehensive and detailed industry data is provided primarily in the form of charts and tables with graphic representations of industry overviews. Data for each industry includes general statistics, indices of change, selected ratios, leading companies, occupations employed, trends, products, material consumption, and industry data by state. Maps and graphs presenting regional and state data are provided for each industry. Use for: Locating U.S. manufacturing industry statistics and projections. Related resources are Ward's Directory of Private and Public Companies (see above), and Gale's other industry-specific publications (Services Industries, Wholesale and Retail Trade, Finance, Trade and Real Estate, Transportation and Public Utilities, etc.), which have the same type of information and format but cover different SIC codes/industries. Manufacturing - STATROM is the electronic version (CD-ROM) of this publication and is available through Gale. |
| Market Share Reporter |
Call No. HF5410.M35 Subtitle: "Annual compilation of reported market share data on companies, products, and services." Using data gathered from various publications and industry analyst's reports MSR presents 2055 (in the 1997 issue) tables that list market share (usually in percentage) held by the major players in that market segment. In some cases the total market size is estimated. Some tables show major users or market niches, rather than producers' share. The tables cover: North American market 462 SIC classifications public and private companies corporate, brand, product, service, and commodity market shares The tables are organized into chapters by two-digit SIC Code, with an opening chapter covering "General and Broad Topics" that touch on more that one SIC code area. There is a complete explanation of the organization and rules used by the publisher in the long Introduction. Some tables include bar graphs or pie charts. There are five indexes: Source; Place Name; Products, Services and Issues; Company; and Brand. Each of these points to the table number(s) where the data is found. An annotated Source List provides complete information on the sources. Use for: niche industry/market statistics Online: included in certain databases, such as Tablebase. |
| Mergent Bond Record | Publisher: Mergent FIS
Frequency: There is an annual edition and a monthly edition. Call #: HG4905 .M78 Mergent Bond Record provides ratings and other information about corporate, municipal, federal, convertible, and international bonds and preferred stocks. The ratings are by Moody’s and measure how risky a bond is, in other words how likely it is that the issuer will default on the bond. The monthly edition covers corporate, convertible, government, and municipal bonds. Detailed information is provided about American and international corporate and convertible bonds, preferred stocks, industrial development revenue bonds, and pollution and environmental control revenue bonds. Some of the information items included where applicable are CUSIP, issuer name, rating, interest dates, prices, yields, amount outstanding, and date issued. Lists of new and revised ratings, matured issues, and redeemed issues are provided. Lists of ratings are included for structured finance issues, equipment trust certificate ratings, commercial paper ratings, medium-term-notes ratings, banks, issuers, money market funds, insurance, short-term loans, and federal and municipal bonds. The monthly edition also has tables of historical bond yield averages and a variety of charts such as historical bond yields by ratings and discount rate vs. money market rates. The annual edition lists Moody’s ratings and ratings changes with the dates they were assigned for corporate bonds, municipal bonds, and preferred stocks. It also lists bonds that matured in the past year and new issues. Mergent’s Municipal and Government Manual has some similar information about those kinds of bonds. Moody’s ratings can also be found on electronic data services such as Bloomberg. Other agencies that rate bonds are Standard & Poor’s and Fitch. Mergent’s internet product, FISonline, offers financial information about companies that might be of interest to someone doing research on bonds. Questions that can be answered with this source: -Did any of AON Corp.’s bonds mature in 1999? -What is Amazon.com’s issuer rating? -Which generally has had a higher yield, a U.S. Treasury 30-year bond or a Treasury 3-month bill?
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| Million Dollar Directory: Leading Public and Private Companies |
Publisher: Dun & Bradstreet Information Services Frequency: Annual Call No.: HC102.D8 Million Dollar Directory: Leading Public and Private Companies is a six-volume comprehensive collection of over 160,000 U.S. public and private businesses with a worth of over $500,000. To be included in this listing, a company must 1) have 180 or more employees if the company headquarters is a single location or over 900 employees at that location if the company is a branch, and 2) the company must have more than $9 million in sales volume. The first three volumes of this set list the companies alphabetically, then three single volumes list the top 50,000 companies, all companies cross-referenced geographically, and all companies cross-referenced by industry. This set was created to be used primarily by executives, librarians, students, researchers, and sales and marketing managers. It is a primary information source for privately held companies (but includes publicly held companies as well), and includes easy cross-referencing, primary and secondary lines of business for each company (up to six lines), and the names and titles of the key decisionmakers. The Table of Contents provides clear instructions on how to use this resource and the frontmatter also includes a section on the abbreviatons, symbols, and glossary used, a section on Understanding Standard Indutrial Classification (SIC)Codes, and SIC Code Descriptions. Each business entry includes: headquarters address and telephone number, trade syle, annual sales volume, total employment size, up to six industry classifications (SIC codes), company officers and director, Dun and Bradstreet D-U-N-S number (a unique number assigned by D&B to provide a universal identification system for companies), members of the board of directors and the founded/ownership date. The types of businesses found in this resource fall into the following categories: agriculture, public administration, mining, construction, manufacturing, transportation, commerce, and public utility, wholesale trade, retail trade, finance, insurance, and real estate, and business services. Also available online and on CD-ROM. Similar reference source is: Word's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies. |
| Moody's handbook of common stocks |
Publisher: Mergent Frequency: Quarterly Call # HG4501.M59 Since 1999, this reference source has been called simply Handbook of common stocks. It has listings for more than 950 stocks with strong investor interest. It does not include privately held corporations, as they do not have publicly traded stocks. The book aims to provide information to answer the following four questions: "What does the company do? How has it done in the past? How is it doing now? How will it fare in the future?" The Handbook provides contact information, names of officers, recent developments, prospects and all financial information on one very dense page. Since this work is in alphabetical order, there is no index to company names. However, there is an index of industries and the companies in them. It also has a "Condensed Statistical Tabulation" index with very brief highlights of all United States companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It is also available online at www.fisonline.com Similar reference sources are Standard & Poor's stock reports and The value line investment survey. |
| Moody's .... Manual series |
Call Numbers: Bank and Finance HG4961.M65 Industrial HG4961.M67 International HG4009.M66 Public Utility HG4961.M7245 Transportation HG4971.M74 Complete Corporate Index HG4961.M66 at Boston Public Library Social Sciences Reference: OTC Industrial HG4961.M74 OTC Unlisted HG4971.M75x The Moody's Manual is a series of seven manuals, plus index volume, of detailed information of interest to investors about nearly all of the corporations active in the sectors covered: Industrial; Banking & Finance; International; OTC Industrial; OTC Unlisted; Public Utility; and Transportation. A Complete Corporate Index volume lists where to find the information on any one of the 40,000 plus corporations covered. Each Manual begins with an alphabetic listing of all the corporations covered, a listing of all subsidiaries and their owners, and a listing of companies formerly covered, but now acquired, merged or defunct. Each Manual has four separate sections with varying levels of coverage detail, depending on how much a company was willing to pay for extra coverage. The standard, free, listing includes a short company history, merger and acquisition history, spin-offs, list of subsidiaries, names of officers and directors, number of employees, description of business operation, financial data like income statements for past three years, and balance sheets for the last two years. Also included is information on the financial structure: stock issues, bond issues, lines of credit, etc. For a fee, companies are moved into the "Corporate Visibility" section, where financials for the last 5 years are added to the standard information. For a larger fee, in the "Corporate Visibility - Select" section, financial information for seven years is included and the complete list of subsidiary and branch office locations is added. For the highest fee, in the "Corporate Visibility -Plus" section, there is a longer discourse on historyand operations and companies can include much of theirannual report information, including letters toshareholders, etc. Use for: company backgrounds, overviews and history. Online: available direct from FIS Online (Mergents) |
| Morningstar | http://www.morningstar.com/
Morningstar provides detailed information about mutual funds and stocks. It also rates mutual funds on a five star system. These independent ratings are based on historical returns and risk. It distributes this information over the web, for free and for a fee, and through its CD product, Principia Pro. Morningstar sells a few different Principia Pro products: for mutual funds, for closed-end funds, for variable annuity and insurance funds, and for stocks. CD updates are available monthly, quarterly, or yearly with the less frequent updates costing less. Principia Pro contains a lot of data that can be sorted or searched easily. The main screen of Principia Pro for Mutual Funds contains a spreadsheet-like list of 13,545 mutual funds. The columns list data such as fund name, contact information, fund manager, investment style, Morningstar category, historical returns, fees, historical and current Morningstar ratings, risk analysis, NAV, financial ratios, statistics about the holdings of the portfolio, assets, and much more. The list can be sorted by the contents of any column and can be searched for particular funds. It is also possible to screen for funds using any of the available data as criteria. For example, the user can search for all large-cap value funds with a Morningstar rating greater than 3 stars. The information in Principia Pro can be viewed in the spreadsheet-like view on the main page or in more printable and readable pages. If the user selects a fund from the list she has the option to view detailed pages about that fund that include graphs, tables, and descriptions. One of the available pages is the Morningstar Page. This printable one page report contains a summary of the important information about a fund in a clear, convenient format. It includes performance data, risk analysis, investment style, top holdings, geographical exposure, sector weightings, and more. Also included are fund reviews written by Morningstar analysts, brief biographical sketches of fund managers, and brief summaries of fund prospectuses. Other pages include additional detail. Graphs that compare more than one fund are available. For instance, one option is to select a couple of funds and get a graph of the growth of $10,000 invested in each of the funds. Another available page averages data from multiple funds. Principia Pro also provides lists of all of the holdings, or stocks and bonds held in a portfolio, for each fund. The software allows the information to be printed or downloaded. Morningstar's web site contains a large amount of information about mutual funds and stocks. There is a search tool for finding stocks and funds by name or by ticker. The site also allows limited screening for particular funds for free. Criteria such as Morningstar rating or return data can be used to screen and additional criteria for screening is available with a paid subscription to Morningstar's premium content. The site contains a lot of the information included in the Morningstar Pages on Principia Pro such as total returns, asset allocation, sector weightings, top holdings, and fees. Analyst reports are available with a subscription to the paid content. A large amount of stock-specific information is available including company financials and current day price quotes. Morningstar provides its own "grades" for the stocks for free and provides analyst reports and star ratings to premium content subscribers. Links to conference calls, SEC documents, and free and fee broker reports are also included. The site also has a section on exchange traded funds. Other sections include a retirement center with articles and tools relevant to retirement savings, a news center for recent reports and market data, a portfolio center where users can set up and analyze their own portfolio, and bulletin boards for posting and reading messages from other users. One section of the site that might be of interest to library patrons is Morningstar University, which provides a number of tutorials on investing from a basic to a sophisticated level. Morningstar also publishes a print version of the Morningstar pages in product called Morningstar Mutual Funds. Similar sources: Lipper also rates mutual funds Questions that can be answered with this source: -What is the name of the fund manager of Fidelity's Magellan fund? -Does that fund own any Coca-Cola stock? -If I invested $10,000 in the Vanguard Windsor fund last year how much would it be worth now?
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| OECD Economic Outlook |
Publisher: Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Frequency: Semi-Annual Call #: HC10.O18 OECD is an analysis of the economic development in OECD member countries over the next two years. This reference provides recommendations on economic policies needed to ensure economic growth throughout the world. It also examines the impact of oil price increases on the OECD countries. OECD presents alternative scenarios to many economic situations as well as examines currant fiscal issues. OECD's goal is to provide detailed country notes on the 30 countries that belong to the OECD. Within the country notes is an assessment of each country's economic status and outlook. While the outlook focuses primarily on those countries within OECD membership, it also examines a few choice non-member countries. OECD Economic Outlook also contains special chapters focusing on links between policy and growth; revised OECD measures of structural unemployment; house prices; economic activity and trends in immigration and its economic consequences. Along with detailed text information, Economic Outlook has numerous charts, tables and figures to aid one in understanding the information and for breaking it down for a quick reference. Use For: The OECD Economic Outlook is used for tracking the economic outlook for the 30 countries belonging to the OECD organization as well as identifying recent trends and issues affecting the world economy. It can also be accessed online at www.oecd.org/eco/eco Similar Source: The World Economic Outlook (HC59.W67) is a similar source and surveys the outlook for major countries of the world, identifying trends and issues. |
| OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web |
URL: http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/stats/offstats/OFFSTATSmain.htm OFFSTATS provides comprehensive lists of global websites offering free social, economic, and general data. These websites are arranged alphabetically both by country of origin and by topic covered. The lists of websites by country are primarily comprised of websites from statistical offices, central banks, and government departments and agencies. The topical lists of websites are the statistical pages of international organizations and associations and a few commercial sites. OFFSTATS is maintained by a Business & Economics Librarian at the University of Auckland’s Library in New Zealand. Therefore, there is an additional, more detailed section on this website that provides statistical resources by subject only for New Zealand. The list of countries included in this website if fairly exhaustive ranging from Albania to Zimbabwe. The amount of content provided for each country also ranges widely with 16 statistical sites for Japan and only one site listed for such countries as Lesotho, Liberia and Libya. In the countries where more specific websites are not provided and only one site is listed, it is always from the World Bank’s Country Data (http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/countrydata.html). The website topics listed on OFFSTATS offer a range of data categorized from “agriculture” to “women”. Many of the most comprehensive sources of information listed in the topical section of OFFSTATS include the UN, World Bank, and the CIA. One similar source that contains some of the same information that is provided on OFFSTATS, is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ website (http://www.bls.gov). There is a section on their homepage entitled “Other Statistical Sites on the WWW”. Within this section there are lists of US and international sites providing statistical information. However, this list is not nearly as comprehensive as the lists provided on OFFSTATS. |
| O'Dwyer's Directory of Public Relations Executives |
Publisher: J.R. O'Dwyer Frequency: Annual Call #: HD59.O353 2000 O'Dwyer's Directory of Public Relations Executives is a thorough source of detailed biographical information of more than 10,360 business-related public relations executives and more than 5,000 U.S. public relations employers. Single volume directory provides professional biographical material of established public relations professionals from corporations, associations, public relations firms or independent consultants. Entries include: title, company, year appointed, current and previous positions held, professional associations, schools attended, (hometowns), business addresses and telephone numbers. Cross-indexed to locate company affiliations of listed executives. There will not be a 2001 edition for this directory. Publisher also maintains comprehensive website http://www.odwyerpr.com/ which posts up to date coverage of public relations news, lists 550 PR firms, 1,122 PR services firms in 58 categories, and employment opportunities. Similar reference sources: O'Dwyer is the accepted leader of public relations directories. Other helpful publications include O'Dwyer's Directory of Public Relations Firms. This directory is an excellent source for networking and researching potential employees, employers or competitors. |
| OneSource |
Onesource is a database that combines information from leading providers of corporate financials, analysts' reports and business articles along with information acquired from the companies themselves. Content is collected from sources that include Hoover's Profiles, Reuters, Investext, Tablebase, Standard & Poor's Register, Market Share Reporter, Marquis Who's Who, PROMT, U.S Government, SEC Filings, and Gale Group. This high end subscription service provides a comprehensive resource for company and industry research. It blends the benefits of varied reliable business sources with web sources and is directed toward larger companies. Business Browser, the primary Onesource product features individual research functions for U.S., U.K. and European businesses. Business Browser consists several modules: Profile Company, Track Watchlists, Find Companies, Profile Industry, Find Topics and Find Executives. Profile Company - creates reports with additional information options: Company Tearsheet, Corporate Overview, Current Newswire Stories, Articles and Tables, Topic Search, Corporate Family, Executive, Global Peer Listing. It also links to relevant Web sources including government agencies and associations. Profile Industry - integrates many sources giving access to industry history, overviews and norms, market share data, research reports, top participants, current conditions, forecasting information, articles and searches for analysis of lines of business, market forecasts and identifying key figures and news. Find Companies/Find Executives - allow searching for business leaders and companies by set criteria (e.g. sales, geography, schools, industry). Find Topics - provides full-text advance searching including nesting and truncation, for news stories, research reports and trade articles. Company Analyzer - searches for and analyzes U.S. companies, producing reports, models and charts. Currency of information varies by source from which data has been obtained, as database differ on frequency of updates. As a result, the multiple information options are useful not only for increased information but also as a source of verification. There is also a generous selection of variables available for customizing tables, which can be exported to Excel spreadsheets. Onesource is a very end-user friendly information source, bringing together a large collection of business resource to one search point, which serve the needs of business development, market research and competitive intelligence. This one-stop shopping for business searching, while expensive to access, can save hours of time otherwise spent combing individual sourcebooks and databases. |
| Organization Charts |
Publisher: Gale Research, Inc. Call#: HD58.65.O74 1992 This is a collection of organizational charts of more than 200 corporate structures from a range of companies and non-profit institutions from a variety of industries. The companies included may be public or private; foreign or domestic; and of any size. The information contained in this source was compiled from: international business journals; annual reports; and direct requests to Fortune 500 companies. Each corporate entry consists of a computer-generated hierarchical structure of position titles. The names of the current position holders were omitted due to these names changing frequently. There is also an additional section in this resource called “Sample Organizational Charts” which outlines typical organizational scenarios in corporations. This resource is relatively unique, with one publishing in 1992. In addition, acquiring these graphical representations of corporate structures is a difficult process. The type of data contained in these organizational charts is usually considered proprietary information. Another unique feature of this publication is that it has a significantly sized “Forward” section, which outlines the history and details behind creating organizational charts. This source would be useful to those seeking company structures, chains of command, lines of communication, etc. It also could possibly be used in planning, strategy, and competitive analysis. Those in particular who will find this source most useful are: students, job seekers, researchers, & business people. |
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| Panorama of EC Industry, now Panorama of EU Industry | Publisher: EU Publications
Call Number: HC 241.2 .P313 Overview: It "is produced in cooperation with European professional associations, Eurostat and sectoral experts, and provides industry, small and medium-sized enterprises, financial and governmental institutions, and economic experts with essential sector descriptions, analyses and figures. The information includes a review of 200 specific industries and services offering an industry profile, a discussion of the market forces affecting that sector, a detailed breakdown of the structure and an investigation of the effects of regulations, statistics and comparisons with the USA and Japan. There are also features on topical issues affecting European industrial affairs." (from EU Publications website) Special features (from p. vii): "Panorama opens with a "special features" section, which takes a global approach to a number of horizontal subjects of topical interest." Tips/hints: (from p. vii) The main part of the book comes after the "special features section. "The main part of the book - the industry reviews - provides a microeconomic survey of EC industry and services, tracing the major developments in production, employment, trade and structural change and includes, in most cases, detailed statistical data and forecasts." Online: The latest Panorama of EU Industry was published in German, English and French in 1997 in 2 volumes, and made also available on CD-ROM in all three of those languages. These publications are all available through the EU Publications website. http://eur-op.eu.int/keypub Use for/FAQ: Where can I get information on the world's largest industrial groups? Where can I find reviews of the iron and steel sectors? |
| Plunkett's InfoTech Industry Almanac 2001-2002: | by Jack W. Plunkett Plunkett Research Ltd.,
Houston Texas.
Call # HD 9696.C63 U5287 2001-2002. ISBN 1891775154 $200 This book is intended to be a general guide providing a general overview to the general reader about the InfoTech industry. For clarification, InfoTech is defined as "any technology that moves or manages voice, data, or video - whether that movement be via wireless methods, the Internet, satellite, fiber optics, traditional copper wire telephony, computer network or emerging methods". The InfoTech industry as defined by the almanac also encompasses several other sectors including Entertainment & Hospitality, Health Care, Manufacturing, Services, Telecommunications, and Wholesale Distribution. It is the editor's intention to be as broad and exhaustive as possible. The first quarter of the work examines industry trends, discusses the global and domestic outlook, provides industry contact information, and highlights career opportunities. The main focus is to profile over 500 of the top firms in the industry. The company must be a prominent, U.S. based, for-profit, publicly traded institution to be considered for inclusion (although prominence is not really defined). Some exceptions were made for selected private companies in order to round out niche aspects of certain sectors. Profile data includes the following: company name, address, contacts, rankings, type of business and activity, brands and affiliations, and five years of financial data. Information pertaining to salaries and benefits, other locations, stock tickers, and any competitive advantages is included on an as available basis. Other useful features include a glossary of terms, several indexes, chart comparisons, and a CD ROM product. Introductory portions of the book can be viewed on the Web at www.plunkettresearch.com |
| Price's List of Lists |
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~price/listof.htm This web site is a compilation of a wide variety of useful resources in different subject areas prepare by Gray Price, a librarian at the Gelman Library at George Washington University. It is a "clearinghouse" of lists found on the web, consisting of rankings of different people, organizations, companies, and so forth. The lists are organized into broad subject categories with alphabetical subsections within each category. Each item is a link to the specified list document and generally has an indication of the source and the date of the information or when it was posted to the List of Lists. The list categories include food, politics, science, education, entertainment, sports, retailing, furniture, contractors, telemarketing, bestsellers, and more. There is an extensive list of business-related topics covering overall business rankings or ratings along with some industry-specific resources. The business information includes national, international, and industry-specific rankings from a number of noted business news and information sources. These include Smart Money, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age, Business Review Weekly, Direct Marketing Association, Deloitte & Touche, Non-Profit Times, National Trade Estimates, Red Herring, and others. Industry-specific data is drawn from resources such as Canadian Business, Successful Farming, Meat & Poultry, Dairy Foods, Automotive Marketing, Chemical and Engineering News, Computerworld, Convenience Store News, Electronic Business, Beverage Digest, Catfish Institute, Hotel and Motel Management, Household & Personal Products, Painting & Coatings Industry, Adhesives & Sealants Industry, Plastics News, Purchasing Magazine, Journals of Commerce, and others. The Business section contains a large number of subcategories which are listed alphabetically. A partial list of the subcategories includes Advertising/Marketing, Asia, Automotive, Banking/Investing, Best Cities, China, Chemicals, Compensation, Economic Development, Employee-Owned, Environment, Finance, Foriegn Trade, Foundations/Non-Profits/Corporate Giving, Global Business/Companies, Government Contracting, Household Products, Import/Exports, IPO's, Insurance, Internet, Investment Clubs, Labor, Legal, Licensing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mutual Funds, Patents & Trademarks, Publishing, Real Estate, Retailing, Small Business, Standards, Stocks, Taxes, U.K. Business, Women in Business, etc. There is also U.S./Canadian Regional Business links to state or providence specific resources. Because of the broad scope of this resouce, the types of questions that can be answered by it vary widely. For example, one can find lists for Prices and Earnings Around the Globe from UBS economists, the World's Top 50 Transnational Corporations, The Richest Towns in America, The Largest Pork Producers, Largest Asian Financial Firms, Gaming Industry's Top 59 Compensated CEOs, Top 10 Enterprenuers, Market Share Top 5 Brewers, Top 10 Countries with which the U.S. Trades, World Wine Consumption, historical reviews of IPOs, the World's Largest Insurance Firms, Ten Largest Mutual Funds (by Net Assets), Top 50 Apartment Owners, Top 25 Retail Lenders, World's 25 Largest Securities Firms, Market Holidays of Major World Stock Exchanges, Annual Top Selling Toys (1994- present), World's Busiest Airports, 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business, and much more. Additional reference resouces found at this site include Congressional Research Service Reports, Audio/Video News, Speeches and Transcripts, and "a direct search link to thousands of specialized databases." There is also a Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk that provides news about additions to the lists as well as new resources. The NewsCenter is a huge list of current awareness resources from wire services, press releases, international news sources, and more. There is also a Research and Reference Resources page filled with links to news information, press releases, reports, speeches, and full-text articles about the events of September 11, 2001. One drawback with this resource is that it is mainly one huge list of links that is almost 50 pages long and there is no search option for the site. It is very slow to load and finding the information the user needs can take a little time (first to determine if it is there and, if so, where in the lists it is). According to the site, a major overhaul and rebuild is "coming soon," so hopefully that will make it faster and easier to use. You can use the Netscape or IE "find" feature to search for a term on the page. The information found in the lists also vary in currency so that is another issue to be aware of in using this resource. Use for: locating lists or rankings for a wide variety of business-related topics, current awareness information, and links to other web resources. This is a unique resource containing information drawn from a large number of sources. Therefore, there is no comparable resource with the same content and scope at present. |
| Principal international businesses | Publisher: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
Frequency: Annual Call #: HF54.U5 P74 A comprehensive marketing directory listing over 50,000 leading businesses worldwide in one volume. The international companies listed are some of the largest employers in the sectors of manufacturing, agriculture, forestry, construction, mining, communications, transportation, financial institutions, insurance companies, real estate firms and other service businesses. The businesses included in this directory were chosen from Dun & Bradstreet's WORLDBASE. A database compiled by Dun & Bradstreet from Dun & Bradstreet International, U.S. Business Information reports, telephone interviews and annual reports. The company's inclusion is based on total employee size. The directory is organized into three sections. The companies listed in this directory occur in each section. Section one (white pages) lists the businesses geographically. The countries are organized alphabetically and then within those countries the businesses are listed in alpha order. Section one includes the major information on the companies such as business name and address, whether it is a subsidiary, line of business, number of employees, annual sales volume, the chief executives and their titles, and whether a company imports or exports. Section two (yellow pages) lists the businesses by SIC code. The businesses are grouped by industry type and within that category the business are then listed alphabetically. The information on a business is brief and includes only the business name, address and SIC code(s). Section three (blue pages) lists the businesses alphabetically and includes only the businesses name, address and country. Use for: A comprehensive reference tool to quickly locate and identify international businesses and verify their names, addresses, and top executives. A valuable marketing source to locate and identify businesses within global markets by industry, size and sales volume. Available through Dun & Bradstreet in a CD-ROM series titled D&B's principal international businesses disc - expanded coverage. Similar reference sources: America's Corporate Finance Directory. This directory profiles and lists over 30,000 of America's largest corporations and top executives in easy to use indices. Other sources: Directory of Corporate Affiliations, Corporate Affiliations Plus and Corporate Finance Sourcebook. |
| PROMT | Available on the quicklist.
PROMT (Predicasts Overview of Markets and Technology) is a Gale Group product that provides international coverage of companies, products, markets, industries, and technologies. PROMT compiles information from trade and business journals, industry newsletters, local, national and international newspapers, regional business journals, market research studies, government publications, corporate news releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports. PROMT is useful in answering business questions and researching company data, products, technologies, and markets. Patrons can use PROMT to locate trade and licensing opportunities, sales and earnings figures, information on new drugs seeking FDA approval, and data on companies and facilities, among other things. Topics covered in PROMT include company activities, industry trends, economic policies, market share and size, mergers and acquisitions, product announcements, facilities and resources, regulations and legislation, government policies, trade opportunities, and sales statistics. PROMT uses indexing and a large controlled vocabulary to assist in searching. Gale provides access to PROMT through its own Infotrac subscription database, as well as through DIALOG. The databases differ in the amount of information provided, the depth of the archive, and the means of retrieval. Infotrac Predicasts PROMT provides retrospective coverage from 1996 to the present. It indexes 1,000 journals and newspapers, 700 in full text. While less comprehensive than DIALOG PROMT, Infotrac relies on ease of use, ready availability (public library access), and useful search components to enhance the product. The Infotrac version of PROMT allows for both keyword and subject searching using its indexing tables and controlled vocabulary. When subject searching, "see" and "see also" options guide users to similar or related topics. A topic search can be performed using a "show me articles about" search. A history list tracks previous searches. Logical operators (and, or, not), proximity operators (w, n), and wildcards (*, ?) are all supported. Company name, region, product code, and event code are index examples. DIALOG Gale Group PROMT is divided into File 16 which covers 1990 to the present (7.8 million records - updated daily), and File 160 which covers 1972 through 1989 (1.9 million - closed). More than 60 manufacturing and service industries from advertising to wholesale and retail trade are covered. Coverage is international and includes both bibliographic records and full text articles. DIALOG Bluesheets describe search parameters for PROMT such as indexing terms. Some examples are company name, event, geography, industry, product, country, and SIC code. Output can be formatted nine different ways, from citation to full text. Charges accrue during searches. For more information on Infotrac Predicasts PROMT visit the Gale Group website at http://www.galegroup.com. For DIALOG Gale Group PROMT visit http://www.dialog.com. |
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Pacific Information Resources, Inc. DBA Search Systems is an indexed directory of over 5,500 public record databases on the Internet. Use of Search Systems is free, although some links lead to databases that may provide information on a "for fee" basis. Public records linked from Search Systems may be in HTML or PDF format. Search Systems' content is very current, and links are well maintained. The Search Systems site is organized geographically. Categories include U.S. Nationwide, United States by State, U.S. Territories, Canada Nationwide, Canada by Province, Worldwide, and Outer Space. Users can browse by category, for example, the entire United State, a single state or Canadian province, Asia, or the entire World. However, search capabilities do not include the option to limit a search by a geographic category. Selecting a geographic category returns an alphabetically-arranged list of public records Web sites. Linked "for fee" databases are designated with a "$" icon. Many categories have additional sub-categories, for example, most State categories have sub-categories by city, county, and region. The Search Systems search function is called "Public Record Locator". Two search options are available: a basic search by ANY or ALL keyword(s) or by matching an entire phrase, and an advanced search with the additional option to search "without keywords" (eliminate specific keywords from a search). The advanced search option also allows the user to search multiple characteristics simultaneously, for example, "match all keywords: Alabama License AND without keywords: Real Estate". Search help is provided, as is a link to "Search the Web" via Google. The number and type of public records databases varies by geographic category, but the overall variety and depth of the resources linked from Search Systems is impressive. Some of the more unusual entries include: British Columbia ferry schedules, Colorado (prison) escapees, Boston Marathon entries, registered auditors in Australia, and art theft reports worldwide. The Outer Space category contains links to a variety of Web sites containing images and data sets related to space travel, for example, Mars Pathfinder Mission pictures. Other features of the Search Systems site include a "New Sites" section highlighting the most recently added public records database links, and a free newsletter that notifies users of new additions to the site. The newsletter requires user sign-up, but states "This information will be kept strictly confidential. In other words, we are not using this webpage to amass any sort of nefarious spam database or to sell or abuse your email address." Search Systems is a useful business resource for librarians, professional searchers, and casual users. The breadth and depth of the subject categories presented on this site result in a unique resource with no other print or online equivalent. LexisNexis includes a "Company Analyzer" section that contains public records, but this is a "for-fee" resource. |
| Small Business Profiles: A Guide to Today's Top Opportunities for Entrepreneurs |
Publisher: Gale Research Frequency: Annual (ceased publication in 1995 with vol.2, Simmons has 1994, vol. 1) Call #: HD62.7 .S62 This resource provides practical information for those interested in starting a small business. There are 60 small business profiles listed, from Animal Breeding to Herb Farm to Wedding Planner. The book has two indexes: a master index with cross-references and a franchise index. Each profile includes details such as start-up costs and potential profits; ways to obtain financing; location and design of the office/store; management issues (including staffing); marketing and advertising suggestions; and licensing and insurance requirements. Possible franchise opportunities are listed. Trade associations are noted as well as other sources for additional information. This resource is full of useful information that addresses many practical elements to starting a small business. It is written in a concise, clear format. It would be helpful for someone in the early stages of planning their business. Use for: What do I need to consider before starting a small business? What franchise opportunities are available? How much can I earn if I open my own business? Similar resources: Small Business Start-up Index (HD2346.U5 S664); Small Business Sourcebook (HD2346.U5 S66); Encyclopedia of Small Business. |
| Standard industrial classification manual : 1987 |
Publisher: Executive Office of the President. Office of Management and Budget. Call number: HA40.I6 U63 1987. Note: Shipping list no.: 87-544-P Includes index Subjects covered: Title and Description, Name and Short title, Alphabetical Index, and Conversion Tables: 1972-1977, 1977-1972, 1977-1987, 1987-1977 special features: Overview: The SIC Manual is essential to classifying types of businesses. Use it to do research on business by type of business. For example, restaurants are classified as "5812". Many reference manuals and statistical sources reference these classification numbers. From 1997 onward, a different classification system is used. It is called the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). As more statistics become available under the NAICS classification, the SIC classification will be only used for historical research. Does *not* include individual company information. print/electronic counterparts: Key word Search: < a href="http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/sicser.html">Standard industrial classification manual : 1987 Manual structure: Manual structure |
| Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys | Call No. HC106.6 .S74
This is a series of booklets (each less than 50 pages) containing information for investors on 52 sectors of American business, from Aerospace & Defense to Transportation. Each booklet is in a similar "format that includes recent developments, industry basics, and company data." Each survey is updated twice a year, with about two issued every week. Each booklet opens with a few pages on the current environment and continues with several pages (up to 20) of "Industry Profile" - industry trends, how it operates, key ratios and statistics, and how to analyze a company in the industry. A Glossary explains all the terms and jargon of the industry. An Industry References section lists: major publications covering the industry; significant books; trade associations, with addresses and website URLs; and the governmental and regulatory bodies effecting the industry. The Company Comparative Analysis section lists the following data for the major players in the industry: operating revenues; net income; ROA; ROE; current ratio; debt/capital ratio; dividend yield; EPS; share price; book value; and other items if unique to the industry. An Index to Companies, issued monthly, lists the current issue dates for each of the industry booklets and lists the names of all the companies covered, the issue they are in and the page number their data starts on. The series is shelved in a box designed to hold the current 52 issues; they are not individually cataloged or marked. Use for: a comprehensive overview of an industry Online: also available via the Web, direct from Standard and Poor's |
| Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives |
Publisher: Standard & Poor Frequency: Annual Call #: HG 4057.A4 Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives - three-volume set provides profiles of about 75,000 public and private U.S. corporations and 71,000 executives and corporate directors. Volume One contains alphabetical listing of companies that include nearly 389,000 executives, business addresses, telephone numbers and URLs, parent and subsidiary companies, company's primary banks, accounting and law firms, stock exchange, ticker symbol, SIC codes, products/services, number of employees and sales volumes. Individual biographies include those serving as officers, directors, trustees and partners, principle business affiliations. Includes business address, tel/e-mail, (some) residential information, year of birth, place of birth, colleges and universities attended and memberships Volume three contains color-coded indexes: -SIC code by groups/division (green pages) -SIC code in numerical order (pink pages) -geographical (yellow pages) -cross-reference, subsidiaries, divisions (blue pages) -obituaries (green pages) -new individual divisions (buff pages) -new company divisions (buff pages) Also available: online/CD-Rom; Dialog File 526 S&P Register - Biographical; Dialog File 527 S&P Register - Corporate Similar reference sources are: Corporate Directory of U.S. Public Companies, Directory of U.S. Corporations: Fortune 500, Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies. Dialog File 133: Standard & Poor's Corporate Descriptions plus News Valuable source for industry information applicable to wide range of business research needs. |
| Standard & Poor's stock reports. New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Stock Market and regional exchanges |
Publisher: Standard & Poor's Frequency: Monthly (with combined issues 2 times per year) Call #: HG4905.S4 Standard & Poor's provides "comprehensive two page reports on over 3000 companies traded on the three major U.S. exchanges...and other regional and international exchanges." Previously, Standard & Poor issued one volume for each of the exchanges, but now information for all of the covered exchanges is combined in one volume. Each entry includes a business profile, business summary, qualitative evaluations, description of marketing and product lines, current research and development, and other data. It also includes contact information, names of officers in the company, and the name of the Standard & Poor analyst who prepared the report. Financial data includes all balance sheet data, dividend data, and stock prices. This information is summarized in a chart for the previous ten year period, and a graph of stock prices is also included. Each issue of the stock report is begun with a list of reports that have been changed or updated since the last report published. It also includes a glossary of terms that are used in each report. This work is also available on CD-ROM, which is updated every two weeks. More up to date reports may be ordered from www.investorinsight.com as either two page or five page reports. Similar sources are the Handbook of common stocks and The value line investment survey. |
| State Rankings |
Publisher: Morgan Quitno Corporation
Frequency: Annual
Call Number: HA203 .U17 1997
Subjects Covered/Overview: State Rankings provides information about "virtually every aspect of life in the 50 United States." (p. iii)
A sampling, but certainly not all, of the subject areas presented include information about education, taxes, healthcare, employment, agriculture, social welfare, energy, transportation, and populations in various states.
All statistics provided are "'complete' numbers, meaning that no additional calculations are required." (p. iii)
Other Sources Providing State Facts Information: 1. CQ's State Fact Finder: Rankings Across America (HA214 .V36 1993 - Note: Be Cautious of Publication Date) 2. State and Metropolitan Area Data Book (HA202 .S84 1997-1998) 3. Statistical Abstract of the United States (HA202 .U5 2000)
Print/Electronic Counterparts: Available in print and CD-ROM formats.
Special Features: Results of the publisher's annual "Most Livable State Award"; a "State Fast Facts" section; and several "information finding tools".
Some examples of the finding tools provided include the table of contents at the front of the book, the "table listings" located at the beginning of each chapter, a "detailed index" found at the end of the book, and a "chapter thumb index" that is helpful for quickly turning to a specific section within the book.
Additional useful features include a list of resources (with names, addresses, and telephone numbers) and a compilation of helpful websites.
Use for/FAQ: Finding the answers to assorted questions about different states; and confirming basic information about a state such as the name of its capital, state bird, state flower, total population and land area.
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| Statistical Abstract of the United States | Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau
Frequency: Annual Call#: HA 202 .U5 This annual, single volume work contains statistical summaries on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Statistics are presented in tables, each covering approximately 15-20 years. The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a first source for information of national importance. Data is selected from both government and private sources that are cited and contain greater detail. National data is emphasized but regional, state, and metropolitan information is also included. Statistics provided are for the most recent year available by the spring of the publication year. The nearly 1,500 tables are reviewed and evaluated annually. Topics covered include population, vital statistics, health and nutrition, education, law enforcement, courts and prisons, and geography and environment. The table of contents is arranged by broad subject areas and a detailed index is included. Related information can be found in the "County and City Data Book". Other more complete sources are recommended throughout the Sourcebook. This work is useful for a broad range of economic, social, and political analyses. This can be found online at:http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ |
| Statistical Handbook on Consumption and Wealth in the United States |
Publisher: Oryx Press
Frequency: Varies
Call Number: HC110 .C6 S73 1999
Subjects Covered/Overview: The Statistical Handbook, which includes data obtained from several sources (primarily, however, from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and other governmental agencies), "provides users a systematic statistical portrait of wealth and consumption, two aspects of ... [the] economy that help to define economic, political, and cultural experiences in the United States." (p. v)
Divided into eight sections that include charts and/or tables, this resource covers a wide variety of topics including personal and business wealth, consumption of material goods, consumption of services, and the role of government in wealth and consumption.
Data presented in the 1999 edition is actually information obtained from 1995 to 1997 (the latest figures available at the time of publication).
Other Sources Providing Consumer Consumption Information: 1. Consumer Power: How Americans Spend Their Money (HC110 .C6 A643 1991 - Note: Be Cautious of Publication Date) 2. Household Spending: Who Spends How Much On What (HC110 .C6 O34 1999 @ GSM Library) 3. Measuring 50 Years of Economic Change: Using the March Current Population Survey (HA203 .M43 1998 @ SSW Library)
Print/Electronic Counterparts: Available in print format only.
Special Features: Alphabetical index; list of tables and charts; each section begins with a general overview and an explanation of indicators; and "future editions will offer regular updates." (p. vi)
Use for/FAQ: Economic research; forecasting; and locating "highly specific" data that covers a "wide range of economic, demographic, and geographic variables." (p. v)
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| Statistical Yearbook |
Publisher: United Nations, Dept. of Economic & Social Affairs, Statistics Division Frequency: Annual Call#: HA12.5.U63 The Statistical Yearbook, published since 1948, covers the years 1988-1997 or 1989-1998 using statistics available to the Statistics Division up to 11/30/99. The Yearbook is based on comparative statistical data compiled by the Statistics Division from more than 40 different international and national sources including 1)the United Nations Statistics Division and Population Division in the field of national accounts, inductry, transportation, and international trade; 2)UN Statistics Division and Population Division in the field of demographics; and 3) data provided by more than 20 offices of the UN system and international organizations in other specialized fields. The Yearbook is comprised of 85 tables divided by topic and is organized in four parts :1)World and Region Summary; 2)Population and social topics, e.g., education and literacy; 3) National economic activity, e.g., rates of discount central banks ; and 4)International economic relations, e.g., international tourism expenditures. The Yearbook uses the metric system of weights and measures throughout. The main function of the Yearbook is to provide in an easily accessible format a comprehensive compilation of internationally available statistics on social and eocnomic conditions and activities in the world at international, regional, and national levels and covering a ten-year period. The Yearbook uses statistics gleaned from a wide variety of detailed and specialized publications produced by the UN Statistics Division and provides a good overall look at the data from these many sources gathered together in one volume. In this way the Yearbook is able to provide a good broad picture of these social and economic processes. The issues covered are all interrelated and include: general economic growth and related economic conditions; population and urbanization; expansion of trade; supply of food and alleviation of hunger; financial situation and external payments and receipts; education, training, and illiteracy. The Yearbook is directed at a general readership such as librarians, government and nongovernment institutions, and the public. |
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| TableBase |
Publisher: Gale group/ co-producer Data Downlink Corporation (formerly, Responsive Database Services, Inc.) Subjects Covered: "Tabular data from 90 industries"(Manufacture and Service industries). Including international. Data from > 1000 business and trade publications . Tables include data on the following: "market share, ranking, forecasts, produce and industry sales, shipments, users, capacity, capital expenditures, consumptions, imports and exports, trends and demographics, and production". Overview: First available in 1998, Covers the time period from 1997 to present. With 64,773 records as of 8/2001 Similar Sources: ProQuest direct Print/Electronic Counterpart: Available online through Dialog, DataStar, Data Downlink Corporation, Lexis-Nexis; Also, through Gale Group, http://www.tablebase.com ($2500 per year, $1500 per year Academic/Public libraries) Also, available on CD-Rom Special Features: This database is updated weekly. It has "custom-written titles" that describes the content of the table, allowing for improved indexing/searching. Text that accompanies the tables are not searchable, therefore better search results are obtained. Also, TableBase customizes tables, from abstracts sources and graphics if necessary, and adds dates if originally omitted. It ,also, contains links to full text. Findings are sortable by company name, journal name, publication year, or table title. Tips/hints: For improved search results, enter words/terms in to the "title" and/or "Company name" fields when appropriate. The user may select from the following text boxes: concept terms, marketing terms, industry names, SIC/Product Codes, Document types, geographic codes, and journal names to further tailor the search Use: CT= or /DE "to focus the subject of the search" IN= "focus search on a specific industry" (Note: expand with the above gives a complete list, expand CT=, or expand IN=) Use for/FAQ: Numerical Information of the above stated data |
| The American marketplace: demographics and spending patterns | Publisher: New Strategist Publications, Inc.
Call Number: HA 203.A635 Subjects Covered: Chapters broken up by subject area (Education trends,health trends, Income trends, labor trends, living arrangement trends, population trends, spending trends, wealth trends) Overview: Source is in one volume. Most data is collected by the federal government (census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Center for education statistics) Special features: Text with most tables to help analysis the data; listings of the original sources at the bottom of the page; list of tables at the front of the book; Glossary at the back of the book, and ; list of phone numbers to governmental specialists at the back of the book tips/hints: Recommended to use the table index for broad subjects and the index to locate more specific topics Use for/FAQ: questions about the "demographic characteristics of Americans" Similar Sources: Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2000 (HA 202.U5, 2000) Online: some similar data can be found in statistical databases such as Tablebase. |
| The CRB Commodity Yearbook |
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Call#: HF1041.C56 2000 This yearbook is a comprehensive source of commodity and futures market research. Commodities are bulk goods and raw materials, such as grains, metals, livestock, oil, cotton, coffee, sugar, pork bellies and cocoa, that are used to produce consumer products. The Commodity Research Bureau, a leading source of information on international and domestic commodity movements, compiles this annual publication, which has been around since 1939. The CRB Commodity Yearbook provides information on more than 100 domestic and international commodities from alcohol to zinc. It includes seasonal patterns and historical data from the past ten years as well as current (as of the last three months) pricing and trading patterns on both a monthly and annual basis. This yearbook also contains more than 1,000 charts, tables, graphs, and maps that illustrate such information as: supply & demand patterns, production/consumption figures; and trading highlights. The information contained in this resource is compiled from reports from: governments; private industries; and trade & industrial associations. This is a great resource for identifying changing trends in supply & demand and for projecting price movements. This resource is also available: on software; online; CD-ROM; and through newsletters, charting services, and wire reports. |
| The Dow Jones-Irwin Business & Investment Almanac |
Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing Frequency: Annual Call #: HC5003.D68 This annual compendium has statistical and other information, including summaries, graphs and statistics, from a variety of respected business sources. This is a good general source to begin research, but not for in depth information. All aspects of the business world are touched upon. Topics include industry surveys, general business and economic indicators, trade statistics, stock market (US & Foreign), the bond market, United States demographics, and a business information directory. Use this as an initial source. The depth of the information is not extensive, yet it may help focus your search and provide more sources to check. Special features include over 50 pages of business related glossary terms and a special section devoted to women in business. The information found in this almanac may also be found on the Dow Jones Interactive pay web site, however not called the Dow Jones-Irwin Business & Investment Almanac. Use for: How to start your own business, how to invest in the stock market, how to do business in another state. Similar reference sources: The Information Please Business Almanac & Desk Reference; Dun & Bradstreet/Gale Industry Reference Handbooks |
| The Motley Fool |
The aim of this site is to educate the general public about investing wisely. Its opening page highlights topics that are popular and timely, such as the effects of anthrax scares on investors. The first page also includes "60-second guides" to several topics, such as opening and IRA and getting out of debt. These are brief articles outlining the basics of the topic. The main links from the front page are: how to invest, retirement, big decisions, taxes, mutual funds, online learning, news and commentary, investing strategies, sectors in depth, quotes and data, books, and research. Each links leads to educational articles, calculators, and other information on the particular subject. One of the more interesting links is the investing strategies link. This is a link to real portfolios the Motley Fool has established to illustrate a particular style of investment strategy. This area also includes a list of their failed portfolio strategies, with analysis of their failures. Another important link is the quotes and data link. Here the user will find detailed company information, including charts, financials, and contact information. Pertinent news stories are also listed on each company's page. Motley Fool is useful for both the seasoned and novice investor. It does have a few drawbacks, however. Since it creates its own content, a limited perspective is given. It also requires registration (which requires having an email account) to access key sections of the site. The user, too, has to remember that it is at heart a commercial venture. Several of its categories are concerned only with selling Motley Fool merchandise. Similar websites include Quicken.com (http://www.quicken.com) and Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com). |
| The Sourcebook of Zip Code Demographics | Publisher: CACI
Frequency: Annual Call#: HA 203 .S66 The Sourcebook of Zip Code Demographics is a resource guide for marketing professionals, advertising agencies, as well as librarians and researchers seeking residential and business data. It profiles residential and non-residential zip code areas. Profiles include population change, population composition, income, and spending potential. Over 70 variables are listed for each of the profiles. Variables include age, demographic and buying power, income and housing, and socioeconomic profiles. Residential data is derived from the most recently published decennial census, the Bureau of Census, the Bureau of Economic Data, and CACI projections. The data is useful for making comparisons between the potential demand for specific consumer products and prices in each zip code location and the national average. ACORN - A Classification of Residential Neighborhoods - provides comparisons for distinctive consumer groups. Business data comes from county business pattern data files and provides the number of employees and firms for the predominant SIC code for each zip code. A companion volume to The Sourcebook of Zip Code Demographics is The Sourcebook of County Demographics which contains similar information for counties. The Sourcebook of Zip Code Demographics is also published on diskette and cd-rom. |
| The Value of a Dollar: Prices and Incomes in the United States: 1860-1999 |
Publisher: Grey House Publishing Frequency: 1st to 2nd edition, 5 years Call #: HB235.U6 V35 Revision: 2nd ed., 1999 The Value of a Dollar is a book “about practical economy: what things have cost and how much money people have had to buy them… it records the actual price of thousands of items that consumers purchased from the Civil War to the present, along with facts about investment options and income opportunities.” The book is divided into five chapters covering the era from the Civil War to 1899; 1900-1919; 1920-1939; 1940-1959; and 1960-1999. Each chapter begins with a background essay describing the major social and economic forces of the period, followed by price and income reports grouped in 5-year subchapters. Included in each subchapter is: a historical snapshot of key economic and historical events; a report on per-capita consumer prices of the day nationwide; a selection of investment returns; a section of job listings and selected income across the country; a selection of national average wages paid for representative jobs; a regional report of food pricing; a selection of priced items from advertisements of the period; a section of standard prices for a selection of representative items, tracked annually; and a miscellaneous section of anecdotal price and income reports from publishers of the period. Information included in The Value of a Dollar was obtained from many sources, including the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Federal Reserve, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Individual publications from these agencies are alternative reference sources for some of the information compiled in this book. The broad range of factual information included in The Value of a Dollar is particularly useful for students, teachers, writers and reporters, and business historians. |
| The Wall Street Transcript |
URL: http://www.twst.com/ Publisher: Andrew Pickup Subject Description: Contains securities reports and analyses of stock market trends from brokerage houses, interviews with CEO's and money managers; also covers the art market. Years: Most recent 18 months. Content Type: Full-text. Updated: Weekly (2-4 week delay). Regions: Mostly U.S. Contains: (from the website)
From Find/SVP's The BestBizWebEletter review: PURPOSE: This site publishes the full text of transcripts of interviews with company CEOs and corporate leaders in a Q&A format. Others interviewed include research analysts and money managers. FEE/FREE: FEE-BASED BUT ALSO FREE PORTIONS. Subscribers pay $495 per sector for one year, or $2,290 for all sectors. SOURCE CHECK: The Wall Street Transcript, published out of New York City, has been well known for years in the investment community for its print version of these Q&A interviews. It launched an online companion version in 1997. OUR VIEW: These one-on-one in-depth interviews with corporate CEOs represent an intriguing source of information not often found in other company research sources. Hereyou can find comprehensive biographical information on the CEOs, historical information on the firm, and a sense of the company's strategy and outlook. While only selected interviews fromrecent issues are available to visitors, paid subscribers may search the entire site, including archives which go back toJuly of 1997. |
| Thomas Register Online |
Thomas Register Online corresponds to the print resource Thomas Register of American Manufacturers, which for over 80 years has been a primary source for product information for U.S. and Canadian manufacturing companies. The online version provides a searchable database of product information for over 170,000 companies, both public and private. This online database provides information on over 800,000 unique products from pipe adapters to routers and also includes over 152,000 brand names. It also includes links to individual companies online catalogs and websites as well as thousands of CAD drawings. The user has three options for searching this database, by product or service, company name or brand name. The editorial staff of Thomas Register assigns a number of product headings to each company record. Companies, products and services are all cross referenced. The user can also do Boolean searching. To make the best use of this database, a two step search process is recommended. First, search on a brand, product or company name. This first search will create a list of relevant companies. From this screen, the user can then choose to limit their search by further keyword or limit their search to a particular state or Canadian province. The user cannot search by SIC code. The records for each company include basic directory information such as address and phone number. They also include the number of employees, the founding date, and a list of areas to where each company exports to. Each company description is composed of product names as well as product descriptive keywords. Any of these words can then be used in a new search to create a more focused list of companies. In many records, there are also links included to online catalogs or to the company's webpage. Thomas Register first went online in 1994. While at one time the user had to register to use this online product, this site now offers a temporary guest log in to search the database. The online version offers several useful features, however, to users who choose to register. They offer a "Can't Find It" service, where registered users can send help requests to their Information Services. If the user registers, they also can order thousands of products online right through Thomas Register. Finally, they also offer a specialized service called "My TR" which streamlines your search. A registered user can create a series of bookmarks that allow them to save and organize the information they use most often, such as searches on particular product categories or particular companies. Each time the registered user logs on they can select one of their favorite searches and the databse automatically returns the most updated information. Since registration is free, those who would need to use this database often should consider doing so. This online source would be useful for anyone needing to create a list of companies that make a certain product. It is also a good way to get a quick snapshot of the products a particular company makes. Thomas Register Online is also available as File 535 in Dialog, which offers more extensive company directory information including SIC codes, asset rating and the names of officers and staff members. The DIALOG version also offers a much greater variety of searching options such as searching by SIC code, by executive name or by number of employees. |
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| U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook 2000 |
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Frequency: annually (moving to web-based product only, see below) Call #: HC106.5 .A17 This resource was originally published for three decades as a series titled the "U.S. Industrial Outlook". McGraw-Hill recently joined forces with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the International Trade Administration and the series became "U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook". The 2000 copy is the third edition published under this partnership between McGraw-Hill and the Department of Commerce and is also available on CD-ROM. However, this resource will no longer be published in print format and instead become solely web-based. Although the target date for the first ten chapters of the web product is fall 2001, sources now say Spring 2002. Information can be found at www.ntis.gov/product/industry-trade.htm The U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook provides an immense amount of industry specific information by giving an overview of the 1999 economy and discussing projections for 2000 and 2001. Industries are discussed in terms of their impact on both the U.S. and the global economy. The contributors to this publication include government analysts, independent industry analysts, and McGraw-Hill authors from their Standard and Poor's publications. This varied authorship focuses on U.S. industries while also discussing international trade outlooks and the global economic situation. This source breaks down U.S. industries into nine categories according to the 1987 SIC code. This is one potential drawback to the U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook given the development of the NAICS classification system in 1997, which restructured how industries and goods are classified according to a North American standard. (The editor acknowledges this and estimates Outlook will eventually use the NAICS.) The nine main industry categories are: natural resources and energy; construction and related industries; industrial materials and components; production and manufacturing equipment; information and communication; the consumer economy; healthcare; financial, business and education services; and transportation. Each of these categories is then further broken down into a total of fifty-four chapters. Each chapter contains a definition of the sector being discussed, an overview of the industry, projections, e-commerce outlooks, and a discussion of global and domestic trends. At the end of each chap There are useful tables and charts throughout the book depicting changes in industries, trends, and projections for the future. Each chapter has four graphs regarding that particular sector depicting: U.S. international trade, world export market shares, U.S. export dependence and import penetrations, and U.S. output and output per worker (graphs for non-manufacturing industries may differ). Other useful features include a discussion of the world economic outlook as well as a discussion of the impacts of technology and electronic commerce. There is a comprehensive index at the end of the book. Uses: industry forecasts; global trends; e-commerce outlooks; international trade projections; industry analysis; trade patterns; product, industry, and trade data. Similar/Recommended sources are: Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys (Beatley Ref HA40.I6 S7) |
| US Census Bureau | http://www.census.gov/
Obviously the data collection of the Census Bureau is huge; this will focus more on the website layout and areas of 'business' related information (even though one can make the argument that it is ALL business related). >From the homepage the site has been categorized into 6 basic sections; 2000 Census Data, People, Business, Geography, News, and Special topics. The left side the page has links to the American FactFinder, the Catalog, Census Publications and New features, in addition to searching and browsing tools. There is a small drop down menu on the right that links to quick facts about the States and counties. The business section has data from the Economic Census (performed every 5 years, the next on is in 2002), data on government, E-commerce, NAICS, Foreign Trade and other topics. Some notables from the Economic Census: Comparative industry statistics (by SIC code), lengthy industry summaries and reports (some run hundreds of pages), product and materials studies, all organized by NAICS and broken down geographically by state. There is a section on minority and women owned businesses. There is also a section for recent press releases. In the government area covers federal, state and local governments. Topics range from tax collection, public employment, finance (education), and federal expenditures. There is a cool special topics section with library statistics The Foreign Trade area has info on imports/exports, balance of trade, and current & historical trade statistcs. The other topics area has data on business owners, small buisnesses, county buisness patterns and other general economic topics. Because the site is so large, if one has a specific information need, I would recommend trying the search function. However, it can be very slow. Use For: any sort of statistic about the United States, particulary basic demographics. |
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| Ward's business directory of U.S. private and public companies | Imprint Detroit : Gale Research, c1990- Call
No.: Ref HG4009 .W35
This comprehensive source lists U.S. companies, providing contract information (name, address, email, URL), tel. and fax, but includes much more. Ward's is divided into an alphabetical listing of companies, geographic listings, a sales ranking listing, and a ranked listing by state. Within alphabetical listings, you'll find financial information (sales, total assets, operating revenues, & gross billings), SIC codes, number of employees, company type, immediate parent, ticker symbol, FY end, founding year, import/export status, up to five officers' names with titles, and product/services descriptions. But you will also find the 1,000 (and 100) largest privately and publicly held companies, and various analyses by state, by revenue per employee, and by SIC and NAICS codes. Companies ranked by sales within their SIC and NAICS, and state rankings by SIC are also listed. Use this to answer questions like "I'm moving. What's the best computer company to work for in Maine?" or "Who are the execs at Alliance Bancorp?" or "How much did Microsoft make in sales?" InfoTrac Web has a similar resource , 'Business and Company Resource Center with PROMT.' From their website: "Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Predicast's PROMT database is fully integrated in this database. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information." This source is more comprehensive in data provided, (it lists more execs, for example, probably because it isn't constrained by issues like paper conservation). InfoTrac also includes revenue rankings, ticker symbol, parent companies, alternative names for the company and subsidiaries, company chronologies, journal linkouts, investment reports, industry overviews and associations. |
| Who Owns Whom in North America |
Publisher: Dun & Bradstreet Frequency: Annual Call #: HG4538.W423 Who Owns Whom in North America is a comprehensive directory of company ownership. Through Who Owns Whom, one can determine the parent (owner) company of any corporate entity, large or small, in the United States or Canada. The only criteria needed to be included are to be owned by some other company and have at least a subsidiary in the U.S. or Canada. It includes both public and private companies and organizations, all types of industries, as well as companies owned by official bodies such as the government. Although its primary goal is to provide parent company information including phone number and address, Who Owns Whom can also be used to locate information on sales; companies similar to ones you are already doing business with, Marketing; identifying agents and distributors who can promote your companies products and services to appropriate networks. It also covers credit control by evaluating corporate affiliations and "identifying suppliers who are part of a larger group with whom you already trade." Information on purchasing is helpful to find suppliers who are part of a larger group you may already be doing business with. It also contains information on corporate development and competitor analysis. Who Owns Whom is divided into four sections. Section one and two contain corporate family trees in alphabetical order by Parent Company. Each tree contains the name, head office address, and a guide to main business activities. It also lists all subsidiaries. Section three is a list of parent companies outside the U.S. and Canada but whose subsidiaries reside within these countries. Section four is an index to all companies covered, showing subsidiary-parent relationship in alphabetical order. There is also a list of SIC symbols contained at the beginning of the volume. Use For: Identifying parent companies of organizations in the United States and Canada. |
| Who's Who in Finance and Industry | Publisher: Marquis Who's Who
Frequency: Biennial (Edition reviewed: 32nd, 2001-2002) Call #: HF3023.A2 W5 A comprehensive and authoritative compilation of biographical sketches on the careers and credentials of leading business people from around the world. This one volume directory includes over 18,500 biographies of world leading business professionals in positions such as directors of professional and trade associations in business, heads of stock exchanges, entrepreneurs in small businesses, business educators and researchers, senior executives in large U.S. firms, chairpersons, presidents and CEO's. These individuals are leaders in the fields of accounting, advertising, banking and finance, communication, technological development, transportation and utilities. The individuals' inclusion in this directory is due to their prominence within their fields for which they are of current interest within the business world. The selection criterion is explained in the preface under the Standards of Admission section. A point to consider when valuing this source as a reference tool is the selection criterion. Those executives in middle management or those business executives not of current interest in the business world would not be included. The biographical entries include information such as the individual's name, occupation, vital statistics, career, professional certifications, professional and association memberships, political affiliation, home address and office address, high school, college and university, degrees. The names are arranged alphabetically by surname and then by first given name. Names are also cross-referenced if there is an alternate spelling of an individual's name. This edition includes a Professional Index at the back of the volume, which lists the individuals by profession and location. A great reference tool to locate professionals if their name or spelling is uncertain. Use for: Locating biographical data on the world's top executives in business and industry. An authoritative and comprehensive reference source for executive profiles and career sketches. Also available on CD-ROM. Similar reference sources: Reference Book of Corporate Managements. Published by Dun & Bradstreet, this directory lists over 12,000 companies and their executives. The executives are listed by company and are comprised within a four-volume set with the index in the last volume. However, this directory is limited to the U.S. and once again only top executives are profiled. Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, Volume 2. This is also available online in Dialog, file 526 Standard & Poor's Register - Biographical and on CD-ROM. It covers extensive coverage on over 70,000 top executives such as officers, directors, trustees and partners. |
| World Bank |
"The World Bank is the world's largest source of development assistance. It helps developing countries fight poverty and establish economic growth that is stable, sustainable and equitable." The World Bank website contains country information and statistics, with an emphasis on developing countries. Some of the main sections listed on the home page are; About Us, Countries and Regions, Data and Statistics, Development Topics, Learning, News and Media, Projects, Publications, and Research. Sections: Countries and Regions: Contains regional and country specific briefs, which include overviews of economy, health, financing, trade, politics, technology infrastructure, and many other topics. News, projects and key issues are also included. Data and Statistics: Included are data profiles for countries and regions. Data is organized by country, by topic, or you can use the data query to create your own tables. This section also links to maps which "offer a more visual presentation of the data." Research: The reports in this section provide in-depth information on topics such as domestic finance, industry, international economics and labor & employment. News and Media: Contains Development News, the World Bank's Daily Webzine of News and Events. This section also contains speeches, press releases, and an events calendar. Publications: This section not only includes a list of publications but also many full-text reports. Two reports to note are the World Development Report and World Development Indicators. These reports include statistics on poverty, health, economics, demography, private sector development, etc. This site is easy to navigate (considering how big it is) and has an excellent site map and a search engine. The Data & Statistics and Country & Regions sections would be of most interest for business research. The information in these sections provides a good statistical overview of a country, economically as well as socially. Use for: Country statistics, news, and reports, especially for developing countries. Similar sources for economic statistics: United Nations Statistical Yearbook; World Economic Outlook; CIA World Factbook; US Dept. of State Country Commercial Guides . |
| World chamber of commerce directory | Imprint [Loveland, CO : World Chamber of
Commerce Directory, c1989- Call No.: HF294 .W75 2001
This directory includes chamber of commerce information for the U.S. as well as Canada, and on American-based chambers of commerce on foreign soil. Additionally, Foreign Tourist Information Bureaus and Foreign and Ethnic Chambers of Commerce located in the U.S. are listed. Interestingly, particularly in light of recent events, U.S. Embassies are listed, as well as foreign embassies located in the U.S. Information on the 107th Congress-First Session is contained within as well. Economic Development organizations and convention and visitor's bureaus are listed. Information is brief, and includes the name of the organization, the address and telephone and fax numbers, as well as email contacts and Internet addresses where applicable. This would be a great source for questions about a particular locale's businesses. It would be useful in ferreting out business climate information from people who are familiar with a particular location, and who would be knowledgeable about local resources. Some other sources similar to this source are: http://chamber-of-commerce.com/ -- this is a site updated by individual chambers of commerce. It includes international chambers. http://chamber-of-commerce.org/ lists U.S. chambers, and is a non-profit site. |
| World Economic Outlook: a survey by the staff of the International Monetary Fund |
Publisher: International Monetary Fund Call number: HC59 .W67 Note: 1981- issued in series: Occasional papers of the International Monetary Fund Subjects covered:
special features: Boxes (statistical) Tables Appendixes (statistical) Figures Overview: The World Economic Outlook presents the IMF staff’s analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups (classified by region, stage of development, etc.), and in many individual countries. It focuses on major economic policy issues as well as on the analysis of economic developments and prospects. It is usually prepared twice a year, as documentation for meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee, and forms the main instrument of the IMF’s global surveillance activities. print/electronic counterparts: World Economic Outlook (PDF version for the year 2000 |
| World Market Share Reporter A Compilation of Reported World Market Share Data and Rankings on Companies, Products, and Services | 1999-2000 Frequency: Every two years
Publisher: The Gale Group Call #: HD 2757.15 W67 A compilation of global market share data from periodical literature (including newspapers, general purpose trade and technical periodicals, original sources, brokerage houses, consultancies, research organizations, government agencies and special surveys), the World Market Share Reporter is a unique resource for competitive analysis, diversification planning, marketing research and other forms of economic and policy analysis. The World Market Share Reporter includes international and country (excludes the United States, Canada and Mexico) specific market share data on companies, institutions, brand names, products, commodities, services, and facilities. It includes over 1,600 entries with coverage of the period 1995-1999, with more than 270 geographic locations the world over including countries, regions and cities. Includes items within the full range of Standard Industrial Classifications (SICs.) Entries fall into four broad categories: corporate market shares, institutional shares, brand market shares, product commodity, service and facility shares and other shares (including sub-divisions and breakdowns, public policy, foreign trade and other subjects of general interest). With the exception of the first chapter, "General Interest and Broad Topics", the World Market Share Reporters is organized into chapters by 2-digit SIC categories (industry groups). Within each chapter entries are shown by 4-digit SIC. Within blocks of 4 digit SIC entries, entries are sorted alphabetically by topic then alphabetically by title. Each market share report includes topic SIC code, International Standard Industrial Classification code, (ISIC), Harmonized code (HC), descriptive title of report, data and market description and source citation. There are five indexes (Source Index, Place Name Index; Products, Services, and Issues Index; Company Index; Brand Index) and two appendices (Appendix I includes, SIC, ISIC, and HC coverage; Appendix II includes an Annotated Source List). World Market Share Reporter is available on magnetic tape and diskette. A dial up is available through OneSource Information Services and it is also online as a part of MarkIntel. Similar resource: European Business Rankings. |