Business Ready Reference

• ***** E-Ref - Has over 880 free electronic reference titles appropriate for undergraduates.



• BEOnline+ - Library of Congress, The. Has links to mostly reference sources in 41 categories (accounting, companies, economics, finance, marketing research, etc.).



• Best Online Reference Sites - Has over 500 links on biography & history, books & literature, business & finance, countries & government, consumers & household, dictionaries & encyclopedias, directories, entertainment & recreation, facts, health & science, magazines & news, maps & travel, measures, New York State & local, quotations & writing.



• Business & Company Resource Center - Replaces General BusinessFile. Search encyclopedias & directories for company profiles & histories, industry & brand information, investment reports. Search articles from over 2,660 periodicals (many peer-reviewed), newspapers, newswires, etc.. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), Law, THmed.



• Business Reference - Has links in 14 categories (accounting & tax, company/industry, currency, ecommerce, economics, finance, insurance/real estate, international business, management, marketing, news/stock quotes, patents & trademarks, securities, etc.). Some sites restricted.



• Business Source Complete - Search articles in nearly 8,200 serials (1,100 peer-reviewed) back to 1922, citations & abstracts for many back to 1886. Covers all business disciplines (marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance & economics, etc.). Includes financial data, books, monographs, reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, reports (industry, country economic, investment & market research), profiles (20,000 most-cited authors in the database, 10,000 largest companies), SWOT analyses. Updated daily. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Credo Reference - Was xreferplus. Search over 210 reference sources (biographies, conversions, dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations) in 16 academic disciplines. Covers art, business, history, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, science, social sciences, technology, etc.. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada - Has descriptions & contacts of companies that maintain historical records & those that contract with consulting firms, archives of professional associations, etc..



• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Can search, browse over 2,300 links to scientific & scholarly journals in 17 categories (health sciences, etc.). Can search over 670 journals at the article level.



• EDIRC (Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World) - Has links to over 10,,000 institutions in 226 countries.



• e-journals.org - Has links to ejournal collections in over 30 categories. Includes History Journals Guide, The; etc..



• Encyclopedia of Law & Economics - FindLaw. Has over 5,000 pages of articles with searchable bibliographies of over 20,000 publications.



• Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools - Has links in over 140 categories. Focus is U.S. & Canada.



• FreeFullText.com - Has links to over 7,000 scholarly periodicals with some or all articles for free. Some require free registration.



• Gale Virtual Reference Library - Provided by NOVEL, NY State Library's free public statewide virtual library pilot project funded via a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Search & browse 27 works. Covers business, history, law, literature, medicine, science, social science. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), Law, THmed.



• Geostat (Geospatial and Statistical Data Center) - Has links to statistical & social science data, maps & geospatial data.



• Hoover's - Search editorial content (corporate data, industry analyses, summary financials, top competitors, etc.) on 40,000 public & non-public companies & 225,000 key executives. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel), Law, LIJ.



• Internet Crossroads in Social Science Data - Has over 750 links in 25 categories (data archives & Web directories [macroeconomics, elections, population, poverty, labor, public opinion, education & health, etc.], etc..



• ITC Trade Information Reference Centre - Has citations & abstracts of 1,100 ITC publications; 1,200 trade journals (550 with links), 1,800 serials, 7,000 books; 700 Web sites; 1,000 series of trade statistics; 300 documents on multilateral trade; 1,200 market reports; 700 quality control documents.



• Lawyers.com - A subsidiary of LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Has a directory of lawyers & basic consumer legal information. Let's you find, ask, contact lawyers.



• LivRe - Has links to over 2,700 ejournals in the biological, health & medicine, agricultural, exact & earth, engineering, applied social (management, accounting, economy, etc.), human sciences (education, psychology, etc.); linguistics, literature & arts.



• Marquis Who's Who On The Web - Search over 1 million concise & comprehensive biographies of accomplished individuals worldwide from all fields of endeavor. Drawn from 20 Marquis print titles back to 1985 (Who Was Who in America, Who's Who in (America, American [Art, Education, History, Law, Nursing], 20th Century America, the East, Midwest, South & Southwest, West, the World, Entertainment, Finance & Business, Media & Communications, Medicine & Healthcare, Religion, Science & Engineering), Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals, Who's Who of (American Women, Emerging Leaders in America). Updated daily. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South, Berlin), Law, TUC, TUI.



• Martindale's The Reference Desk - Quick, easy to use, access to difficult to find data. Updated weekly. Covers language & translation, cyberinfrastructure & Internet, education, electronic media, entertainment & arts, food & cooking, international (overview, countries, travel, business), science, over 20,000 calculators, astronomy/space, bioscience/biotech, chemistry, geoscience, mathematics, physics, etc..



• MERGENT Online - Was Moody's FIS/Online. Search financial data & downloadable (pdf) annual reports, SEC filings (EDGAR & non-EDGAR) for 10,000 public U.S. companies, Mergent Equity Research Reports, the Experian National Business Private Company Database. Includes data & reports from more international companies than any other database. Has country profiles. Read our guide on Creating Company Financial Comparison Reports Using Mergent Online. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, TUI, LIJ.



• National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) - Can search, browse links to databases created by U.K. government departments (health, law & order, transport, demography, etc.) back to 1963.



• Ready Reference & Quick Facts - ***** Librarians' Internet Index. Has links to abbreviations & acronyms, foreign exchange rates, statistics, zip/postal codes, airports & airport codes, calendars, conversion tables, encyclopedias, holidays & observances, phone books, quotations, weignts & measures, censuses, gazetteers, names, standards, time, etc..



• Scholarly Societies Project - Has links to over 4,100 major international societies & 3,700 conferences, standards, 150 enewsletters, etc..



• ScienceDirect Social & Behavioral Sciences College Edition - Search articles in over 550 journals. Includes reference works, handbooks, book series. Covers business, education, health, history, psychology, etc.. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), TUC, TUI.



• Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage - Search independent research, data, commentary drawn from Standard & Poor's print titles. Has data on over 85,000 private companies, industry surveys, biographies of thousands of executives & directors, a glossary with hundreds of financial definitions, export tools for downloading data into spreadsheets, a learning center (retirement tutorial, etc.), etc.. Includes Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys; Stock Reports; Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives; Corporation Records; The Outlook; etc.. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), TUI, LIJ.



• STAT-USA/Internet - A service of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Search the State of the Union (SOTN) with U.S. economic indicators (employment, gross domestic product, etc.); Global Business Opportunities (GLOBUS) & the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) with over 200,000 current & historical documents on export opportunities, political & socio-economic conditions, etc.; information from non-federal sources (Institute for Supply Management, Cantor/Fitzgerald, etc.). RESTRICTED to TC (NY), Law.



• Virtual Reference Shelf - Library of Congress, The. Has links in 30 categories (abbreviations, almanacs, associations, awards/prizes, calculators, calendars, clocks/times, consumer information, current events, dictionaries/thesauri, directories, encyclopedias, genealogy, biography & archaeology, government, grant resources, libraries, maps/driving directions, quotations, statistics, etc.).



• Westlaw Campus Research - Search & browse news (hundreds of U.S newspapers, magazines, trade journals, international & foreign language publications, 400 newswires, newsletters, broadcast transcripts, company information) & law-related content (analytical sources - American Jurisprudence, American Law Journal, 800 law reviews & journals; primary law sources - US Code, federal/state/Supreme Court cases, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, European Union Law). Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.