Business Insights: Global presents business professionals, entrepreneurs, and the general business researcher with access to comprehensive international business intelligence, compiled into a logical, useable context.

• Professionals have access to detailed information on global businesses, comprehensive overviews on countries, interactive rankings and stats, and quick links to associated news, case studies and articles
• Entrepreneurs have the ability to compare multiple metrics, suggested metrics and inline article content allowing them to explore the broader context behind events and trends they perceive in economic data
• Business researchers will increase productivity by locating hard-to-find data, accomplishing tasks and meeting goals more quickly and easily with advanced search features and extensive deep links within search results.

Provides full text access to documents in business and finance, human resources, health care and tax research.

Description: Provides data and analysis on startups, investors, and incubators. The database profiles companies, people, funds, investment rounds and other related events.
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Contains in-depth information on more than 19 million companies in more than 60 countries worldwide. EasyBusiness tracks state-owned enterprises, foreign trade companies, joint ventures and foreign representative offices. Company profiles include contact details, trade names, product and service information, and names of executives.

EIU Country Reports contain in-depth and ongoing analysis and forecasts of political, policy, business, and economic conditions. Coverage of 197 countries provided by the Economist Intelligence Unit 's global team of country specialists. Includes monthly reports for 95 countries and quarterly reports for 102 countries. Forecast conditions are updated with frequent articles published between reports on recent events that may impact on the regular EIU forecast outlooks. Also includes the EIU Country Profiles which ceased publication in 2008.

Factiva is a vast full text archive of publications and up-to-the-minute reports and news focusing on global developments and business. Combines over 35,000 sources from the Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing to provide premium business content from 200 countries and in 26 languages. Factiva is very strong in trade journals and company reports.
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Foundation Directory Online Professional provides access to a wealth of timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. Includes:
- The entire universe of over 108,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.
- A database of over 4,000 sponsoring companies, offering a quick pathway to corporate funders
- A database of over 3 million recently awarded grants
- A keyword-searchable database of over 1 million recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF

This database includes two multi-volume titles that is of interest to entrepreneurs: Business Plans Handbook and International Directory of Company Histories that are continually updated with new volumes.
Business Plans Handbook, a collection of business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses in North America. Presents sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries which serve as examples of how to approach, structure and compose business plans. Also includes a business plan template, two fictional business plans, a listing of organizations, agencies, and consultants a glossary and an updated bibliography.
International Directory of Company Histories provides detailed information on the development of any of the world's largest and most influential companies. Includes cumulative industry and company indexes as well as geographic index by country.
You can access them in full text in the LC reading rooms.

Hoover's Company Records contains company overviews, financials, histories, news, officers, employees, locations and subsidiaries, products/operations, and competitors on more than 18,500 public and private US companies and international companies. Please note: When searching the ProQuest Central database articles there are direct links to Hoover's company profiles. After locating a full-text article, company names with Hoover's profiles will be marked by an icon. From here, basic information on any of the companies can be found by clicking on the company name to automatically open a new window. Updated continuously.

Human Resources Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 63,000 records, which are selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Specific subjects covered include: economic structure and policy labor markets and participation education, training, and career preparation hiring and personnel practice work life and work environment organizations human resources management labor and industrial relations earnings and benefits aging and retirement human resources and society economic and social conditions health and human resources psychology, psychotherapy, and human resources social services and human resources and theory and method.

Detailed market research reports and analysis on over 700 U.S. industries. The Library’s subscription also includes U.S. Specialized Industries and U.S. Business Environment Profiles. Onsite public users cannot download the reports, but limited printing of report sections is available.
Reading Room patrons have read-only access without downloads to the licenses product.

Provides industry sector analysis and research, as well as information on industry trends, industry statistics, top companies in the industry, export companies, market research, and trade and export associations. The database covers a diverse spectrum of areas energy and utilities, finance and investment, health care and biotechnology, and engineering and research - providing competitive intelligence, market research, vertical industry marketing data, and industry trends analysis.

ProQuest Historical Annual Reports covers over 800 companies and contains digital reproductions for more than 43,000 reports. The database is an excellent source for research on companies, industries, American history, graphic design, advertising, and corporate architecture. Key data include: financial information; Fortune 500 ranking; industry classification; key people; geographic location; auditor; and related companies. Reports can be browsed by company name, industry or date.

SimplyAnalytics has data which answers key business research questions, provides small businesses with a tool for making sound business decisions, and helps users understand the socio-demographic and economic conditions of any geographic area in the United States. There are thousands of data variables related to demographics, employment, housing, market segments, businesses, consumer spending and brand preference. This geographic information resource allows for extraction and comparison of data for specific geographic areas as small as a zip code or Census block. It also provides colored maps and spreadsheets for business plans.

Trade Data Monitor is a database of international trade statistics, analysis, and reporting for data-driven answers to crucial questions in any industry, around the globe.
Requires username and password. Please contact library staff for assistance.

EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Its primary purpose is to increase the efficiency and fairness of the securities market for the benefit of investors, corporations, and the economy by accelerating the receipt, acceptance, dissemination, and analysis of time-sensitive corporate information filed with the agency. See also Rank and Filed (or SEC Filings for Humans).