Information Take-aways
- Information Take-awaysKey points to remember for library resources.
Business Librarian
Databases for company research
- D&B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
Provides company profiles, news, business and trade articles, research reports, executive profiles, industry intelligence and financial data on businesses. Allows users to build targeted company lists, identify business contacts and monitor business events. Note: Limited to 25 simultaneous users; please logout when done.
- Mergent online This link opens in a new windowOffers coverage of 10 000 public companies and their SEC filings. Provides access to the following: U.S. company annual reports, full-text, color, international company annual reports, company financial information, in many cases going back up to fifteen years, industry reports, equity reports, information on company executives, and more. Resource offers the ability to download financial data into a spreadsheet and to create company comparison reports. Mergent.
- PrivCo : private company financial data authority This link opens in a new window
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Provides information on many well known privately-held companies. Information includes balance sheet and income statement figures, company overview, competitors, and funding activity when available. Searchable by company name, industry, location and annual revenue. M & A activity is also covered.
- Reference Solutions This link opens in a new windowReference Solutions can be used to look up small local businesses. By using the custom search, users can employ limiters to bring back custom lists of companies.
- Standard & Poor's netadvantage This link opens in a new windowProvides online access to the S&P Industry Surveys (U.S.), reports (stock & bond), directories (corporations, Security Dealers of North America), registers (public companies, private companies, executives), Compustat Excel Analytics, Mutual Fund Screener, investment advisory services (The Outlook), Stovall Sector Watch, Credit Week Focus, and more publications from Standard and Poor's. Financial Education section provides sound information on becoming financially fit.
Advertising rates & expenditures
- SRDS media solutions This link opens in a new windowIncludes detailed ad rates, dates, and contact data for more than 100 000 U.S. and international media entities. Media areas include the following publications: Business Media Advertising Source, Consumer Media Advertising Source, Direct Marketing List Source, Newspaper Advertising Source, Radio Advertising Source, Print Media Production Source, TV and Cable Source, and Out-of-home Advertising Source.
- Media Research -TVBTVB is the not-for-profit trade association of America’s local broadcast television industry and actively promotes local media marketing solutions to the advertising community.
