* These resources require a Houston Public Library Power Card for access from your home or office.
The complete Barron's on microfilm available in a digital format. Starting date is January 2008. Use by selecting the title Barron's and the desired date.*
Provides information about companies and charities to encourage wise purchases and a fair marketplace.
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, and periodicals.*
Forms to register your business with the Texas Secretary of State.
If you plan to start or expand a business, the Business Plan Handbooks provide over 250 examples of business plans for a variety of businesses.*
Scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.*
Federal grant and loan programs.
Spanish language citations on business and economics.*
Up-to-date data, articles and news about companies and industries.
Program details and application guidelines for leading foundations as well as sponsoring company information for corporate givers.
Find sources for scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards and other financial support for individuals.
Includes Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies, Encyclopedia of Associations, Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, and National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations.*
Full-text reference books on topics including biography, business, the environment, history, law, social sciences, medicine, religion, the sciences, and multicultural studies.*
A subdivision of Reference USA offering company profiles and industry information on international businesses. Follow the link and then click OneSource to access.*
Houston's "chamber of commerce."
Over 800 companies' annual reports (1844-current) available through searchable pdf images.*
Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.*
Federal tax forms back to 1990.
Business to business import and export directory of 2.2 million companies from 70 countries.
Business descriptions, corporate histories and financial statements for over thousands of U.S and international public companies.*
Access to an archive of corporate and industry related documents.*
A listing of the new NAICS codes, with correspondence tables for NAICS to SIC (Standard Industrial classification) and SIC to NAICS.
Currency converter.
Access this source by choosing "International" from the Reference USA homepage.
Business database of U.S. businesses; also includes an international business database, a residential database, new movers database (residential) and new businesses database.*
Articles from regional business publications.*
A searchable database of SIC codes.
Information and services offered by the SBA.
Small business management resources from periodical and reference works including business sample plans and legal forms.*
NetAdvantage provides one place to look for the information found in Standard & Poor's print publications. Included in this database are Industry Surveys, Company Profiles, Stock Reports, information on Mutual Funds, and the S & P Register. Featured is information concerning Financial Literacy. Please Note: We are currently having issues with providing access to this product. We are working on the issue and thank you for your patience.
Find statistics on population, economic conditions, labor, health, education, natural resources, pollution, and many other topics from the world's most comprehensive database of statistical information. If fulltext is not available online, check with the Central Library's Reference Department for print availability.*
Statistics concerning health, agriculture, business & industry, cost of living, demographics, the sciences, sociology, politics, foreign governments, and more.
Thomas Register's free online supplier/finder index of manufacturers. Access requires registration.
Free searchable databases of patents and trademarks, as well as information on the patent process.
The financial newspaper of record-- offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance from 1984 to -current.*
The complete Wall Street Journal on microfilm available in a digital format. Starting date is January 2008. Use by selecting the title Wall Street Journal and the desired date.*
Full page view of the Wall Street Journal from 1889-1993.*
CPI and inflation rates with a cost of living calculator.
Also see Investing.
For more information, search in the databases listed under Magazines, Scholarly Journals and Publications.
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