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Business Databases
Following are databases that may help you in your business endeavors.
- Reference USA
ReferenceUSA is an Internet-based reference service from the Library Division of infoUSA. The site was designed for use as a reference tool in libraries and is continually enhanced based upon suggestions from librarians and library patrons. The ReferenceUSA database contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 14 million US businesses, 210 million US residents, 855,000 US health care providers, 1.5 million Canadian businesses, and 12 million Canadian households.
You can access this resource from outside the library using your library card number.
- Global Road Warrior
A guide to 175 countries, including Society and Culture, Business Culture, Travel, Maps, Photographs and more.
You can access this resource from outside the library using your library card number.
- Mango Languages
An online language-learning system that teaches actual conversation skills for 12 different languages.
You can access this resource from outside the library using your library card number.
- Inspire
Searches through electronic magazines, encyclopedias, and other resources for information needs.
Available in-house or from home.
Local Business & Government Information Links
Following are links to websites that may help with your local business endeavors.
Business Websites
Following are links to websites that may help with your business endeavors.
- Financial Markets and Investments
This site provides basic, advanced, and interactive charting tools; current and historical quotes; industry and market data; news and analysis; and screening tools for stocks listed on major American, Canadian and other exchanges around the world.
- International Business
Business Planet employs data mapped from five World Bank Group databases covering issues including doing business, enterprise surveys, privatization, private investment, and entrepreneurship.
- UN Data
An entryway to international statistical data across themes of agriculture, education, employment, energy, environment, health, human development, industry information and communication technology, population, tourism, and trade.
Books on Doing Business
Following are books on business basics.
- Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands: the Bestselling Guide to Doing Business in More than 60 Countries by Terri Morrison.
- How to Set Up Your Own Small Business by Max Fallek.
Financial Resources
Following are financial publications available in the library.
- Barron's
Provides in-depth analysis and commentary on the markets.
- Business Week
Provides the latest international business news & stock market news.
- Entrepreneur
Information to help start, grow, or manage a small business.
- Forbes
The source for the latest business and financial news and analysis.
- Fortune
Provides business and financial news including investing, technology, and company trends and information.
- Indianapolis Business Journal
Business news and financial news from central Indiana and Indianapolis.
- Indianapolis Star
Central Indiana's news source.
- Investor's Business Daily
Covers international business, finance, and the global economy.
- Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Trusted personal finance advice, business forecasting, investing advice, and financial management tools.
- Money
Provides investment and money management advice.
- Morningstar
Investment resource specialized in fund investing.
- New York Times
Provides coverage on a wide range of interests, including world, national, and New York issues on business, money, culture, science, food, sports, and more.
- Standard & Poor's Outlook
A weekly newsletter offering solid research, unbiased investment ideas, and market perspective.
- Value Line
Provides investment research on stocks, mutual funds, options and convertibles, and offers a family of no-load mutual funds.
- Value Line Small & Mid Cap.
Reports on approximately 1,800 small & mid-cap stocks not included in The Value Line Investment Survey.
- Wall Street Journal
News, features, and trends on managing your career for growth, advancement, or change.
Recent Business Titles
Following are recently published books about business.
- The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo.
- The Power of Many: Values for Success in Business and in Life by Meg Whitman with Joan O'C. Hamilton.
- Wow! I'm in Business: a Crash Course in Business Basics by Richard Stim and Lisa Guerin.
- The Green Business Guide: a One Stop Resource for Businesses of All Shapes and Sizes to Implement Eco-Friendly Policies, Programs, and Practices by Glenn Bachman.
- The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You by Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten.
- What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis.
- Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Achieving All Day Long by David Rock.
- Profits Aren't Everything, They're the Only Thing: No-Nonsense Rules From the Ultimate Contrarian and Small Business Guru by George Cloutier with Samantha Marshall.
- Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
- Fierce Leadership: a Bold Alternative to the Worst "Best" Practices of Business Today by Susan Scott.
- Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose-- Doing Business by Respecting the Earth by Ray C. Anderson with Robin White.
- Borrowing Brilliance: the Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others by David Kord Murray.
- The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life by Ivanka Trump.
- The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman.
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam.
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