Business Research Websites

Company Directories

• Hoover's Corporate Directory profiles large, mostly public companies.
  www.hoovers.com


• EDGAR is the database of 10-K and other SEC filings of public companies.
  www.sec.gov


• AnnualReport.com gives Web access to glossy annual reports.
  www.reportgallery.com


• ThomasNet is a directory of U.S. and Canadian manufacturers.
  www.thomasnet.com


• PA SourceNet is a self-registering business to business directory of PA products.
  www.pasourcenet.com


• YellowPages.com has the yellow pages and white pages for the entire U.S.
  www.yellowpages.com


• zapdata.com sells mailing lists of companies and has useful industry profiles. $
  www.zapdata.com


• InfoUSA.com sells mailing lists of companies and individuals. $
  www.infousa.com


• Kompass is a directory databases of foreign companies. Some data is free. $
  www.kompass.com


• ThomasGlobal is a directory of industrial suppliers worldwide.
  www.thomasglobal.com


• International Company Directories and Yellow Pages links to worldwide directories.
  globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/busresmain.asp?ResourceCategoryID=14


• IFA's Franchise Directory lists franchises and has other franchising information.
  www.franchise.org


• Franchise Opportunities.com has a franchises directory and information on opportunites.
  www.franchiseopportunities.com

Markets

• SBDCnet Industry Links links to Web resources by industry.
  sbdcnet.org/industry.php


• Market Intelligence Centers from Northern Light have editorially selected industry news and resources.
  www.northernlight.com


• Industry Resources Reports has links to useful industry information from a variety of sources.
  www.valuationresources.com/IndustryReport.htm


• Trade & Economy data, with U.S. industry sector data by NAICS.
  www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea


• BizMiner generates reports on industry, market and financial trends by size of business. $
  www.bizminer.com


• zapdata.com allows you to profile U.S. markets by SIC code.
  www.zapdata.com/zapmarkets


• County Business Patterns has establishments, payroll and employee size for all U.S. counties by SIC.
  www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html


• MarketResearch.com has databases of market research reports with free title searching.
  www.marketresearch.com

News and Articles

• Newslink links to all types of news sources with sites on the Web.
  www.newslink.org


• Pennsylvania newspapers on the Web are collected here.
  www.newslink.org/panews.html


• Newspaper Archives on the Web are gathered here.
  www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html


• FindArticles.com offeres free searching of an article database.
  www.findarticles.com


• MagPortal enables searching of free articles on the Web.
  www.magportal.com


• PR Newswire has press releases – some free some for a fee.
  www.prnewswire.com


• Business Wire has current business & industry press releases.
  www.businesswire.com


• IngentaConnect is a database of article citations. Full-text can be ordered for a fee.
  www.ingenta.com


• High Beam Library Research has a large collection of publications. Titles are free. $
  www.highbeam.com


• Proquest has articles with images. Titles are free, articles cost. $
  www.umi.com/proquest


• Bizjournals.com has information from its 35 regional business journals.
  www.bizjournals.com


• Canada.com has a searchable database of current articles from 25 Canadian newspapers.
  www.canada.com


• Factiva has a 7,000 publication database plus company information. $
  www.factiva.com


• InSite has Web versions of Gale Group's solid business databases. $
  www.iac-insite.com


• Lexis-Nexis has articles and legal information. $
  www.lexis-nexis.com