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BizOffice: Small and Home Based Business Resources
- Extensive links to all aspects of home business
Business Sources (Kresge Business Library)
- Links to web business sources and bibliographies of printed sources
- Includes corporate web sites, which contain financial data, and connection to MENTOR, the on-line library catalog
Hoovers Online
- Detailed profiles of individual companies
- Lists of the largest salaries, companies and leading products
- Stock market information
Michigan Census Research Data Center (ISR/Census Bureau)
- Joint project to provide qualified researchers with unpublished from the economic censuses, economic surveys, and decennial census
- The data may permit users to identify individuals or companies so access requires a research proposal and approval
- A list of the data sets appears at http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/mcrdc/datasets.html
- This web site is separate from the mainstream material available through the Documents Center, ICPSR, or American Factfinder
Quarterly Financial Report for Manufacturing, Mining and Trade Corporations (Census Bureau)
- Balance sheets for two and three digit SIC codes with historical data
- Available on web since First Quarter 1996
- Adobe Acrobat; some files over 1 MEG
Price's List of Lists
- Links to rating services for the top businesses and executive pay, places to live, universities, and campaign contributors
Small Business Administration
- National data on number of firms, financing, and disaster loans
- State data on small business firms and jobs by type of industry; owner characteristics
Statistical Universe
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974; business, association and state government data since 1980, and international agencies since 1983
- Access through the Statistical Sources menu
- Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign country, by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: gdp w/10 quarterly and by foreign country
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to the Documents Center for the
microfiche version
- Consult Statistical Universe Guide for various web searching alternatives
Wall Street Research Net
- Over 190,000 links with tips for the professional and private investor
- Companies on the financial markets with links to stock history, SEC filings, company newsletters; searchable by keyword
- Daily stock quotes and links to both foreign and domestic markets
- Calendar of federal economic releases and links to federal economic web sites
- Business newspapers and periodicals
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