Featured Titles in the Library

Popular Catalog Searches

Accounting • Personal Finance • Resumes • Starting a Business

Selected Magazines in the Library

Barron's • Business Week • Crain's Detroit Business • Economist • Forbes • Fortune
Investors' Business Daily • Wall Street Journal

Premium Online Resources for Library Cardholders

• Business Insights: Essentials and Business Insights: Global
  company profiles, brand information, rankings, news, and investment reports
• Demographics Now
  census and demographic information including income, housing, race, age, and education - Tutorial
• General Business File ASAP
  magazine articles, company profiles, and broker reports
• Hoover's Company Records
  over 40,000 company profiles
• InfoTrac Small Business Collection
  articles of interest with a focus on small business
• Morningstar Investment Research Center
  research on stocks and mutual funds
• PowerSearch 
  full-text articles from magazines, business and academic journals, newspapers, and reference e-books - Tutorial
• ReferenceUSA
  information about companies by type, location, or size
• Small Business Resource Center
  includes sample business plans, "how to" guides and articles on all aspects of starting, financing and managing a small business - Tutorial
• Value Line Investment Survey
  research stocks, mutual funds and other securities or go directly to "Lookup Company Reports"
  
  
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Internet Resources

Companies

• Annual Report Resource Center
  includes over 9000 annual reports
• AnnualReports.com
  search for online annual reports
• EDGAR Database of Corporate Information
  SEC filings
• Michigan Business Entity Search
  information about Michigan Business from Michigan.gov
• Thomas Register
  manufacturers directory of 170,000 companies

Economics

• Consumer Price Indexes
  from U.S. Department of Labor
• Economagic.com
  economic time series data
• Economic Indicators
  basic economic statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau
• Economic News Releases
  consumer price indexes and labor market news from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statisitcs
• Euro: Once Currency for Europe
  illustrations of Euro currency
• Khan Academy
  hundreds of educational videos in many subjects, including economics and finance
• NAICS Codes
  North American Industry Classification System
• SIC Codes
  Standard Industrial Classifications from U.S. Department of Labor

Helpful Information for Business

• Automation Alley
  Michigan's largest technology business association. View this presentation to learn more, or watch this YouTube video.
• Buiness Plan Basics
  from S.B.A., includes sample business plans
• Do What You Do Better
  quarterly newsletter published by RHPL with tips and resources for businesses
• IRS Small Business and Self-Employed Tax Center
  helpful information for small businesses from the IRS
• KnowThis.com
  marketing and advertising web site
• MEL's Business and Job Gateway
  web sites of interest to job seekers and business from the Michigan Electronic Library
• Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center
  provides counseling, training, and research for new ventures and existing small businesses
• OU INCubator
  an Oakland University web site that provides entrepreneurial resources and business solutions
• Rochester Regional Chamber of Commerce
  serving the greater Rochester area
• Small Business Administration
  starting and financing a business
• Small Business and Self Employed One-Stop Resource
  tax information for small businesses from the IRS
• Starting a Business in Michigan
  available in HTML and PDF formats
• Starting and Managing a Business
  from the Small Business Administration
• U.S. Patents and Trademark Office
  patent, trademark, and copyright information

Investments

• Bank Rate Monitor
  current interest rates
• Big Charts
  includes historical stock prices
• Market Watch
  from the Wall Street Journal
• Currency Converter
  this converter allows you to specify a date
• Financial Planning Toolkit
  financial calculators
• FINRA - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
  learn how to invest smartly and how to protect yourself from investment fraud
• Loan Amortization Schedules
  calculate monthly payments with interest and principal
• MSN MoneyCentralInvestor
  stock and mutual fund prices
• Motley Fool
  investment information
• NASD BrokerCheck
  learn more about your broker
• Standard and Poor's
  information on companies, stocks, and investing - registration required
• U.S. Savings Bonds Calculator
  use this calculator to figure bonds' worth, includes Series EE, E, I bonds, and Savings Notes
• Yahoo Finance
  includes historical stock prices and stock split history