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Reference Desk
Businesses, Organizations and Associations
Forbes People Tracker
www.forbes.com/peopletracker/
Track over 120,000 executives and members of the Forbes rich and celebrity lists; free user sign in.
Business News and Analysis
- Business Wire (Current)
dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6092
Full text of news releases issued by U.S. organizations, March 1999+.
- CEO Express
www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp
- Harvard Business Review
dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6003
Complete text of the Harvard Business Review, 1971+.
Company and Product Information
- Companies Online
www.companiesonline.com
Information on over 60,000 companies from Dun and Bradstreet; browse among list of 14 industries from Natural Resources through Consumer Products or search by company name, ticker symbol or URL; search time is speedy; entries include address, D-U-N-S number, phone number, URL, ownership, ticker symbol and exchange where traded; register for free and get additional information on sales, employees, parent, contacts, etc. and access to advanced searching options, such as by annual sales or number of employees.
- Edgar - the Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval System
www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
Contains required and some voluntary electronic filings of corporations to the U. S. Securitites and Exchange Commission (SEC); be sure to see all search options under "Search the Edgar Database;" search with Quick Forms Look-Up (by company name if name is short), Keyword Archive, Ticker and Central Index Key, Prospectus, Mutual Funds and others; indexes include daily, full (broken down by platform), and archive (broken down by quarters).
- FreeEDGAR
www.freedgar.com
Access to a year or more of indexed SEC filings for public companies. The "watchlist" option allows you to be notified by email whenever any company you specify sumbits an electronic filing to the SEC.
- Hoover's Online
www.hoovers.com
Covers 11,000 public and private corporations world-wide; basic information for all includes financials and web links; extensive information on 2,700 fast-growing and influential companies gives strategic overview, history, product information, officers, key competitors and ten years of financial data; search by company name, ticker symbol or keyword; online library of articles available only to subscribers.
- IdeaList
www.idealist.org
A site for non-profits, "linking people and organizations in 120 countries;" use geographic index or search by keyword or organization; find job, internship and volunteer opportunities, materials and publications, programs and services, events, resources for non-profit managers, appropriate news sites and links to other non-profit directories.
- Kompass USA
dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6378
Business directory of 53,000+ companies in the U.S.
- Researching Companies Online
home.sprintmail.com/~debflanagan/index.html
- Thomas Register Online
dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6281
Product information for U.S. and Canadian manufacturing companies. Corresponds to the "Thomas Register of American Manufacturers". In addition, the database lists the 44,000+ companies covered in the "Thomas Food Industry Register".
- Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
www.thomasregister.com
Finance
- American Banker Financial Publications
dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6130
- Annual Report Gallery
www.reportgallery.com
To reach alphabetical index of the names of publically traded companies around the world, select "Viewing Library;" most names include links to annual reports (most recent and for some one year prior as well) and company homepages; also link directly to Outstanding Companies, Hot Technology Companies and Blue Chips; some reports available in PDF format; search engine allows limiting by category, location or keyword; BE WARNED: animated neon graphics and striking black background are eye-catching but may crash system.
- Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary
www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/glossary.htm
- 123Jump
www.123jump.com
- Public Register's Annual Report Service
www.prars.com
Includes financials, annual reports, prospectuses and 10 k's of 3,200 public companies; users make requests online or by phone or fax; free to U.S. mailing addresses; search by company name or industry index.
- TimeValue Calculators
www.timevalue.com/tools.htm
- Wall Street Research Net
www.wsrn.com
Boasts over half a million links; search by stock symbol, or company name; results include an extensive range of information, pin-pointed to the company searched; find, for example, links to company home pages, SEC filings, company profiles, current and option quotes, charts, earnings estimates, reports and summaries such as annuals, industry comparisons, and Thomson's Tip Sheet, and value added links; an extensive, clearly laid out and well-functioning site.
Foundations
- Foundation Directory
dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6207
Directory providing descriptions of 32,500+ grant makers.
- Foundation Grants Index
dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6129
Directory of Grants awarded to nonprofit organizations.
Gateways
Insurance
Investment
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