BUSINESS
RESEARCH NOTES
compiled by Tracy Marks
contact information
HINTS FOR COMPANY RESEARCH | Consult business directories for phone number, address,
web site |
Peruse company web site | Look up company in search
engine |
Research independent sources | If public companies, read SEC filings |
Find news stories | Discover lawsuits |
Seek congressional or
regulatory actions. | Look for public opinion in
newsgroups and mailing lists |
See also:
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http://www.webwinds.com/classes/business.htm
Business Directories
BigBook Superpages
http://www.bigbook.com
Yahoo Business Directory http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/
Switchboard
http://www.switchboard.com
Business and Company Information
Company Business Directory
http://www.virtualchase.com/coinfo/business_phone.html
Corporate Information
http://www.corporateinformation.com
Company Information Guide
http://www.virtualchase.com/coinfo/step1.htm
All Business Small Business Directory
http://www.allbusiness.com/directory/index.jsp
Public Companies/ Annual Reports
Edgar SEC Filings
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
FreeEdgar http://www.freeedgar.com/
Free Annual Reports
http://www.prars.com/
Wall Street Journal Free Annual Reports
http://wsjie.ar.wilink.com/asp/WSJ3_search_eng.asp
Libraries
Business Researchers Library http://www.brint.com/
Infomine Scholarly Research Center http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Librarian’s Internet Index
http://www.lii.org/
Government and Legal Resources
Fed World Information Network http://www.fedworld.gov/
Yahoo Finance
http://finance.yahoo.com/?u
US Government Search http://usgovsearch.northernlight.com/publibaccess/
FindLaw Lawcrawler http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
News
Yahoo News http://dailynews.yahoo.com/
Personalize your News via My Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
Flying Inkpot World Newspapers http://inkpot.com/news/
Excite Newstracker
http://nt.excite.com/
Medical
U.S. National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
Health Information Database
http://chid.nih.gov/
Medical Matrix http://www.medmatrix.org/reg/login.asp