BUSINESS RESEARCH NOTES
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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

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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

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