Business Startup Resources
Research business types & topics, choosing a legal structure, starting and running a small business and entrepreneurship.
Making a Business Plan
Explore how to develop the concept of enterprise, the goals of your business and the strategies to achieve them.
Funding Your Business
Discover methods for raising the capital that your business needs to succeed from a variety of sources.
Find your competitors, analyze the needs of your customers, and identify markets to target.
Small Business Databases
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.
Business Economics and Theory
Academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics.
Research and analyze companies and industries around the world. Company fundamentals and investment research reports industry rankings, profiles, market share data, company histories, and more.
DemographicsNow Library Edition
Users may run an unlimited number of reports in summary, comparison or ranking formats. From population and Census data to housing expenditures, users will have access to demographic information such as: Population, income, housing, race, age, education, businesses, retail sales, consumer expenditures, and more.
Gale Directory Library
The Gale Directory Library hosts a variety of directory products that particular libraries can choose from. Use it to search, sort and export information from both current directory editions as well as prior editions that are maintained as searchable backfiles. Multiple directories can be cross-searched or users can mine individual directories for the particular kinds of data they contain, such as financial information for companies, circulation figures for publications, and much more.
Insurance and Liability Collection
Insurance and Liability Collection provides access to academic journals and trade publications covering the insurance industry and topics such as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more. The database offers content of interest to individual property owners and multinational corporations alike.
Lynda.com for Library provides public library patrons with unlimited, cost-effective access to great content from Lynda.com plus courses offered in following languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, and Portuguese—onsite or offsite.
Inspire anyone to learn the latest software, creative, and business skills. Give users of any skill level, bite-size tutorials, or comprehensive courses, on hundreds of topics. Encourage personalized and self-paced learning, roll out a new source of reference material, and offer a community benefit.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
In-Library Use **Remote Access **Library card number must be all caps i.e. FJP000xxxxxxx.
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in the United States and in major international markets. It is a trusted source for insightful information on stocks, mutual funds, variable annuities, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, separate accounts, hedge funds, and 529 college savings plans.
ReferenceUSA is a powerful online reference and research tool providing library cardholders instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on 24 million U.S. businesses and 235 million U.S. residents. ReferenceUSA makes it faster and easier to find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, find news articles, conduct job searches, research papers, locate addresses and phone numbers, conduct market research and much more.
Small Business Collection
Perfect for business schools and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories. Users will find hundreds of full-text subject appropriate periodicals.
Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.
Business eBooks, eAudiobooks, and Digital Magazines
Browse by the Business subject heading once in the resource.
Great for: e-books and audiobooks
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Great for: Magazines
Read digital magazines on your mobile device
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Great for: Reference books and Encyclopedias
Downloadable reference books on popular culture, science, medicine, business and more.
Great for: e-books, audio books and videos*
Search for OverDrive ebooks and audiobooks here or through the Library catalog.
*Videos are available in the Overdrive app, but not in the Libby app.
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