Salem State College Library
Nancy Dennis
Business Reference & Instruction Librarian
nancy.dennis@salemstate.edu
978-542-6218
¦ Databases
with Basic Company Information and Financial Data ¦
¦ Print Company Directories ¦ U.S Print Directories
¦ New England Print Directories ¦
¦ Web Based
Company Directories and Gateway Sites ¦ US Web Based Company Directories
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¦ Massachusetts Web Based Company Directories
¦ Rankings of Companies ¦
¦ Printed Ranking Lists ¦ Web Based Lists of Rankings ¦ Financial Data
Sources ¦
¦ Regional
Business News ¦
Databases Providing Basic Company Information
and Financial Data
Note: The following databases are accessible from anywhere on campus through
the
Salem State College Library home page: http://www.salemstate.edu/library.
They may be accessed from off-campus locations via the Proxy Server.
A Salem State College e-mail username and password is necessary to gain
access. Directions may be found at the Off Campus Services link:
http://www.salemstate.edu/library/offcampus/
EBSCO
(Off campus
users: connect via the proxy/portal)
Database: Business Source Premier.
Displays holdings of some 8,350 scholarly and news oriented business journals.
National and regional coverage. See the "Company
Profiles" tab for
access to the Datamonitor Company Profiles. These provide both
basic and indepth company analyses.
FirstSearch
(Off campus
users: connect via the proxy/portal)
Database: Disclosure. Find under: "List all Databases."
Contains information about all public company filings
including annual reports,
company summary information, and shareholder reports. Includes information
from public documents maintained by the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission. Offers daily updates of stock trading reports. Displays full
text of
documents.
FirstSearch
(Off campus users: connect
via the proxy/portal)
Database: Worldscope Global. Find under: "List all Databases."
Provides names, addresses, ticker symbol, stock
exchange, SIC Codes, and
basic product overviews of companies worldwide.
Gale InfoTrac
(Off campus users: connect
via the proxy/portal)
Databases: "Company
ProFiles" selection within either
General BusinessFile
ASAP or Business and Company
ASAP. Find under: "Advanced Search"
in either database.
Provides articles about the company and subdivisions;
parent company profile;
subsidiaries' profiles; investment reports
about the company; and SIC code-based
descriptions of industries in the profile. Identifies SIC Codes for the company.
Gale InfoTrac
(Off campus users: connect
via the proxy/portal)
Database: Investex within General BusinessFile ASAP.
Go to "Advanced Search" and select Investex.
Provides abstracts or full text of investment reports
and forecasts for more than
11,000 US and international companies and for 53 industries prepared by Wall
Street and international brokerage firms.
Hoover's
(Off campus users:
connect via the proxy/portal)
A highly reputable, one-stop source for company research. Provide snapshots
and
in-depth coverage of companies in addition to industry profiles; executive
biographies;
news; and investor information. Among the special features are "Build Company
List"
and "Build Executive List."
LexisNexis
(Off campus users: connect
via the proxy/portal)
Database: Business
Directories and Reference. Find under:
"Academic Search
Forms: Business: Directories."
Lists contact information for companies, while
confirming the company's name and
spelling. Lists ticker symbols, SIC and NAICS
Classification Codes; personnel;
parents; and subsidiaries.
LexisNexis
(Off campus users: connect
via the proxy/portal)
Database: Compare Companies. Find
under: "Academic Search Forms: Business."
Searches Hoover's Company Reports,
Hoover's Handbook of American Business
and other sources to facilitate comparisons
by sales, net income, employees, and
location.
LexisNexis
(Off campus users: connect
via the proxy/portal)
Database: Company Profiles. Find under:
"Academic Search Forms: Business."
Gives information on executives,
competitors, product lines, and revenue from
Hoover's Company Reports, Standard & Poors Corporate Descriptions, and
other sources. Searchable by company name, ticker symbol, or SIC Code;
number of employees; state; total revenue; and date.
LexisNexis
(Off campus users: connect
via the proxy/portal)
Database: Company Financial Reports. Find
under: "Academic Search Forms:
Business."
Gives detailed company financial reports from Disclosure
Reports; NAARS
Annual Reports 1984-1995; NAARS Annual Reports 1972-1984;
and Stock
Reports.
LexisNexis
(Off campus
users: connect via the proxy/portal)
Database: SEC Filings and Reports. Find
under: "Academic Search Forms:
Business."
Provides EDGAR filings, annual & quarterly
reports & proxy statements.
Reference
USA
(Off campus users: connect
via the proxy/portal)
Find under: "Databases
by Name" section of SSC Library Web Page.
An electronic telephone directory and direct marketing
tool. "Custom Search" lets
you compile lists by name (company, executive,
and ticker symbol); business size
(employees and sales volume); geography; and
other specified criteria. Good for
local companies.
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Print Company Directories
Note: Most of the following titles are shelved on the Business
Research Shelves in the Reference
Room of Salem State College Library. If a
title is not on the Business Research Shelves, it will be on
the main Reference shelves. Older editions
are shelved under the same call number on the second
floor. Please ask a Reference Librarian for assistance if you cannot find
a title.
U.S. and International
America's Corporate
Families: The Billion Dollar Directory. Parsippany, N.J. :
Dun's Marketing Services, 1983-. REF HG 4057 .A65 Vols. 1-2
Two volume set contains 13,000 U.S. ultimates and
72,000 of their
domestic subsidiaries, divisions, and major branches
cross referenced
geographically and by industry classification.
America's Corporate Families and International
Affiliates. Parsippany, N.J. :
Dun's Marketing Services, 1983-. REF HG 4057 .A65 Vol. 3
Over 1,900 ultimates with their 31,000 foreign subsidiaries
cross referenced
geographically and by industry classification.
LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations. New Providence,
N.J.: LexisNexis Group, 2002-.
REF HG 3057 .A217
Covers major public and private businesses and the
world in eight volumes. Volumes 1-2
provide indexes by company name, brand name, geographical
locations (U.S. and non
U.S.), corporate responsibilities,
and SIC Code.
Principal International Businesses: The World
Marketing Directory. Parsippany, NJ:
Dun & Bradstreet International, 2000-.
REF HF 54 .U5 .P74
Provides basic information on 50,000 of the largest
employers worldwide. Indexed by
country and product
classification.
Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations,
Directors, and Executives. Charlottesville,
VA: Standard &
Poor's, 1976-. REF HG 4057 .A4
Volume 1 lists over 75,000 businesses, including
address, telephone numbers,
and internet addresses; officers' names and functions; the primary accounting, bank,
and
law firms; stock exchange; ticker symbol; products/services; NAICS codes; annual sales
and number of employees; division names and functions; and subsidiary listings.
Volume 2 gives biographical data on directors and
executives.
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Massachusetts and New England
Harris New England
Manufacturers Directory. Twinsburg, OH: Harris
Infosource,
1995-. REF HF 5041 .H373
Five sections: statistical summaries of New
England manufacturers; corporate
listings by state and
city; SIC alphabetical and numerical indexes; firms listed
alphabetically by name; product section.
Massachusetts Business Directory. Omaha, Neb.: American
Directory Pub. Co.,
1990-. REF HF 5065 .M3 M37 Two volumes.
Lists businesses by city and by yellow page category.
Selected lists of top executives
of businesses with 100+ employees. Lists all manufacturers with 10+ employees by
city and SIC Code. Special feature: "Analysis of
Businesses by County, 3-Digit ZIP
Code Area, SIC Code, and Employee Size."
Masschusetts Business-to-Business Sales &
Marketing Directory. Omaha, Neb.:
American Directory Pub. Co., c1990-. REF HF 5065 .M3 M37 Two volumes.
Lists businesses alphabetically by city and by yellow
page category. Lists businesses
with more than 100 employees and publicly traded
companies by city. Lists all
manufacturers with 10+
employees by city and SIC Code.
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Web Based Company Capsules and Financial
Data
U.S. Companies
Brint.com:
The BizTech Network
http://www.brint.com/
A massive portal to business, technology, finance,
knowledge, and management
resources. Powerful
search engines facilitate searches
across multiple information
gateways for articles,
news, definitions, discussions,
Q&A, blogs, jobs, company and
industry information,
and government agencies.
Business 2.0
http://www.business2.com/b2/webguide
"Web Guide" links to
a myriad of business topics,including company information.
The "Company Information"
link creatively mixes commerical and academic sources
to give historical,
financial, biographical, product, and stock information.
Business.com: The Leading Business Search Engine and Business Directory
http://www.business.com/
Contains
more than 400,000 listings within 65,000 industry, product and service subcategories.
Six indexes: products, services,
companies, news, people, and jobs. Provides overviews, histories,
financial information, executives, news, and
stock information. Much information is derived
from Hoover.com.
Lycos'
Companies Online
http://yp.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos4
Using
software powered by Dun & Bradstreet, Lycos' Companies Online is a reliable
source for
company names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, executives, annual sales,
number of
employees, and other basic information,
Wall Street Executive Library: The World's
Best Business Sites!
http://www.executivelibrary.com/
This selective, but exhaustive
list by MSI Management Strategies, Inc., aims to be "a public
directory that lists only the most relevant and useful business
sites." Click on "Company and
Industry Research, Strategy"
to retrieve a list of useful mega business sites, and sites from
recognized publishers like
Hoover's, Dun & Bradtreet, and Forbes.
Massachusetts Companies
Massachusetts Software
Industry
Researchers can
search the membership directory of the Massachusetts Software
Council. Members include
companies active in the computer software and hardware,
Internet, communications,
bio-IT, and emerging technology markets. They range from
one-person entrepreneurial
ventures, to established corporations with thousands of
employees.
The Secretary of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Corporations
Division Database.
http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corp/corpsearch/corpsearchinput.asp
The Corporations Division
of Secretary of the Commonwealth is a repository
for
certain records of approximately 275,000 business and nonprofit corporations
and approximately 60,000 limited liability entities organized or registered
to do
business in the Commonwealth. The Corporate Database tells key officers,
whether a company is public or private; and stock information. Searchable by
company name, individual, identification number, and filing number.
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Rankings of Companies
Printed Lists
Note: Most of the following
titles are shelved on the Business Research Shelves in the Reference
Room of Salem State College Library. If a
title is not on the Business Research Shelves, it will be on
the main Reference shelves. Older editions
are shelved under the same call number on the second
floor. Please ask a Reference Librarian for assistance if you cannot find
a title.
Business Rankings
Annual. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 1997-. REF HG 4050 .B88
Derived from both print and online sources, this
guide presents 5,000 lists that are most
in demand by business
people, librarians, students, and the public.
Business Rankings Cumulative Index. Detroit:
Thomson Gale 1988-.
REF HG 4050 .B88
Includes references to all listings in seventeen
editions of Business Rankings Annual.
Duns' Business
Rankings: Public and Private Businesses Ranked Within Industry
Category and State. Parsippany, N.J.: Duns'
Marketing Services, 1982-.
REF HG 4057 .A237
Ranks over 25,000 public and private businesses.
Selective list of those firms
representing a significant percentage they represent
in the D&B databases.
Lists companies by size; state; by SIC Code nationality,
and by public or private/
foreign-owned designations.
Market Share
Reporter: An Annual Compilation of Reported Market Share
Data on Companies, Products, and Services. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 1991-.
REF HF 5410 .M35
Arranged by SIC Code, with indexes by company name;
brands; place name;
products; services;
and issues; and source.
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Rankings on the Web
While many business magazines' web sites link to annual lists
of rankings, few provide
access to complete lists to nonsubscribers. A better approach
would be to
search for lists such as "Fortune 500" in a business periodical database
such as EBSCO's
Business Source Premier, which
provides full-text of many articles. Salem State
College Library also subscribes to the print version of many popular business
magazines
and newspapers including the Wall Street
Journal.
Deloitte
and Touche Technology Fast 500
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/section_node/0,1042,sid%253D56072,00.html
Recognizes the 500 fastest-growing technology companies
in the United States and Canada.
Gary Price's Lists of Lists
http://www.specialissues.com/lol/
This web site provides access to all special issues
of magazines across many disciplines, the
majority of which are business/industry related.
Many of these issues, in turn, include
"top company" or "best company" lists. Though this
free web site does not provide access
to the current year's lists to non-subscribers, this
site can be used as a reference tool to
identify the existence of lists in many industries.
Updated versions of such lists can be retrieved
through the Library's business databases.
Inc.Com. Inc. 500
http://www.inc.com/resources/inc500/index.html
A list of the nations fastest growing
privately held companies in the U.S.
Entrepreneur's 25th Annual Franchise
500
http://www.entrepreneur.com/franzone/listings/fran500/0,5831,,00.html
Ranking is based on these factors: financial strength
and stability; growth rate; and size
of the system. Also considered are the number of
years in business; length of time franchising;
start-up costs; litigation; percentage of termination;s
and whether the company provides
financing.
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Financial Data
Sources
The Value Line Investment Survey. Located
on the Business Reference Shelves
in
the Library. Updated weekly.
Part
One tracks the performance of 1,700 stocks, while breaking out best/worst
performers,
highest returns, etc. Gives current and past year's data. Part Two
provides
details on company stocks, arranged by industry. Gives current and
retrospective
information on stocks and other key financial data.
Yahoo! Finance
Regional Business News and Listings
Use these sources to find articles discussing companies in specific geographic
areas.
The May 17, 2005 issue of the Boston Globe, for instance, contained
the
"Globe 100: Publicly Held Companies Ranked by Composite Performance."
NewsBank
(Off campus users: connect
to Answers to Go)
Find under: "Databases
by Name" section of SSC Library
Web Page. Provides full-text coverage of the Boston Globe (1980
to current);
Boston Herald (1991
to current); and Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1989 to current).
EBSCO
(Off campus
users: connect via the proxy/portal)
Database: Newspaper Source
Full text for nearly 30 national
(U.S.) and international newspapers, television
and radio news transcripts,
and selected full text for more than 200 regional
(U.S.) newspapers.
National and regional coverage.
EBSCO
(Off campus
users: connect via the proxy/portal)
Database: Regional Business News
Full text coverage of 75 business
journals, newspapers and newswires from
all metropolitan and rural areas within
the United States. Updated daily.
FirstSearch
(Off campus
users: connect via the proxy/portal)
Database: Business Dateline.
Find under: "List all Databases."
Covers regional business activities
and trends and major stories on local firms,
their products, and executives.
Sources include regional publications, Business
Wire press releases, and major
newspapers.
Proquest
(Off
campus users: connect via the proxy/portal)
Databases: The Historical Boston Globe; The New
York Times Historical;
and The Wall Street
Journal Historical. Find under: "Databases
Selected."
Covers the Globe from 1872 to 1922; the Times
from 1851 to 2001;
and the Journal from 1889 to 1987.
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