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Business & Company Resource Center [GaleGroup] Find dynamic and up-to-date company and industry intelligence of more than 300,000 companies. Displays company profiles, including parent/sibling relationships, industry rankings, products and brands, financial ratios and much more. Find contact information for a company in your area using the geographic location search option.

Business Source Complete (more sources than in Business Source Premier) [EBSCO] This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full text content. Business Source Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.

Commerce Business Daily [U.S. Dept. of Commerce] Changed to FedBizOpp. See listing for that title.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center [Facts on File News Services] Information on 2000 jobs in 93 industries plus tips on interviewing, skills employers look for in potential employees and how to prepare a resume. The resource section includes information on selecting a college, applying for admission to a college, scholarships and grants and professional associations and publications by industry.

FedBizOpps [U.S. General Services Administration] FedBizOpps.gov is the single government point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000. allows commercial vendors seeking Federal markets for their products and services to search, monitor and retrieve opportunities solicited by the entire Federal contracting community.

General Reference Center Gold (GPIP) [GaleGroup] Use this general interest/business database to search magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on business, industry, current events, the arts, science, entertainment, etc.

Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts [EBSCO] Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more.

LexisNexis Academic [LexisNexis] International in scope. Includes news, business and company information, health, legal cases/articles, Federal and State laws, and Federal regulations, and reference information. Full-text for most items.

MasterFILE Premier [EBSCO] Designed specifically for the Public Library, MasterFILE Premier offers informationon a broad variety of subjects, including general interest, multi-cultural, business, and much more. Searchable full text for over 1,820 journals, including Consumer Reports and Business Week. Also included are searchable full text for nearly 5,000 Magill's Book Reviews, nearly 1,400 journals with images, the Essential Documents in American History database, over 1.7 million company records from Dun & Bradstreet, and much more.

NewsBank [Newsbank] Mostly full text articles from Business Newsbank, San Antonio Express-News, Texas Newsfile, & Noticias en Espanol. Includes statistics from StatBank.

Regional Business News [EBSCO] formerly Business Wire News. Updated daily, Business Wire News provides comprehensive full text for 35 international newswires and 49 regional business publications. This database also provides abstracts and indexing for 14 additional regional business publications. Full-text for most items.

Statistics

American FactFinder [U.S. Census Bureau] Searchable access to reports, statistical tables, and thematic maps from the Census Bureau that reveal the trends and characteristics of the population, communities, and economy from Census 2000. Includes historical information on the U.S. Census from 1790 to 2000.

LexisNexis Statistical [LexisNexis] Includes the American Statistical Index and Abstracts and the full-text of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, plus the full-text of many US government statistical publications from 1995 onward.