America's Business Funding Directory
This is a
free database of funding sources. The search engine asks the user questions about the type of business and stage of development, then goes to work to find potential sources of funding.
American Compensation Association
This site has news and information about compensation and benefits. It also includes seminars, events, publications and research, and a searchable membership database.
Barron's Annual Reports
Annual reports for hundreds of companies can be ordered here for free.
CorpTech
This web site is a database of over 50,000 high tech companies.
Dun & Bradstreet Internet Access
This site allows Internet access to information on millions of companies. This service is for a fee.
Employee Benefits Research Institute
This site features information about employee benefits. An especially useful section is entitled "Fast Facts".
Market Research
Guideline is the nation’s premier provider of customized research and analysis designed to help companies make more informed decisions about critical business issues.
Frost & Sullivan is the world leader in growth consulting and the integrated areas of technology research, market research, economic research, corporate best practices, training, customer research, competitive intelligence and corporate strategy.
The Freedonia Group is a leading international business research company, providing an unbiased outlook and a reliable assessment of an industry and includes product and market forecasts, industry trends, threats and opportunities, competitive strategies, market share determinations and company profiles.
Forrester Research, Inc. is an independent technology and market research company that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology.
Global Financial Data
This site is a collection of historical financial research. Although, most of their services are fee-based, a good deal of information is free.
Hoover's Online
This site is the online version of a print publication often used to analyze companies. Some of the services are available only by subscription. A particularly useful tool is their IPO section.
IBM Patent Server
The IBM Intellectual Property Network (IPN) is a web site for searching, viewing, and analyzing patent documents. Access is free and all collections are cross referenced and forward and backward linked to all other referencing documents for immediate access to related information.
National Center for Education Statistics
This government site contains a great deal of data regarding education at all levels. The current Digest of Education Statistics contains over 500 pages of interesting statistics for those interested in education.
National Federation of Independent Business
This site has information about current events affecting small.
National Transportation Library
This site is part of the Bureau of Transportation site and has numerous reports on transportation from bicycles to aviation.
OSHA
This is the U.S. Department of Labor's site for Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It has a "frequently asked question" section and a link to a list of standards and publications by OSHA.
Outlook Trends Tables
This page links to many manufacturing SIC's and gives figures such as the value of shipments, imports, and exports for a 10-year period.
Securities and Exchange Commission
The SEC maintains a database of filings on a system called "Edgar." Edgar can be searched through a number of sites. In addition to the site above, there is a site through NYU that also browses the system. Searching is allowed by a number of categories including company name, address, SIC code, central index key, filing date, IRS number, former company name, and state of incorporation.
Thomas, Legislation Information on the Internet
This site allows searching of U.S. bills by keyword, bill number or title. Bill text is available or the user can download the bills in *.pdf format.
Thomas Register
This site allows users to search the full Thomas Register database by product/service or company name and provides the option of narrowing the search to a specific state or location. Registration is required, but the site is free.
U.S. Copyright Homepage
On this site you can find an FAQ section, information on copyright law and licensing information.
U.S. Patent Citation Database
This site is a fully searchable bibliographic file which contains all of the U.S. patents issued since 1975.