Business
Indexes to Business, Economics and Government Sites

• American National Standards Institute
• America's Top Businesswomen -- from Forbes. Click here for their lists page.
• BPubs.com--links to full-text articles and publications for business professionals and researchers.
• Business and Industry Rankings List
• Business.com Industry Center -- includes profiles of various industries, industry-specific news, and industry events.
• Business Forms & Letters -- blank copies of standard forms and letters used by businesses
• Business Glossary -- definitions of business terms .
• Corporate Information--a search engine that locates corporate profiles and investment information.
• Corporate Style Guide -- good for business reports and manuals.
• Current Industrial Reports -- "providing monthly, quarterly, and annual measures of industrial activity. The primary objective of the CIR program is to produce timely, accurate data on production and shipments of selected products. The data are used to satisfy economic policy needs and for market analysis, forecasting, and decision-making in the private sector. These surveys measure manufacturing activity in important commodity areas such as textiles and apparel, chemicals, primary metals, computer and electronic components, industrial equipment, aerospace equipment, and consumer goods." 
• Economic Indicators -- from the feds. 1998 to present.
• EDGAR -- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. contains detailed company financial information
• FinanceWise--a search engine that searches only through finance and bank-related pages.
• Financial Data Finder from Ohio State University
• Finance Calculators -- from ABC news
• Government Sites -- links to federal, state, and local government sites.
• Holt Labor Library Internet Links
• Hoover's OnLine-- Great source for info on companies, SEC filings, stock info, lists of top performing companies in various categories, and more.
• Industry Information Resources -- "provides links to industry resources for over 250 industries. Individual pages for each industry list resources available from trade associations, publications, and research firms which address subjects such as industry overview, issues, trends, and outlook, financial ratios and benchmarking, compensation surveys, and valuation resources." Not all of it is free online, but enough to make it worthwhile.
• Internet Public Library: Business and Economics -- subject listings of updated sites.
• Links to Business Schools WorldWide
• National Resources for Global Standards -- a central point to search for standards information
• NGOs: Non-Governmental Organizations Research Guide -- although not directly affiliated with any national government, these organizations often have a significant impact on the social, economic and political activity of a community or region.  From Duke University.
• Nonprofit Good Practice Guide -- A library of information on fundraising, governance, accountability, volunteer management, marketing, etc. Also, a model report assessing the economic value to a community of the work done by nonprofits.
• Online Women's Business Center -- articles on many business issues related to women.
• Research Recap -- This site summarizes and links to intriguing research on financial and economic matters. Search, or browse the broad general categories.Another feature, "Research Zeitgeist," examines which of those storiesgenerated the most hits in the past week.
• Second Moment -- a news and business resource for "academia and industry in the fields of applied statistics and analytics".
• The Small Business Knowledge Base--The Small Business Knowledge Base is a comprehensive free resource of small business information. Packed with hundreds of guides and worksheets, it includes marketing, financial management and more.
• Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age -- from the Harvard Business School, this site presents their manuscript collection with detailed descriptions, digitized images of manuscripts, a bibliography, and links to other web sites on the subject.
• U.S. Business Advisor: a guide to government regulations and business assistance
• USDA Economic Research Service -- provides access to information on economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural development.  Includes information on individual states.
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office -- offers patent bibliographic and full-text databases dating from 1976. Includes trademark database info for both registered and pending trademarks.
• Wall Street Executive Library -- compiled by the Wall Street Journal, this site offers links to current business news, investment information, computer technical support, and general reference information.