Online resources

ABI/INFORM Complete

Company profiles, annual reports, full-text articles, and industry and market research reports.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business

Business Insights: Global

In-depth profiles, articles, case studies, and reports on international companies and industries. Includes interactive charts for industry, country, and company comparisons.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business

Business Market Research Collection

Company, industry, economic, geopolitical market research with information from Hoover's, OxResearch, Barnes Reports, and Snapshots.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business

Business Source Premier

Detailed company and industry profiles, country economic reports, and market research reports. Full-text articles going back to 1922.

Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Category: Business

Capital Changes U.S.

Temporarily available remotely. Covers federal tax consequences of capital changes for U.S. publicly traded companies over 100 years.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business

Gale Business: DemographicsNow

Directory for businesses and residences.  Demographic information for consumer and market research.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business, Directories

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship

Full-text articles on starting and running a business, including planning, operations, marketing, financing, accounting, and taxes.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business

Gale Business: Plan Builder

Step-by-step guidance for planning, starting, and running a small business or nonprofit organization. 

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business

Gale Directory Library

Directories and encyclopedias covering brands; local, national and international associations; financial aid; college and university faculty; national and international research and information centers; statistic sources; publications and broadcast media; and publishers.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business, Directories, Education

Human Resources Compliance Library

Temporarily available remotely. Addresses changing HR practices and federal and state laws.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business, Employment, Law

Mergent Intellect

Private and public U.S. and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, industry profiles, and more. Also includes residential search, demographic reports, job search, consumer data, First Research, and Key Business Ratios.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business

Morningstar Investment Research Center

In-depth data and analysis on stocks, funds, and ETF's. Also offers portfolio guidance and tutorials on stocks, funds, and portfolio building. Includes planning tools such as retirement and college cost calculators.

Subscription purchased by the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA), with funding from state and federal tax revenues.

Category: Business

NetAdvantage

From S&P Global. Directory information and data (including stock reports) for global public and private companies. Industry reports, as well as sector data, mutual fund and ETF reports. Historical price record data, country data and compensation information for executives.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business

Patent search tools

Accessible only at Minneapolis Central Library, 2nd floor. Public access to search full-text patent and application databases for the U.S., with abstracts for Japanese and European patents.

PubEAST (Examiner's Automated Search Tool) and PubWEST (Web-based Examiner's Search Tool) are both available.

Funding provided by the Patent and Trademark Resource Center Program.

Category: Business, Law

Reference Solutions

Formerly ReferenceUSA. Directories for Canadian businesses, and U.S. businesses and residences. Consumer/Lifestyles database offers market research.

Subscription purchased by the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA), with funding from state and federal tax revenues.

Category: Business, Directories

Regional Business News

Full-text articles from regional business publications for the U.S. and Canada. Coverage dates vary.

Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Category: Business

Value Line

Financial data reporting, analysis, and securities ranking systems. Access up to five years of technical history.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business

Winmo

Optimized for use in Chrome browser. Profiles of domestic and international advertising agencies and advertisers. Indexes brand names and offers advertising industry data.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business