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.

Associations Unlimited

Local, national, and international nonprofit membership organizations and professional societies. Includes contact information, affiliations, and brief histories.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business, Directories

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

Gale Directory Library

Find wholesalers, distributors, tradeshows, scholarships, fellowships, loans, publishers, and brands and their companies.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business, Directories, Education

Human Resources Compliance Library

Available only in a library. Addresses changing HR practices and federal and state laws.

Subscription purchased with funding from Hennepin County property taxes.

Category: Business, Employment, Law

Replaces D&B Million Dollar Directory. 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, 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.

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., and abstracts for Japanese and European patents. Both the Examiner's Automated Search Tool (PubEAST) and the Web-based Examiner's Search Tool (PubWEST) are available.

Funding provided by the Patent and Trademark Resource Center Program.

Category: Business, Law

RedBooks

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

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 coverage for regional business publications covering metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S. Coverage varies, typically from mid 2000's, some older.

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

Category: Business

Small Business Resource Center

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

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