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The Business Reference Collection includes investment guides, databases, business and industry directories, periodicals, newsletters, and consumer information. The following resource guides are intended to help you navigate the Library's collection, and represent a selection of our holdings.
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BUSINESS MAGAZINES & NEWSLETTERS
The list below represents a selection from the library's collection. If you would like to access newspapers or magazines online, you can search our E-Journals database to see what we have available online.
• Advertising Age (monthly) • INC Magazine (monthly)
• American Association of Individual Investors (monthly) • Investor’s Business Daily (Monday-Friday)
• Banker & Tradesman (weekly) • Kiplinger Letter (weekly)
• Barron’s (weekly) • Kiplinger’s Personal Finance (monthly)
• Best’s Review (monthly) • Kiplinger’s Retirement Report (monthly)
• Better Buys for Business (monthly) • Louis Rukeyser’s Mutual Funds (monthly)
• Boston Business Journal (weekly) • Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street (monthly)
• Business Week (weekly) • Mass High Tech (weekly)
• Consumer Reports Money Adviser (monthly) • Money (monthly)
• Economist (monthly) • Moneyletter (Donoghue’s) (biweekly)
• Fidelity Insight (monthly) • Morningstar: ETF Investor, DividendInvestor, FundInvestor, StockInvestor (all monthly)
• Forbes (biweekly) • SmartMoney (monthly)
• Fortune (biweekly) • Wall Street Journal (Monday-Friday)
• Harvard Business Review (bimonthly) • Wall Street Transcript (weekly)
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MARKETING
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Direct Marketing Market Place
Information, statistics, and trends on thousands of listings of individuals, direct marketers, service firms, and suppliers.
(Business Reference 658.87 Direct)
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Lifestyle Market Analyst
An excellent resource to match a product or service with a geographic area or demographic group. Over 200 US places are profiled for such activities as cell phone usage, jogging, real estate investment, boating, shopping by catalog and watching sports on TV—a total of 75 interests.
(Business Reference 659 SRDS)
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SRDS Local Market Audience Analyst
This next-generation, online-only consumer market research service from SRDS and Nielsen Claritas delivers sophisticated demographic, segmentation, and targeting data for marketing purposes. The service is divided into four research modules: Market Profile Reports; Demographics Reports; Lifestyle Analysis Reports; and PRIZM Reports.
(In-library access only, see Reference Librarian for Password) |
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Morningstar.com Library Edition
Reports on 23,000+ mutual funds and 7,000+ stocks. Full reports on 2000 funds and 2000 stocks. Tools for screening securities and analyzing portfolios. Updated throughout the day. |
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Morningstar Mutual Funds
A guide to about 1,500 mutual funds with full, detailed reports on individual funds twice a year and bi-weekly updated summaries. Features ratings, risk analyses, return projections and overviews of funds by investment objective.
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Value Line Investment Survey
This advisory service provides weekly summaries and quarterly reports on more than 1,700 stocks of interest to investors. It supplies ratings, charts, tables and analysis of recent developments.
(Investment Table)
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Value Line Investment Survey: Small and Mid-Cap Edition
Adds about 1,700 more stocks to the basic Value Line service including many NASDAQ issues and smaller NYSE and ASE securities.
(Investment Table) |
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STATISTICS
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Business Data & Statistics - USA.gov
A one-stop-shop for all statistics concerning US business, this site is a great resource to begin with whether you're looking for statistics that relate to international trade, small business, region-specific breakdowns, banking, labor, general busienss, economic, or a host of other subjects. |
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Massachusetts Labor Market Information
Presented by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, this site presents labor statistics for Massachusetts, such as estimates of employment by industry, wages, job vacancy surveys, and anticipated hiring trends.. |
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Montly Labor Review
The Monthly Labor Review is the principle resource for facts, analysis, and research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In cooperation with experts from the private sector, the economists & researchers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics present monthly research in a wide variety of fields--the labor force, the economy, employment, inflation, productivity, occupational injuries and illness, wages, prices, and many more. |
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World Economic & Social Survey
Published by the United Nations, the World Economic & Social Survey provides an analysis of pressing long-term social and economic development issues and discussion of the policies impacting those issues. |
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Helpful Websites
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Big Charts
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/
Charts, historical and current quotes. Industry analysis, intraday stock screeners, and market news. |
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Business.gov
http://business.gov/
Billing itself as "the official business link to the U.S. Government" business.gov is the official site of the U.S. Small Business Administration and provides a wealth of information for small business to better understand legal requirements and governmental resources available to them. |
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Yahoo Finance
http://finance.yahoo.com
Historical and current quotes, charts, portfolio management resources, international market data, company profiles, and more. |
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Hoover’s Online
http://www.hoovers.com/
Searchable index of free profiles and financials of US companies (also has a fee-based section). |
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Kirstein Business Branch
http://www.bpl.org/research/kbb/kbbhome.htm
A specialized business reference and research service of the Boston Public Library. |
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Reference for Business
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com
Searches of full-text reference books. Business encyclopedias, business plans samples, company profiles/histories. business plan samples, company profiles/histories, and more. |
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SCORE - Service Corps of Retired Executives
http://www.score.org
SCORE is a national association dedicated to helping starting entrepreneurs and small business owners through mentoring and training programs with retired business owners and executives. Local offices are located throughout the state, which you can find here. |
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