Business

• Annual Report Gallery – Lists over 2,200 Annual Reports
• Edgar – Searchable database of forms filed by public companies (10K, 10Q, etc.) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Hoover's Online – Search Hoover's Company Capsules by name, ticker symbol, or keyword. Covers over 11,000 companies. SJU subscribes to this database and has full access to its passworded features.
• Thomas' Register of American Manufacturers – Search database by product and service headings. Covers over 155,000 companies in U.S. and Canada. Requires a free registration.
• Link to Business and Economics section of St. John's Subject Page

Information about Industries

• National Trade Databank Market Research Reports (NTDB) – Search this database for country marketing plans, industry analysis, overseas business reports, foreign labor trends, international market insights, and economic policy and trade practices
• SIC/NAICS Codes – Structure of North American Industry Classification System plus NAICS and Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) comparability tables.
• STAT-USA – From the U.S. Department of Commerce, this database contains U.S. business economic, and trade information. SJU subscribes to this database and has full access to its passworded features.
• Link to Business and Economics section of St. John's Subject Page

Sites to assist in developing a Business Plan

• Business Plan – This is a direct link to Business Planning Guidelines of the Small Business Administration. Included at this site are shareware sites which contain many free/low cost software programs desgined to be of use to a small business owner.
• Business Plan Suppliments – Many useful suppliments to the Business Plan site of the Small Business dministration.
• Ad*Access – From their page, "The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University."