These key resources provide quality investment information, business directories, periodical directories, and general business research tools.
Available with Skokie Public Library card
Subscription Resources
BusinessDecision from CIVICTechnologies
BusinessDecision is a reporting and mapping service that combines extensive consumer household, market segmentation, and demographic data with GIS mapping technology. Use this product to locate potential customers, identify new store locations, evaluate competitors, or focus marketing efforts.
Factiva.com
A database that provides full text access to over six thousand news wires,
newspapers, magazines and journals. Includes many specialized trade
journals, international business resources, and sources such as the Chicago
Sun-Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. Coverage varies by source.
Skokie Public Library's guide to this database
Hoover's Online
Hoover's Online provides basic contact information for over twelve million
companies, with detailed reports for more than 40,000 of them. Information
is available for industries and competitors.
Skokie Public Library's guide to this database
LegalForms from
Thomson Gale
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord/tenant, and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
LexisNexis Library Express
LexisNexis Library Express provides access to over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources. The news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. The Company Dossier module includes detailed company and financial information. This product also provides access to federal and states court cases back to 1789.
Please note: The Legal section is only available to in-Library users.
MediaFinder
MediaFinder is a directory of print media publications from Oxbridge Communications. Find contact information or create lists of magazines, newsletters, newspapers, or catalogs. Subscription price, advertising rates, circulation figures, and staff contacts are also included in each entry.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Morningstar Investment Research Center provides access to information on stocks and
mutual funds for potential investors and researchers. Reports include
Morningstar Star ratings and the opinions of stock and fund analysts. Funds
and companies can be searched by name or ticker symbol and lists can be
generated by customized screening criteria.
Skokie Public Library's guide to this database
Public Records Electronic Database
This database contains local public filings of new businesses, new
homeowners, home foreclosures and sales, and bankruptcies in the Illinois
counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will.
Skokie Public Library's guide to this database
ReferenceUSA
A directory with information on over 12 million U.S. businesses and 120
million U.S. households, as well as 1.3 million Canadian businesses and 12 million Canadian households. A special HealthCare section provides additional information on doctors, dentists, and medical offices.
Skokie Public Library's guide to this database
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information that offers online access to Standard & Poor's research-related products such as stock reports, corporation records, The Outlook, dividend records, and more.
