Library: Business: Additional Resources

Government Websites

ALFRED
Retrieve versions of economic data that were available on specific dates in history. Test economic forecasting models and analyze the decisions made by policymakers with the same data that they used.
FRASER
The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER) provides easy access to the nation’s economic history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System—through digitization of documents related to the U.S. financial system.
FRED
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) has more than 149,000 economic time series from 49 sources, compiled by the Federal Reserve. Collected from a variety of government departments, these time series cover banking, business, financial, employment and population data.
GEOFRED
Map economic data housed in FRED's at a state, county, and metropolitan statistical area level.
Statistics of U.S. Businesses
Annual or static data including number of firms, number of establishments, employment, and annual payroll for most U.S. business establishments.

Business Websites

Advertising Age
Advertising Age includes ongoing coverage of strategic topics for marketers from mid to large companies complemented by breaking news and a database of the world's best creative.
American Community Survey
An ongoing survey that provides data every year -- giving communities the current information they need to plan investments and services -- directed by the U. S. Census Office.
APICS Supply Chain Council
APICS Supply Chain Council advances supply chains through research, benchmarking, and publications.
Biznar
A "Deep Web Business Search" that includes resources from periodicals, government resources, news sources, and social networks.
CNN Money
The world's largest business website, CNNMoney is CNN's exclusive business site with business, markets, technology, media, luxury, personal finance and small business information.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
The mission of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is to protect market participants and the public from fraud, manipulation, abusive practices and systemic risk related to derivatives – both futures and swaps – and to foster transparent, open, competitive and financially sound markets.
Emerging Markets by Bloomberg
Up-to-date information from Bloomberg on emerging markets in the global economy.
Investment Company Institute
The Investment Company Institute is the national association of U.S. investment companies, including mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and unit investment trusts (UITs).
Junior Acheivement
Junior Achievement is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.
Reference for Business
Encyclopedia of American Industries' Reference for Business provides an overview of various industries' structure, history, development, industry leaders, and more.
RePEc
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components, all maintained by volunteers.
Working Knowledge by Harvard Business School
HBS Working Knowledge is a forum for innovation in business practice, offering readers a first look at cutting-edge thinking from HBS faculty, and the opportunity to both influence and use these concepts before they enter mainstream management practice.

Business Blogs

Forbes
The website for this bi-weekly American Business magazine publishes several blogs with business-related topics that may offer interesting perspectives.
Wall Street Journal Blogs
The WSJ blogs cover many topics, some relevant to business studies. You can select business blogs and view only those midway down the page.

Blogs: Harvard Business Review

The Harvard Business Review is a research-based magazine that focuses mostly on managerial topics. Its website features many blogs on business-related topics and current events.

Federal Reserve Bank Publications

Visit the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' website for free access to articles, reports, reviews, and newsletters on economic and business related issues.

Publications