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For information about any of these resources, call the reference desk at 871-1725
Library Electronic Resources | Company Information | Stocks and Financial Information | Small business and Entrepreneurship |
News sources | Career and Employment | Library Print Resources

Library Electronic Resources

  • Reference USA Search for directory information on businesses nationwide. Narrow searches by criteria such as geography, size, type of business.
  • Mergent/Moody's Online offers financial information on more than 10,000 publicly held corporations, plus annual reports, historical data, equity reports, and more.  
  • Marvel! Databases  Research articles and company information with several databases:
  • Business and Company Resource Center
  • Business Source Premier
  • Econlit
  • Proquest Newspapers
  • Regional Business News
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Valueline 

Company Information


Stocks and financial information


Small business and Entrepreneurship

  • Maine Small Business Development Center "Dedicated to helping Maine's small businesses succeed".  Offers video courses on business topics.
  • SCORE The Portland Chapter's website includes information about upcoming workshops and web links for entrepreneurs.
  • Secretary of State This site provides information on how to incorporate in Maine, forms and filing fees, and a corporate name search.
  • The SBA provides information on starting, financing or expanding a small business.
  • Entrepeneur.com Includes Start-up Kits for over 40 businesses.

News Sources

  • Newspapers Directory of online newspapers from around the globe, from the Internet Public Library
  • Maine Media Listings of Maine newspapers, magazines, and radio and television stations.
  • Bizjournals.com Connect to any of 46 city business journals or search all at once.
  • Maine Biz "Maine's business news source"

Career and employment


Library Print Resources

The library has many print resources available in the Reference Department of the Main Library. For information about these resources, call the Reference Desk at 871-1725.
  • Company and Investment Information
    • Morningstar Mutual Fund Reports
    • Value Line Investment survey and Expanded Edition
    • Futures: the magazine of commodities and options
    • Hulburt Financial Digest
    • Investors Business Daily
    • SRC Blue Book of NYSE charts
  • Mutual Funds
    • Morningstar Mutual Funds
    • Value Line Mutual Fund Survey
  • Small business
    • Small business sourcebook
    • Business Plans Handbook
  • Other business resources
    • CRB Commodity yearbook
    • Directory of Obsolete Securities
    • D&B Principal International Businesses
    • Market share reporter
Periodicals
The library subscribes to many business periodicals, including:
  • Across the board
  • Advertising Age
  • B to B
  • Best's Review
  • Barron's
  • Black Enterprise
  • Business Consumer Advisor
  • Business Horizons
  • Business Week
  • Business Woman
  • Canadian Business
  • Commericial Fisheries News
  • Economist
  • Entrepreneur
  • eweek: Building the .com enterprise
  • Forbes
  • Fortune
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Inc
  • Industry Week
  • Journal of Accountancy
  • Journal of Marketing
  • Journal of Small Business
  • Mainebiz (in Portland Room)
  • MIT Sloan Management Review
  • Office solutions
  • Restaurant Business Magazine
  • Realtor Magazine
  • Pulp and Paper
  • Sales and marketing Management
  • Technology Review
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Workforce
  • Ziff Davis Smart Business

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