The best source available to Swarthmore students for finding business articles from newspapers, journals, wires, and transcripts, detailed financial data about companies, company profiles, and the all important Edgar filings. Click on the Business icon.

Contains full-text of many of the major business trade and scholarly journals, including Fortune and Money.

Offers basic financial information on public companies around the world. Coverage includes industrials, utilities, transportation, banks, insurance, and others. Includes annual reports and disclosure statements.

A good general source to get an overview of how to conduct business research.

Lists approx. 90,000 companies, mostly private, with brief description of gross billings, operating revenues, number of employees, ticker symbol etc.

The standard business reference source since 1928. Provides information on company  name, stock exchange, SIC does, and description of business, assets, and number of employees.

Useful directory for determining the divisions, subsidiaries, and joint ventures of a company.

Ranks business activities by subject. Useful for quickly determining who the top defense contractors are for the Air Force or Army (it's not Halliburton in either case) or who owns the largest company is Israel.

Gives pertinent information on important figures in finance and business.

Gives a nice overview of company histories - so you can learn quickly learn how Halliburton diversified and expanded in the 1950s and what happened when it merged with Dresser Industries. Also gives sources for further readings.

Concise two page entries on over 750 major American businesses, including a list of officer names and titles, major locations and sales figures, a list of competitors, and ten years' worth of financials. There is a separate handbook for international businesses.

A good website put together by the University of Washington that brings together a variety of resources about Iraq. The coverage is balanced to include information from all sides of the debate, and has a nice list of conservative, centrist, and progressive think tanks.