Business and Investment

Our online database resources at Investment Research and information will provide you with many tools to conduct your investment inquiries.

The library provides a number of publications and services with up-to-date material useful to business people and investors. The entries on the following Business list, Investment list, and Mutual Funds list are selections from the library's reference collection. An asterisk (*) indicates that the item is located on an index table.

Business Resources

• ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASSOCIATIONS
  Gale Research Company - R061.3 Enc (Info Desk)
  Includes professional and trade organizations.

• DOW JONES-IRWIN BUSINESS & INVESTMENT ALMANAC
  Dow Jones-Irwin - R330.9 Dow Annual compendium of events and statistics for business and investors.

• ECONOMIC INDICTORS HANDBOOK
  Gale Research Company - R330.973 Eco
  Provides a wide range of statistical data used for measuring the U.S. economy, including GNP, GDP, composite indexes of leading, lagging, and coincident indicators, CPI, and PPI.

• BILLION DOLLAR FUNDS
  Institute for Econometric Research - R332.6327 Bil
  Gives performance data on America's most successful mutual funds.

• BARRON'S FINANCE AND INVESTMENT HANDBOOK
  Barron's - R332.678 Dow
  Investment alternatives, reading financial reports and financial pages, plus a dictionary of finance and investment.

• WORLD FRANCHISE DIRECTORY
  Gale Research Company - R381.13 Wor
  1550 listings grouped by product or subject category.

• BRAND'S & THEIR COMPANIES
  Gale Research Company - R602.75 Bra

• NTC's AMERICAN BUSINESS TERMS DICTIONARY
  National Textbook Company - R650.03 Car
  Definitions of common and technical terms from the fields of finance, advertising, international business, real estate and others.

• BUSINESS FORMS ON FILE
  Facts on File - R651.29 Bus
  A loose-leaf collection of various types of forms for photocopying.

• INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS
  Fitzroy Dearborn - R658.15025 Fit
  Gives background information on the venture capital industry and over 1000 venture capital sources of funding.

• CONSULTANTS AND CONSULTING ORGANIZATIONS DIRECTORY
  Gale Research Company - R658.46 Con
  Lists more than 23,000 consultants and consulting firms.

• RAND MCNALLY COMMERCIAL ATLAS AND MARKETING GUIDE
  Rand McNally - R912 (Atlas File)
  Includes many statistical tables of population, business and manufacturers, agriculture, and other commercial features.

• THE KIPLINGER LETTER
  Kiplinger Washington Editors
  Weekly newsletter forecast on business and economic trends.

• THE KIPLINGER TAX LETTER
  Kiplinger Washington Agency
  Biweekly newsletter for non-tax experts focusing on tax issues and problems associated with personal or business financial management.

Investment Resources:

Standard and Poor's Services*:

Other investment resources

• WALKER’S MANUAL OF UNLISTED STOCKS*
  Walker’s Manual LLC - R332.6 Wal
  Covers many over-the-counter stocks not included in Standard & Poors OTC reports.

• VALUE LINE INVESTMENT SURVEY*
  Value Line Inc - R332.6305 Val
  Weekly evaluations of 1700 common stocks.

• THE INDEPENDENT ADVISER FOR VANGUARD INVESTORS*
  Fund Family Shareholder Association
  Monthly newsletter provides independent investment advice and in-depth information of all stock and bond funds on the Vanguard family of mutual funds.

• PERSONAL FINANCE*
  Kephart Communications
  Bimonthly newsletter.

• FIDELITY INSIGHT
  Mutual Fund Investors Association, Inc.
  Monthly newsletter.

Investment Newsletters:

• DICK DAVIS DIGEST*
  Dick Davis Digest -R332.6 Dic
  Bi-weekly digest of financial newsletters offering investment advice on a variety of individual companies.

• INVESTMENT QUALITY TRENDS*
  Value Trend Analysis - R332.6 Inv
  A highly quantitative monthly newsletter providing investment advice and market trends.

• LOUIS RUKEYSER’S WALL STREET*
  Financial Service Associates - R332.6 Lou
  Investor awareness source that charts and predicts trends of 350 select Blue Chip stocks. It also speculates on the direction of the economy.

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MUTUAL FUNDS

• FIDELITY MONITOR*
  Independent Fidelity Investors
  Monthly newsletter from the Fidelity family that provides analysis and performance of a variety of types of mutual funds.

• MORNINGSTAR MUTUAL FUNDS*
  Morningstar Inc.
  Bi-weekly evaluation of over 2000 mutual funds.

• VALUE LINE MUTUAL FUND SURVEY*
  Value Line Inc - R332 Val
  Bi-weekly evaluation of 2200 mutual funds.

• LOUIS RUKEYSER'S MUTUAL FUNDS*
  Financial Service Associates - R332.6 Lou