Rio Hondo College Library - Corporations--Research Subject Guide

Corporations--Research
The following guide provides Web site links, a list of selected books, and access to online periodical articles about this subject. The Web site links have been researched, evaluated, and annotated by Rio Hondo College Librarians. The Librarians have specifically selected these Web sites to meet the research needs of Rio Hondo College students

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go to How to Search for Company Information Search Engines Web Sites for Company Information

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Los Angeles Public Library : Company Information Online Research Guide
http://www.lapl.org/resources/guides/bus-research/index.html
Excellent online guide for resources on the Internet.

The New York Public Library : Searching for Company Information
http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/company/c2index.htm
An excellent guide to seeking, finding, and retrieving company information.

Researching Companies Online
http://www.learnwebskills.com/company/index.html
13 easy steps to finding company information of various kinds.

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Yahoo! Commercial Directory - Business and Economy
http://dir.yahoo.com/business_and_economy/
On this page note especially these two links: Directories and Finance and Investment. Click on either of them for many options in finding company and other business and investment information.

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AnnualReports.com
http://www.annualreports.com/
Current annual reports from over 2,200 companies full text online.

EDGAR Database
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm
EDGAR = "Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval," the Securities and Exchange Commission's database of the various documents (filings), all full text online since 1994 to the present, that publicly held companies doing business in the United States are required to file with the SEC.

Los Angeles Times Stock Quotes
http://www.latimes.com/business/
In the box under "Investing Tips and Tools," type in a company symbol. A "Company Profile" page results, including the latest information about the price of a company's stock.

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ProQuest
Can lookup information and get current news in ProQuest on individual corporations.

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The following books can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library.

Reference Books (2nd floor)
Non-circulating:

Annual Report
Call number: Ref HG100
Shelved alphabetically by company name in pamphlet boxes

International Directory of Company Histories
Call number: Ref HD2721.I63 1988
An ongoing series with a cumulative index to all previous volumes. Excellent histories of thousands of companies, with updates as appropriate in successive volumes.

Value Line Investment Survey
Call number: Ref HG4501.V26
Statistic and analysis for 1700 publicly traded companies grouped by industry, with information for each industry group and the individual companies within that group updated every 3 months.

Related information about business, economics, finance, investing, management

Beyond Standard & Poor's : non-print sources for company information
Call number: Ref HG4009.B49 1999x

Dun & Bradstreet's guide to doing business around the world
Call number: Ref HF1416.M78 1997

Economic report of the President transmitted to the Congress
Call number: Ref HC106.5.A272
Also available on the Web at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/eop/index.html

Encyclopedia of management
Call number: Ref HD30.15.E49 2000

Guide to economic indicators
Call number: Ref HC103.F9 2000

Hoover's handbook of private companies
Call number: Ref HG4057.A28616 2002

Hoover's handbook of world business
Call Number: Ref HG4009.H66 2002

The Lists (Los Angeles Business Journal)
Call number: Ref HD2798.C2L6

Suggested Subject Headings
For additional titles on this topic at Rio Hondo, click on the following Library of Congress subject headings:

Corporations

Corporations--United States

Investments

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Use the box below to search for additional resources in Rio Hondo College Library.

Researched and evaluated by:
D. Yashar, Librarian 5/1999
last update: D. Yashar, Librarian 7/2007

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