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Bizminer
Compare your company’s financial performance to local and national companies of similar size by industry. Download BizMiner’s Industry Financial Profiles and Industry Market Reports; view the reports as HTML in order to input your company’s data.
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Candid Search (formerly Foundation Directory Online & GuideStar)
Search foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S. Also, access information on nonprofits where you can donate, work, volunteer, or seek out services. Nonprofits can locate funding, update their profiles and earn seals of transparency here.
To help you get started use this simple How-to instructions half sheet and the Training & Learning resources
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Cision Communications Cloud
Media outlets and contacts. Share your news release via email with journalists, bloggers and social influencers via Cision. (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library. See a Librarian.) For remote access, please submit the Contact Us form.
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Crain’s New York Data Center
Data on leading companies and organizations that operate in the NYC market; includes the New York Book of Lists; use these lists to benchmark your business, gather competitive intelligence, and target potential new clients. (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library. See a Librarian.)
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Investor’s Business Daily (IBD)
Learn how to invest, find news on market trends and personal finance, and access the digital IBD Weekly.
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JSTOR
JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journals, books, and primary sources as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The material available spans many disciplines in the arts, sciences, and humanities.
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Mergent Archives
Historical Mergent (Moody’s) Manuals of global corporate data in digitized PDF documents dating back to 1909. Also includes historical D&B Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios from 1979, Million Dollar Directory from 1959, and Who Owns Whom from 1961.
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Mintel Reports Academic
Market research reports with analysis of consumer markets, companies, and brands.
Unfortunately, the vendor restricts this resource to "view-only". You may not print or download from Mintel.
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New York Apartment Law Insider
Provides information for owners and managers of residential real estate, covering topics like rent stabilization, rent control, building maintenance requirements, and correction of code violations. (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library. See a librarian.)
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New York Landlord v Tenant Online
Provides landlord-tenant court decisions as far back as 1993, including cases from the NYC Civil Court, NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR), and NYC Environmental Control Board. (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library. See a librarian.)
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PropertyShark (New York City Only)
This site combines proprietary data with public data. View the comprehensive listing of a given property including its sale history, ownership information, zoning etc. Foreclosure listings and comparable sales along with phone numbers and maps are also available.(This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library. See a Librarian.)
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Rich Register
Net worth and biographical information of Americans with estimated net worth of $25 million or more.
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VitalLaw - Legal Research Database
Fundamentals of Securities Regulation is a concise treatise that provides essential information covering a wide array of topics concerning securities law. This compendium reviews the most significant aspects of securities regulation.
The Seventh Edition of Fundamentals of Securities Regulation incorporates the sweeping developments that have occurred in securities regulation since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Topics covered also include primary liability under Section 10(b), insider trading, sanctions, disclosure requirements, rules and forms for offerings, SEC reporting, forward-looking statements, class action suits, crowdfunding, whistleblower awards, and ADR in securities disputes. To facilitate more detailed analysis, its fourteen chapters parallel the organization of the full treatise, and extensive cross-references show you exactly where to turn.
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Wall Street Transcript
Investment advice and information from interviews with CEOs and analysts offering comments on specific equities, specific industries, finance and investing.
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