Databases

The Library subscribes to many databases with high-quality business information. The databases are available from home or work with a valid Springfield-Greene County Library card or at any Springfield-Greene County branch library.

• ABI/INFORM Dateline
  Includes hard to find local and regional business news sources including information about city and county municipalities.
• Agriculture Collection
  Current and authoritative content that spans the industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.
  
• Business & Company Resource Center
  Provides company, industry and investment reports as well as hundreds of business periodical articles, market share data and company histories.
• Business Decision
  Combines extensive consumer household, market segmentation and demographic data with GIS mapping technology.
• Business Economics and Theory
  Business classes and other users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their info needs.
• Communications and Mass Media Collection
  Provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, etc.
• Culinary Arts Collection
  Wide-ranging food industry information from respected sources. Companies, trends, statistics, etc.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  Business component includes these publications: Business Plans Handbook; How Products Are Made.
  
• Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection
  Current and relevant content from over 500 industry journals. Well-rounded historical coverage as well. Also provides focused study of specialized aspects of the industry, including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.
  
• Reference USA / US & Canadian Businesses
  Find address, phone, size, contact person, sales, competitors, number of employees, etc.for millions of businesses in the U.S. and Canada.
• Reference USA CorpTech
  More than 95,000 U.S. and Canadian technology related businesses.
• Reference USA Health Care
  Physicians and dentists (only) in the United States. Database has more than 1.2 million entries.
• Reference USA New Homeowners
  National coverage, updated weekly.
• Reference USA New Movers
  With hundreds of thousands of movers each week, search by geography, moving distance, etc.
• Small Business Resource Center
  Learn how to start, finance, or manage a small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites
  
• SummaryXchange
  Read summaries of new business titles. Three new summaries are added each month.
• Value Line
  Access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options, and convertible securities, as well as special situation stocks. Company news, extensive graphing, market updates, portfolio tracking with alerts, and analyst supplements in real time are included.
  
• Wall Street Journal
  Indexing and full-text articles from 1984 to the present. It does NOT include advertisements, digest of earnings table, dividends table, foreign currency exchange, futures prices or stock tables.
• Wall Street Journal Historical
  Full-image and page by page of the WSJ covering 1889 to 1989.