To Find Books
Use the MERLIN Library Catalog and the MOBIUS Union Catalog to find resources relevant to your research. Relevant works can be found using subject headings (Library of Congress) such as:
Use the MERLIN Library Catalog to find books owned about specific companies. A book about a company will have the name of the company as the subject heading.
To find the location of a book in Miller Nichols Library, see the Location Guide.
To Find Articles and Financial Data
Remote (off-campus) access to databases is available only to UMKC students, faculty, and staff. All other users must access online resources within the Libraries. Begin searching by selecting a database. After selection you will be prompted to provide a UMKC Single Sign-On user name and password OR a 9-digit UMKC ID number followed by the letter k (example: 0123456789k) and last name, as needed.
Serials Solutions (Journal locator for online articles)
Serials Solutions is a tool to locate full-text journals, magazines and newspapers in UMKC licensed databases. Since not all electronic journals are cataloged in MERLIN, you need to check Serials Solutions as well to make sure you are not missing the journal.
- ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) 1971 - present.
Save to del.icio.us.
Selected full text 1985 - present.
ABI/INFORM Global indexes and abstracts over 2,770 publications in the area of business and management, with full text available for over 1,840 titles. Publications range from magazines to trade publications to scholarly journals. Full text is also available for the Wall Street Journal. -
Business
Source Premier (EBSCOhost) 1922 - present; coverage varies by title Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1922 - present; coverage varies by title.
"Provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more.... The database also includes …country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group, and CountryWatch” as well as the OECD. Detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies are generated from Datamonitor reports incorporating SWOT analysis. Market research reports emanate largely from Gartner. [Source: Business Source Premier Database Information Screen, June 23, 2005]
Link to EBSCOhost web user's guide. - LexisNexis Academic 1969 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1980 - present.
Provides citations and abstracts or the full text of materials covering general news topics, company research and financial data, industry analysis, government and politics, taxation, and the law. Available resources include newspapers, magazines, journals, business reference materials, case law, law reviews, and industry reports. Link to LexisNexis Academic user's guide. -
Mergent Online 1990 - present Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1990 - present.
Mergent Online provides public company data for 15,000 (active and inactive) companies on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges. Records include business profiles, company histories, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long term debt and capital stock, income statements, balance sheets, stock splits, dividend payment history and historical daily pricing and charting back to 1971. [from the Mergent Online website, July 20, 2005] - OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1994 - present.
Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
- Value Line Research Center (Value Line) Current edition. Save to del.icio.us
Full text.
Note: If you see a welcome screen with a line that reads "To continue and log in, please click here," click on the word "here" and you will be taken to the database.
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Reference Sources: Analysts Reports, Country Risk, Guides, Histories, Directories, Rankings...
Reference sources are useful for locating background information, definitions, general descriptions, and basic facts. Use these books to help you select or focus your research topic.
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted. Titles are linked to the corresponding MERLIN Library Catalog record.
Guides To Finding Information About Companies
| How to Find Information About Private Companies | Ref HD2771 .H695 |
| How to Find Information About Foreign and Global Companies | Ref HD2771 .H69 |
Analysts Reports
LexisNexis
Academic |
Online |
| Business & Company Resource Center (Gale) Analysts or investment reports are found by first searching a company name and then selecting the tab marked "Investment Reports." The reports in BCRC come from Investext Plus. Database not available at UMKC; Available through Kansas City Public Library, Johnson County Public Library and Mid-Continent Public Library. |
www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/reference/
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Company Histories
| Business & Company Resource Center (Gale) Contains company history information also found in International Directory of Company Histories and Notable Corporate Chronologies. Database not available at UMKC; Available through Kansas City Public Library, Johnson County Public Library and Mid-Continent Public Library.. |
www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/reference/ Mid-Continent link |
| Everybody's
Business: A Field Guide to the 400 Leading Companies in America Leading companies in every major industry. Gives market standing, sales, founding date, owners, comments on the business as a place to work, and social responsibility. Lists consumer brands. |
Ref HD2741 .M65 |
| International
Directory of Company Histories Includes companies with at least $50 million in annual sales. Most of the companies are public, but 10% are from the private and nonprofit sector. The directory gives address, phone, Web URL, date of incorporation, employment figures, sales, ticker symbol and SIC codes, but more importantly, the corporate history. The histories also are abridged in the Business and Company Resource Center database (see above). |
Ref HD2721 .D36 |
Mergent Online |
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| Newcomen Society Pamphlets Pamphlets on individual company histories. The Newcomen Society of the US is an educational foundation for "the study and recognition of achievement in American business." Search MERLIN by keyword "newcomen." |
Special Collections Snyder HD 2771 |
| Notable
Corporate Chronologies Includes 1150 companies for the U.S. and abroad. Entries list the significant events in a company's history in a timeline. |
Ref HD2721 .N67 |
| World
Class Business A guide to the 100 most powerful global corporations at the time this book was printed. |
Ref HD2755.5 .M384 |
Company Directories, Handbooks, and Data Sources
| Directory of Corporate Affiliations Available through Lexis Nexis Academic. |
Online |
| D & B
Million Dollar Directory Company information includes headquarters location, executives, business description, and sales data. Separate indexes for geographic area and SIC allow easy identification of companies in a particular region or industry. Covers public and private companies. Print edition held at UMKC; Online thru Mid-Continent Public Library. |
Ref Bus Alcove
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Hoover's Information includes a business summary, headquarters location, officers, corporate structure, competitors, link to SEC filings, earnings estimates, historical financials, company products, services, brand names, divisions, subsidiaries, and joint ventures. |
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| Hoover's
Handbook of American Business Available thru Lexis Nexis Academic. Covers 750 of the largest and most influential enterprises, including 700 public, 30 of the largest private. The top 500 are the largest companies in sales and employees. Covers public companies and some private. |
Lexis Nexis Academic or Ref Bus Alcove HF5030 .H61 |
| Hoover's
Handbook of Emerging Companies Available thru Lexis Nexis Academic. Lists 250 companies that demonstrate growth and potential. Revenues fall between $20 million and $1 billion; annual sales growth must be at least 25%. Covers public companies, but includes some private. |
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| Hoover's
Handbook of Private Companies Available thru Lexis Nexis Academic. Covers 900 of the largest most influential private companies. Includes some universities and nonprofits. Gives detailed information on 200 companies, and less detailed information another 700. |
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| Hoover's
Handbook of World Business Available thru Lexis Nexis Academic. Provides 300 profiles of global giants and companies with substantial activity in the U.S. Covers public companies only. |
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| Lexis
Nexis Corporate Affiliations Covers U.S. and foreign companies. Learn who owns whom. Provides very brief financials, personnel, outside service firms, subsidiaries. Lists only companies with revenue in excess of $10 million, employees in excess of 300 people, and non-US revenue in excess of $50 million. Covers public and private companies. |
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Mergent Online |
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| Standard and Poor's Standard
Corporate Descriptions Current information on publicly held companies including incorporation history, location, stock data, bond descriptions, S&P bond rating, property and facilities locations, officers and more. 1999-current. Also available through LexisNexis Academic. Covers public companies only. |
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| Standard & Poor's
Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives The Register covers 75,000 corporations listing addresses, annual sales, number of employees, stock exchange, ticker, and NAICS codes. Volume 2 lists 290,000 directors and executives and 70,000 biographical sketches of top level managers. Volume 3 indexes the corporations by NAICS and geographic region. Covers public and private companies. |
Lexis Nexis Academic |
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ThomasNet.com A business to business searchable database of 650,000 companies with detailed product specifications, parts,drawings, and company descriptions. Company URLs provided, sales, number of employees, date founded. Product catalogs. Includes Thomas Register and Thomas Regional. |
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Value
Line Investment Survey |
Company Rankings
| Business
Rankings Annual (Gale) UMKC holds print edition; Available online thru Business and Company Resource Center database thru Kansas City Public Library, Johnson County Public Library and Mid-Continent Public Library. |
Ref Bus Alcove |
| D&B
Business Rankings D&B ranks 25,000 companies by size of sales and employees. Other lists include state and industry rankings. Covers public and private companies. |
Ref Bus Alcove HG4057 .A238 |
| Forbes Lists Find the 200 Best Small Companies, the 400 Best Big Companies, the Forbes 500s, the Forbes International 500, and the Largest Private Companies among others. Covers public and private companies. |
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| Fortune Lists Find all the Fortune lists. |
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| Market
Share Reporter MSR reports publicized market share on 3600 companies, 1800 brands and 2100 product and commodity categories. MSR limits its rankings to the U.S., Mexico and Canada. UMKC holds print edition; Available online thru Business and Company Resource Center thru Kansas City Public Library, Johnson County Public Library and Mid-Continent Public Library. |
Ref Bus Alcove Mid-Continent Public Library |
| World
Market Share Reporter Now incorporated into Market Share Reporter as of 2007. |
Ref Bus Alcove HF5410 .W67 |
Company Full Financial Information
Annual Reports, 1964-1991 |
Microfiche Collection Ground Floor |
| Carol European and U.S. annual reports. Covers public companies only. |
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IRIN Annual Report Resource Center Covers public companies only. |
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| LexisNexis Academic 1969 - present. Save to del.icio.us Selected full text 1980 - present. Financial information is drawn from:
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| SEC EDGAR The official Web site for Securities and Exchange Commission filings.1994-present; Covers public companies only. |
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SEC Info |
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| Standard & Poor's Research Insight (Compustat -
North America) The database contains fundamental financial, statistical, and market data for U.S. and Canadian corporations, banks, savings and loans, business segments, geographaphic areas, industry composites, indexes and index fundamentals, in addition to data on inactive companies. Covers data elements from annual and quarterly income statements, balance sheets, cash flows and supplemental data. Time-series items go back annually for the past 20 years and quarterly for the past 48 quarters. There are also 240 months of U.S. and Candadian economic data. Data is derived from publicly traded companies appearing on the NYSE, ASE, NASDAQ, OTC, Toronto Stock Exchange, Quebec Stock Exchange, Montreal Stock Exchange and wholly owned subsidiaries of companies filing with the SEC. Covers public companies only. |
Bloch School of Business and
Public Administration in the lab. |
Country and Political Risk
Save to del.icio.usSelected full text 1922 - present; coverage varies by title. "Provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more.... The database also includes …country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group, and CountryWatch” as well as the OECD. Detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies are generated from Datamonitor reports incorporating SWOT analysis. Market research reports emanate largely from Gartner. [Source: Business Source Premier Database Information Screen, June 23, 2005] Link to EBSCOhost web user's guide. |
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PRS Group International Country Risk Guide and other sources. Go to Business tab and select "Country Profiles." |
NAICS and SIC Industry Codes
SIC stands for the Standard Industrial Classification System. NAICS stands for the North American Industry Classification System. These schemata are a way to assign codes to all products and services by industry. The codes are useful when gathering data for an industry. The resources below list SIC and/or NAICS codes for all industries.
ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) 1971 - present. |
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| LexisNexis Academic 1969 - present. Save to del.icio.us Selected full text 1980 - present. Codes appear with company information |
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Mergent Online |
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| NAICS/SIC Correspondence
Table Look up codes or use the correspondence table to map old SIC codes to new NAICS codes. |
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| SEC EDGAR |
Kansas City Companies
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Business
Source Premier (EBSCOhost) 1922 - present; coverage varies by title Save to del.icio.us Selected full text 1922 - present; coverage varies by title. "Provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more.... The database also includes …country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group, and CountryWatch” as well as the OECD. Detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies are generated from Datamonitor reports incorporating SWOT analysis. Market research reports emanate largely from Gartner. [Source: Business Source Premier Database Information Screen, June 23, 2005] Link to EBSCOhost web user's guide. |
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| Kansas
Business-to-Business Sales & Marketing Directory This comprehensive directory organizes Kansas businesses by city, yellow page category, major employers and manufacturers by city. The sources for the content are the Yellow pages, annual reports, SEC filings, newspapers and magazines. Entries include the address, owner/manager, number of employees, estimated sales volume and credit rating. Covers public and private companies. |
Ready Ref HF5065 .K2 K36 |
| KansasCity.com
Companies Covers public and private companies. |
www.kansascity.com/ mld/kansascity/business/companies/ |
| Kansas
City Metro Business Directory Includes addresses, phone, estimated sales, SIC, employment numbers, location type, credit rating and officers. Information is organized alphabetically, as well as by zip code and SIC. Covers public and private companies. |
Ref HF5068 .K2 C66 |
| Missouri
Business-to-Business Sales & Marketing Directory This comprehensive directory organizes Missouri businesses by city, yellow page category, major employers and manufacturers by city. The sources for the content are the Yellow Pages, annual reports, SEC filings, newspapers and magazines. Entries include the address, owner/manager, number of employees, estimated sales volume and credit rating. Covers public and private companies. |
Ref Bus Alcove HF5065 .M8 M57 |
Sorkins
Directory of Business and Government (Kansas City ed.) |
Ref Bus Alcove HC108 .K36 S65 |
Web Resources
- @Brint
"The Premier Network for Business, Technology and Knowledge Management," a comprehensive business resource site.
(www.brint.com/) - America's
Biggest 100 Computer Companies
Ranked by sales.
(www.netvalley.com/top100am_vendors.html)
- CNNMoney
- Forbes
Lists: Forbes 500, 200 Best Small Companies, 400 Best Big Companies, 500 Largest Private Companies, International 500, World's Best Big Companies.
(www.forbes.com)
- Yahoo Business
and Economy
(dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/)
Use search engines linked on the Internet Search Tools page to identify additional Web resources.
For further assistance, please contact the
Miller Nichols Library Reference Desk at (816) 235-1534.
