Business & Finance Resources

Our Print Resources (Available for In-Library Use Only)
Newspapers:
Barron's
Boston Business Journal
The Boston Globe
Investor's Business Daily
The Wall Street Journal

Magazines:
Bloomberg Businessweek
Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Our Online Resources
AtoZdatabases
​The premier job search, reference and mailing list database including 30 million business and executive profiles and 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, and much more!
Gale OneFile: Business
Provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily. 
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory
Offers instant access to full-text academic journals and magazines—with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. Content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.
Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability
Connects researchers to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including: Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more. 
Universal Class
​Universal Class offers over 500 lifelong learning and continuing education courses in over 30 subject areas. All courses are designed and led by professional instructors and include videos, assignments, quizzes, tests, and options for social media interaction with other learners. Users can take as many classes as they would like and complete classes at their own pace. This resource is library funded.
Boston Public Library Online Resources ​
You will need a Boston Public Library e-card to access these resources. All Massachusetts residents are able to sign up for a BPL e-card for free.
DemographicsNow: Business & People: Enables users to produce comprehensive business and residential lists as well as detailed demographic reports or use a mapping tool that visualizes trends.
Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2010: Searchable article and page reproductions of the world’s most authoritative daily business newspaper.
Mergent Archives - Historical Annual Report Collection: Access an extensive library of historical documents featuring in-depth analyses on thousands of global companies in the United States, Canada, and Europe going back to the early 1900s.
Mergent EventsData: ​EventsData delivers on-going updated information on stock-splits, mergers, tender offers, partial/full calls, and  name changes. EventsData message feeds capture and analyze breaking business developments as they occur. Users are able to  research corporate actions, dividends, fixed Income and unit Investment trust data from a historical perspective.
Mergent Intellect: ​Delivers private and public United States and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executives and industry profiles.  Provides contact information for over 250 million United States consumers and shows job listings specific to each company.
Mergent Online: In depth reports on over 30,000 public companies, both U.S. and Global. Information includes financials from company SEC filings, annual reports (current and archived), institutional holdings and insider trading from 1995 to the present.
Morningstar Investment Research Center: Provides real-time access to comprehensive data and independent analysis on thousands of investments, spanning mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds.
Statistical Abstract of the U.S.: ​Published annually by the Federal Government since 1878, The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the best-known statistical reference publication in the country, and perhaps, the world. It is used as both an answer book (“How much corn is grown in Iowa?”) and a guide to statistical sources (“What organization has the most authoritative data on foreclosures?”). As a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States, it is a snapshot of America and its people for the current year.
Statistical Insight: Indexes U.S. Federal statistics (1973-present), state government and business statistics (1980-present), and international statistics (1880-present). Full-text coverage: 2004-present (U.S. Federal), 2007-present (state, business, international).
Value Line: Provides a vast array of financial measures for over 6,000 stocks, 18,000 mutual funds, 200,000 options, and other securities. Delve into Value Line’s accurate estimates, projections and historical data to discover opportunities that fit your investment strategy.

Other Online Resources ​

Bureau of Economic Analysis: Source of U.S. economic and industry statistics.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the field of labor economics and statistics.
Census.gov Business and Economy: Census Bureau economic statistics.
Data.gov: Official U.S. government site providing increased public access to federal government datasets.
Federal Reserve Economic Data: Database maintained by the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Grants.gov: The Grants.gov system houses information on over 1,000 grant programs and vets grant applications for federal grant-making agencies.
IRS Starting a Business: Links to basic federal tax information for people who are starting a business, as well as information to assist in making basic business decisions. 
Mass.Gov Business Resources  Register your business in Massachusetts, find information about necessary licenses, learn about tax information.
U.S. Small Business Administration: ​An independent agency of the federal government that has delivered millions of loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses.