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Databases – Business / Law

AtoZ Databases

Detailed information on 30 million businesses and executives, over 200 million residents, 2 million new businesses as well as new movers/homeowners, U.S. healthcare professionals, a jobs database, background and criminal search and email marketing.

Business Book Summaries

Concise yet comprehensive summaries to help professionals and students keep up with the latest information in the business world. A wide range of topics is covered including business biographies, change management, communication, entrepreneurship, leadership, marketing, personal growth, productivity and technology.

Demographics Now: Gale Business

Providing Geographic Business Intelligence for:

Business & Marketing Plans—fast and easy formatted reports available in seconds!
Determining where you should locate your business.
Understanding your customers better—How much do they earn? How much do they spend?
Analyzing new markets. . . should you expand to other areas?
Targeting direct mail and advertising programs—to the customers most likely to buy your product/service.
Identifying where your competitors are located.
Great for territory sales planning!
Lifestyle customer segmentation categorization used by the professionals.

eBook Business Collection

A key resource for academic and business school libraries.

Entrepreneurial Studies Source

The latest insights on entrepreneurship and small business topics for business students and researchers. Content comes from business journals, magazines, reference books, case studies and company profiles.

Legal Forms

Michigan Gale welcomes you to the most extensive free forms site available to library patrons. Thousands of legal forms available with more forms being added daily.
Warning: Public users should consult an attorney in your state for serious legal matters.

Legal Information Reference Center

Designed to assist the general public in legal matters of all kinds. Coverage includes exclusive full text for many top consumer legal reference books, thousands of legal forms, and detailed how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo. Warning: Public users should consult an attorney in your state for serious legal matters.

Legal Source

Authoritative database for current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. It is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals and others involved with the law. Warning: Public users should consult an attorney in your state for serious legal matters.

Morningstar Investment Research Center

3 Simultaneous User Limit

Morningstar Investment Research Center combines in one convenient resource all the stock, fund, industry and ETF information necessary for in-depth research and smart portfolio construction. It is a one-stop-shop for screening and report building tools including extensive help and education materials. Allows searching by name, date range, or text such as institutional name, social affiliation(s), geographic location(s), philanthropic activities, etc.

Reference Solutions (previously Reference USA)

Reference Solutions, founded as ReferenceUSA in 1992, is an online tool to give library patrons and business owners access to data on over 17 million businesses and 320 million consumers. Reference Solutions eliminates the need to scour multiple websites or perform complicated searches. Reference Solutions does it all — collecting and verifying the most accurate and up to date research data available. This database brings information directly to you.