Entrepreneurship Class Research Guide
Entrepreneurship Information Resources
This guide is designed to link you to information sources that will be helpful with your entrepreneurship project.
- Market and Industry Information
- Demographic Information
- Local and National News
- Local, State, and National Organizations
- Business Source Elite This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? The place to start when researching business topics.
- What's included? Articles from magazine, journal and professional publications, covering business, economics, management, and marketing. Also includes company profiles from Datamonitor.
- Small Business Reference Center This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? For access to a unique collection of easily accessible business information sources.
- What's included? Chapters from business reference books covering many business topics in depth. Also includes magazine articles and short videos. Covers small business and entrepreneurial subjects as well. This unique collection is worth a search!
Quick Facts from the U.S. Census
"QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more."
"The goal of StatsAmerica is to provide actionable data for economic developers to use in site requests, developing metrics, grant writing and strategic planning.
StatsAmerica is a service of the Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. We obtain thousands of data items from hundreds of data sets from dozens of federal and state sources, along with some commercial or private source data. While StatsAmerica adds value to these data through easy access and functionality, we acknowledge the direct agency source of the data on every table, profile or map."
For those working on international topics, this site provides country profiles and demographic information.
- Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? To access regional (smaller, local) business news from all around the country.
- What's included? Magazine and news articles from more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Linn County Planning and Development Annual Reports
These reports includes building permit data.
Linn County Public Health Information
Documents and reports at this link have information about births and deaths in Linn County.
Books on Business
On the first floor of the library (reference book section) we have two important books from RMA. ***Note: These books are for use in the library only. You can make photocopies if needed.***
- Annual Statement Studies: Financial Ratio Benchmarks (call number 338 R595)
- Annual Statement Studies: Industry Default Probabilities and Cash Flow Measures (call number 338 R595i).
Search for books in our online catalog from the main library page. After searching for a topic, keyword, book, title, author, etc., use limiters to narrow the results to Kirkwood Libraries and print books.
To browse the print books we have on business, entrepreneurship, etc., take a look around the following call numbers located on the second floor of the library: 303, 331, and 658. Note: These books can be checked out.
- EBSCOhost eBooks This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Search a huge collection of academic ebooks all in one search. Get a depth of information not often found in articles.
- What's included? Close to 200,000 ebook titles from a variety of publishers, on a wide range of academic topics.
referenceUSA
ReferenceUSA is a great source for generating lists of businesses in specific geographic areas, specific industries, etc. It is available from many public libraries in the area including:
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