Databases most frequently referenced by local businesses.
These library subscription databases are available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library cardholders.

Associations Unlimited
Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.

Gale Business Insights: Essentials
A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Covers 1980 to the present year.

Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

DemographicsNow
From Gale/Cengage Learning comes a multifunctional database that can pull all the information together which anyone would need to start a business, research a market or search out demographic data. DemographicsNOW can search a directory database of over 206 million individuals or 135 million households. For business information, 23 million companies can be targeted by name, address, telephone, line of business, size of company or financial data. All of the data sits atop a powerful mapping capability (based on the 2010 U.S. Census) and the Experian Marketing Services Mosaic(R) USA consumer lifestyle profiles, all of which provides the serious market researcher with a very powerful tool. Results can be printed as pdfs or exported to a spreadsheet program.

Kompass
Information on almost 1.7 million companies in 74 countries, 23 million products and services in 52,000 categories, 2.7 million executives' names, and over 400,000 trade and brand names.

Morningstar.com
Investors who depended on Morningstar Mutual Fund publications for unbiased analyses have a new resource, Morningstar.com. This easy to use site offers in-depth analysis of stocks, mutual funds, and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Most reports, excluding the interactive graphs, may be printed. Analysts' research, key ratios, SEC filings, financial statements, dividend and returns info, market segment comparisons, and company snapshots are all available.

NetAdvantage
Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage puts the power of many familiar S & P publications to work for you! Included are the Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Outlook, and the familiar Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives. News items and market snapshots are also found on NetAdvantage. To fully explore the site, take the guided tour in the lower right hand corner of the page. Information may be printed as an html or pdf page or exported to a spreadsheet. Archival data for many of the publications can also be found on the site.

ReferenceUSA
Detailed information on nearly 12 million U.S. businesses and 102 million U.S. residents. For residential listings, name, address, phone and general demographic information on neighborhoods are provided. For business listings, basic company information such as address, phone numbers, size, and executive names, is listed.

Regional Business News
Interested in news with a business focus? Looking for a local take on companies or business conditions around the country? Want to see newswire releases? Regional Business News from EBSCO is your source. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program.

Value Line
For stock research you can trust, turn to Value Line. All the features of the print version, plus easy access and navigation.