Business Information
- Acronym -Finder This site will help you find out the company, organization, or government agency hiding behind those hard to figure out alphabet soup acronyms!
- Area Code Lookup USA - Area Code Lookup USA is a resource for finding the zip codes for states, cities, and even individual businesses & people.
- Association of Research Libraries - Provides a listing of 123 member libraries affiliated with North American research institutions.
- BizWeb - A good starting point for many business information needs.
- Business Sources on the Internet - Business resources, on-line, from the Pittsburgh Library. Good place to start to obtain directions where to find key business and industry research information.
- Convert Me - A terrific conversion tool for just about any type of measure - mass, weight, temperature, distance, length, area, speed, pressure and many more. Convert U.S. to metric or many other choices. This is a all-in-one conversion tool!
- Encyclopedia of American Industries - Contains 4-digit SIC code descriptions for all the series of American industrial SIC codes.
- Encyclopedia of Management - Terrific business resource for all types of common business management issues. Hundreds of topics are covered from Affirmative Action to Employee handbook to Market Research to Planning to Shareholders to Vendor Rating.
- Encyclopedia of Small Business - Informational articles on a wide range of business topics pertinent to smaller manufacturers. This site contains hundreds of reference topics including Absenteeism, Consulting, Industry Analysis, Internet Domain Names, Manufacturers' Agents and Market Analysis..
- Fedstats - Provides links and ways to obtain information from over 70 agencies of the U.S. Federal government which produce statistics and information of public interest. This site also has a search engine to help in finding specific information in federal agency documents and statistics.
- ISO Easy - This web site helps organizations understand and implement ISO 9000 and ISO 9001 models for quality assurance.
- Moody's Company Information - Good source for financial information.
- Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes - Listing of the Standard Industrial Code (SIC) system for categorizing U.S. business. Allows for an easy progression from 2-digit to four digit codes and then sub-listings below the 4-digit codes.
- Starting Point - This resource provides information on Business, Finance, News, Technology and more. Provides direct access to many useful on-line resources.
- Statistical Abstract of the US - This site is a good source for U.S. demographic data.
- STAT-USA - An Internet browsing source for business, trade and economic information produced by the U.S. Government. This web site is a service of the Department of Commerce's Economics and Statistics Administration.
- Thomas Register of American Manufacturers - - ThomasNet. Provides information on 156,000 companies and a search feature for companies and products.