Business and Finance

Business Research

Best of the Best Business Websites -- a subject directory of business websites created by the Business and Reference Division of the American Library Association

Business and Company Resource Center -- available through iConn databases. From home, enter your 14 digit bar code when requested.

Hoover's -- delivers comprehensive company, industry and market intelligence.

Yahoo Finance -- Market summary, quotes, screeners, a good place to start.

Investments

MarketWatch -- CBS financial site, including a portfolio feature.

MoneyCentral -- MSN's personal finance site

SmartMoney -- analysis, news, portfolio management, screeners

Valueline -- online in the adult section of the library (not from home); includes Small and Mid-Cap

Small Business

SBA -- financing and startup info from the grandaddy of gov biz programs

SCORE - e-mail counseling and best web sites from the Corps of Retired Executives

The Idea Cafe -- the "most-visited forum for small business on the Web" according to Business Week Online.

Bizlink -- sites on patents, taxes, forms, starting a business