Useful Databases for Finding Financial Info for Investors
These databases can be accessed from home with a Glendale Public Library card. If
you do not have a library card, you can access them inside the library with an Internet
card.
The library’s website is www.glendaleaz.com/library; choose “Research Tools, By
Subject.” On the next screen, click on “Business and Investment.”
Business and Company Resource Center
Extensive business and industry news and information, company profiles, company brand
information, histories, and more. Includes Investext, Predicast's Newsletter database and
PROMT (Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology) - which contains market research
studies of companies, products, and technologies.
Hoovers Online
Business, industry, and company information for U.S. and foreign companies. Much of the
content on this site is free. (Please Note: Pro Tools are available only to users inside the
library.)
Reference USA
The number one source of information on businesses and people for researchers, students, job
seekers and government agencies. Find businesses based on employee size, sale, volume,
type of business and location. Includes U.S. Business, New Businesses and U.S. Healthcare
databases.
MasterFile Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for
nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.
Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full
text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an
Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via
EBSCOhost.
Smart Investing @ your library websites around the country,
containing FINRA resource tools:
www.smartinvestingatyourlibrary.info/ (Alliance Library System)
http://www.saclibrary.org/?pageId=751 (Sacramento Public Library)
http://retirement.newtonfreelibrary.net/finra/default.aspx
(Newton Public Library)
http://amespubliclibrary.org/researchCollections/SmartInvesting.asp (Ames Public Library)
http://www.trlib.org/finra.htm
(Timberland Regional Library)
http://www.naperville-lib.org/smartinvesting/pilot.htm (Naperville Public Library)