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This database is the most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, ABI/INFORM Dateline and ABI/INFORM Archive.

Academic OneFile (Gale)

From Gale, Academic OneFile contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals. This comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects.

Academic Search Premier

(Via EbscoHost) Full text for thousands of publications, including thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles as well as newspapers. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further.

American Factfinder (U.S. Census Bureau)

American FactFinder provides access to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. The data in American FactFinder come from several censuses and surveys.

AVON: Academic Video Online (was VAST)

From Alexander Street Press, this comprehensive multidisciplinary streaming video resource on the Web brings together thousands of video titles in a wide range of disciplines. With thousands and thousands of complete titles (not clips), AVON includes award-winning films from dozens of notable producers and distributors.

Backgrounders: Current political & economic issues (Council on Foreign Relations)

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher. Backgrounders are articles on current political & economic issues.

BigCharts : Historical Quotes

From MarketWatch, Historical Quotes tool allows you to look up a security's exact closing price. Website also includes other financial market information.

Bplans.com - Standard Business Plan Outline

This article explains and outlines a typical business plan.

Bplans.com - Sample Business Plans

Around 60 business plan samples. Company sells plans, so you can only see these samples for free. The 500 others will cost you.

Britannica Academic Edition

An excellent online encyclopedia, dictionary, and world atlas. Don't know much about your topic? Start here.

Business Source Complete (Includes Premier--Ebsco)

(via EbscoHost) With premium full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals, this database is an essential tool for business students. It covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more.

Business USA (Small Business)

Small Business USA, produced by several US government agencies, is a centralized, one-stop platform to make it easier than ever for businesses to access services to help them grow and hire. Business USA connects businesses to the services and information relevant to them, regardless of where the information is located or which agency's website, call center, or office they go to for help. Topics include starting & growing a business, access financing, exporting, hiring employees, taxes & credits, health care changes, disaster relief, finding opportunities & more.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1976 to present (GPO Access)

Finding tool for Federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical (since 1976) and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. For publications 1895-1976 visit Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895-1976 (Chadwyck).

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Information on specific health and safety topics, public health image library, state and national data sets on health and disease as well as environmental health and emergency preparedness and more.

Charity Navigator

Find a charity you can trust.

CIA World Factbook

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Company Information Websites

Forbes
Hoover's
NASDAQ
Motley Fool
MSN Money Central
NAICS — North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (has replaced the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system)
Yahoo! Finance

Converter (Online Conversion)

Converts just about any measurement.

Country Studies

Presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

CountryWatch

Includes country reviews, data, maps, intelligence briefings, specials reports and more.

Credo Reference

General reference source, aggregating content of major subjects from the "best publishers of reference."

Data.Gov (U.S. Government data & statistics)

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data

Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

Developing Countries - Data (World Bank)

World Bank (www.worldbank.org) provides data on countries around the world. Find developing countries under "income" levels.

Digital National Security Archive

From Proquest, DNSA is several collections of recently declassified documents, other declassified documents and papers, the vast majority of them published here either for the first time or in less excised form.

Directory Library (Gale Directory Library--directory of directories)

Gale Directory Library searches together or separately Encyclopedia of Associations & Directory of Publications & Broadcast Media.

Dissertations & Theses (via Proquest)

The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. Full-text for most entries since 1997. Abstracts back to 1980.

EBook Central (formerly Ebrary)-- Academic Non-Fiction Collection

At over 300,000 online books, these non-fiction books span all academic subject areas. Can be read online or downloaded.

Ebsco eBook Collections

The library subscribes to the following eBook collections that are searched together from this link: Publishing Collection, Academic Collection North America, and Community College Collection: Nursing & Allied Health (includes Vet Tech and Computer Software), Clinical collection and Engineering Collection.

EconLit (via Proquest)

This database is published by the American Economic Association and provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. The search platform is Proquest.

EDGAR

(Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system) Access to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's database of information filed by companies that are required to do so by federal law (Public companies). SEC requires public companies to disclose meaningful financial and other information to the public so that potential investors can make informed decisions.

Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S. (Part of Gale Directory Library)

This publication is part of Gale Directory Library, a federated search engine of directories.

Entrepreneur.com's Sample Business Plans

Sample business plans from Entrepreneur.com, a website to help individuals start their own business.

FedStats

The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. government agencies. NOTE: Search this site for table information that was in the Statistical Abstracts of the United States, now discontinued.

Films on Demand

Collection by Films Media Group (FMG) of online educational videos. These films are viewed through streaming video and can be linked by faculty into online classes. Flash is the recommended viewing software. If streaming is not smooth, try a lower playback file size (300, or 400).

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (via EBSCO)

An online encyclopedia

Gale Reference (GVRL)

All of your favorite reference books online. Search within one reference title, across several reference titles, or even across several other Gale databases.

General OneFile (Gale)

General OneFile is Gale's largest general-interest database with more than 8,000 titles (most in full text with no embargo), many of which are recommended by Bowker's Magazines for Libraries. We've included the reference, newspaper, and audio content that complements the resource's robust collection of magazines and journals.

Global Issues in Context

From Gale, this database provides perspectives on International news, events, health, business, foreign conflict, science, society, politics, women and family and other issues as well as maps, history and other tools.

Government Documents

University of South Florida's gateway to Federal and some state government documents.

GOVINFO.gov

Govinfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.

Govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Investor Words

Glossary of investing & accounting terms.

JSTOR

Provides full-text to scholarly journals in administration, African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, law, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population, psychology, public policy, sociology, statistics, US and International Music research and theory, and more... Current issues are not included.

Lexis-Nexis - Advance (UNI)

Lexis Nexis has full-text and abstracts of news, business, and legal information. Great source for regional, national, and international newspaper coverage.

MasterFILE Premier

(via EbscoHost) Multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 2,000 general reference publications dating as far back as 1975. Also includes more than 360 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

Montana Census & Economic Information Center

From the Montana Department of Commerce with links to Montana's census data.

Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895-1976 (Chadwyck)

An historical archive of U.S. Government publications from 1895-1976. For publications since 1976, visit Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1976 to present (GPO Access).

Motley Fool

Financial news including S&P 500 news, stock market tracking, and other investing information. Includes list of top DOW companies.

MSN Money

Get stock market quotes, news, featured stories and more.

NACo

National Association of Counties provides governance, ordinances, news, isuues, and other county organizational and demographic information. Also provides a "Find a County" feature.

NAICS (North American Industry Classification System)

From the U.S. Department of Commerce, NAICS is the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy. Find the NAICS codes & information for various industries by keyword or by their code.

NASDAQ

Follow the U.S. stock market, get quotes and research information, see market activity, news, and investing insights.

New York Times

Free, but registration is required.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Also a guide to career information about hundreds of occupations.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection

From ready-reference (quick reference) to comprehensive scholarly articles.

Proquest Central

An interdisciplinary database by Proquest; includes JBI (nursing evidence-based journals) and agricultural journals. Also find peer-reviewed articles, newspapers, and magazines, plus more!

Proquest Comprehensive

Proquest Comprehensive includes Proquest Central, SciTech, Historical Newspapers, Ebrary (eBook Central) ebooks as well as many other smaller, specialized collections. Remember to limit to type of information once you do a search (scholarly articles or newspapers or books, etc.)

Note: Click on databases at top and select all databases to search everything.

Regional Business News

(via EbscoHost) Coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970

Provides digital access to Sanborn fire insurance maps for Wyoming cities and towns. Used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.

SBCDNet Business Plans & Templates

A clearinghouse of information of interest to small businesses. Sponsored by the Small Business Administration of the U.S. Government, this link provides many sample business plans and templates as well as other information.

SciTech Collection (Proquest)

Proquest's full Science and Technology collection including biological, medical, physical, environmental, engineering, materials, toxicology, aerospace, telecommunications, computer sciences and much more!

Serials Locator (360 Link) - Start with the citation

Have a journal article's citation but need to find which database carries the full text? Search for the citation in this electronic journal locator tool created by Serials Solution 360 Link. Includes information about paper holdings at the library.

ThomasNet - Supplier Discovery, Product Sourcing & CAD drawings

Find product suppliers, source products, and download 3D CAD models.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Directory

Search by State for local Chamber of Commerce offices and their contact information and websites.

U.S. News Archives on the Web

United States newspaper archives available on the Web

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

USPTO is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks.

United Nations Demographic Yearbook

Find statistics about countries, their people and population changes over time.

Universal Currency Converter

Converts over 85 currencies.

USA.gov

The official portal for all USA federal, state, and local information, from online documents and resources to social security benefits, government jobs and tips on stretching your dollars.

WorldCat - cataloged items from libraries around the world

Library catalog of books, audiovisual materials, music scores and recordings, government publications, etc. from around the world. No journal articles. Find an item you wish to check out? Contact NWC Library & we will get the item for you via Interlibrary Loan.

Wyoming Digital Collections (Wyoming State Library)

All things Wyoming! Wyoming newspapers, places, publications, legislation, inventors, and trademarks.

Wyoming Economic Analysis Division (Also Labor & Population)

This Division includes Wyoming demographic information, economic data, cost of living information, population estimates, special reports and State revenue information. Also includes national population comnparisons.

Wyoming Inventors Database

Indexes United States patents in which one or more of the inventors were from Wyoming.

Wyoming State Website

Portal access to the State of Wyoming government

Wyoming: Big Horn County Government

Includes the towns of Lovell, Greybull, & Basin.

Wyoming: City of Cody Municipal Code

Includes other information about the City of Cody.

Wyoming: City of Lovell Municipal Code

Find other Lovell, WY information on the Town of Lovell website.

Wyoming: City of Powell Municipal Code

Find additional information about Powell & city gorvernment from this website.