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A to Z World Business

This resource is available to CLP cardholders only.

Gauge the risks and rewards of potential investments by using this resource to locate detailed country data on business and trade, current economic climate, statistical rankings and taxation. Discover whether to kiss, bow or shake hands during key cross-cultural negotiations. Import or export with confidence after securing detailed trade-compliance information. Find data from the best international organizations: Ernst & Young, The World Bank, World Trade Organization and others. For remote access, enter your library card number in the Library Login Code box.

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A.M. Best’s Library

This resource only available from within a CLP Library location.

Best’s Library Center provides online access to A.M. Best insurance company ratings and Best’s Insurance Reports. The database includes in-depth reports on thousands of U.S., Canadian and non-U.S. insurers, reinsurers and groups.

This resource can only be viewed on site

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Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective: 1913 – 1983

This resource is available to CLP cardholders only.

This unique reference is the ideal single source for information on the most important events, issues and trends in the history of business and industry. Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective features the following: citations to more than 4.5 million articles from more than 2,000 periodicals; updated subject headings, ensuring that a search using either old or new search terms will return all the information on that subject; and original subject headings to offer insight into the way the issues of the day were framed.

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Bankers Almanac Global Banking Resource

This resource is only available from CLP – Main (Oakland).  Please contact CLP – Main (412.622.3114) to request a search.

A comprehensive, global database of financial institutions, including contacts, correspondents, subsidiaries, affiliates, financial and payment information and much more.

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Business Source Elite

Full-text articles from top business, management and economics journals and periodicals including Harvard Business Review. These publications cover topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales and more.

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Capital Changes (ADR/CCH/Global Capital Changes)

This resource is only available from CLP – Main (Oakland). Please contact CLP – Main (412.622.3114) to request a search.

Access the capital changes of corporations. CCH reports provides facts and figures needed to compute a security holder’s gain or loss from capital changes.

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Conference Board

This resource is only available from CLP – Main (Oakland).  Please contact CLP – Main (412.622.3114) to request a search.

Business insights from this global, independent business membership and research association, with reports covering current issues that include diversity & inclusion, communications & marketing, innovation & productivity, sustainability, corporate governance, and much more.

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D&B Business Browser*

This resource is available to CLP cardholders only.

National and international coverage of companies and industries, including key executives, history, detailed financial information and news. Includes in-depth reports on market information. Great for research on large companies and their foreign patents and subsidiaries. *Formerly known as  OneSource Global Business Browser.

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Data Axle (formerly Reference Solutions/ReferenceUSA)

This resource is available to CLP cardholders only.

Access to the following directories:

  • U.S. Businesses: Information on 14 million U.S. Businesses
  • New Businesses: Find newly registered businesses by date and location
  • U.S. Residential: Information on 135 million US households.

Please contact Reference USA at 1.800.808.1113 if you have any problems accessing the database with your Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh library card.

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