Business and Investment Tools

Whether you're researching competitors, preparing for a job interview, investigating a potential business opportunity or making investment decisions, company, industry and investment research can be critical.
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Business & Investments (Financial data, profiles & histories, news & analysis )
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Find residential and business phone numbers and addresses! Company profiles in the Business database include address, phone number, size, lines of business, and executive or contact for each firm. The Residential database covers 120 million households.
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Morningstar Investment Research Center offers proprietary stock and mutual fund analysis, screening tools and portfolio-building features to library patrons.
Note: Access to this resource is limited to 5 concurrent users (both on-site and remote access) from our greater library service area at a time. If you are denied access, please try again later.
Morningstar Investment Research Center is provided through funding to Dauphin County Library System as the Capital Area Library District. Access is shared between all 22 libraries in Cumberland, Dauphin, and Perry counties.
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Magazine & News Articles (Easily search thousands of newspaper articles)
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Search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, translate articles into 11 different languages, create email alerts, and customize your search options and results format. Produced by Thompson Gale.
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Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Provided by POWER Library, produced by H.W. Wilson Company.
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Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Select Edition is a multi-disciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts, from the following Wilson periodical databases: Art Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text. Provided by POWER Library, produced by H.W. Wilson Company.
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Readers' Guide Full Text, Select Edition is a 100% full-text database containing comprehensive indexing, abstracting, and full text of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.
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Environmental Information (GO GREEN with GreenFile)
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Offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Topics covered include climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provided by POWER Library, produced by EBSCO.
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Looking for a Career?
Career Library Can Help
Career Library offers a comprehensive information resource for career and college research. Access the user-friendly Exploration Center, Planning Center, Resource Center, Help Center and Activitiy Center to match your interests to occupations, education prospects, and more. >> Go to Career Library
Some of the great features are:
- 2,500 occupations, nearly 4,000 2-yr and 4-yr Colleges & Universities
- Interest & skills assessment
- Comprehensive Financial Aid Center
- Occupation Video Library (English & Spanish)
- Resume Builder
- College & career planning checklists
- "Cool Jobs" feature
- FAQs, handouts & help files
- Test preparation GED, ACT/SAT, history, vocabulary, math & English proficiency
- ASVAB, COPS/CAPS, Holland Alignment
- State-specific data on resources, job searches, scholarships and more
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