Whether you're perusing existing business models, researching legal information or starting your own business, these County Library resources will help provide you with information to secure your financial future.

• Business Source Premier (articles)
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  EBSCO's Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.

  

• Data-Axle (company information)
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  Formerly ReferenceUSA
  Reference and research tool providing instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on 24 million U.S. businesses and 235 million U.S. residents. Data-Axle Reference Solutions makes it faster and easier to find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, find news articles, conduct job searches, research papers, locate addresses and phone numbers, conduct market research and much more.

  
• Gale (business plan)
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  Explore your interests and determine your best opportunities. Take your business idea and walk it through the steps necessary for getting it funded.

  Eighty percent of small businesses make it through their first year, but only 55 percent make it to five. Get the planning resources you need to join the long-term successes.

  

• Legal Information (books)
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  Providing online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center™ search contains more than 310 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. Many of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. This database offers the everyday user the necessary tools and detailed “how-to” instructions to independently address a wide-range of legal issues including business law, financial planning, family law, property & real estate and rights & disputes.

  

• Morningstar (investment info)
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  Investment resource specialized in fund investing. Offers news, commentary, fund information, tutorial, tools and forums.

  

• Regional Business News (full texts)
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  This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

  

• Small Business (reference)
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  Small Business Reference Center™ provides up to date information on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management and sales to growing or rescuing a business. The database contains nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books.