At Patents.com, you can search patents in the U.S. and European patent databases. You can search for active patents as well as abandoned or expired ones.
The Beehive is maintained by the One Economy Corporation, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. The Side Hustle section of the site offers information on starting, managing, and growing a business.
The Stacks at AccessMyLibrary provides instant and easy access to articles focused on the subject of Business. From publications like Business Wire and Crain's Chicago Business, as well as its broad coverage of popular topics like Advertising and Marketing, International Business, and Personal Finance, AccessMyLibrary gives you free and unlimited access to newspaper archives, journal articles, magazine back issues, reference works and more, all courtesy of your local library!
ThomasNet.com is the leading industrial destination containing every conceivable industrial product or service. More than one million buyers a month, including engineers and purchasing professionals, rely on ThomasNet's resource of more than 607,000 industrial companies in North America, indexed by 67,000 product and service categories. Industrial companies are listed free and can expand their presence.
The SEC protects investors and maintains the integrity of the securities markets. Its site offers the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) database, which contains reports the SEC requires companies to file, and a tutorial for using it.
"ValuationResources.Com is a free guide to business valuation resources, industry and company information, economic data, and more. Designed as a comprehensive resource guide for business appraisers, the site's audience includes a broad mix of business owners, professionals, students, and other parties interested in business valuation and industry information."