ABI/INFORM Collection
Features thousands of full text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country and industry focused reports, and downloadable data. Great for industry reports, trade journals and company profiles. You can learn more about ABI/INFORM by watching this video from NC LIVE and exploring the links on this page.

Data Axle Reference Solutions 
Formerly ReferenceUSA. Reference and research tool providing instant, real time access to accurate, in depth information on 77 million U.S. businesses and 295 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. Great for competitor research and B2B sales leads. You can learn more by watching this video from NC LIVE and reading these instructions.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship gives business owners 24-hour expertise covering a day all aspects of starting and operating a business, including finance, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, and taxes. Great for sample business plans and understanding the process of starting a business. Use this guide for an overview of the database.

Gale Business: Plan Builder
Business planning can be a complex and unfamiliar process. Often, entrepreneurs don’t know what kind of information they need, where to find it, or how to get started. Gale Business: Plan Builder brings it all together by offering an engaging, step-by-step guided experience–complete with the information and tools needed to move through the entire business development life cycle. The program’s intuitive dashboard walks users through the five essential steps of business planning and explains what each activity is, why it is important in the overall process, and how to get started. Use this guide for an overview of how to use this database.

Gale LegalForms
Take the law into your own hands and create accurate, reliable legal documents with no hassle with Gale LegalForms. It offers North Carolina specific “attorney forms” - officially approved forms actually used by law firms. Many of the forms and documents are available in Word and Adobe format so you just need to simply fill in the blanks. Great for business form templates. You can learn more by watching Gale's video guide and reading their resource guide.

Morningstar Investment Research Center
Offers real time investment research. Patrons have access to many popular premium features of Morningstar including research and independent opinions on thousands of stocks and mutual funds. The site is designed to fit the needs of library patrons and reference librarians. Great for investment research.

NC LIVE
Business provides North Carolina residents and students with searchable collections of magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, electronic books, historical materials, maps and much more covering a wide range of topics. Great for searching multiple databases simultaneously and beginning your search. Complete their tutorial to get started.

Simply Analytics
A web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional quality thematic maps and reports using powerful demographic, business and marketing data. Great for demographics, consumer behavior statistics and market research.

Only two simultaneous users are able to access Simply Analytics at one time. Having trouble? Checkout our detailed tutorials and instructions for this resource. 

Social Explorer 
Social Explorer is a visualization and data-mapping tool with thousands of data indicators across demography, economy, crime and more. It includes data from the entire US Census from 1790 to the present, annual updates from the American Community Survey, and other data sets. Great for historical demographic data. You can learn more by watching beginner and advanced videos from NC LIVE and accessing this guide from Social Explorer.

Value Line
An investment tool for researching stock information on a company or looking for the overall climate within a given industry. Great for investment research.

A valid Greensboro library card number is required to use these resources outside of the library.