Brainfuse VetNow
VetNow offers support for veterans and their families with navigating the VA bureaucracy, providing academic tutoring, and employment transition assistance. Work with live, online navigators who are veterans ready to help their peers. Find job tools designed to help veterans at all stages of the job-hunting process. Build academic skills for college and beyond with live tutoring, practice tests, writing review, language learning, and more. Click to read the VetNow User Guide. Click here to watch a video on how to use VetNow.
Business Source Complete
Full-text coverage of business, management and economic journals and periodicals. Topics include finance, international business, marketing and more.
Creativebug
Over 1,000 art and craft video classes for adults and kids, taught by recognized design experts and artists. Topics include fiber and paper arts, jewelry making, sewing and quilting, food, home and more. Create your free account and enjoy unlimited access to instructional videos, patterns, and access to exclusive documentaries and live video feeds on Creativebug Television (CBTV). Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
D&B Hoovers
Offers in-depth financial comparisons and analysis of over 85 million public and private companies. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
D&B Key Business Ratios
Provides 14 key business ratios covering solvency, efficiency, and profitability over a three-year period.
DemographicsNow For Libraries: Business & People
Provides comprehensive demographic, business and residential data with customer tools for reporting and analysis. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Factiva
Provides the latest news and information from nearly every industry and region, with access to popular resources such as The Wall Street Journal, St. Louis Business Journal, St. Louis Post Dispatch, The New York Times, and more! Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
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First Research [D&B]
Provides in-depth industry information on over 1000 industries. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
Covers starting and operating a business, includes business journals and a wide selection of sample business plans.
Gale Business: Insights
Access to Business:Insights will cease after 6/30/2023. Please check out First Research or D&B Hoovers as alternatives.
Comprehensive coverage of business topics provided through company profiles, industry overviews, company and industry rankings, investment reports, articles published in business journals, and press releases. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Gale Business: Plan Builder
Gale Business: Plan Builder is a step-by-step online planning tool to help you write a plan for your business or nonprofit organization. Choose from a variety of business plan formats and Plan Builder will guide you through each section of your business plan, and when you are done you will have a formatted, organized, professional-looking document. The first time you use Plan Builder you will need to create a username and password.
Gale Courses
Gale Courses offers a wide range of highly interactive, instructor led courses that you can take entirely online. As a library card holder in good standing, you are entitled to these courses at no cost. Courses run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month. You must click to enter Lessons 1 and 2 within the first two weeks of the class or you will be automatically dropped. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Gale Directory Library
The Gale Directory Library (GDL) is a digital platform that lets users access directories – that is, extensive listings of companies, organizations, publications, people, products, and more. With GDL, users can cross-search multiple directory products or search a single title.
Gale LegalForms
Provides access to thousands of State and Federal legal forms covering legal area like landlord-tenant relations, divorce agreements, business relationships and end-of-life issues. These forms are provided for informational purposes and are not intended to take the place of an attorney’s legal advice. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com)
Please use your library barcode and pin to log into the upgraded LinkedIn Learning. If using the app, the library code is slcl.
LinkedIn Learning provides access to thousands of online courses and tutorials in over 10 languages to help you learn about leadership, career searching, software, marketing, and many other skills essential to the job market. These self-paced courses include videos that vary from a few minutes long to multi-hour courses with downloadable exercise files.
Mergent Archives
Mergent Archives is an online database featuring a vast, indexed collection of corporate and industry related documents. The database contains hundreds of thousands of reports covering many countries and industries. Check out the newly added Country Insight Reports under D&B Manuals to find essential political, economic and commercial information on over 130 countries.
Mergent Intellect
Mergent Intellect features a deep collection of worldwide business information including private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Reference Solutions
This online directory contains millions of listings for businesses, residents, new movers, and consumers across the U.S. Look up specific companies or individuals or use advanced search tools to build a list of potential customers, learn more about competitors in your industry and more. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Small Business Reference Center
Online access to NOLO ebook titles such as The Employer's Legal Handbook, Complete Guide to Selling a Business, Every Nonprofit's Tax Guide, Working With Independent Contractors, and many more. Find articles on starting and growing small businesses, industry reports, videos and state-specific information. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Statista
Statista provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on more than 600 industries. In addition to tables and charts, Statista also provides infographics and studies on selected industries and topics.
Consumer Reports [EBSCO]
Access full-text articles (1991 to present) from Consumer Reports via MasterFILE Premier/EBSCO. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Financial Literacy
From Rosen Digital, the Financial Literacy database makes economics and personal finance easy to understand and highly engaging. Articles explore macro-, micro- and global economics as well as personal and household finance. Users will learn to manage credit and debt, save and invest with confidence, plan for college and retirement and avoid fraud and scams. Beneficial for grades 7-12 as well as adults.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Search over 30,000 stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs to determine where to invest your money. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Value Line Online
Investment newsletter that profiles companies activity traded on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ stock exchanges and speculates on their future performance. Individual company profiles are updated every 13 weeks. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Weiss Financial Ratings Series Online
Search independent, unbiased financial strength ratings of banks, credit unions and insurance companies. Compare rates and plan benefits for Medicare Supplement Insurance, as well as the cost, to help you decide which plan to choose. If you don't see "Welcome to St. Louis County Library" in the top right corner, you will need to sign in. Click Sign In and then enter your card number as "SLC00xxxxxxxx." Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Foundation Directory Online (In Library at DB, FV, GG, GV, LC)
Access to detailed information on grant makers, grants, and grant recipients, as well as access to grant maker web sites and searchable 990s. Foundation Directory Online is available in-branch at Daniel Boone, Florissant Valley, Grand Glaize, Grant's View, Lewis & Clark and Headquarters/Clark Family. Click here for a video tutorial about using this resource.
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online (In Library Use Only)
Find foundations that provide financial support for individual grant seekers.