Resources

Business LinksFor your convenience, Consupro has compiled a number of tools to make day-to-day business processes quicker and more efficient. It can become cumbersome and time-consuming to consult many different reference materials to complete one simple business transaction.

Here you will find sites containing a wealth of business resources. If you have suggestions for the library, please be sure to let us know.

Business Reference

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MacRAE'S Business Directory Featured Resource
Searchable on-line directory of millions of businesses with more than 5 million product listings powered by MacRAE’S Blue Book Yellowpages.com Industrial Directory, the original directory Since 1893. Free to use and free listing available. The MacRAE'S Business Directory website allows buyers access information on products and services. All information is classified in popular product classifications.

Business.com Featured Resource
Business.com helps business decision makers quickly find what they need to manage and grow their businesses, and enables advertisers to reach these users wherever they are across the business Internet through premier partners, including Forbes, BusinessWeek, Hoovers, Financial Times and Internet.com.

Profile Canada Featured Resource
ProFile Canada is a trusted source for comprehensive business information profiling Canada's largest 1,000,000 businesses. Databases customized by geography, industry and size, you can cull from our data and target invaluable sales leads to grow your business.

B2BToday.com
One of the largest business to business related search engines in the World.

B2B Index
B2B Index is the UK’s largest dedicated Business to Business Directory.

Bitpipe
A free library of IT white papers, webcasts and product information to help with your IT purchase decisions. Research the latest tools, technologies and techniques and compare offerings from thousands of technology companies.

Experts.com
Search for top experts in a variety of fields.

KnowledgeStorm Featured Resource
Business technology research site for making informed technology decisions.

Lexis Nexis Featured Resource
LexisNexis provides authoritative legal, news, public records and business information with legal, tax and regulatory publications in online, print or CD-ROM formats.

Library of Congress
Home page of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts.

Library Spot
Directory of libraries, references (almanacs, dictionaries, calculators, etc.) along with exhaustive lists of books, periodicals, and headlines.

Commercial Mortgages
Seven hundred and fifty commercial lenders await your application. Simply input your needs and the computer will instantly search a database of 750 commercial mortgage lenders and give you a list of twenty commercial mortgage lenders who are hungry for your exact type of deal. You can then submit your loan to the four most attractive commercial lenders with just one mouse click.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias…

Dictionary.com Featured Resource
Dictionary.com is a multi-source dictionary search service produced by Dictionary.com, LLC, a leading provider of language reference products and services on the Internet.

Merriam-Webster Online
Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources.

Britannica Featured Resource
Full text and free access to over 125,000 sites and 70 journals, the complete Encyclopedia Britannica is available, along with daily news, markets, sports and weather. The site has an advanced search function that allows searches by words or phrases.

Encyclopedia.com
Provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Seventh Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspapers and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps.

Reference Sites…

Bartleby's Quotations Featured Resource
Over 11,000 quotations searchable by key word; based on the original Bartlett's Quotations.

How Many? Units of Measurement
A dictionary of units of measurement. All systems of weights and measures, both metric and non-metric, are included. Both the International System of Units and the English Customary Units systems are indexed.

How Stuff Works
Multi-media explanations to hundreds of subjects including technology, biology, automotive engineering, travel, time, money and more. Updated daily, searchable by keyword and browseable by topic.

Information Please Almanac
Browse atlases, almanacs, encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Martindales' Reference Desk
Compiled by Jim Martindale and hosted by the University of California at Irvine.

Old Farmer's Almanac
Online version of the old favorite. In addition to the standard information, look up today in history, today's weather history, advice, puzzle and quotation of the day.

Maps and Atlases…

National Geographic's Map Machine Featured Resource
Contains a wide assortment of geographic information that users can access to create map images and download data. U.S., international and global data is included.

University of Texas Library Map Collection
A collection of 2,400 free, non-copyrighted general and special interest maps of the US and the world.

World Fact Book
CIA facts and reference maps for 268 countries. Information available for each country includes geography, people, government, economics, communication, transportation, military and transnational issues.

Phone Numbers and Zip Codes…

555-1212
Look-up by residential and business name; reverse look-up; and directories of area codes, local web sites, e-mail addresses, and international.

AnyWho
Phone number search tool from AT&T for searching on people or companies in the U.S. or Canada.

Area Code Finder
Provides current information related to area, city and country codes (US and international).

Zip Codes
Free site from the U.S. Postal Service allows you to search by city/state and to look for 4+ extensions.

Tips & Tutorials…

eCommerce Street Smarts
Trading with confidence requires ability, determination and patience. To establish a higher level of confidence, observe how potential trading partners respond to communication.

Internet Tutorials
Tutorials range from basic Internet navigation and language to strengths and weaknesses of various search engines. Created by the University at Albany Libraries.