Resources for Small Businesses

There is a wealth of resources for small businesses available from the Library and beyond. Take a look at some of these selected sources.

Local Organizations

Chamber of Commerce Directory of New York State

Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce
Gateway To Entrepreneurial Tomorrows, Inc.
Hudson Valley Technology Development Center
Mid-Hudson Small Business Development Center
SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) Directory

Web Sites

allBusiness

Business Council of New York State: Small Business Resources

Empire State Development: Division for Small Business
Entrepreneur

Green Business Guide (SBA.gov)
Kauffman Foundation: Entrepreneurship
Labor Law Obligations to Employees (New York State)
Minority Business Development Agency
New York Business Development Corporation
New York State Department of Labor: Businesses
New York State Online Permit Assistance and Licensing
Small Business and Self-Employed Tax Center (irs.gov)
United States Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Small Business Administration

Wall Street Journal: Small Business

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Periodicals

Magazines are a great resource to browse for articles of interest on business information. Check out these library holdings available from the Adriance Memorial Library and other Mid-Hudson Libraries.

Small Business Magazines
Black Enterprise
Entrepreneur
Home Business Magazine
Inc.

Minority Business Entrepreneur
Success

General Business Magazines
Business Week
Crain's New York Business
Forbes
Fortune
Harvard Business Review

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Newspapers

These newspapers in the Library's collection may include business information.

Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly
New York Times
Poughkeepsie Journal

Wall Street Journal

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Online Databases

Find articles about business topics in web-based subscription databases available from the Poughkeepsie Public Library District. Many databases provide full-text articles online to read, print, download, or e-mail to yourself, friends and business partners.

You may access these databases in the Library or from home with a valid library card. If you live in the Mid-Hudson region, but not in Poughkeepsie, find your local library's Home page, and look for the 'Home Access' logo.

See our Business Information listings, which include the following databases and more:

Business and Company Resource Center: Provides information on companies, markets and industries, mergers and acquisitions, management theory, and more. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.

AtoZ Databases : The business database contains detailed information on more than 30 million U.S. businesses. The "Custom Search" feature allows you to search for company listings by Standard Industry Classification (SIC) code, ZIP code, area code, county, number of employees, and annual sales volume, among others. The residential database includes over 200,000 listings. (Remote use for CIty and Town of Poughkeepsie residents only; in-house use by anyone at either library branch with a 'guest database user barcode' )

Here are additional databases to search for general articles, including those specific to business issues with our Newspapers, Magazines & Journals listings.

InfoTrac Newsstand : Full-text newspaper articles from across the country and around the world.

Gale General OneFile : Allows users to search more than 100 million articles from over 12,000 periodicals, newspapers and other resources (over 7,800 include full-text) originating after 1980 to present. Updated daily.

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