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About.com (research companies by region)
Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite
Bloomberg
Bloomberg UK
British Library online
Business History Conference
Business Information Sources on the Internet (directory of business resources)
Campaigners' Guide to Researching Corporations (Cornerhouse)
Census Bureau Foreign Trade Statistics
Center for Comprehensive Corporate Research (CCCR) Guide to Researching Corporations
Center for Cooperative Research
Center for Responsive Politics (Campaign Finance Research)
Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)
CEO Express
Companies (Online Search Engine)
Corp Watch - US
Corporate Crime Reporter
Corporate Finance Network (financial research)
Corporate Information
Corporate Rankings (Open Directory list of different rankings)
Corporate Record
Corporate Research Project
Corporate Watch - UK
CorpTech (for profiles of high-tech companies)
Dialog (database search service -- you have to pay to use)
Dialog (free trial period or one-time purchases available)
Disinfopedia (collaborative research project)
Documentary Videos
Dow Jones
Environmental Background Information Center (EBIC)
EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online d-base
Essential Information - Search
Factiva (subscription-based search service of news publications)
FAST CD (research corporate labor relations history)
Federal Lobbyist Online (Senate d-base)
Feedster
Financial Times (Companies)
Find Law
Follow the Money (research state campaign $)
Freedom of Information Act Guide (Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press)
Freedom of Information Center
Gale Research (directories of experts)
Global Infrastructure Projects Database (U.S. Dept. of Commerce Internation Trade Admin.)
Green-Watch (research corporate front groups)
GuideStar (researching nonprofits and front groups)
Hemscott (search profiles of British co's).
Hoover's
Influence.biz (tracks lobbyists and PR firms)
Infrastructure World (free/register; elect power, energy, telecoms, water)
Institute for Global Communications (IGC) - Data Center
Integrity in Science (Center for Science in the Public Interest)
Integrity In Science, CSPI's Database of Corporate-funded Scientists
Interlocking Directorates - Corporate Library report
Internet Archive (to find pages that have changed or disappeared)
Investext (free trial period or one-time purchases available)
Investext analyst report archives
IRE Beat Source Guide
Job Tracker (AFL-CIO) - research who's outsourcing jobs
Knowx (has feature on executive affiliations)
Legal Dockets Online
Lexis-Nexis (fee-based records and news search service)
Library of Congress Business Resources Page
Mbendi's Companies of Africa
National Institute on Money in State Politics
National Tobacco Documents Library
National Trade Professional Associations of the United States
Oligopoly Watch
Open Director Project links to researching corps
Orient Business Express (database of companies)
Oxford Analytics (service of Oxfor U. -- by industrial sector)
PACER (U.S. Court Records)
PoliticalMoneyLine
Powerize.com
Pretrieve (public records search engine)
Private Finance (d-base of public/private partnership projects)
Private Finance (search public/private partnership d-base)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers (search newspaper archives)
Public Citizen - Freedom of Information Clearinghouse
Public Records Online
Researching Corporate/Law Firm Ties
Responsible Shopper
Search Systems (thousands of free, searchable public records)
Socrates Social Responsibility Database
Sourcewatch
The Corporate Library
The Data Center
Thomas Register (Manufacturers)
Transnational Law Database (Center for Transnational Law - Cologne)
Transnationale - English
UN Centre on Transnational Corporations (maintained by former UNCTC staff)
Vickers Stock Research
Wall Street Research Net
Washington Researchers
Yahoo Finance
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