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Print Resources
Here's a small sampling of our directories
- Hoover's Global 250: The Stories Behind the Most Powerful Companies on the Planet
- Hoover's 500: Profiles of America's Largest Business Enterprises
- Hidden Job Market
- Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory
- Good Works: A Guide to Careers in Social Change
- Job Seeker's Guide to Socially Responsible Companies
- Hoover's Guide to Computer Companies
- Peterson's Private Secondary Schools
- The Official Museum Directory
- O'Dwyer's Directory of Public Relations Firms
- Research Centers Directory (covers all fields)
- Book of Lists, sorted by region
Magazines
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Web Resources

From researching a company and finding a job to reading about the latest workplace trends, experience.com has it all.
Lexis-Nexis: Invaluable resource for seeing what's been published about the organization in which you are interested. You may have problems accessing Lexis-Nexis if not using a university computer. Explore both the General news category and the Business news category, which includes information on corporations and nonprofits, publicly or privately owned.
Wilson Business Abstracts: Brown University library link. Go to Databases and select WilsonSelect, which is full-text business information. Check out the advanced search features.
Brown : Register with the Brown University Student-Employer Connection. Check out the employer listings to get direct links to hundreds of employer websites. The organizations you will find on Brown have registered with Career Services and are particularly interested in recruiting Brown students.
Debbie Flanagan's page: A step-by-step process for finding company and industry information on the web.
Debbie Flanagan's Nonprofit Info: Tips and links on researching nonprofits.
Idealist: Search through more than 20,000 nonprofit and community organizations.
WetFeet.com: The inside scoop on numerous companies and industries.
Vault: More than a thousand company profiles.
Yahoo! Info: Profiles on a wide range on industries. <
And don't forget to check the company's web site. Find for the site and other information on search engines such as altavista, yahoo, or google.