Library Databases

  • Library Databases
    • Business Insights: Essentials

      Company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Requires LAPL Library Card or e-card to use on computer outside the library.

    • Business Reference Sources (LAPL)

      Bibliographies, abstracts, and location of reference tools (including business directories) kept in the reference area of the Central Library's Business & Economics Department. Accessible from any computer via the web: no library card required for this database.

    • Gale Business: Demographics Now

      Offers resources to search for people, businesses, and demographic information. Search for an individual company or create a mailing list of multiple companies from over 23 million businesses. Requires LAPL library card or e-card to use outside the library.

    • Gale Directory Library (Was Associations Unlimited)

      Detailed descriptions of more than 135,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local membership organizations in all fields. Requires LAPL Library Card or e-card to use on computer outside the library.

    • Gale OneFile: Business

      Formerly called General Business File ASAP and Business Collection (Gale).  Provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Research activities of companies and industries worldwide through business and trade publications, complemented by a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications.  Requires an LAPL library card or e-card to use outside the library.

    • Hoover's Company Profiles

      Database is part of the library's Proquest Central set of databases.  Information about more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives.  Requires LAPL Library Card or e-card to use on computer outside the library.

    • Mergent Intellect Database

      Access 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. Company information from Dun & Bradstreet.  Requires LAPL library card or e-card to use outside the library.

    • Morningstar Investment Research Center

      Provides independent analysis and real-time data on over 14,500 stocks, 24,800 mutual funds, 1,500 exchange-traded funds and 700 closed end funds, plus analyst reports on over 3,500 securities. MIRC also provides screening tools, current articles and videos and financial educational resources. Accessible from Central Library only.

    • Nexis Dossier (formerly known as Corporate Affiliations)

      Financial, contact, and hierarchy reporting details (including subsidiaries, affiliates, and divisions) on 137,000 companies and their key professionals worldwide. Accessible from Central Library only.

    • ReferenceUSA Database (now known as Data Axle Reference Solutions)

      Over 20 million businesses searchable by name, industry, geography, size, etc. Requires LAPL Library Card or e-card to use on computer outside the library.

    • S&P Global Capital IQ NetAdvantage

      Descriptive and financial data on U.S. and non-U.S. corporations. Requires LAPL Library Card or e-card to use outside the library

    • Value Line Library (library database)

      Value Line Library grants access to a vault of investment research, approximately 3,400 stocks, data, expert analysis, and unbiased commentary with a time-tested and performance-proven Ranking System.  Database offered by the library and accessible outside the library to those with a currently valid Los Angeles Public Library card or e-card.

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