Online Resources

Find content from journals covering all areas of business including marketing, management, accounting, finance, and economics. Includes company profiles with SWOT analyses.

DemographicsNow connects users with a wealth of highly detailed demographic data on more than 24 million U.S. businesses and 206 million consumers—making it ideal for gaining consumer and market insight. 

Gale Business: Plan Builder is for new entrepreneurs, experienced business owners, and nonprofits. Follow steps to create your business plan, get resources for long-term success, and learn the elements necessary to build your organization.

Gale welcomes you to the most extensive free forms site available to library patrons. Thousands of legal forms available with more forms being added daily. Official, State Specific, Federal, Business, Personal, Real Estate and General forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.

Warning: Public users should consult an attorney in their state for serious legal matters.

Udemy is an online learning platform for adults who want to improve work-related skills or further develop a personal interest. Users can search through thousands of continuously updated, on-demand video courses across 75 categories in business, technology, design, and more, including courses taught by native speakers in 12 languages.

Use the Gem State Prospector database to search for stats on every Idaho city, county and region. Each report contains an interactive map of the community and data on its labor force, wages, education levels, demographics and consumer expenditures. Provided by Idaho Commerce. 

Information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, help and advice, and information for creating business plans.

With 130 stocks updated weekly, this resource contains investment research information on over 1,700 larger stocks across ninety industries. Log in with your Meridian Library District card number.