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Business Insights: Essentials

Gale’s Business Insights: Essentials offers information, full-text articles, and statistical data about companies and industries for business owners, marketing professionals, investors, and students.

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Business Source Elite

Full-text articles from top business, management and economics journals and periodicals including Harvard Business Review. These publications cover topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales and more.

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Capital Changes (ADR/CCH/Global Capital Changes)

This resource is only available from CLP – Main (Oakland). Please contact CLP – Main (412.622.3114) to request a search.

Access the capital changes of corporations. CCH reports provides facts and figures needed to compute a security holder’s gain or loss from capital changes.

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Conference Board

This resource is only available from CLP – Main (Oakland).  Please contact CLP – Main (412.622.3114) to request a search.

Business insights from this global, independent business membership and research association, with reports covering current issues that include diversity & inclusion, communications & marketing, innovation & productivity, sustainability, corporate governance, and much more.

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Congressional Papers & United States Serial Set

This database is only available from any Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh location.

There are five databases you can search, all using the same search page or interface. Use advanced search to limit it to only one database.
Includes the following:

  • Congressional Publications
  • Congressional Hearings, 1824 – 1979
  • Congressional Research Digital Collection
  • United States Serial Set
  • United States Serial Set Maps
This resource can only be viewed on site

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Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports is the world’s largest nonprofit product-testing organization and has been helping people find better, safer products for 80+ years. Consumer Reports accepts no outside advertising and no free test samples, and employs shoppers and experts to buy and test the products reviewed. In addition to product ratings and reviews, users will find in-depth advice, tips and trends written by Consumer Reports experts.

 

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CQ Researcher Plus Archive

This resource is available to CLP cardholders only.

CQ Researcher Plus Archive provides unbiased coverage of current issues, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Each report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist providing an overview, chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; pro/con viewpoints of opposing positions; and supporting data including bibliographies of key sources. The CQ Researcher archive includes more than 3,000 reports published between 1923 and 1990.

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Creativebug

Creativebug is an online collection of 1000+ crafting classes. The Creativebug platform features chapter divisions, note-taking tools, 20-second rewind and more. Users can save favorite classes, receive personalized recommendations, and download patterns, templates, and recipes.

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