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  • Business Leader Profiles for Students

    Profiles of significant contributors to business and industry, past and present, written especially for high school students.

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  • Business Plans Handbook

    Gale Virtual Reference Library - Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses. Presents sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries which serve as examples of how to approach, structure and compose business plans.

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  • Business Source Premier 

    This is the industry`s most used business research database, providing the full text for more than 8,800 periodicals. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

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  • Data Axle (formerly Reference USA)

    Directory information for 11 million US businesses and 120 million US households. Search for businesses by SIC code, sales volume number of employees and more. Search for residence directory information by name, location or phone number.

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  • EDGAR

    All publicly owned companies are required to submit financial data electronically to the Securities and Exchange Commission. This website provides access to the full text of these reports. 

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  • FindLaw.com

    A gateway to reliable legal information on the web. 

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  • Gale Legal Forms

    Provides a wide selection of Ohio legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord/tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in layman's language.

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  • Martindale Lawyer Locator

    A gateway site to the legal industry.

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  • Mergent InvestorEdge

    This business research tool provides access to financial information and company documents for more than 4,000 US and International Companies. Seeking to invest? Search here first. 

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  • Morningstar Investments 

    Morningstar Investment Research Center provides independent, in-depth research and recommendations on 11,000 stocks, 24,000 mutual funds, and 950 exchange traded funds. The format is user-friendly and includes an investment education section.

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  • Ohio Administrative Code

    The rules adopted by the agencies of the state of Ohio. State agencies adopt rules to carry out the policies and intent of laws passed by the General Assembly. The rules are collected and published in the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC or AC).

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  • Ohio Building Code

    The Ohio Building Code online.

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  • Ohio Legal Help

    Ohio Legal Help seeks to improve justice and fairness for all Ohioans by removing barriers to the law so that they can understand their legal options, make informed decisions and connect to local legal and community resources. Ohio Legal Help provides plain language legal help information, interactive self-help tools and connections to local legal and community resources that can help people resolve their legal issues.

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  • Ohio Revised Code

    The general laws of the state of Ohio. The Revised Code is organized into 31 general titles broken into chapters dealing with individual topics of law. The chapters are divided into sections which contain the text of individual statutes. The laws are collected and published in the Ohio Revised Code (ORC or RC).

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  • Reference USA/Data Axle

    Directory information for 11 million US businesses and 120 million US households. Search for businesses by SIC code, sales volume number of employees and more. Search for residence directory information by name, location or phone number.

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  • Regional Business News 

    This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

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  • Shaker Heights Codified Ordinances

    Online codified ordinances of various Ohio municipalities, including Shaker Heights. Municipal Codes hosted by American Legal Publishing are in the public domain and available free to the internet community. 

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  • Small Business Reference Center

    Small Business Reference Center offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics. It includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans.

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