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world. Hoover’s also publishes several print resources that
focus on particular types of companies. Two of the more
interesting print resources are Hoover’s Handbook of
Emerging Companies and Hoover’s Handbook of Private
Companies.
• International Directory of Company Histories—This mul-
tivolume set contains short to medium-length (two- to ten-
page) narratives on the history of companies. Many of the
histories include a bibliography of other places to look for
information on the company discussed in the entry. At 33
volumes and counting, this print resource is in the collec-
tions of many university libraries and large public libraries.
• Moody’s Manuals—There are several different Moody’s
Manuals. Each contains descriptions of companies in a
broadly defined category: Bank and Finance, Industrials,
Transportation, Utilities, and OTC Industrials. Company
descriptions typically include address, officers, subsidiaries,
technical information about any outstanding debt and
stock, and abbreviated financial statements for several
years. These volumes are a print counterpart to the elec-
tronic database Global Data Direct, listed earlier. Because
many academic libraries have back issues of the Moody’s
Manuals, these references are particularly useful if you are
looking for information that is more than a few years old.
• Stock Research Sites on the Web (depts.washington.edu
/balib/stocksites)—There are hundreds of Internet sites that
contain information relating to a company’s stock. The
trouble is finding a site that has the stock information that
you are looking for. The librarians at the Foster Business
Library at the University of Washington have put together
this page to help solve this problem. Use this site to check
which of 65 stock research sites have the information you