Primary Sources: Business & Economics

A directory of sites selected as "the executive's interface to the Internet." Includes links to news, magazines, business information, government agencies, and more. Not annotated.

Make a business plan, view sample plans, get templates, calculate starting costs, and get advice on funding, growing, and running a business.

BitLaw is a comprehensive Internet resource on technology and intellectual property law. In this site, you will find complete copies of the United States Patent, Copyright, and Trademark statutes, as well as the relevant regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations. BitLaw also includes converted versions of the TMEP and MPEP (the office manuals created by the United States Trademark and Patent Offices, respectively). Each of these documents include links to the relevant statutory and regulatory sections. Finally, BitLaw contains a great deal of custom written descriptions of how these areas of the law affect the computer and technology industries.

Extensive subject guide to online resources for researching all aspects of business and economics.
Browseable by subject and title.

The Survey of Business Owners (SBO) provides the only comprehensive, regularly collected source of information on selected economic and demographic characteristics for businesses and business owners by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status. Title 13 of the United States Code authorizes this survey and provides for mandatory responses.