The following databases and websites are good starting points for Business Administration research

Databases

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ABI/INFORM Complete
Search all three of the below databases at the same time.

ABI/INFORM Dateline
A collection of local & business news sources that provide detailed informaiton on private and small companies.

ABI/INFORM Global 
A collection of scholarly journals and mainstream publications focusing on business management theory and practice. Includes Wall Street Journal.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry  
Business articles focused on particular trades and industries such as insurance, banking, manufacturing, and more.

Business and Company Resource Center  
This business research tool provides up-to-date case studies, investment research, and company research.

RDS Business Suite  
This suite of business research tools provides company profiles, management theory, and statistical data.

Films on Demand   
Films on Demand is a well organized collection of several thousand educational films on history, business, the humanities, psychology, science, and careers.

GREENfile  
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering scientific, business, and political aspects of human impact to the environment.

Academic OneFile   
Academic OneFilehas the full-text of a few million of articles from all domains of knowledge.

OmniFile Full-Text Select  
OmniFile is a social sciences and humanities database that only contains full-text articles.

ArticleFirst  
ArticleFirst is a search interface that can link you to the articles you need. It searches descriptions of 23 million articles from all domains of learning. 

Ebrary e-books      
This search engine exclusively searches our collection of 70,000 e-books. A large portion of our business collection is e-books.

Encyclopedia Britannica Academic Online    
This general purpose encyclopedia is a great place to begin your research and obtain the background knowledge on industries or countries that will make your research process go quicker.

Gale Virtual Reference Library   
Nearly 400 specialized reference e-books on all academic subjects to dig deeper into the background information.

Websites

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@Brint.com
"Business technology management best practices: Research portals on specific business technology practices"

ALA: Best of the Best Business Web Sites
The American Library Association's survey of business related websites

American Customer Satisfaction Index
"ACST reports scores on a 0 - 100 scale at the national level and produces indexes for 10 economic sectors, 43 industries (including e-commerce and e-business) and more than 200 companies and federal or local government agencies. In addition to the company-level satisfaction scores, ACSI produces scores for the causes and consequences of customer satisfaction and their relationships. The measured companies, industries, and sectors are broadly representative of the U.S. economy serving American households."

Bailout Reader
An analysis, by the Austrian School, of the various factors involved in and contributing to the economic crisis that began in 2007

Bureau of Economic Analysis
"The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) promotes a better understanding of the U.S. economy by providing the most timely, relevant, and accurate economic accounts data in an objective and cost-effective manner."

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Government reporting on labor economics

Business.com
The leading business search engine and directory serving business decision makers and advertisers

Business Ethics
List of articles about business ethics compiled by Sharon Stoerger, MLS, MBA

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/
Cornell University's online repository of primary source documents related to labor relations and management.

Economagic.com
U.S. economic data with charts

Economic Research: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"a database of 20,056 U.S. economic time series. With FRED you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series."

E-Commerce Times
Online periodical devoted to electronic commerce

Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
Scholarly contributors

Energy Information Administration
The US Energy Information Administration collects energy related information from the various government agencies that collect the information and then publishes it via this website. Say you are interested in estimates of US coal or gas reserves or production, they have extensive data on that here.

Finance Resources on the Web
Produced by Professor Ian Giddy of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University

Foundation for Economic Education
"FEE's mission is to offer the most consistent case for the 'first principles' of freedom: the sanctity of private property, individual liberty, the rule of law, the free market, and the moral superiority of individual choice and responsibility over coercion."

GlobalEDGE: International Business Resource Desk
"Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University (IBC), globalEDGE(TM) is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities."

Hoover's Online
Provides information on businesses. Hoovers is a Duns & Bradstreet company, similar to Manta. They provide a minimal company profile for free. Detailed reports cost $$$. Try using the resources that the library pays for to save yourself time and money, such as ABI/INFORM Complete and RDS Business Suite.

John Williams' Shadow Government Statistics: Alternate Data
"One of [John Williams'] early clients was a large manufacturer of commercial airplanes, who had developed an econometric model for predicting revenue passenger miles. The level of revenue passenger miles was their primary sales forecasting tool, and the model was heavily dependent on the GNP (now GDP) as reported by the Department of Commerce. Suddenly, their model stopped working, and they asked [him] if [he] could fix it. [He] realized the GNP numbers were faulty, corrected them for [his] client (official reporting was similarly revised a couple of years later) and the model worked again, at least for a while, until GNP methodological changes eventually made the underlying data worthless. That began a lengthy process of exploring the history and nature of economic reporting and in interviewing key people involved in the process from the early days of government reporting through the present."

KnowThis.com
"KnowThis.com is a leading information and resource website for those involved in marketing, market research, advertising, selling, promotion, and other marketing-related areas. KnowThis.com is edited and managed by Paul Christ, Ph.D."

Lead 411 
Is similar in concept to Hoover's and Manta, but does not use Duns and Bradstreet's company profile database. First try using the resources that the library pays for to save yourself time and money, such as ABI/INFORM Complete and RDS Business Suite.

Library of Economics and Liberty
Books, articles and podcasts

Ludwig von Mises Institute: Markets and Data
Helpful charts of U.S. economic data, including Murray Rothbard's True Money Supply.

MacRae's Bluebook
Contact information for companies and information about their products

MarketWatch.com
"This Historical Quotes tool allows you to look up a security's exact closing price."

National Bureau of Economic Research
"Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community."

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Edgar Database
Corporate 10K reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Comission for publicly traded and over-the-counter companies

Superpages.com
Find American businesses

The Thomas Register
"Search ThomasNet to find manufacturers, distributors and service providers - from Actuators to Zirconium and everything in between."

RePEc
"(Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 66 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components... All RePEc material is freely available. Please note that RePEc does not contain full-text journal articles. RePEc services provide links to many full text articles, but you may need a personal or institutional subscription to follow those links. If a working paper or journal article is not indicated as 'downloadable,' please contact the author or publisher for assistance."

U.S. Census Bureau: Current Industrial Reports
"The CIR program has been providing monthly, quarterly, and annual measures of industrial activity for many years. The primary objective of the CIR program is to produce timely, accurate data on production and shipments of selected products. The data are used to satisfy economic policy needs and for market analysis, forecasting, and decision-making in the private sector."

World Fact Book
Information about countries around the world, compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency

World Bank Data
World Bank Data is a repository where you can get raw and calculated data on the health, economy, government, and more of countries that the World Bank monitors. Useful for international business, policy, or missions.