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Business Economics and Theory

This collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics.  Users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their business related research.

Business Insights: Essentials

Business Insights: Essentials includes all of the content formerly found in Business & Company Resource Center with a new interface.  Includes up-to-date news, statistical data, and in-depth reports on companies and industries.

Business Source Complete

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Includes more than 5,000 case studies, over a million company profiles, thousands of industry and market research reports, and thousands of SWOT analyses. Also includes full text articles from a multitude of peer reviewed journals and general business publications.

Cabell’s Directories

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Provides an Education Directory that includes addresses, phone, e-mail, and websites for a large number of journals to help students and faculty publish their manuscripts.

Career Transitions

Career Transitions is an online career guidance center that walks users through the job-search process from beginning to end, including the following steps: 1) exploring new career possibilities; 2) assessing interests and past experience; 3) identifying ways to improve prospects, including networking and education; 4) preparing for a job search; and 5) searching and applying for jobs.

Computer Database

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Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

CountryWatch

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CountryWatch provides a variety of facts on over 192 countries, from basic information such as statistics and important persons, to maps and currency converters, to encyclopedic resources on history and economy. This database is extremely valuable for the history major or any student researching the United States.

eBook Collection from EBSCOHost (formerly NetLibrary)


The eBook Collection from EBSCOHost provides access to digital versions of books from a broad range of subject areas and topics including some books of historical information. Licensure review materials are included for COMLEX-USA and USMLE review. Click here to see eBook Collection instructions for downloading books.

General Business File ASAP

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Business & Company Resource Center brings together in a single database company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, investment reports, industry overviews, and financial and trade association data.

Hoover’s

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Hoover’s Academic includes up-to-date company and industry coverage, well researched biographical information about company executives, documents, press releases, investment research, and stock information, plus more.

Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection

With up-to-date content from over 500 industry journals, this collection provides comprehensive coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, including the cultural and economic aspects of tourism, among much more.

Infotrac Small Business Collection

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Appropriate for business schools, small businesses, and entrepreneurs, patrons will find full text articles from over 200 periodicals.  This collection is updated frequently and contained 3,578,324 articles as of August 4, 2009.

Infotrac Vocations, Careers & Technical Education Collection

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This collection covers topics such as locating an appropriate institution of learning, the job hunt, and professional growth during your career. Full-text content is provided from a variety of resources ranging from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

Insurance and Liability Collection

This collection, of journals, takes a broad view of this multimillion dollar industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more.

JSTOR

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The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the1600s. New titles and disciplines are being added regularly. Issues of journals are never “out;” they are always accessible, and in excellent condition. The capacity for searching across disciplines opens up vast possibilities for scholarship and research.

National Newspaper Index

National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America’s top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. Note: This is not a full-text database.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

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“The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. The NDLTD assists students and universities in using electronic publishing and digital libraries to more effectively share knowledge in order to unlock the potential benefits worldwide.”

Polling the Nations

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Polling the Nations contains the results of over 14,000 national and international surveys from Gallup Poll, Roper, and many other reputable polling organizations. Surveys contained in this database can reveal much about financial investments opinions, public policy, employee job satisfaction, money management, and consumer trends.

Regional Business News

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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.

Research Starters – Business

Research Starters – Business provides students with comprehensive background/overview information on many topics, written by experts in the field. Categories include topics in accounting, actuarial science, public policy, business information systems, business law, health care management, insurance and risk management, operations and information systems, and statistics, among others.

Small Business Resource Center

Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

Standard & Poors NetAdvantage

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NetAdvantage provides full-text access to the complete S&P Industry Surveys, as well as millions of individual entries on global corporations, industry outlooks, stocks, and mutual fund investing. A good source for statistical data and researching a wide variety of business topics.

Statesman’s Yearbook Online

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SYBWorld provides current information on global affairs, with coverage of government, politics, geography, history, economics, and social policy for 192 nations.The country profiles cover the following areas: Political parties and leaders; Population; Economics; Climate; Natural resources; Military capabilities; Education and Legal Systems; Cultural and Communications; Health and Environment; International Affairs.

Statistical DataSets

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Statistical DataSets is a web-based research solutions tool that provides fast and easy access to more than 15 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets.

 
 
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