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Course Guides: Business

Business Source Complete - Provides full-text articles from nearly 1,200 business-related serials, and from reference works, reports, company profiles and more.
JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive - Provides a multi-disciplinary archive of scholarly journals and other resources across the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
LexisNexis - Provides full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers, magazines, and reference sources, including legal and law resources.
Regional Business News - Provides full-text articles from over 75 business journals, newspapers and news wires in the U.S.

Please note that when accessing the databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to login.

NetLibrary - Provides access to over 59,000 ebooks (electronic copies of printed books, often in PDF format) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. NetLibrary has an easy to use search interface. (You will need a NetLibrary account to access these e-books from off-campus. Please see the tutorial, Accessing & Using NetLibrary for more information.)

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Management, 1999, by John O'Connell.
The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Marketing, 1999, by Barbara R. Lewis.
Dictionary of International Business Terms, 2nd Edition, 2000, by John Capela.
Ernst & Young's Personal Financial Planning Guide, 5th Edition, 2004, by Martin Nissenbaum.
The Law (in Plain English) for Small Businesses, 2004, by Leonard D. Duboff.
Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business, 4th Edition, 2006, by Fred Steingold.
Managerial Ethics: Moral Management of People and Processes, 1998, by Marshall Schminke.

Google Book Search - Many full-text ebooks in PDF format, free and available to download. Google Book Search has an easy search interface with option to see only full-text titles.

Business-related topics can be found in resources located in these Library of Congress call number ranges:

HF5387 to HF5387.5 - Business ethics
HF5410 to HF5417.5 - Marketing. Distribution of products
HF5546 to HF5548.6 - Office management
HF5549 to HF5549.5 - Personnel management. Employment management
HF5601 to HF5689 - Accounting. Bookkeeping
HF5691 to HF5716 - Business mathematics. Commercial arithmetic
HF5717 to HF5734.7 - Business communication including business report writing, business correspondence
HF5735 to HF5746 - Business records management
HF5801 to HF6182 - Advertising

KF801 to KF1241 - Contracts, including Commercial law, Banking
KF1355 to KF1480 - Associations, including Business associations, Partnerships and Corporations
KF1600 to KF2940 - Regulation of industry, trade and commerce, including Advertising, Small business
KF2971 to KF 3193 - Intellectual property, including Design protection and Patent law and trademarks

Encyclopedia of Business, 2nd Edition, 2000.
Call number: HF 1001 .E466 2000 REF, in 2 volumes.
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2001.
Call number: HF 1001 .E466 2001 REF, in 2 volumes.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law, 2nd Edition, 2003.
Call number: KF 390 .B84 B34 2003.
Financial Planning Demystified, 2007.
Call number: HG 179 .L497 2007.
Personal Financial Planning, 7th Edition, 2003.
Call number: HG 179 .H24 2003 Also available online as an e-book from NetLibrary!
Reuters Financial Glossary, 2000.
Call number: HF 1001 .R48 2000
The Small Business Legal Toolkit, 2007; includes a CD-ROM containing various sample documents, etc.
Call number: KF 1659 .N68 2007
The Successful Marketing Plan: A Disciplined and Comprehensive Approach, 3rd Edition, 2003.
Call number: HF 5415.13 .H523 2003

All About Marketing, from the Free Management Library.
BusinessDictionary.com, "features over 20,000 definitions and over 115,000 links between related terms providing a clear and concise description of any and all business terms."
Business.GOV, "The Official Business Link to the U. S. Government." Includes resources for small businesses, business law, human resource management, data & statistics, and more ...
Glossary of Financial and Business Terms, from the New York Times on the Web.
Glossary of Human Resources Terms, from the SHRM: Society for Human Resource Management; while many of the resources here are available only to members, others, including the Glossary, are free to access.
Test Your Money Smarts, from the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
U. S. Small Business Administration

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