Course Guides: Business
Courses listed in the General Catalog:
- BUSN 1100: Introduction to Business
- BUSN 1310: Personnel Management
- BUSN 1330: Personal Finance
- BUSN 2000: Principles of Marketing
- BUSN 2200: Legal Environment of Business
- BUSN 2220: Small Business Management
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- Printable Guides & Handouts
- Suggested Databases
- Selected E-Book Sources
- Locations of Business Resources in the Library
- Selected Books in the Library
- Online Resources
- Research Guides: includes citation help
PRINTABLE GUIDES & HANDOUTS:
SUGGESTED DATABASES:
- 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.
SELECTED E-BOOK SOURCES:
- 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.
LOCATIONS OF BUSINESS RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY:
Business-related topics can be found in resources located in these Library of Congress call number ranges:
- HF5001 to HF6182 - Business
- 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
- HG1 to HG9999 - Finance
- HG178 - Liquidity
- HG179 - Personal finance
- HG201 to HG1496 - Money
- HG1501 to HG3550 - Banking
- HG3691 to HG3769 - Credit. Debt. Loans
- HG4001 to HG4285 - Finance management. Business finance. Corporate finance
- KF - Law of the United States (Federal)
- 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
SELECTED BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY:
- 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
ONLINE RESOURCES:
- 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