Business

DATABASES

Description: Search a comprehensive business database that includes full-text business periodicals and news sources. ABI/Inform Complete includes: ABI Inform Global - Scholarly business research from journals worldwide, ABI Inform Trade & Industry - Up to date industry news, marketing trends, and product information and market competition, ABI Inform Dateline - Local and regional business, ABI Inform Archive - Historical business journals and cover to cover full images of The Wall Street Journal.

Vendor: ProQuest

Business Source Complete (more info)

Description: Business Source Complete includes full-text coverage of nearly 3,000 business and trade journals. It also includes indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. Business Source Complete includes coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals. Additional full text, non-journal content includes: financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT Analyses, and Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Video Series. (Source: vendor website)
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Entrepreneurial Studies Source (more info)

Description: This database provides the academic researcher as well as the student with the latest insight on topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small businesses. Entrepreneurial Studies Source offers users full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV. The data can be utilized by students for their entrepreneurial assignments or case studies ranging from solo projects to major entrepreneurial undertakings. Subjects covered in the database include: business planning, communications, innovations, management, marketing, organizational behavior, product development, raising capital, risk taking, and more. (Source: vendor website)

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Intellect (more info)

Description: Search U.S. and international company listings by industry, size, location, and other criteria to create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, and raise funds.

Vendor: Mergent Inc.

LexisNexis Academic (more info)

ProQuest Business (more info)

Description: ProQuest Business allows you to search ABI/INFORM Archive, ABI/INFORM Complete, ProQuest Asian Business & Reference, and ProQuest Research Library: Business together or separately.

Vendor: ProQuest

Social Sciences Citation Index (more info)

Description: Social Sciences Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, is a multidisciplinary database that covers the journal literature from 2,474 of the world's leading social science journals across 50 disciplines. The database provides access to the bibliographic and citation information that researchers, students, and faculy need to find scholarly information, analyze trends and compile research. Researchers may discover a papers influence by linking to other papers that have cited it.

Some of the disciplines covered include: anthropology, political science, history, public health, industrial relations, social issues, information science, social work, law, sociology, linguistics, substance abuse, philosophy, urban studies, psychology, women's studies, and psychiatry. (source: Vendor website)

Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Note: For support, tips & tools access: Web of Science Recorded Training, Additional Training, or Help Files.
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters

NEWS SOURCES

Financial Times (London) (more info)

Description: European financial newspaper known for its in-depth reporting on European company and economic news, as well as its European perspective on global business.

Vendor: ProQuest

LexisNexis Academic (more info)

Description: LexisNexis provides full-text for an extensive list of newspapers, magazines, trade journals, scholarly journals and selected reference books. It also includes detailed information on companies. Separate database modules cover news, business, law and legal affairs and biographical information. It is a good source of federal, state, and international legal information, and provides full-text legal news, case law, codes & regulations, etc.

Note: Introduction to Lexis Nexis Academic tutorial on utube uploaded by LexisNexis
Vendor: Lexis Nexis

Search Hint: Select News. Select Business & Industry. Select Sources of information to search. Search by keywords for items from business and industry news sources. Results may be grouped in various ways by selecting from the options in the left column.

New York Times (more info)

Description: The New York Times is included in the Newspaper Source Plus database. The database contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers such as New York Times (from January 1985 to present), Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times (UK), Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times (DC) and others. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are available from ABC News (American Broadcasting Company), ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS and more.

Date Coverage: Varies by title
Coverage date: Vendor: EBSCOhost

Searcb Hint: To search for articles from the NYT, Select Publications, then select the New York Times from the alphabetic list and enter your search terms.

New York Times, Historical Archive (more info)

Description: New York Times Historical Newspaper provides access to full text and full image articles with digital reproduction of every page, every article and every issue starting from 1851 to 2 to 3 years ago. In addition to news stories and editiorials, researchers can also find letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, and advertisements.

Full text coverage: 1851 - 2 to 3 years ago
Vendor: ProQuest

Newspaper Source Plus (more info)

Description: Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 1,000 full text newspapers. The database contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers such as New York Times (from January 1985 to present), Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times (UK), Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times (DC) and others. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are available from ABC News (American Broadcasting Company), ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS and more.

Date Coverage: Varies by title
Vendor: EBSCOhost

NoticiasFinancerias (more info)

Description: Noticias Financieras is a financial news service covering the Latin America region. The service delivers content from 28 leading Latin American news sources and covers 10 countries, including Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Mexico and Peru. Key sources include O Globo (Brazil), El Mercurio (Chile), Expansion (Mexico) and El Pais (Uruguay).

Language: English and Spanish
Vendor: ProQuest

ProQuest Asian Business and Reference (more info)

Description: This database offers detailed information from key international publications on companies, economies, markets, and overall business conditions throughout the Eastern Hemisphere.

Date Coverage: 1972 - date
Vendor: ProQuest

Regional Business News (more info)

Description: Regional Business News provides full text for nearly 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications. The database includes Business: North Carolina.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Wall Street Journal (more info)

Description: The Wall Street Journal: Eastern Edition provides information on national and international finance as well as other news and is an indispensable source for business professionals.

Date Coverage: 1984 - date
Vendor: ProQuest

ENCYCLOPEDIAS & MORE

The Advertising Red Books R 659.1 St241

Credo Reference (more info)

Description: Credo is an online reference service with access to over 500 titles. Credo includes subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from many different publishers.

Vendor: Credo Publishing

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management R 658 B565 v1-10

Dictionary of Business management R 330.03 R72

International Directory of Company Histories R 338.7409 In8

International Encyclopedia of Business Management R 650.03 In8 v1-6

North Carolina Business Directory R 338 N81

Regional Encyclopedia of Business and Management R 650.3 R263

To find books on a particular topic or by a particular author or title, select the tab Books & Media on the Library website.

To browse the stacks for books on business adminsitration and marketing, go to:

650 Management and auxiliary services
658 General Management
659 Advertising and public relations
338 Production (Economic Development/Entrepreneurship)
381 Commerce
382 International Commerce

Books & more from the Meredith library & beyond

WorldCat (more info)

Description: WorldCat is a catalog of the collections of thousands of libraries worldwide and includes over a billion records. The database includes bibiographic records for books, dissertations, manuscripts, videos, serial publications, articles, recorded books, music, digital objects, websites and more. WorldCat can serve as an invaluable research tool to facilitate comprehensive searches for resources on a particular subject or by a particular author, allowing you to identify relevant works beyond your local library. Resources not available at your library can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan. Contact the Reference Department if you have any questions about using WorldCat.

Date Coverage: 1200 - date
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch

WorldCat Local (more info)

Description: WorldCat Local delivers single-search-box access to more than 810 million items from your library and the world's library collections. Search results include multiple formats of materials such as electronic materials, digital items, databases, music, video, maps, journals, theses and print. Items available at Carlyle Campbell Library will display first.

Vendor: OCLC

E-BOOKS

Many books are available electronically. You may identify them by selecting the Books & Media tab on the Library website and selecting the e-books link, or by using one of the following collections of e-books.

eBook Collection (more info)

Description: eBook Collection from EBSCOhost provides access to full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks (electronic books) from leading university, academic and professional publishers. These eBooks are digital versions of print books from a broad range of subject areas and topics. In many cases, the eBook copy is the only copy of the book owned by the library although in some cases a local print copy is also available.

Note: When a user ends a session, or after 30 minutes of inactivity, the copy of the title will be available for others to use. Vendor: EBSCOhost

ebrary (more info)

Description: Search a full text eBook collection that spans many academic subject areas.

MyiLibrary e-books (more info)

Description: MyiLibrary contains over 350 books that can be read online. Books are available on a variety of topics, including language learning, medical, health, history, project management, classic literature, art, criminology and many others.

Vendor: Ingram

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