Here are some resources for your papers & presentations:
Link to Library Home Page
Forms for Requesting Materials
Frequently Asked Questions
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage - Provides basic financials, stock advisories, and industry analysis for thousands of public companies.
Business and Company Resource Center -
Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment
reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this
database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
A Thomson Gale database.
ThomasNet - Comprehensive directory listings for industrial companies, products and services. Formerly published in paper as the Thomas Register.
Academic OneFile - Academic OneFile is the premier
source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals
and reference sources. Includes full-text coverage of the New York
Times back to 1995. Updated daily. A Thomson Gale database.
ProQuest Newstand database.
Includes coverage of 27 newspapers
including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post,
plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers.
Westlaw - Online legal research service provides quick, easy access to West's vast collection of statutes, case law materials, public records and other legal resources, as well as current news articles and business information.
LegalTrac -
Provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including
major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international
legal journals. Contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional
business and general interest titles.
A Thomson Gale database.
Google Scholar - A service from Google that provides citations to scholarly journals.
LCSC Library Catalog - provides information about the materials owned by the LCSC Library and other North Idaho Academic Libraries, including North Idaho College and the University of Idaho. Also has a link to WIN Libraries, so you can search Gonzaga, Whitworth, and VALNet Libraries.
Virtual Reference Library - Search a collection on online reference books from Gale, a respected publisher of subject-focused encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Accounts receivable management best practices / John G. Salek.
Accounting Control Best Practices / Steven M. Bragg.
Encyclopedia of business and finance / Burton S. Kaliski, editor-in-chief.
Encyclopedia of privacy / William G. Staples, editor.
Encyclopedia of small business / Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom.
Hospitality management accounting / Martin G. Jagels.
Management accounting best practices : a guide for the professional accountant / Steven M. Bragg.
Accounting trends and techniques [Latest issue in Reference at : HF5681.B2 A35].
WorldCat - A catalog of items held at libraries throughout the world. Many of these materials can be borrowed through inter-library loan. This database also provides more in-depth cataloguing to materials owned by LCSC.
Google Books - Info from their Website: "Just do a search on Google Book Search or on Google.com. When we find a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see, like a card catalog entry, some basic information about the book. You may also see a few snippets of text from the book showing your search term in context. If the publisher or author has given us permission through our Partner Program then you'll see a few full pages from the book and if the book is out of copyright, you'll be able to page through the entire book." Click on the "About This Book" link and look for a link called "Find This Book in a Library" to locate the nearest library holdings.
Accounting:
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Pronouncements
Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) (state & local government accounting) - Summaries of GASB Statements and Interpretations
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board ( FASAB ) Standards
Idaho State Board of Accountancy
Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
(State Chapter pages have links to various state government pages)
AICPA State Chapter of Washington
Institute of Management Accountants
Federation of Tax Administrators
Accounting Links (from LSU Libraries)
Becker Review Courses for Accounting Students
Intro to Accounting - Simple -- A free online accounting noncredit course on the level of Accounting Principles I.
AccountantsWorld - Includes links to short articles, forms, calculators, letter templates, and more.
Finance:
Path to investing leading the way to financial knowledge - This website is geared toward informing the user about investing basics, including investment concepts and strategies.
Business Plans and Profiles Index - Sample business plans in various industries. From Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Inc.com - Short, non-scholarly articles on topics of interest to small business owners.
Government:
USA.gov
- A search engine for government Web pages, with an emphasis on the Executive
Branch of the Federal Government. Another good source of statistics.
GPO
Access - Searchable database of Web pages, with an emphasis on the
Legislative Branch of the Federal Government. Provided by the Government
Printing Office.
Thomas - An easy-to-search source for legislative information, provided by the Library of Congress.
I-Docs - An online collection of
paper and digital resources selectively chosen from published Idaho Government
Documents.
Standardized Tests:
Test Prep Review -- Free access to sample questions from many standardized tests, such as graduate school entrance exams and certification exams.
Citations:
APA Citation Style - examples of citations in APA Format for your list of References.
Bibliographies : MLA Format - Guidance provided by the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop.
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
Knight Cite -- An automatic generator of citations in either MLA, APA, or Chicago style. Registering for the service allows you to save citations to generate a bibliography. A free service provided by the Hekman Library at Calvin College.
Son of Citation Machine -- An "interactive Web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties" (from the Website).
Research Paper Help:
Idea Generator - organized by general subject areas. A service of the Library at Old Dominion University. You can use these simple keywords to help you generate ideas of your own for focused research paper topics.
Assignment Calculator - Based on the start date and due date for your assignment, this calculator will map out benchmarks for completing tasks leading up to the final paper. It also provides links to other pages with tips on understanding your assignment, focusing your topic, etc. It was developed by the library at the University of Minnesota, so a few of its linked resources are not available to you. But we have many similar resources available to you on this campus.
Online Writing Lab - A service of the Humanities Division at LCSC, this center provides one-on-one advice from other students on improving your papers before turning them in.
Wikipedia : Researching with Wikipedia - A page on the Wikipedia site that describes the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia as a source of information. It includes this statement: "In all academic institutions, Wikipedia, along with most encyclopedias, is unacceptable as a major source for a research paper."
For more websites, see the complete list.
Page Author: Barbara Barnes
Last updated: September 17, 2008
