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Standard & Poor's Net Advantage - Provides basic financials, stock advisories, and industry analysis for thousands of public companies.
Hoover's Company Records - Up to date
proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and
non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized
as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry
analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top
competitors, and top officers.
Public Companies on Bloomberg.com -- The latest business news and market data on public companies. You can select by company name, by industry, or by country.
ABI/INFORM Dateline
- Provides hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of
large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive
profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business
information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and
analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major
business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city,
state, and regional business publications.
ThomasNet - Comprehensive directory listings for industrial companies, products and services. Formerly published in paper as the Thomas Register.
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage - Provides basic financials, stock advisories, and industry analysis for thousands of public companies.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry - Covers a
subsection of the ABI/Inform Global business periodicals with a trade or
industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and
competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other
topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance,
insurance, transportation, and construction.
Snapshot Series - Snapdata International
Group is the only market research company to specialize in top-line
international market research overviews. The Snapshot International Group
Series of 4,600 reports is designed to provide an instant overview of a
market, and the data is supplied in both graphical and tabular format for
ease of interpretation and analysis. All data is compiled in house by the
Snapdata Research Department, an international team of research experts.
ABI/INFORM Global - Provides scholarly and
comprehensive coverage of business research topics. Search nearly 3000 worldwide
business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions,
management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing,
economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded
international coverage. Includes The Wall Street Journal.
Accounting & Tax - Comprehensive coverage of
accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications and newspapers.
Banking Information Source
- Articles from essential banking industry publications providing
information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends.
ProQuest Central
- Includes articles from over 11,000 magazines and journals. Many, but not
all, provide the full-text of articles. Over 160 subjects areas are covered
extensively in this product including business and economics, health and
medical, news and world affairs, technology, and social sciences.
Research Library - A smaller collection of
periodicals than ProQuest Central. Covers a broad range of subjects including
arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities,
international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social
sciences, and women's interests.
ProQuest National Newspapers Premier - Includes a
balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic
excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full text.
Papers include national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal and The Washington Post along with a selection of titles from across
the U.S. such as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune,
Denver Post, The Sacramento Bee plus other important U.S. 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.
CBCA Complete - This product includes all the content present
in the Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) databases. Information is
present from all areas including: current events, business, education, science
and medicine, arts, law, academia, and lifestyles, all with a Canadian focus.
Full text is available within these areas.
ProQuest Asian Business and Reference - Asian
business and financial information from key international publications including
Far Eastern Economic Review and Asiaweek.
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.
Everyday Finance : Economics, Personal Money Management, and Entrepreneurship
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].
Credo Reference - Search a collection of up to 100 online dictionaries and subject encyclopedias. Or click on "Find a Book," and search within only one title, such as Cambridge Guide to Theatre or Bloomsbury Guide to Art.
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)
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 Subject Guide (from LSU Libraries)
Becker Review Courses for Accounting Students
AccountingCoach.com - Basic accounting instruction by Harold Averkamp, a consultant and accounting professor.
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.
Complete Collection of Financial Calculators -- Includes links to online calculators for investments, stocks, retirement, savings, insurance, taxes, and money calculators for kids. Part of the howtotradestocks.org website.
Inc.com - Short, non-scholarly articles on topics of interest to small business owners.
Investing Money in Plain English - A YouTube video by Lee Lefever at CommonCraft that explains the trade-offs between risk and returns.
US Credit Conditions -- Provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. "The main part of the resource consists of interactive maps (with a county search feature) of delinquency rates for mortgages, as well as for auto loans, bank cards, and student loans, which can be saved in JPG or PDF formats... A tab for economic data show housing prices, general economic indicators, and unemployment rates...." C.E. Carter, CHOICE, December 2010.
Prendismo - "Offers access to the world's premiere collection of digital video content on business, leadership and entrepreneurship.... Prendismo arose from the eClips project at Cornell University, the Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Ithaca-based intellectual property development company, KensaGroup, LLC. Prendismo has also received two Small Business Innovation Research grants from the National Science Foundation." (from Website)
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.
Data.gov - Information and access to data generated and help by the Federal Government.
BEOnline Plus (Business and Economics Online) -- A subject guide to selected Websites. Maintained by the Library of Congress.
EDGAR Database -- Access the filings of publicly held companies to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
FDIC : Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -- The "Industry Analysis" tab leads to financial information on specific banks as well as analyses of the banking industry and economic trends.
FDIC Statistics on Banking -- a quarterly publication that provides detailed aggregate financial information for all FDIC-insured institutions. In addition to standardized reports, a user has the ability to dynamically generate customized reports for analysis.
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco -- Links to information in the following categories: About the Fed, News and Events, Economic Research and Data, Educational Resources, Community Development, Consumer Information, Banking Information, and Services for Financial Institutions.
FedFlix - The best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever. A joint venture between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.org.
U.S. Department of the Treasury -- Information categorized by: Coins and Currency, Economy, Fighting Illicit Finance, Financial Markets, International, and Trade.
Federal Digital System - Searchable database of Web pages, with an emphasis on the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government, including Congressional bills and hearings. 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.
Job & Graduate School Information:
- Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor,
CareerOneStop provides job-seekers
with career information, as well as tools to help in a job search.
Idaho Career Information System - CIS is a division of the Idaho Department of Labor and since 1980 has been helping people in Idaho with volumes of information about occupations, postsecondary education, financial aid and finding jobs.
Occupational Outlook Handbook - Information on careers from the Department of Labor.
Standardized Tests:
Learning Express - Each of the Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life. Create a free account for yourself, so that the program can track your test results.
Test Prep Review -- Free access to sample questions from many standardized tests, such as graduate school entrance exams and certification exams.
Citations:
APA Formatting and Style Guide - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
APA Citation Style - examples of citations in APA Format for your list of References.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
MLA Citation Style - Guidance provided by the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop.
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:
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.
Online Resources for Writers - Links to useful information from colleges and universities, covering all phases of writing academic essays. Provided by the Amherst Writing Center.
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.
Thesaurus.com - Find synonyms for your search terms. An Ask.com service.
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."
Page Author: Barbara Barnes
Last updated: December 21, 2010
