Management & Marketing

Business Databases:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Standard & Poor's Net Advantage - Provides basic financials, stock advisories, and industry analysis for thousands of public companies.

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.

General Journal Databases:

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.

Books books

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.

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.

Everyday Finance : Economics, Personal Money Management, and Entrepreneurship

Marketing in the 21st Century / Bruce D. Keillor, general editor.

Vol. 1 : New World Marketing

Vol. 2 : Interactive and Multi-Channel marketing

Vol. 3 : Company and Customer Relations

Vol. 4 : Integrated Marketing Communication

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.

Web Sites

Ad Council - "As the leading producer of public service announcements (PSAs) since 1942, the Ad Council has been addressing critical social issues for generations of Americans" [from the Website].

Advertising Age - Data Center - "A subsection of the Advertising Age site, the Data Center provides many statistics useful for marketing and advertising purposes. Some of this data may be obtained for a fee, but much of it is available at no charge to registered users (registration is free)." [L. Kong, CHOICE review, April 2007]

BusinessDictionary.com - A free online dictionary of business terms. Provided by WebFinance, Inc.

Business Plans and Profiles Index - Sample business plans in various industries. From Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

Internet Sources for U.S. Corporate, Industrial & Economic Information - Links to lots of sites. Provided by the J. Murrey Atkins Library of the University of North Carolina - Charlotte.

The National Retail Federation -- Provides practical research and data collected by this association.

SCORE : Counselors to America's Small Business -- A nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide.

ThomasNet - Comprehensive directory listings for industrial companies, products and services. Formerly published in paper as the Thomas Register.

Trendwatching.com - "an independent and opinionated consumer trends firm" in Amersterdam, the Netherlands.

Government:

the White House

Business.gov -- Helps small businesses understand their legal requirements, and locate government services supporting the nation’s small business community.

Most recent Consumer Expenditure Survey.

Occupational Outlook Handbook - Information on careers from the Department of Labor.

Small business profiles - an annual report put out by the U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy.

State & County QuickFacts - Provides population, business, and geographic information for national, state, and county levels in the United States.

State and metropolitan area data book - features more than 1,500 data items for the United States and individual states, counties and metropolitan areas from a variety of sources.

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.

the Capitol Building 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.

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.

MLA Citation Style - 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:

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.

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.

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."