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Frequently Asked Questions
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.
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.
Business
and Company ASAP database.
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.
ProQuest Newstand database.
Includes
coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Good Sources of Statistics:
American health : demographics and spending of health care consumers [Ref RA445 .A442 2005]
American incomes : demographics of who has money [Ref HC110 .I5 A447 2005]
The American marketplace : demographics and spending patterns [HA214 .A6 2003]
Americans and their homes : demographics of homeownership [Ref HD7287.82 .U6 R87 2005]
Best customers : demographics of consumer demand [Ref HC79.C6 2005]
Best of health : demographics of health care consumers [Ref RA445 .W45 2000]
Household spending : who spends how much on what [Ref HC110.C6 A666 2005]
Who's Buying for Travel [Ref G155 .U6 W46 2006]
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.
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.
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.
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage - Provides basic financials, stock advisories, and industry analysis for thousands of public companies.
ThomasNet - Comprehensive directory listings for industrial companies, products and services. Formerly published in paper as the Thomas Register.
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.
Management:
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.
Small business profiles - an annual report put out by the U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy.
Marketing:
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.
Trendwatching.com - "an independent and opinionated consumer trends firm" in Amersterdam, the Netherlands.
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.
Most recent Consumer Expenditure Survey.
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:
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.
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.
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Page Author: Barbara Barnes
Last updated: August 21, 2007
