The Holland and Terrell Libraries contain many resources for students and faculty interested
in Business. If you have any questions not answered on the WSU Libraries
website or would like to request a book or journal on any subject related
to Business, please contact Mary Gilles. For questions about the Business programs, please see College of Business.
GRIFFIN
Library Catalog The library catalog includes holdings for all the
WSU Library sites, in Pullman and across the state. Please note: electronic
journals and other 'virtual' publications are included in the catalog.
Indexes, Abstracts and Other Databases
For a more comprehensive listing, select "Article Indexes/E-Journals" from the
WSU Libraries homepage.
View the "Databases by Subject" pull-down menu, and select the appropriate business topic.
You may also find helpful resources in the section labeled "General & Multidisciplinary."
Business Source Complete (EBSCO): Index of over 1000 business and economics journals with 500 in full text including charts and graphics.
Global Market Information Database (GMID): Provides key business intelligence on countries, companies, markets and comsumers. Covers over 350 markets and 207 countries.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic : Contains a wide variety of business information, including
news articles from major national and international newspapers and business
periodicals, and company, industry, and legal information.
STAT-USA: (in-library access only) Includes US economic statistics
and other selected information from government agency sources; international
trade statistics from the National Trade Data Bank; and market and country
research.
EconLit:
Indexes major journals in Economics. Article citations indicate availability
of journal in WSU Libraries collection.
Social
Sciences Citation Index: Part of the Web of Knowledge, it is a multidisciplinary
database, searchable by author, title, abstract, or citation. It covers
the journal literature of the social sciences and indexes more than
1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines from 1996-present. A brief guide
to using SSCI is available at: http://www.systems.wsu.edu/bin/libdocs/e-resources/Web_of_Science.pdf.
IBISWorld: Provides full-text U.S. industry reports on over 700 industries at the 5-digit NAICS level. Includes current and historical performance, key competitors, 5-year forecasts and analysis.
Reference Books
The Holland and Terrell Libraries' reference section is on the 1st floor behind the reference desk.
Business Plans Handbook: A Compilation of Actual Business Plans Developed by Small Businesses Throughout North America Ref Hol HD 62.7 B865 1998
Business Research Sources: A Reference Navigator Ref Hol HF54.52 .U5 B88 1999
Encyclopedia of Business Ref Hol HF 1001 E466 1995
Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources Ref Hol HF5353 .E9
International Directory of Company Histories Ref Hol HD2721 .I63
Million Dollar Directory Ref Hol HC102 .D8
Prentice Hall Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Terms
Ref Hol HF1001 .C68 U. S.
Industry and Trade Outlook. Ref Desk Hol USGovDoc C 61.48
Value Line Investment Survey Ref Hol HG4501 .V26
Electronic Journals
There are two primary ways to gain access to WSU electronic journals. The first
is to search GRIFFIN
for the title of a specific journal, and then select the hypertext link;
this will lead either to the journal itself or to the database containing the
journal. The second is to select "Article Indexes/E-Journals" from the
WSU Libraries home page; in the section labeled "Electronic Journals," search
or browse for the journal title.
A major databases containing full-text journal articles in Business is Science Direct. Search or browse full-text of journals.
Bizjournals.com: Regional business news from American City Business Journals
Bizstats: Especially useful for research on small business topics.
Bizweb: Companies categorized by goods and services.
Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS): Includes measures of establishment openings and closings, firm startups, job creations and destruction by firm size, age, and industrial sector, and several other statistics on business dynamics.
Business Employment Dynamics: Statistics generated from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, or ES-202, program, these quarterly data series consist of gross job gains and gross job losses statistics from 1992 forward.
Business Plan Archive. Real business plans available free, going back to the birth of the dot com era.
Center for Women's Business Research: One especially useful feature of this resource is the "Links to Sites" section, an extensive listing of associations, companies, and agencies.
Company Statistics Program. U.S. Census Bureau: Provides data every five years for The Survey of Business Owners; annually for The Capital Expenditures Survey and The Information and Communication Technology Survey; The Quarterly Financial Report on business financial conditions. Also, provides The Statistics of U.S. Businesses – performance date by enterprise size, geographic area, and industry.