Business

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Librarian | Collection Development Policy | Library Resources | Electronic Journals | Internet links | College of Business

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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.

For additional information on Business topics, see these related subject guides:

Accounting | Company and Industry Research | Economics | Finance | International Business

Library Resources

• Library Catalog

  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."
  
  
  • ABInform (Dateline, Global, Trade and Industry): 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.
  
  

• 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.

Two major databases containing full-text journal articles in Business are:


• Science Direct. Search or browse full-text of journals.
• ProQuest Direct. Search or browse full-text of journals and news sources. Includes ABI/Inform, a business database, and the full text of the Wall Street Journal.

Internet Links

• Annual Report Gallery: Online annual reports for many publicly traded companies.
• 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 Plan Archive. Real business plans available free, going back to the birth of the dot com era.
• CNNfn: CNN Financial Network (news).
• Edgar Database of Corporate Information (SEC): Company filings online. Another site for searching 10k reports: 10K Wizard.
• Hoover's Online: Company and industry information, financial news. A more complete version of Hoover's is available through Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.
• 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.
• Yahoo Finance. Free company, industry, stock and personal finance information.