Business

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Business and Company Resource Center
The first of its kind, Business & Company Resource Center brings together a wide variety of global business information, enabling users to efficiently research business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career and investment opportunities.
Business Economics and Theory
This collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.

Business Index ASAP
Perform in-depth research on management issues, economic indicators and business theories and practices, as well as on the activities of companies and industries worldwide. Instant access to academic and business journals with full text and images.
Demographics Now
Geographic Business Intelligence for:
• Business & Marketing Plans — fast and easy formatted reports available in seconds!
• Determining where you should locate your business.
• Understanding your customers better — How much do they earn? How much do they spend?
• Analyzing new markets…should you expand to other areas?
• Targeting direct mail and advertising programs — to the customers most likely to buy your product/service.
• Identifying where your competitors are located.
• Great for territory sales planning!
• Lifestyle customer segmentation categorization used by the professionals.

Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media (Gale)
Contains listings for radio and television stations and cable companies. Print media entries provide address; phone, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses; key personnel, including feature editors; and much more. Broadcast media entries provide address; phone, fax, and e-mail addresses; key personnel; owner information; hours of operation; networks carried and more. Scope includes U.S., Canadian, and international media.
Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S. (Gale)
Comprehensive source of detailed information concerning nonprofit American membership organizations of national scope. Covers more than 23, 000 organizations in categories such as trade, business, and commercial; legal, governmental, public administration, and military; cultural; educational; veterans, hereditary, and patriotic; athletic and sports; fan clubs, and many more.
 
Foundation Directory Online   (In-Library Use Only)
Designed for nonprofit use, the Foundation Directory Online Platinum offers extensive program details for 1,500+ leading foundations; detailed application guidelines for 7,200+ foundations; and sponsoring company information for corporate givers. This service also includes a searchable file of 400,000+ grants. The Trustees, Officers, and Donors search field and its corresponding index allow users to search among 338,000+ trustee, officer and donor names.
General Business File ASAP
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

InfoTrac Web
A vast database consisting of millions of full-text news and periodical articles, many with images. Covers a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Includes popular InfoTrac databases such as InfoTrac OneFile, General Reference Center Gold, General Business File ASAP, Expanded Academic ASAP, Business Index ASAP, as well as Kid's and Junior Editions.

LexisNexis Library Express
Due to contractual agreements with LexisNexis, eCard users will not be able to access this database.

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NOTE: We have provided two links for Remote Access. If you are unable to access LexisNexis from your remote location with one link, please try the additional Remote Access link.

The legal information portion of LexisNexis Library Express is only available through access at a library location.

Access over 9,500 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and foreign-language sources. Use the Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria.


Small Business eCollection
Perfect for business schools and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories. Users will find hundrads of full text subject-appropriate periodicals.


Gale's Small Business Resource Center  Small Business Resource Center
Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.