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February 27, 2006
EBSCO Databases Available for Trial
EBSCO is offering a free trial of their databases, including Business Source Premiere and Academic Source Premiere. Go here to start the trial. The database is only available on campus. Business Source Premiere has extensive full-text coverage of business journals and industry reports. Unique features of the database include SWOT Analyses, Country Reports, Industry Profiles, and Market Research Reports.
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February 21, 2006
Business Reference Books Online
A number of business-related reference works, such as encyclopedias, directories and handbooks are available online. Gale Virtual Reference Library database contains the Business Information Handbook, the Business Plans Handbook, (vols. 5-10), the Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, the Encyclopedia of Small Business and the Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce. To access Gale Virtual Reference Library, go to metalink, and then click on Reference. The featured database of the month, Business & Company Resource Center, contains the International Directory of Company Histories, Notable Corporate Chronologies, the Encyclopedia of American Industries, Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries, and Business Rankings Annual.
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February 02, 2006
Business News--The Enron Trial
With the start of the trial of former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, it might be a good time to look at some of the Libraries' resources on this influential corporate scandal. A selected list of titles is listed below. For more library holdings on Enron, do a subject search in infoLink under the company name.
The Smartest Guys in the Room: the Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
Portfolio
2004
HD 9502.U54 E5763 2004
Conspiracy of Fools: a True Story
Kurt Eichenwald
Broadway Books
2005
HD 9502.U54 E5736 2005
Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron
Robert Bryce
Public Affairs
2002
HD 9502.U54 E573 2002
The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: Enron and the Wall Street analysts : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, February 27, 2002.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs.
GPO
2002
Government Documents Microforms -- Y 4.G 74/9:S.HRG.107-385 (also available online)
Bigger Than Enron
Hedrick Smith & Marc Shaffer ; directed by Marc Shaffer
PBS Home Video
2002
Main Library Circulation Desk (Video) -- HF5616.U5 B5 2002 (transcript available online)
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February 01, 2006
Database of the Month
I'm starting a new feature for the blog, highlighting one of the Libraries' business databases each month. This month's database is Business and Company Resource Center. It contains company profiles, histories, investment reports, financials, rankings; SIC and NAICS industry descriptions; newspaper and periodical articles. There is limited coverage of market research reports contained in some company records as well. The SIC and NAICS codes are the government's way of classifying industries. If you don't know the code for your industry (and who does?), try looking up a major company in that industry and look at the codes listed in the company profile. The articles contained in this database are, for the most part, from trade magazines and not scholarly. B&CRC is of particular use to students in the MGMT 411 strategy classes.
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