Richard E. Bjork Library: Business: Business

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ABI/INFORM Collection
In-depth coverage of business issues, management techniques, competitive information, and a variety of other topics.
Business Source Premier (Enhanced) Full-text coverage in all business disciplines including market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
ScienceDirect Full-text abstracts and articles from all fields of science. Most journal articles become available immediately after peer review and before the printed versions are issued. Additionally, this database offers multimedia features not available in print journals, such as video, audio and spreadsheet files.

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Banking Information Source Banking, Accounting, and Tax information. Search essential banking industry publications for information about the financial services, banking and industry trends.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. There is full text for more than 490 publications, including periodicals, company and country reports and books.
Westlaw, Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Westlaw is a premier research service for legal, news, and business-related information and research. Westlaw Tutorial

Company information, financials, and industry analyses

Hoover's Company Profiles This database contains proprietary information about more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers and more.
Mergent Market Atlas Market Atlas provides tools for both interactive online research and easy predefined report access. These tools and reports are reflected across multiple product modules including Company, Sustainability, Industry, Country and Economic analysis.The Market Atlas database of corporate information covering over 50,000 US and foreign public companies, current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information and ratios, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, capital stock, and insider trading .
Mergent Online Mergent Online offers textual detail on company financials, descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries officers and directors.
Morningstar Investing Center Comprehensive financial information on stocks, analyst reports and mutual funds, including the Morningstar Star Rating, return information on various investment indexes and groups and portfolio analysis.
Data Axle Business Reference Information on millions of U.S. businesses and employers. Listings can be exported. Company listings include a variety of data points, include industry profiles, business profiles, business demographics, etc.

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NPR - Business
National Public Radio - Business listen to podcasts on economics, technology, money, and media.

Business News

New York Times (1980 to the present) This is considered the official U.S. newspaper because it publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches and presidential press conferences. The paper's reporters have won scores of Pulitzer Prizes throughout the publication's 150-year history.
Press of Atlantic City (NewsBank) The Press of Atlantic City, an award winning newspaper, is a source of local and regional news and information for southeastern New Jersey.
Regional Business News This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Wall Street Journal Users have access to top news stories and the information contained on the various sections of the paper. The indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also companies, people, products, etc.
New York Times.com
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Access current news as well as historical news from 1851 to today. Read breaking news, watch videos, listen to podcasts and more. View content on a cell phone, tablet, or computer.

Reference Sources

Credo General Reference Provides full-text online versions of hundreds of top quality reference books in all major subjects. Includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries.
eBooks on EBSCOhost Collection of over 3400 eBooks covering many disciplines. Downloading EBSCO eBooks tutorial
GALE eBooks GALE eBooks is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Oxford Reference: Premium Oxford Reference offers full text access to numerous dictionaries and encyclopedias by Oxford University Press as well as selected titles from the Oxford Companion series.
Small Business Source Offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.
Ebook Central Collection Ebook Central is a collection of scholarly ebooks from leading publishers with coverage in all academic subject areas. Read ebooks online or download the entire book on your computer. **Please note: Stockton computers block installation of ADOBE DE. Contact the Help Desk.*