LibGuides: Databases by Subject: Business

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Databases & Journals

ABI/Inform Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM includes in-depth coverage for over 3,730 Business publications, with more than 2,670 available in full text, and offers the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels.
MBA resource
Agricola This link opens in a new window
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AGRICOLA encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal & veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture & fisheries, farming & farming systems, agricultural economics, extension & education, food & human nutrition, agricultural engineering & technology, and earth & environmental sciences.

AP NewsMonitor
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This collection includes AP Top News, WorldStream, Financial News, AP Online, U.S. Politics & Government and 50 State Reports. The index to the full text content in AP News is held for a rolling 30-day archive by EBSCO, so users can enjoy the previous 30 days of news relating to their search interests.

Business Abstracts with Full Text (HW Wilson) This link opens in a new window
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Content includes full-text articles for nearly 460 publications dating back to 1982, indexing and abstracts for nearly 880 publications dating back to 1981, and over 600,000 corporate names with cross references to specific industries.
Business Insights: Essentials This link opens in a new window
Find information on companies, industries and more in the context of timely news, statistical data, and in-depth reports.
Articles from academic and general business, industry & management periodicals, newsletters, newspapers and newswires (4000+ indexed titles; 2900+ full-text).
Business Source Alumni This link opens in a new window
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Includes publications in nearly every area of business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics and more. Business Source Alumni Edition includes full-text sources ranging from general periodicals to trade publications and top management journals.
The database offers indexing and abstracts for 350 scholarly journals back to 1965 or the first published issue. This database includes searchable cited references for 1,205 journals.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
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Business Source Premier is the industry's most popular business research database, featuring the full text for more than 2,200 journals. Full text is provided back to 1965, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
Regional Business News is also included in this database.
Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Free access for Limestone University faculty, staff and students. Published weekly, the Chronicle of Higher Education is a top source for news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
Free access for Limestone University faculty and staff. 1995 to present.
EconSouth This link opens in a new window
Available through the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Makes up the Sixth Federal Reserve Districts: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
Edgar This link opens in a new window
Corporate reports for over 8,500 companies- 10K, 10Q, 8Q, Schedule 13 G files, Letters to Stockholders, Prospecti, etc. Also SEC Digest, Press Releases, Congressional Testimony and Special Studies.
This is a free online source.
Entrepreneurial Studies Source This link opens in a new window
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Entrepreneurial Studies Source™ offers users full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV, one of the world's largest social network sites for high-tech entrepreneurs.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center This link opens in a new window
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Facts On Files Career Guidance Center provides a complete career research database of jobs, skills, resources, and search-able entries on scholarships, internships, fellowships, and more.
Ebooks (electronic books) (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Contains MBA electronic reference books.
Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.
Hoover's Online (D&B) This link opens in a new window
Hoover's Online provides comprehensive information on millions of companies and executives; industry insight and competitive information; powerful search, sort, and download tools to help you manage that information; and expert advice, news, and discussion boards.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
IBISWorld reports on 1300 US industries. Each industry report provides the most detailed performance data and analysis on the market; supply chain information; forecasts; risk scores; operating strengths and weaknesses; analysis of external drivers; major player market strategies; and industry profit and costs benchmarks. IBISWorld contains reports that provide invaluable data and analysis for coursework on large and niche industries, as well as preparation for job applications and interviews.
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text (HW Wilson) This link opens in a new window
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An excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals and others involved with the law, this database provides complete, full-text coverage of the most important English-language legal information, including access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more.
Opposing Viewpoints (DISCUS) This link opens in a new window
Thousands of pro and con viewpoint articles on contemporary social issues, topic overviews, primary sources, images, statistical tables, charts, and graphs. Subjects: Current Issues
Full Text

Journal of Marketing
1934 - to present coverage

Mergent / Hoover's Online This link opens in a new window
Powerful intutive search capabilities combined with an easy to use interface, access to risk ratings, credit information and recommendations under one platform. Mergent Online delivers a comprehensive suite of authoritative financial information with the accuracy, timeliness and transparency required in today's marketplace.
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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
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Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as alerts and saved
searches and a collaborative work-space with shared folders and annotated documents.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
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The Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Small Business Resource Center This link opens in a new window
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Small Business Resource Center covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing,human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage This link opens in a new window
Contains business and investment information, offering on-line access to Standard & Poor’s independent research, data and commentary on stocks, bonds, funds, and industries.
Industry Surveys; Stock Reports; Company Profiles
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and makes it available on four platforms: German, English, French and Spanish.
Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
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Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Supports the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.
1972 to present

Open Access Resources

Accounting Principles

Accounting Principles (Textbook Equity)
Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective (BC Campus)
Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective (Open Textbook Library)
Principles of Accounting I (Lumen Learning)

Financial Accounting

Accounting in the Financial World (Creative Commons)
Business Accounting (Creative Commons)
Financial Accounting (Lumen Learning)
Financial Accounting (Open Textbook Library)
Financial Accounting (University of Minnesota)
Introduction to Financial Accounting (Saylor Academy)
Introduction to Financial Accounting (Open Textbook Library)
Introduction to Financial Accounting, 2nd revised edition (BC Campus)
Intermediate Financial Accounting, Vol. 1 (Lyryx/Open Textbook Library)
Intermediate Financial Accounting, Vol. 2 (Lyryx/Open Textbook Library)

Managerial Accounting

Managerial Accounting (Lumen Learning)
Managerial Accounting (Open Textbook Library)
Managerial Accounting (Saylor Academy)
Accounting for Managers (Creative Commons)

Finance

Financial Strategy for Public Managers (University of Washington/Open Textbook Library)
International Finance: Theory and Policy (Open Textbook Library)
Money and Banking (Open Textbook Library)
Personal Finance (Open Textbook Library)
Principles of Finance (Saylor Academy)

Taxation

Basic Income Tax (Open Textbook Library)
U.S. Federal Income Taxation of Individuals 2017 (Open Textbook Library)

Databases by Subject: Business

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