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Business Subject Guide

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Business Insights: Essentials
Business Source Premier The industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.
Gale Economics and Theory Collection
Gale Business Collection
Entrepreneurship Collection
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to violent video games. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to draw their own valid conclusions.

General Business Journals

Healthcare Management Journals

Encyclopedia of Business and Finance A complete reference covering five general areas: finance and banking; accounting; marketing; management; and information systems.
Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials are available online 24/7.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to violent video games. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to draw their own valid conclusions.
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History
World Book (Encyclopedia)

NAICS & SIC Code Lookup
Fortune 500 View rankings and key company info plus news.
Forbes Lists View lists like "America's Largest Private Companies," "America's Best Small Companies" and "Asia's Fab 50 Companies."
ThomasNet Search ThomasNet to find manufacturers, distributors and service providers. Directory is fully online, no longer publishes print edition, The Thomas Register.
County Health Rankings For Health Care professionals, click on the map to go to your state and then click on the state map to find county specific information.

EDGAR Database of Online Corporate Financial Information From the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free.
U.S. Department of Commerce News and links to commerce bureaus and agencies. Descriptions of all departments important for business owners.
U.S. Small Business Administration Provides support to small businesses across the nation.
U.S. Census Homepage Wealth of information and statistics as well as links to other resources like American FactFinder and data maps.
National Healthcare Qualities and Disparities Reports For Health Care professionals, state-specific Health Care quality information.
WISQARS (Center for Disease Control) Research on public health and economic burden associated with unintentional and violence-related injury in the United States.

EBSCO's Business Source Premier has lots of case studies. To find one follow these steps:

Click this link, enter the company you're looking for, then click search.
You will see a list of results. To narrow down your search to only case studies, use the second search box to enter case study then click Search.

U.S. Census Homepage Wealth of information and statistics as well as links to other resources like American FactFinder and data maps.
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) BEA produces economic accounts statistics that enable government and business decision-makers, researchers, and the American public to follow and understand the performance of the Nation's economy. BEA prepares national, regional, industry, and international accounts that present essential information on such key issues as economic growth, regional economic development, interindustry relationships, and the Nation's position in the world economy.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) The BLS of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy.
Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB) Annual series that provides national and state-level data on numbers of businesses and employees, broken out by industry. Excludes data on self-employed individuals, employees of private households, railroad employees, agricultural production employees, and most government employees.
Data.gov Federal, state, and local data, including the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Labor.
CSULB Data Sets Guide California State University, Long Beach's extensive guide to data sets online.
FastStats (National Center for Health Statistics) Statistics on topics of public health importance.

Business Insights: Essentials has hundreds of SWOT analyses. Here are the steps to find one:

Click this link, enter the company you're searching for, then click search.
You will see a list of results. Select the specific company you're researching.
Now you'll see lots of information about the company. To the left of the article you'll see a link for SWOT reports to download.

EBSCO's Business Source Premier has lots of SWOT analyses. To find one follow these steps:

Click this link, enter the company you're looking for and the word SWOT, then click search.
For example, you could search Apple Inc SWOT.