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Business Source Premier
(BSP)
This is the industry's
most used business
research database,
providing the full text
for nearly 8,200
serials. Business
Source Premier
provides full text back
to 1965 and searchable
cited references back as
far as 1998. Coverage
includes virtually all
subject areas related to
business. |
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Gale Virtual Reference
Library
A database of reference
sources for
multidisciplinary
research. Includes
resources in the
following areas:
business, economics,
popular culture,
multicultural studies,
medicine, alternative
medicine, biology,
endangered species, and
earth science. |
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General Business File
ASAP
1980 - present
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. |
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General Business File
International
1980 - present
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
directory listings with
full text and images
available. |
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Hoovers
Provides comprehensive
company, industry,
market, and general
business information. |
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Vault Online Career
Library
An extensive resource
that provides
information for
researching careers and
obtaining jobs. Vault
Online Career Library
offers information about
occupations, industries,
and companies, as well
as advice for
job-seekers. Included
are career-related
articles, downloadable
career guides, and
career path videos.
Job-seekers may use
Vault's "WaterCooler"
message boards to
network with working
professionals. |
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International Financial
Statistics
1948 - present
Produced by the
International Monetary
Fund, the IFS database
provides international
economic statistics. The
database includes, for
most countries of the
world, current data on
exchange rates,
international liquidity,
money and banking,
interest rates, prices,
production,
international
transactions, government
accounts, and national
accounts. |
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National Federation of
Independent Businesses (NFIB)
The NFIB website offers
news and articles of
interest to the small or
independent business
person. |
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Plunkett
Research Online
Plunkett Research
provides industry sector
analysis and research,
industry statistics, and
information about
industry trends.
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Regional Business News
This database provides
full text coverage for
regional business
publications. It
includes coverage of
business journals,
newspapers and newswires
from metropolitan and
rural areas within the
United States. This
database is updated on a
daily basis. |
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Westlaw's Campus
Research
Campus Research
provides access to news
and business information
and law-related
resources. The resources
in this database are
designed specifically
for use by students
needing to research case
law, state and federal
statutes, administrative
codes, law journals and
reviews, and news
information. |
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Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile
provides access to
peer-reviewed, full-text
articles from journals
and reference sources.
It also offers full text
of the New York Times
from 1995 to the
present and includes
transcripts and audio
files from National
Public Radio (NPR). |
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Academic Search
Complete
(ASC)
A scholarly,
multi-disciplinary
database that offers
more than 6,100
full-text periodicals.
In addition to full-text
articles, Academic
Search Complete
provides indexing and
abstracts for many more
resources,
including indexing for
more than 10,100
journals, scholarly
books, reports,
conference proceedings,
etc. It includes some
searchable PDF content
going back as far as
1887. |
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America's News Magazines
(Newsbank)
Provides full-text
articles from various
familiar magazines, such
as
Newsweek,
Time,
U.S. News & World
Report,
Fortune, and
Foreign Affairs.
Coverage includes news,
business, entertainment,
lifestyle, science and
technology, and sports.
Paid advertisements are
excluded. |
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America's Newspapers (Newsbank)
A database of the
complete electronic
editions of more than
750 U.S. newspapers,
including major
newspapers such as
The New York Times,
The Washington Post,
The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
and regional newspapers
such as The Knoxville
News-Sentinel and
The Tennessean.
Paid advertisements
are excluded. |
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CountryWatch
Detailed reports for
countries of the world.
This database includes
political, economic,
investment, social, and
environmental overviews,
along with statistics,
maps, and links to
current news. |
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Custom
Newspapers (InfoTrac)
A collection of more
than 650 national and
international
newspapers. Includes the
Chattanooga
Times/Free Press. |
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Expanded Academic ASAP
1980 - present
Coverage in the social
sciences, humanities,
sciences, and
technology, national
news, and general
interest, with a
concentration on
scholarly journals. |
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General OneFile
General OneFile is a
source for news and
periodical articles
covering a wide range of
topics. It includes
full-text articles,
along with some images
and NPR transcripts and
audio files. Updated
daily. |
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Hispanic American
Periodicals Index
1970-present
Index to articles, book
reviews and other
material on Central and
South America, Mexico,
the Caribbean basin, the
U.S.-Mexico border
region, and Hispanics in
the United States.
Covers more than 400
social science and
humanities journals
published throughout the
world. |
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JSTOR
1800 to 3 years
before present date
A digital archive
collection of scholarly
journals starting with
the first issues (many
of which date from the
1800s).
NOTE: the
Adobe Acrobat Reader
is required to print
articles. |
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LearningExpress Library
This resource contains
practice tests and
interactive tutorials
for various academic and
professional
standardized tests. The
tutorials and practice
tests offer immediate
scoring, answer
explanations, and
individual analysis of
test results.
Included are:
- courses and
practice tests in
math, reading, and
writing for adults,
as well as
elementary and high
school students,
- practice tests
for: GED, ACT, SAT,
advanced placement,
GRE, GMAT, LSAT,
MCAT, TOEFL, and
U.S. citizenship,
- practice
certification tests
for: civil service,
teacher praxis, real
estate, and EMS,
- e-books for
skill building and
career
development.
To use
LearningExpress
Library tools, you
must first set up
your own individual
account. On their
welcome page, click
the "New User"
button. Enter a
username and
password that are
easy for you to
remember, because if
you forget your
password there will
be no way to
retrieve your
password.
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Mental Measurements
Yearbook (MMY)
Produced by the Buros
Institute at the
University of Nebraska,
MMY provides users with
a guide to over 2,000
commercially-available
test products in the
areas of psychology,
education, business, and
leadership. Entries
contain descriptive
information such as test
purpose, publisher, and
pricing, as well as
reviews written by
content area experts. |
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Tests in Print
Produced by the Buros
Institute of Mental
Measurements at the
University of Nebraska,
Tests in Print (TIP)
serves as a
comprehensive
bibliography to
commercially available
tests that are currently
in print in the English
language. TIP provides
the following
information: test
purpose, test publisher,
in-print status, price,
test acronym, intended
test population,
administration times,
publication date(s), and
test author(s). A score
index permits users to
identify what is being
measured by each test.
Tests in Print also
guides readers to
reviews published in
Mental Measurements
Yearbook (MMY). |
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