SELECTED RESOURCES
for
BUSA505-Managing Effective Organizations
PLU LIBRARY
May 30, 2002
Gail Egbers
535-8869/egbersgl@plu.edu

BOOKS:  Our computerized catalog provides access to the materials in our library.  Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings to identify the best subject headings for your topic.  Some topics that might be of interest:
 

Management
Social responsibility of business
Business enterprises
Business ethics
Corporate culture
Strategic Planning
High technology industries--Management.

Or search for a company, for example: Boeing Company



DIRECTORIES:

Buckmaster Annual Stockholder Reports (http://buck.com/cgi-bin/arcgi.exe) (Not available off campus)

Corporate Directory Of U.S. Public Companies (ref.HG4057.A156468)

Directory of Corporate Affiliations (ref.HG4057.A217)

Hoover's handbook of American business (ref.HG4057.A28617)

Market Share Reporter (ref.HF5415.122.M38x)

Notable Corporate Chronologies (ref.HG4009.N68)

Seattle Metro Business Directory. King and Snohomish counties (On Reserve, HF5068.S45C66)

Standard & Poor's Register Of Corporations, Directors And Executives (ref.HG4057.S785)

Standard corporation descriptions (ref.HG4501.S76635)

Tacoma/Olympia Metro Business Directory. Kitsap, Pierce, And Thurston Counties. (On Reserve, HF5068.T3T33)  (Ceased publication 2000)

Worldscope GLOBAL (via PLU Library Homepage)

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Indexes relevant to your topic include:

ABI-Global, Full-text (via PLU Library website) The premier business and management database providing extensive coverage of North America and the world. Find research on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information on 60,000+ companies.

EBSCO (via PLU Library Website)  An index of about 3000 journals, 1000 of them available full-text.  It covers a wide range of topics.

Lexis-Nexis (via Library Website) Provides access to a range of news, business, legal, and reference information. It is particularly strong in its news coverage, featuring mostly full-text articles from newspapers around the world. It also has SEC reports.

Wall Street Journal (via Lexis-Nexis and via ProQuest)

Wilson Business Abstracts (via PLU Library Website) Indexes leading English-language business periodicals.
 
 
LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS  Use Journals at PLU to obtain the call number of the journal you need.  Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are on the second and third floors, shelved with the books. Journals at PLU  also gives you the location of any full-text journals we have online.

REFERENCE BOOKS:
 

North American industry classification system (ref.HF1041.5.N674 1997 & via
http://www.census.gov/pub/epcd/www/naics.html)

RMA Annual Statement Studies (ref.HF5681.B2R61)

Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys (ref.HC106.6.S74)

Standard Industrial Classification Manual (ref HF1042.S73 1987 & via http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/sicser.html)

Survey Of Buying Power And Media Markets (ref.HC110.C6S85)

U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook (ref.HC101.U54)

Value Line (At Reference Desk)
 

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (ref. BF76.7.P83 2001)

OTHER RESOURCES:
 

National Trade Database (NTDB) (via PLU Library Website) The National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) provides access to Country Commercial Guides, Market Research reports, Best Market reports, U.S. import and export statistics, and other various reports and programs. The full text of all documents are searchable by keyword, country, and product.

Worldscope (via PLU Library Website) Information available is derived from corporate annual and 10K reports, disclosure statements, newspapers, and wire services. Each record includes a description of the business, selected financials, key ratios, and officers.
 
 
INTERNET:  The Internet is an attractive source of information but it does not have the best  information for all situations.   Use the Internet only for supplemental information.  Read the  handout "Evaluating Information from the Internet"  (http://www.plu.edu/~egbersgl/evalinternet.html)

 

Fortune Magazine (http://fortune.com)
Google.com (http://google.com) Type in the name of a company.  You have a choice to click on stock reports.

Your professor has put up an online course site for you.  To access it, go to:  ecourse.plu.edu

She has also put some materials online for you.  To access them, go to the library catalog (library.plu.edu) and click on Course Reserves.
 
 
 
 
If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an appointment with me for personal research assistance

 
 
 

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