Selected resources for
BUSA 541
Sept. 18, 1999
Gail Egbers
535-8869  egbersgl@plu.edu

 

FINDING BOOKS:  QUEST, our computerized catalog, provides access to the materials in our library.  Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings (large red books near QUEST) to identify the best subject headings for your topic.  Subject headings that may be relevant to your topic include:

Research, Industrial -- Management
Technological innovations
By name of the company (ex: IBM)
Technology -- Social aspects
Technology and state
By the name of the industry (ex:  Computer Industry)

 
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/INFORM (Access via PLU Network):  A business and management database covering U.S. and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.  Also includes information on 60,000+ companies.  Includes many full-text journals.

Business & Industry (via PLU Network):   Indexes leading trade magazines, newsletter, general business press, and international business dailies. Offers important facts, figures and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. From 1994 to present.

 Business Periodicals Index 1958+ (Index Area, ref Z7164.C81.B983 & via PLU Network)
A business index similar to ABI.  It provides citations of articles without abstracts.

EBSCOhost (via PLU network):  Comprehensive index to over 3,100 scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas.  Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.  Some full text for 1,000 publications.  Includes some regional business data.
 

OTHER USEFUL SOURCES

Disclosure Corporate Snapshots (via PLU network):  Corporate and financial information on corporations whose shares are traded in the U.S,

National Trade Data Bank (via PLU Network):  The 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 is searchable by keyword, country, and product.
 

BEYOND PLU

PLU belongs to a consortium of small private colleges and universities.  This consortium includes: St. Martin's College, Northwest College, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle University, and University of Puget Sound.  You may check materials out from these libraries using your PLU ID.

You may also order articles and books from PLU's Interlibrary Loan (Most libraries won't loan reference books)  Staff at the Reference Desk will assist you with your ILL orders.

 


 

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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