Class Help Page: Management 320: Entrepreneurship, Spring 2008

Online -- Selected Reference Resources

Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web (U.S. Dept. of Labor)

American FactFinder (U.S. Census information)

Print -- Christopher Center Reference Stacks, 2nd floor

Directory of corporate affiliations Ref. HG4057 .A219 2007
(Also known as "Who owns Whom". Useful for finding the relationships of companies)

Value Line Ref. HG4501 .V26
(analyzes and reports on 1,700 companies in about 95 industries; updated weekly)

Hoover's handbook of American business Ref. HG4057 .A28617 2007
(profiles 750 major U.S. companies)

Hoover's handbook of private companies Ref. HG4057 .A28616 2007
(profiles major U.S. private enterprises)

Mergent Industry Review Ref. HG4961 .M68
(Ranks companies by industry; includes statistics on revenue, net income, operating profit margin, etc.)

Standard & Poor's stock guide HG4915 .S67
(Concise data in tabular format for about 5,100 common and preferred stocks. Two most recent editions kept in reference section. Older editions back to 1973 are in the stacks. Updated monthly)

Databases for Company and Industry Information

Business Source Premier: for company information, click on the "Company Profiles" tab in the green bar at the top of the database [more...]

Edgar: government website of filings by public companies

Standard and Poor's Net Advantage: Very useful tool! Includes S&P Register and Industry Survey. Register contains information on 55,000+ companies. Survey has an overview of 50+ industries, giving outlook and performance information.  [more...]

Hoover's: We do not have a subscription to Hoover's, but some of this website is freely available. Use it to find basic company information. Use our databases and print resources to get more in-depth information.

Yahoo! Finance: This freely available website contains very useful company information under "Investing --> Market Stats".

Databases for Journal Articles

ABI Inform (a must-use database):  This database contains many full text articles from hundreds of journals dating back to the 1970s. [more...]

Business Source Premier  (a must-use database):  This database contains full text articles back to 1990 and in addition to many article abstracts. [more...]

Academic Search Premier:  This is a more general databases that includes business information (as well as articles on almost every subject). You may find enough information in ABI and Business Source Premier without using this source. [more...]

For other business databases, please click here.

Databases for Newspaper Articles

LexisNexis Academic:  This is a completely full text database and includes many well known national and international newspapers, including the New York Times. [more...]

Newspaper Source:  This database includes some abstracts and some full text articles from mostly major U.S. newspapers, but some international sources. [more...]

If you already have a journal title, use JournaLocator to determine if VU has a subscription.

GALILEO - VU Libraries' Catalog resources available at VU libraries [more...]

Library of Congress Classification System [tips]
 H Social Sciences (General)
 HA Statistics
 HB-HC Economics
 HF Commerce
 HG Finance

WorldCat resources available for loan from other libraries worldwide [more...]

V.U.'s Grant Information Sources and Information page (with info on non-profits)

Business, Economics, & Finance WWW page http://www.valpo.edu/library/www/bef.html

Best Information on the Internet: Business http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/Business/busindex.htm

BEOnline Plus: The Library of Congress's list of useful business/economics websites http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/beonline/

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition. LB 2369 .G53 2003

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition. BF 76.7 .P83 2001

A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th edition. (Chicago/ Turabian style) LB 2369 .T8 1996

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