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Business

Your search for information on Business can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on your subject. Try the following Library of Congress Subject Headings but remember this list is by no means conclusive. There are many more subject headings for business in the catalog.

Advertising
Business
Commerce
Economics, Business
Employment
Entrepreneurship
Finance Industries
International Trade
Marketing
Retail Trade
Small Business

Selected Reference Books

Listed below are reference books that may be useful in your research.

AMA Management Handbook

REF HD31 .A418 1994

 

The Dictionary of International Business Terms

REF HD62.4 .S524 1998

 

Hoover’s Handbook of American Business

REF HG4057 .A28617 2005

International Directory of Company Histories
REF HD2721 .I63

Encyclopedia of Business and Finance
REF HF1001 .E467 2001

Business Statistics of the United States
REF HC101 .A13122 2005

Southern California Business Directory and Buyers Guide

REF HF5065 .C2 S66 2005

Business Leader Profiles for Students

REF HD38.25 .U6 B8 1999

 

Encyclopedia of Management

REF HD30.15 .E49 2000

 

Small Business Profiles

REF HD62.5 .S6

 

Standard & Poor’s Register of Corporations…

REF HG4057 .A4 2004

International Encyclopedia of Business and Management
REF HF 1001 .I53 1996

Encyclopedia of American Industries
REF HC102 .E53 1998

Journal & Newspaper Articles

Journals and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic. To find articles on your topic, use one of the indexes listed below and use subject headings or key words similar to those used to locate books. Print indexes must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.

Online Indexes

EbscoHost Business Source Elite

EbscoHost MasterFILE Premier

NewsBank InfoWeb

See the Library Internet Resources handout for a complete description of our online resources.

Print Indexes
Available in the Reference Section

Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature

Business Periodicals Index


Selected Periodical Titles of Business Interest

The following periodical titles are available in the periodical stacks of the library:

Black Enterprise Business Week
Consumer Research Magazine Economic Review
Economist Finance and Development
Forbes Fortune
Harvard Business Review HR Focus
Inc. IW/The Management Magazine
Journal of Marketing Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine
Los Angeles Times Office Solutions
Money Monthly Labor Review
Nation’s Business New York Times
New Leader Newsweek
PC Magazine Sales and Marketing Management
U.S. News and World Report Time
Washington Monthly Wall Street Journal

Internet Sites

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. The following are a few general websites for business information:

Business.com
http://www.business.com/

BRINT.com
http://www.brint.com/

Galaxy.com
http://www.galaxy.com

Hoovers.com
http://www.hoovers.com

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/

Librarians’ Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/search/file/business

Small Business Administration
http://www.sba.gov/

 

 

MO 2/02, REV MO 04/05


Web Author: Lorraine Gersitz (lgersitz@cerritos.edu)
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