LCC Browsing Areas:

·         H- Social Sciences

o    HD – Management

o    HF – Commerce

o    HG – Finance

o    HJ – Public Finance

·         J – Political Science

·         KF 871-899 – Business Law

·         RA 393 – Health Care Management

OUC Reference Resources:

·         AMA Management Handbook, 3rd ed. - HD31 .A418 1994

·         Business: The Ultimate Resource - HD38.15 .B878 2002\

·         Business Plans Handbook : A Compilation of Actual Business Plans Developed by Small Businesses Throughout North America - HD62.7 .B865

·         Encyclopedia of Business and Finance - HF1001 .E467 2001x

·         Dictionary of Business Terms, 3rd ed. - HF1001 .F78 2000

·         International Encyclopedia of Business and Management - HF1001 .I53 1996

·         Business Etiquette & Protocol - HF5389 .B87 2001x

·         Business Ethics : A Reference Handbook - HF5387 .D54 1998

·         Accounting Reference Desktop - HF5657.4 .B7195 2002

OUC Print Journals:

·         The Academy of Management Journal

·         American Economic Review

·         Business Week

·         Economist

·         Federal Reserve Bulletin

·         Finance and Development

·         Forbes

·         Fortune

·         Group and Organizational Studies

·         Group and Organizational Management

·         Harvard Business Review

·         Industry Week

·         Journal of Business Strategy

·         Journal of Small Business Management

·         Journal of Studies in Technical Careers

·         Kiplinger’s Personal Finance

·         Monthly Labor Review

·         Survey of Current Business

Business Databases:

·         Business Source Complete - “Contains over 11,000 periodicals indexed and abstracted, with more than 10,000 full text, covering management, economics, finance, accounting and international business, among others.” Good for basic research.

·         Business Source Complete (Enhanced Business Searching Interface) -  “While containing the same content as Business Source Complete, the Enhanced Business Searching Interface allows for easy browsing of industry profiles, swot analyses, country profiles, market research reports, trade journals, working papers, and more.”  Some full-text   

·         LexisNexis Academic – “Huge collection of full-text databases covering news, business, legal research, and biographical information.” Full-text  

·         Business & Management Practices – “Contains articles from over 700 trade and business publications about how businesses are managed throughout the world.” Some full-text   

·         Business and Industry -  “Indexes more than 1,000 of the world's most authoritative business publications, including trade and business journals, industry newsletters, and a broad collection of regional, national and international newspapers.” Some full-text   

·         Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Knowledge)  - “Indexes articles and citations from over 1700 international social sciences journals.”  Some full-text   

Business Websites:

·         Ohio University Libraries Biz Wiki - http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/index.php/Main_Page 

Biz Wiki is a collection of articles, databases, websites, and other research guides designed to assist business researchers in finding the best business resources.

·         Intute: Social Studies - http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/

Intute provides some of the best Internet resources related to the social sciences.

·         Librarians’ Internet Index (LII): Business - http://search.lii.org/index.jsp?more=SubTopic1

LII provides links to some of the best Internet resources related to Business. 

·         Business.gov: The Official Business Link to the U.S. Government - http://www.business.gov/ Business.gov is the official business link to the U.S. Government and provides access to business laws, government regulations, forms and agency contacts.

·         Bizjournals - http://www.bizjournals.com/

Bizjournals “features local business news from around the nation, top business stories, industry-specific news from more than 40 industries, advice columns, and other business resources.”

·         GlobalEDGE - http://globaledge.msu.edu/

GlobalEDGE provides business news and data, industry and country profiles, and business education and diagnostic tools.

·         Guide to Business Report Writing - http://bestentrepreneur.murdoch.edu.au/Guide_To_Report_Writing.pdf  - Provides detailed instruction on how to write a business report.

·         AllBusiness - http://www.allbusiness.com/

AllBusiness “offers resources including how-to articles, business forms, contracts and agreements, expert advice, blogs, business news, business directory listings, product comparisons, business guides, a business association and more.”