BOS 250: Business Research

I. SELECTED REFERENCE SOURCES

Industry Surveys (Standard & Poors)

Ref HC 28 .S7 2005 (quarterly)

Survey of Current Business (U. S. Department of Commerce)

Ref HC 101 .A13 (monthly)

Business Statistics of the United States, 10th Edition

Ref HC 101 .A13122 2004

Industry Research Using the Economic Census

Ref HC 101 .B594 2004

Encyclopedia of American Industries, 4th Edition 2 vols.

Ref HC 102 .E53 2005

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management 12 vols.

Ref HD 30.15 .B463 1997

Encyclopedia of Management, 4th Edition

Ref HD 30.15 .E49 2000

Business: The Ultimate Resource

Ref HD 38.15 .B878 2002

Encyclopedia of Leadership 4 vols.

Ref HD 57.7 .E53 2004

International Directory of Company Histories 92 vols. (so far)

Ref HD 2721 .D36

Encyclopedia of Business 2 vols.

Ref HF 1001 .E466 1995

Encyclopedia of Business and Finance 2 vols.

Ref HF 1001 .E466 2001

Understanding American Business Jargon, 2nd Ed.

Ref HF 1001 .F65 2005

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

Ref HF 1042 .N67 2002 also available online.

Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society 5 vols.

Ref HF 5387 .E53 2008

Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios

Ref HF 5681 .R25 I523 (annual)

Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios

Ref HF 5681 .R25 T68 (annual)

Lexis-Nexis Corpporate Affiliations 8 vols.

Ref HG 4057 .A219 (annual)

Hoover's Handbook of American Business 2 vols. (updated on LEXIS-NEXIS)

Ref HG 4057 .A28617 2001

Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime 2 vols.

Ref HV 6768 .E63 2005

II. INDEXES AND DATABASES

Business Periodicals Index

Microforms Room, 1958-1982
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Business Source Premier

A comprehensive business research database, providing full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications and over 8,000 other periodicals. Covers marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Detailed profiles of 10,000 companies are included.Updated daily.

Census Bureau Economic Programs

Contains links to the Economic Census, Statistics of U. S. Businesses, County Business Patterns, and other business and economic data.

Lexis-Nexis

Connections to full-text newpaper articles (including the New York Times), accounting and business information, company profiles, and legal resources.

Business Full Text, Wilson

Indexes more than 350 leading business magazines, research journals and trade publicatons.

Last updated: 3/20/08 tk, contact Tom Karel for assistance, 291-3845