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Key Databases
Business Source Ultimate
Provides bibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 and full text journal articles in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. The database full text content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
EIU
Created to support country market research, this database includes In-depth analysis of current political, policy and economic trends for over 195 countries worldwide, with an 18 month outlook. Quarterly and annual statistics with at least 150 data points picked from reliable sources and reviewed by Economist Intelligence Unit analysts to provide consistent, objective and impartial coverage.
IBIS World
Business reports in five categories: industry market research, industry risk ratings, company research, global industry research, and economic and demographic data.
Nexis Uni
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Includes current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, and more.
ProQuest One Business
Provides access to a mixture of practical and theoretical business content including company, industry, and country reports, scholarly journals and ebooks, videos, dissertations, newspapers, and more.
WDI Online
WDI Online is a comprehensive database on development data covering more than 700 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries, and 18 regional and income groups. The extensive collection of development data includes population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for more than forty years (starting in 1960 where data are available).
Business Communications from WritersWrite(R)
Provides resources for business writing, copywriting, editing, marketing, public relations, proposal writing and other forms of business communications.
Business Plans Handbook
- Business Plans Handbook This link opens in a new windowOffers actual business plans developed by small businesses in the United States. Business plans include diverse categories of small businesses, including automobile dealers, ice cream shops, elder care homes, car washes, restaurants, and publishers. This publication showcases the variety of writing styles and what information should be included based upon the nature of the business. Volumes 1-13 are available online via the link above.
Volumes 1-8 are also available in print:
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OWL Professional Writing Handouts and Resources
Purdue OWL: Professional, Technical Writing
This website by the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University includes resources for workplace writers and people writing during the job search process. This collection of handouts will provide you with information about various aspects of business, technical, and professional writing.
Prentice Hall Encyclopedia of Model Business Plans
The Prentice Hall Encyclopedia of Model Business Plans by Call Number: 658.4012 C884pISBN: 0735200246Publication Date: 1998-09-30Oak Street Facility (by request only)
Contains real-life business plans forms, and worksheets. Provides examples of the phrasing and expressions that give a professional tone to a business plan.
Style and Writing Guides
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref73.00.00/
Resources for proper grammatical usage, citation formats, or paper writing, brought to you by the Internet Public Library.
