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Databases, Indexes, Specialized Resources

Business Source Complete. A definitive scholarly business database, providing an extensive collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts are provided for the most important scholarly business journals back to the early 20th Century.

IBISWorld. Industry research reports for over 700 U.S. industries, at the 5-digit NAICS.

Nexis Uni replaced Lexis Nexis Academic. Provides access to full text information from newspapers, magazines, company annual reports, and more, as well as legal information.

eStatement Studies. RMA . Covers approximately 350 U.S. industries. Nineteen of the most widely used ratios in the financial services industry accompany the balance sheet and income statement information, including various types of liquidity, coverage, leverage, and operating ratios. Gives both current and historical data, arranged by NAICS code.

Academic Search Complete. A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

PsycINFO. Index with summaries of citations to articles in over 1,300 psychology research journals with coverage back to 1900.

Sociological Abstracts. Citations with abstracts to articles on all aspects of sociology, social work, and other social sciences since 1963.

EconLit Primary index in economics, it provides citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969.

Internet Links

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Entrepreneurship.org

The Entrepreneur's Reference Guide to Small Business Information

Entrepreneur.com

BloombergBusinessweek: SmallBusiness

U.S. Small Business Administration

SBDCNet. Small Business Development Centers.

Washington State Business Licensing Service

Sources of Free Legal Information on Washington State Law. University of Washington Law Library.

Library Catalog

Search IT is the WSU Libraries shared resource discovery service. With Search IT patrons can use a single search box to find journals, books, articles, media, and digitized collections. They can also access some 9 million titles and 26 million resources from 36 other higher education institutions.

Electronic Reference Books

Oxoford Handbooks Online. Business and Management
Publication Date: 2008-

The series includes: The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship, The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital, The Oxford Handbook of Innovation, The Oxford Handbook of Strategic Sales and Sales Management, the Oxford Handbook of Strategy: A Strategy Overview and Competitive Strategy, and other handbooks.
Encyclopedia of Leadership by James MacGregor Burns (Editor); George R. Goethals (Editor); Georgia L. Sorenson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780761925972
Publication Date: 2004

Written by some 400 scholars from 17 countries, the 373 alphabetically arranged entries are accompanied by 150 photos and other illustrations, with 300 sidebars drawn from a variety of sources. Approximately one third of the entries provide biographical information about men and women who have made significant contributions to the field. Other categories include case studies, leadership studies, followership, women and gender, personal characteristics of model leaders, leadership styles, and leadership theories.

Print Reference Books

Encyclopedia of Small Business by Thomson Gale Staff
Call Number: Holland and Terrell Reference HD62.7 .H553 2007
ISBN: 0787691127
Publication Date: 2006

Contains detailed articles and overviews of all the key information needs of small business users, including financing; financial planning; business plan creation; market analysis; sales strategy; tax planning and more.
The Small Business Start-Up Kit by Peri Pakroo; Barbara Kate Repa (Editor)
Call Number: Holland and Terrell Reference KF1659.Z9 P35 2004
ISBN: 1413300405
Publication Date: 2004

The Small Business Start-Up Kit helps aspiring entrepreneurs launch a business quickly, easily and with confidence. The book explains, in plain English, how to: choose from among the basic types of business organizations -- sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs); write an effective business plan; file the right forms in the right place; be prepared for, and file, the required taxes; acquire good bookkeeping and accounting habits.
Legal Forms for Starting and Running a Small Business by Fred S. Steingold
Call Number: Holland and Terrell Reference KF1659.A65 S74 2010
ISBN: 9781413310986
Publication Date: 2010

Provides you with over 60 legal forms and documents and all the step by step instructions you need to use them. This collection of essential legal and business documents helps you: create contracts to buy, sell, rent, or store goods; hire employees and consultants; protect your trade secrets; create non-compete agreements; prepare an LLC operating agreement; borrow and lend money; buy a business; lease commercial space; prepare corporate bylaws; record minutes of meetings; buy real estate; and much more.
A Trademark Guide for Entrepreneurs by Robert E. Lee
Call Number: Holland and Terrell Reference KF3180 .L44x 1996
ISBN: 1888206047
Publication Date: 1996

Provides the information business executives need to know about protecting their most valuable assets - their trade names, trademarks and service marks. The author explains how to register trademarks and trade names with both state and federal offices, police the marketplace for possible infringement, and successfully exploit the marks through assignments, licenses, franchises and joint ventures.
American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries by Charles W. Carey
Call Number: Holland and Terrell Reference CT214 .C29 2002
ISBN: 0816045593
Publication Date: 2002

This book offers a glimpse into the lives and achievements of more than 280 individuals who have played a significant role in making the United States the most prosperous country in the world.
Historical Encyclopedia of American Women Entrepreneurs by Jeannette M. Oppedisano
Call Number: Holland and Terrell Reference HF3023.A2 O64 2000
ISBN: 0313306478
Publication Date: 2000

This book adds the entrepreneurial stories of over 100 women to the historical record and provides a much needed resource to researchers and educators in the fields of entrepreneurship, business, management, sociology, economics, and women's studies.