Databases

• Business Source Complete : magazines, newspapers, trade publications, and scholarly journals, book chapters, company and industry profiles; extensive full text
• Economia y Negocios : Spanish and Portuguese language business and economics journals
• Emerald : scholarly articles in management, human resources, leadership, more
• Factiva : full text national and international articles, primarily from newspapers, company and industry profiles, stock trends, Wall Street Journal in full text
  • for finding company profiles and ratios
• Hospitality & Tourism : scholarly research and industry news
• IBISWorld : profiles and analysis of 700 industries and more than 8000 U.S. companies
• LexisNexis Academic :full text business, industry, and accounting publications; company profiles, financials, and SEC filings (choose Business search)
• Mergent Horizon : public company analysis, searchable by ticker symbol, product categories, trade names, more, with company reports, competitors and suppliers, stock prices, and key financial factors
• Mergent Online : international and U.S. publicly traded companies, with downloadable financial information
• Regional Business News : 75 U.S. business journals, newspapers and newswires
• STAT-USA : economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. government; includes State of the Nation and National Trade Data Bank
• Vente et Gestion : French language business journals

Databases in Related Disciplines

• Academic Search Complete : articles in many disciplines, many from scholarly journals; extensive full text
• EconLit : economics, from the American Economics Association
• PsycINFO : industrial and organizational psychology, consumer psychology, human factors engineering and environmental psychology
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychology

For a complete listing of databases provided by UMW Libraries, please see Databases A-Z.

selected reference books in simpson library

General Business Reference

• The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management REFB HD30.14 .B455 2005
• Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus REFB HD31 .H497x
• International Directory of Company Histories REFB HD2721 .I63 1998 continually updated with new histories
• International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies REFB HD31 .I564 2008
• Oxford Dictionary of Business and Management REFB HF1001 .D537 2006

Accounting and Taxation

• Barron's Accounting Handbook REFB HF5635 .S586 2006
• Financial Accounting Standards Board Current Text REFB HF5616.U5 A35
• Financial Accounting Standards Board Original Pronouncements REFB HF5616.U5 F537 2005/2006
• Miller GAAP Guide Level A: Restatement and Analysis of Current FASB Standards REFB HF5616.U5 M5
• Miller GAAS Guide: A Comprehensive Restatement of Standards for Auditing, Attestation, Compilation, and Review REFB HF5667 .M514

Careers and Education

• Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance REFB HF5381 .E52 2005
• Peterson's Guide to MBA Programs REFB HF1131 .P44

Finance

• Annual Statement Studies: Financial Ratio Benchmarks (RMA) REFB HF5681.B2 R58
• Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios (Dun & Bradstreet) REFB HF5681.R25 I53

International Business ANd Trade

• Encyclopedia of the Global Economy REFB HF13359 .028 2006

Ethics ANd Leadership

• Encyclopedia of Leadership REFB HD57.7 .E53 2004
• Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society REFB HF5387 .E53 2008

Marketing and Public Relations

• The Business Writer's Handbook REFB HF5726 .B874 2003
• Encyclopedia of Public Relations REFB HD59 .E48 2005

Websites

General Gateway sites

• Business.gov: The Official Business Link to the U.S. Government
• Internet Public Library: Business
• Librarians' Internet Index: Business
• The Wall Street Executive Library

Accounting and Taxation

• Federal Accounting Standards Board: FASB Pronouncements and EITF Abstracts, includes full text of FASB Statements of Financial Accounting Standards and Concepts, Interpretations and Technical Bulletins, and Emerging Issues Task Force Abstracts
• Tax and Accounting Sites Directory hundreds of links in Tax, Accounting, and Payroll/HR

Advertising and Marketing

• KnowThis.com: extensive site edited by Paul Christ, e-commerce expert and director of MBA programs at West Chester University, contains hard-to-distinguish ad areas
• MarketingProfs.com: much free content, premium subscription offered

Ethics and accountability

• AICPA Anti-Fraud and Corporate Responsibility Center: from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• CSRwire: The Newswire of Corporate Social Responsibility
• Center for Ethics and Business: at Loyola Marymount University of Los Angeles, includes quizzes ("What's Your Ethical Style") and other tools, extensive links

Finance

• Big Charts: ad-heavy free stock reports, trends, industry news from Dow Jones's MarketWatch
• EDGAR: free access to publicly-held U.S. corporations SEC filings in HTML and TEXT
• Yahoo! Finance

free from top Business Schools

• Harvard Business School Working Knowledge: articles, interviews, and other works from Harvard Business School faculty
• Knowledge@Wharton: from the school of business at the University of Pennsylvania, includes articles, podcasts
• Stanford Knowledgebase: An Information Source for Thoughtful Leaders: from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, includes articles, videos. podcasts

International Business & Globalization

• CorpWatch: news, background, and opinion from San Francisco Bay-based watchdog group monitoring accountability in international organizations
• DoingBusiness: from the World Bank
• Export.gov: portal for exporters, bringing together information from 19 U.S. government agencies
• globalEDGE: extensive, well-organized, from the Center for International Business Education and Research at Michigan State University

Learning Tools

• Business Plan Archive: online repository of successful and failed business plans from the Dot.com boom, maintained at University of Maryland and funded by several non-profit and educational organizations. Limited access to some materials.
• SCORE: Counselors to America's Small Business: advice and business tools for entrepreneurs from national non-profit association
• United States Small Business Administration Library

NEWS

• CEO Express: links to dozens of newspaper, news wire, magazine, and television online news outlets
• CNN Money.com

Organizations

• American Accounting Association
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• American Management Association