The Andrew Carnegie Library at Livingstone College
Andrew Carnegie Library
Livingstone College
Research Guide
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, MBA
Finding Resources at Andrew Carnegie Library
NC LIVE, JSTOR, OPAC
http://livingstone.edu/academics/andrew-carnegie-library/
Articles in journals, newspapers, and magazines are found by searching an index. The major indexes held by Livingstone College are NC LIVE and JSTOR. EBooks, videos, and live-stream information are also available through these electronic resources.
NC LIVE
Available through NC LIVE: Articles, eBooks, Videos, Live-stream materials
Search for a topic by using a keyword search or for a specific article by using an author or a title search. The databases listed below include articles on topics in business, business education, management, marketing, economics, and accounting as it relates to business administration.
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http://www.nclive.org; or https://nclive.summon.serialssolutions.com/advanced#!/search?ho=t&l=en&q=(business%20administration)%20AND%20(accounting,%20marketing,%20entrepreneurship)
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ABI/INFORM Collection
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Business research from journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers.
Accounting, tax, and banking Collection Journal articles, reference reports, proceedings, and dissertations covering current news and topics as well as the trends and history influencing important accounting and tax issues.
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ASIAN & EUROPEAN BUSINESS COLLECTION
This database provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. Find information on companies, economies, markets, international trade, and overall business conditions and practices throughout these regions.
Business Market Research Collection
This database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
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CANADIAN BUSINESS & CURRENT AFFAIRS DATABASE
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Articles span Canadian agriculture, business and economics, education, government and politics, health sciences, history, literature, medical sciences, social sciences, and more, including scholarly content.
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CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION DATABASE
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Vocational information on technical topics, such as computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE DATABASE
Scholarly journals, trade publications, and consumer titles covering topics such as artificial intelligence, automation, gaming, graphics, networking, security, database management, systems administration, information science and hardware.
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Magazines and journals covering consumer health topics, such as sports injuries, women's health, food and nutrition, midwifery, eye care and dentistry.
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CONSUMER REPORTS
Popular collection of product reviews and recommendations for cars, appliances, electronics, personal finance, and health information.
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CQ MAGAZINE
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News and analysis on how legislation is shaped. Coverage of bills, votes, amendments, committees, and more.
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Reports on issues shaping our world, with in-depth coverage of political and social issues, such as health, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
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DATA-AXLE REFERENCE SOLUTIONS
Formerly ReferenceUSA. Reference and research tool providing instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on 24 million U.S. businesses and 235 million U.S. residents. ReferenceUSA makes it faster and easier to find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, find news articles, conduct job searches, research papers, locate addresses and phone numbers, conduct market research and much more.
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EBOOKS ON EBSCOHOST
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Over 26,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.
Entrepreneurial mindset training course
This online, self-paced course will help you recognize opportunities that others overlook and determine whether starting a business is right for you.
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FERGUSON'S CAREER GUIDANCE CENTER
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive resource that enables users to explore industries and careers, plan their education, and research best practices for résumés, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and salaries/benefits. The database includes articles, career advice blogs, and streaming video.
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FILMS ON DEMAND VIDEO COLLECTION
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Thousands of high-quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches, and newsreels.
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GLOBAL BREAKING NEWSWIRES
Global Breaking Newswires provides timely access to newswire content from around the globe as well as growing archive of news.
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GreenFILE is a free research database covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations, and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts. It provides thousands of open access full-text records from scholarly, government and general interest sources.
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International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
LAWHELPNC
Find information and links about your legal rights, the law, the courts, legal forms and more.
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General reference magazines and publications covering a wide range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues. Includes peer reviewed publications.
MORNINGSTAR INVESTMENT RESEARCH CENTER
Includes research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and hundreds of ETFs.
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Full articles from the New York Times (1980-current).
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OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK HANDBOOK
Profiles for hundreds of occupations including sections like What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more. Each profile also includes Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projections for the 2010–20 decade.
OPEN EDUCATION nORTH CAROLINA cOLLECTION
Open Education North Carolina Collection contains free, open textbooks that have been curated for the most frequently taught courses across North Carolina’s 2 and 4-year colleges and universities. Faculty can adopt these open educational resources (OER) to save their students money and lower the overall cost of higher education.
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OPEN LIBRARY
A downloadable eBook collection with books contributed from libraries across the country. Create a username and password to borrow up to five books at a time.
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PROQUEST RESEARCH LIBRARY
General reference database from business and political science to literature and psychology scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and daily news content, accessible to readers and researchers at every level.
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The site includes population, economic, and income data as well as county profiles and rankings.
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STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE UNITED STATES
An authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS DATABASE
Covers topics including computer applications, data communications and data transmission systems, electronic data processing, information science and information theory, radio, and television.
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US NEWSSTREAM
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News content from many national and international newspapers, newswires, and selected news magazines.
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WALL STREET JOURNAL
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Full articles from the Wall Street Journal (1981-current)
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WASHINGTON POST
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Full articles from the Washington Post, (1996-current)
NC Live also offers the Business Information Center where patrons can search NC Live business information sources: Market Research and Business Data https://www.nclive.org/business
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SimplyAnalytics Generate maps and marketing reports using demographic, business, and consumer expenditure data.
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ReferenceUSA Get in-depth information on 24 million U.S. businesses and 235 million U.S. residents. Find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, conduct market research and more.
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Small Business Development
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Find information on starting a company, operations management, sales, and growing or rescuing a business.
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Creating a business plan:
Small Business Planner from the U.S. Small Business Administration
Business Plan Template from Purdue University
More business development tools:
Business Link North Carolina: Start a Business
NC.gov: How to Start a Business in NC
North Carolina Small Business Administration
Foundation Center: Non-Profit Grant Seekers
eBooks from other sources are listed in databases available through NC LIVE:
https://www.nclive.org/ebooks or you may search specific databases
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EBook Central Academic and Public Library Complete Scholarly titles supporting student and faculty research, and general nonfiction on topics such as school & studying, career development, arts & leisure, and practical life skills.
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eBooks on EBSCOhost Source contains nearly 25,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.
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eLibrary This easy-to-use curriculum and reference resource delivers one of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for schools and libraries of all kinds, as well as additional subject-based material.
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Open Library More than 100,000 downloadable e-books on a variety of subjects
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There are more than 16,000 eBook titles available that are full text online: A sampling of titles include:
Business climate shifts: profiles of change makers
Common knowledge: how companies thrive by sharing what they know
Future of the MBA: designing the thinkers of the future
Management and leadership of educational marketing research, practice, and applications
Managing diversity-the courage to lead
Managing value in organisations: new learning management, and business models
Presentation skills, one hour workshop
Project management: case studies
Films are available through Films on Demand with NC Live:
http://www.nclive.org/browse/streaming-videos
Films on Demand Video Collection and the NC Live Video Collection More than 17,000 videos in business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, instructional and vocational training videos. A sampling of titles includes:
Barbara Novick Discusses Work-Life Balance 2014
Buffet & Gates Go Back to School 2007
Business, Management & Administration 2007
Power and the World’s Women 2015
Predict Your Business Future 2020
Next Generation Business 2020
Steve Jobs – One last thing 2011
Working with Business Administration 2009
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JSTOR –
Available through JSTOR:
Articles, Books, Primary sources JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
https://www.jstor.org/?refreqid=excelsior%3A58019b0cb1ec838d0a684822f6427f3c
Search for a topic by using a keyword search or for a specific article by using an author or a title search. JSTOR includes articles, books, and research reports on topics in business, business education, management, marketing, economics, and accounting as it relates to business administration. Users will establish a user ID and password.
Use the general URL above for general searching or this URL to search Business Administration.
JSTOR includes the following on Business Administration
Journal Articles – over 700,000 from more than 75.000 periodicals
Book chapters – 77,000
Research Reports – 8,450
Books - 681
Sample Journal Titles include:
The Academy of Management Review
The Accounting Historians Journal
Administrative Science Quarterly
Administrative Theory & Praxis
African Review of Money Finance and Banking
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Bulletin of the Business Historical Society
Business & Professional Ethics Journal
Indian Journal of Political Science
Journal of Business
Journal of Business and Psychology
Journal of Economic History
Journal of Economic Integration
Journal of Economic Literature
The Journal of Energy and Development
Journal of Higher Education
Review of Educational Research
Print and Audiovisual Materials available at Andrew Carnegie Library
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The (OPAC) http://www.livingstonecollege.worldcat.org/
Through the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), users may search thousands of libraries.
Business Administration
Print titles available through OPAC - over 1,000.000
Print titles available in Andrew Carnegie Library – 182
Print Materials NOT Available at Andrew Carnegie Library may be ordered through Interlibrary Loan from any library listed in the OPAC.
http://www.livingstonecollege.worldcat.org/
To request ILL materials, complete form available online at http://livingstone.edu/academics/andrew-carnegie-library/, contact the library by phone at 704-216-6330, or email any librarian listed on library website.