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Business
Your Subject Librarian is Jane Theissen.
Contact her for research assistance at 314-889-4570.
Background Information
- This electronic reference source contains over 3,000,000 full-text entries from nearly 500 encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, chronologies, speeches and images.
- Subjects cover all areas of academic study.
Britannica Online Academic Edition
- This reference source provides full-text documents, facts & figures, video and images, timelines, world data, world atlas and a gateway to the classics.
- Subjects cover all topics in science, geography, world studies, history, daily life, ecology, sports, technology, and the arts.
- This electronic reference source contains full-text entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, chronologies, and images, including bilingual dictionaries.
- Website focuses on intelligence work, and country information, including maps, flags and time zones.
- Subjects: History, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
- This wiki site provides links to publically-accessible databases for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
- Subjects: State administration, education, public health, economic development.
For Articles
- This EBSCO database contains a periodical index providing access to over 12,500 journals (8,500 in full-text).
- Subjects: Numerous areas of academic study including science, ethnic & multicultural studies, mathematics, psychology, religion and women's studies.
- This EBSCO database contains a periodical index providing full-text access to over 2,200 journals, along with SWOT analyses and company profiles, market research, industry and country reports.
- Subjects: All disciplines of business -- marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
- This EBSCO database contains abstracts and full-text of journal articles, books, dissertations, working papers and book reviews.
- Subjects: All fields of economics – capital markets, forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, etc.
Entrepreneurial Studies Source
- This EBSCO database contains latest insight on topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small businesses, providing full-text for over 125 key periodicals, reference books, case studies, company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV, one of the world's largest social network sites for high-tech entrepreneurs.
- Subjects: Business Planning,Communications, Innovations, Management, Marketing, Organizational Behavior, Product Development, Raising Capital, Risk Taking and more.
- This archival database contains the full-text of scholarly journals from volume 1, issue 1 of each title along with previous and related titles. The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are generally not available; however, current issues for 150 journals are included.
- Subjects: Science, ethnic & multicultural studies, business, law, mathematics, language & literature, psychology, religion and women's studies
- This database provides full-text access to 10,000 news, business, and legal sources - national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and federal and states court cases back to 1789.
- This database provides the electronic editions of local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources, news magazines, special reports, and world maps. Paid ads are excluded.
- Subjects cover local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues.
WGSN (Worth Global Style Network)
- Global marketing and trends website from the United Kingdom. While the focus is the fashion industry, this site provides good information on worldwide trends in general.
Company Information
- This EBSCO database contains a periodical index providing full-text access to over 2,200 journals, along with SWOT analyses and company profiles, market research, industry and country reports.
- Subjects: All disciplines of business -- marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
- This electronic directory listing of United States and international businesses provides contact and demographic information on over 14 million companies.
For Statistics
Business Data from U.S. Census Bureau
- Economic indicators by geography, sector, and survey, slide shows from recent seminars, and other economic programs.
- Special topics include business expenses, capital expenditures, e-commerce, women & minorities, among others.
- This website provides access to Missouri census data including county maps, trend reports and historical populations.
Statistical Abstracts (online)
- This site is the authoritative summary of statistics on the social, political, & economic organization of the United States. Data is provided by the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, & numerous other federal & private organizations.
Global Issues
- This GALE database contains full-text access to scholarly journal articles, news, and news analysis, video and in-depth topic pages.
- Subjects: Global issues – famine, globalization, world trade, global warming, etc. – in sociology, current events, civics, politics, science, economics, cultural/religious studies, women’s studies, human rights.
- Web-portal to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.
Business & Human Rights Resource Center
- This organization tracks the "positive and negative impacts of over 4,000 companies worldwide". Visitors can search by company, issue, country.
- Subjects: Abuses, poverty, discrimination, health, child labour, investments, trade, globalization, and security.
- Supported by the Canadian government, includes current issues, strategies and tools, markets, training opportunities and sector focuses.
- Subject: Sustainability
Supply Chain Council
- Organization website provides downloadable resources and tools focusing on supply chain processes. Members may access SCOR frameworks, benchmarking, training, certification, research and networking.
- Fontbonne students can register, free of charge, on the site by using their FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY e-mail account. For questions, please contact Jane Theissen at jtheissen@fontbonne.edu or 314-889-4570.
Small Business
Entrepreneurial Studies Source
- This EBSCO database contains latest insight on topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small businesses, providing full-text for over 125 key periodicals, reference books, case studies, company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV, one of the world's largest social network sites for high-tech entrepreneurs.
- Subjects: Business Planning,Communications, Innovations, Management, Marketing, Organizational Behavior, Product Development, Raising Capital, Risk Taking and more.
- Current information related to starting and running a small business. Links to advice, franchise opportunities, video, tools and services, social networking stie and daily blogs.
- A D&B Company, this comprehensive site contains profiles of over 14,000 companies in the US, as well as articles, advice and tools on all aspects of starting and running a small business.
- Nonprofit network providing business-related services including marketing, financial planning, education, government contracts, sales, loans technology development.