Business

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Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost)
This resource contains over 3,000 full text business journals. Over 1,500 of these journals are scholarly peer-reviewed titles. This database also provides indexing and abstracts for key scholarly business journals as back as 1886.

Computers and Applied Sciences Complete
This resource covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. It contains collected knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and research, and is a resource for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology.

Films on Demand
View over 5,000 educational titles in dozens of subject areas.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
  • Full video

First Research
Locate trends, forecasts and more for over 200 industries. This is a great resource for preparing for job or internship interviews. Each industry report includes: overview, competitive landscape, products and operations, sales and marketing, recent developments, business challenges, trends and opportunities, executive perspective, interview preparation questions, financial analysis and industry forecast.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.

Hoover's Business Information
This resource provides comprehensive company profiles containing company overviews and histories, including some coverage of private companies. Use Hoover's Online to find product/brand name listings, competitors, officer names and salaries, product segmentation data, subsidiaries, and financial data, including access to annual reports and SEC filings.

LexisNexis Academic
LN Academic provides searchable access to a wide spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including:
- National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
- U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
- Shepard’s Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
- Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
  • Full text and index
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
This database incorporates 75 full-text business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.

 

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Environment Complete
This resource offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Full text for over 750 journals and more than 130 monographs is included.

GreenFILE
This resource offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.

LISTA with Full Text (Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts)
This database provides wide coverage of librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more from journals, books, research reports, and proceedings. It contains full text for more than 270 journals and indexing for hundreds more.

Lynda.com Online Training Library
Use Lynda.com to learn the latest tools and techniques in digital media, design, and development. Video tutorials show you how to use programs such as MS Office 2007, Acrobat, Flash, Photoshop, Quicken, QuickBooks, and many other programs. There are also videos on how to use popular web sites such as Google and eBay.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff.
  • Off-campus users must have a high speed internet connection and QuickTime v7.5 (or higher) to watch the tutorials.
  • Number of simultaneous users: 1

Business Resources on the Internet
A directory of useful business-related Internet sites.

US Government Business and Trade Statistics
See the Government Information web pages.