Langsdale Library, University of Baltimore

MGMT 101
Roger Weber
Spring 2008

Individual course index / mgmt101_weber.htm

Introduction | Print Resources | Subject-specific databases | General databases | Suggested Websites | Additional Websites | General Reference Tools | Other helpful information

Introduction:
This guide provides information on locating and accessing print and online resources from Langsdale Library.

Questions?

General Reference: Catherine Johnson:
email: langref@ubalt.edu email: cajohnson@ubalt.edu
phone: 410.837.4274 phone: 410.837.4276
IM: UBLangsdale IM: LangCRJ


Print Resources:
These books are available at Langsdale Library. If the book you're looking for isn't on the shelf (perhaps it's checked out) try looking around at other books on the shelf - this is only a sample of the many great business planning books we have!

The Complete Book of Business Plans - Covello & Hazelgren
HD 62.5 .C68 1995

Great Idea! Now What? - Bronson & Lange
HD 62.5 .B76 1998

How to Write a Business Plan - McKeever
HD30.28 .M3839 2005

The New Business Road Test - Mullins
HD 62.5 .M85 2006

Start Your Own Business - Lesonsky
HD 62.5 .E559 2001

Your First Business Plan - Covello & Hazelgren
HD 62.5 .C685 1998

Subject-specific databases (this only includes selected databases based on topics; for more, see full list of Electronic Databases):

ABI Inform [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Indexes more than 1,300 journals on business, management, with 75% full-text.

Business and Company Resource Center [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1979 - present. Profiles 400,000 companies. Provides company histories, business articles, industry rankings and analyses for selected public companies.

Business Source Premier [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies– present. Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Includes company profiles, many of which contain SWOT analyses.

General BusinessFile ASAP [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1979 - present. Indexes more than 2600 business and trade publications with substantial full text. Includes SIC Descriptions with links to industry articles and Investext with full-text investment reports.

Lexis-Nexis Statistical [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: varies. Provides tabular statistics and citations for additional information in a wide variety of subjects. Includes Statistical Abstract of the United States and state, local, federal and statistics. Now includes Research Tables Statistical Edition with over 130,000 tables.

Mergent Online [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Current. Mergent Online contains the electronic versions of the Mergent (formerly Moody's) Manuals (Industrial, OTC, Banking and Finance, and International), covering over 10,000 U.S. companies and thousands for foreign companies. The financial data for most companies covers 15 years. Industry reports are included.

General/Multidisciplinary databases:
Use these to find full text periodical articles and/or citations to articles. Click here to see how these databases are different from the Internet.

Academic Search Premier  [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

Lexis-Nexis Academic [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals.  Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes, case law and legal journals.

Book catalogs:
Use these to locate books, journals (not individual articles), videos, and government documents.

UB Catalog [help]
Books, journals, government documents and other materials in Langsdale Library.

Catalog USMAI [help]
Books, journals, government documents and other materials in the University System of Maryland, including UB. You may search up to six individual locations or the entire system.

Suggested websites:
These may provide useful information or agencies or organizations who may be sources of information.

US Census Bureau – Gateway to Census 2000 -
http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html

US Census Bureau - Economic Census-
http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/

Baltimore Business Journal –
http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/

City of Baltimore – Business Resources –
http://www.ci.baltimore.md.us/business/

Small Business Resource Guides, by State –
http://www.sbaguides.com/

US Department of Labor – Find It! By Topic
http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/index.htm

Additional websites by subject:

Langsdale web resources
A listing of valuable internet sites by subject area.

Langsdale Library home
A link to Langsdale Library's homepage.

General reference tools:
These may assist you in your search for material or in evaluating and citing material found.

"How to" Guides
Series of subject bibliographies and tutorials.

Citation Styles
Guides to MLA, APA, and other citation styles.

Other helpful information:

Accessing materials from home (Research Port)

Course Reserves

Library barcodes and UB computer accounts

Interlibrary loan (ILL)

For more information email langref@ubalt.edu, call 410-837-4274 or Chat with a Librarian at http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/contact.htm.

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