CLICnet: CLICnet is the shared catalog of Hamline University, Macalester College, the University of St. Thomas, Augsburg College, Northwestern College, Bethel College, Concordia University, and the College of St. Catherine. Use it to see which books, journals, and videos are owned by these libraries.

netLibrary: Online books available to the Hamline community. An excellent business collection. Publishers represented include: AMACOM, Jossey-Bass, and university presses. More information.

Both CLICnet and netLibrary use Library of Congress Subject Headings. Following are some suggested subject searches. In order to take full advantage of these headings, use the LC Subject or Subject search and type the term exactly as it appears below. Do not use a keyword search.

Terms in bold are primary headings

Reference Books: Business-related Highlights from our Reference Collection.

The following are subscription databases available to the Hamline community only. These are the best (most appropriate for academic study) places to start when looking for articles on your topic.

Business Source Premier. The place to start. Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 3,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed 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. This database is updated on a daily basis. Title list of journals included in this product. Includes annual reports (on the green navigation bar, click on Company Profiles).

Regional Business News. This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Title list of journals included in this product.

Expanded Academic ASAP. "From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers." Because it is multi-disciplinary, it can be a good place to start virtually every search. (For example, if your topic is management-related, you may find articles from the field of psychology that will be useful and that would not appear in a search of a business database.) Includes some full text articles. To see a list of journals included in this index and which are available full text, click on Title List from the menu on the left side of the search screen.

JSTOR: ("Journal storage") A database with a difference: it does NOT include the 3 - 5 most recent years of journals; however, it does include the full run of the journal up to that point. In the case of some journals, that means the coverage goes back to the 19th century. The journals are all scholarly; every article is available full text.
Lists of journals covered: Economics (pt.1) | Economics (pt.2) | Finance

Lexis-Nexis Academic An outstanding resource for newspapers and trade and industry magazines (also includes legal and medical industry information.) While much of the material would not be considered scholarly (it's news, not research), it's a good place to read about what's happening in specific businesses/industries (in the business section), and around the world (in the newspaper section). Includes the full text of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and other regional, national, and international newspapers (both in English and in native languages). Virtually all of the content in this database is full text.

PsycInfo: "Provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work." No full text.

Business and Management Practices. "Contains online articles about the practical aspects of business management; provides real-world know-how that focuses on how organizations make and implement decisions, develop and launch new strategies, and plan for change; includes case studies and how-to articles; searches for business concepts, industries, and specific departments within an organization. No full text.

Wilson Business Abstracts. "Provides complete and accurate indexing and abstracting of leading business magazines. Offers 50-to-150-word abstracts written by subject experts for each article and gives citations (but not abstracts) for book reviews." No full text. FirstSearch password is required for both on- and off-campus access (contact the Reference Desk, 651-523-2375).

EconLit: "Journals, books, and working papers on economics." No full text. FirstSearch password is required for both on- and off-campus access (contact the Reference Desk, 651-523-2375).

Project Muse: A humanities-oriented database, but includes a growing number of business-related journals, including Advertising and Society Review and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. All articles are full text.

Dissertation Abstracts: Lengthy abstracts of every doctoral dissertation completed in the US at an accredited institution for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. FirstSearch password is required for both on- and off-campus access (contact the Reference Desk, 651-523-2375). If, after reading the abstract, you'd like to see the entire dissertation, use Interlibrary Loan to request it. Most institutions do loan out their dissertations.

To view a list of additional business databases available to the Hamline community, click here.

Use Full Text Journals @ Bush Library to see whether we own
a specific journal-- online or in print--or to browse our journals by subject.

The best place to look for articles is the databases listed above; this list is meant as a supplement. These are scholarly journals, many of them refereed.

Journal of Comparative International Management: An online, "refereed journal devoted to publication of high-quality articles in the field of comparative, international management for advancing understanding of organizations and management around the world through theoretical and empirical research."

Journal of International Business Studies: "A refereed journal that publishes the results of social science research and other types of articles that advance the understanding of business." All articles are full text in pdf format, from the current issue back to when it was first published in 1970.

Journal of International Marketing: Tables of contents and abstracts from this journal, which is "designed to serve both the practitioner and educator audiences. Its primary mission is to contribute to the advancement of international marketing practice and theory."
1993 - 2000 was published by Michigan State University. Click here for the abstracts of articles in these issues.
Since 2001, this has been published by The American Marketing Association. Click here for these abstracts. Some content on the site requires free registration. To obtain the full text of these articles, Hamline students and faculty may use our Interlibrary Loan service.

Journal of Small Business Economics: The focus of this journal is "on the links between firm size and performance, the distinct roles of differently sized firms, how and why firm behavior and strategy vary with size, the determinants of the formation, growth, and dissolution of firms and the relationship between firm size and innovation. Small Business Economics is cross-disciplinary and cross-national in its approach." Tables of contents and abstracts of all issues are available online. To obtain full text of articles, Hamline students and faculty may use our Interlibrary Loan service.

News and articles in practical, "popular" sources.

Africa Business Daily

Briefing.com News about and related to the stock market.

Business Finance Magazine: The web site for this magazine includes features on topics such as performance management and budgeting and reporting. (Does NOT include full text of the magazine itself.)

Business Journal: Business news from Minneapolis/St. Paul.

CEOExpress: "The best resources on the Web for busy executives." Includes links to newspapers, business news sources, and more

CNN

Fortune

FT.com  Financial Times

Inc magazine online. Selected articles from the magazine and links to other resources, especially for small businesses.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Nice selection of business and industry magazines. Also newspapers worldwide. Includes Minneapolis Star Tribune. Virtually all articles are full text. To access, go to Bush Library Journal Indexes page.

McKinsey Quarterly: The Journal of Strategic Insight: "An on-line journal from McKinsey & Company, features the latest thinking on business strategy, finance, and management." Free registration required to view full text of articles.

MSNBC

Wall Street Journal

Workforce Management: "Get the information you need to drive business results for your organization. Count on Workforce's 80 years of experience to identify that trends in HR and give you the tools to be successful."

Other News Sources (from Bush Library): click here

Large collections of business links

BizEd From the UK.

Brint:  "A Business Researcher's Interest" Business and technology portal ("Yahoo for business and technology.")

Business.com

The Digital Librarian: Business and Finance

Galileo: Business and Economics: From the University System of Georgia.

Google Business Directory

Hill Library: Hamline University is an affiliate of the J.J. Hill Reference Library, a business library located in downtown St. Paul. Through this affiliation, Hamline students have access to selected Hill resources, to research guides prepared by their business information specialists to assist in the use of their collection, and to the specialists themselves, via e-mail, phone, or in-person.

VIBES: Virtual International Business and Economic Sources. "Over 2,000 links to Internet sources of international business and economic information that are in English and available free of charge. Links include: Full-text files of recent articles and research reports; Statistical tables and graphs; Portals (pages with links to other sources)."

Annual Report Gallery

Barron's Online Annual Reports. (Free registration required.)

CAROL: Company Annual Reports On Line. (Free registration required.)

EDGAR. [SEC Filings and Forms] From the US Securities and Exchange Commission. "The SEC requires all public companies (except foreign companies and companies with less than $10 million in assets and 500 shareholders) to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free. Here you'll find links to a complete list of filings available through EDGAR and instructions for searching the EDGAR database. "

PRARS: Public Register's Annual Report Service. "Company financials, including annual reports, prospectuses or 10k's on over 3,600 public companies are available without charge..."

Biz Web:  Business Guide to the Web

Company Directories: Global, regional, and country-specific business directories. From globalEDGE (MSU).

Company Information: From the J.J. Hill Library.

CorporateInformation:  A great starting point for information on companies worldwide.  Search by company name or by industry and country.  Also serves as a gateway to information on other web sites.

I3: Internet Intelligence Index. "Designed to help you gather competitive intelligence information. It contains links to over 600 intelligence-related Internet sites, covering everything from macro-economic data to individual patent and stock quote information."

Hoover's Online:  Company profiles

Rankings: A collection of links to resources that rank companies. From globalEDGE (MSU).

Wall Street Research Net (WSRN.com):  Resources and links to "help professional and private investors perform fundamental research on actively traded companies and locate important news that moves markets. "

Comprehensive Sites

globalEDGE: Their Resource Desk. "A global business knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities. By serving as a gateway to specialized knowledge on countries, cross-border business transactions, and cross-cultural management, globalEDGE responds to a real interest expressed by an increasing number of global business professionals. It also creates a virtual community of both executives and academics with like interests." From Michigan State University.

International Business: From the J.J. Hill Library.

International Business Information on the Web.

International Business Resource Connection. "The IBRC is your destination for gaining information on international business and trade resources. This site caters toward small and medium sized businesses interested in expanding internationally."

International Business Web Sites.  From the University of St. Thomas

VIBES: Virtual International Business & Economic Sources. "links to Internet sources of international business and economic information that are in English and available free of charge."

Other International Resources

CIA World Factbook: Basic information on countries, including statistics on people, the government, and the economy.

Dynamic Document Creator: "An International Comparison is a report which allows you to compare information on different topics accross different countries. To produce such a report, you first have to choose a set of documents containing the desired information. Four sets are available: Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook annual directory; International Business Practices documents; Country Commercial Guides; or Market Research Reports.After you have clicked on the set of documents of your choice, you will be asked to specify which country(ies) and which topic(s) you would like to compare. Then, simply click on "Assemble Report" for a document to be created according to your specifications. This document will contain paragraphs on each topic and country selected."

Emerging Markets Directory: "Selected links to Web sites related to the emerging markets nations of the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The Directory is an independent project, established in 1996, and is not affiliated with any government or institution."

Export.gov: The U.S. Government Export Portal. Extensive Market Research section: Country and Industry Market Reports; In-Country Feasibility Studies, and Trade Agreements and Statistics.

Export America Magazine: "The Federal source for Your Global Business Needs." From the International Trade Administration in the U.S. Deptartment of Commerce. "Offers practical export advice and serves as a valuable resource for small and medium-sized exporters."

IFC: International Finance Corporation (a member of the World Bank Group): Information on projects with developing countries.

Rankings: A collection of links to resources that rank counties by various criteria. From globalEDGE (MSU).

Tips on Conducting Business Around the World

Trade Promotion Organizations

Understanding the Face of Globalization

World Competitiveness Yearbook: "Annual report on the competitiveness of nations, ranking and analyzing how a nation’s environment sustains the competitiveness of enterprises."

Concise Encyclopedia of Economics

The Dismal Scientist:  Economic Analysis and Data for the World

ECONLinks: "Developed to provide easy access to basic economic and financial information for students in economics and business courses."

Essential Principles of Economics: A Hypermedia Text

OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. "An international organisation helping governments tackle the economic, social and governance challenges of a globalised economy."
OECD Economic Surveys by Country

Federal Web Navigator Search for federal web sites by agency or by subject.  From Villanova Law School.

Full Text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet Organized by state.

Internal Revenue Service (U.S.): Tax information for businesses

Internet Resources for Public Administration Links to international, U.S., Minnesota, and other state and local government agencies.

Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic Development

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (U.S.) "The SEC requires public companies to disclose meaningful financial and other information to the public, which provides a common pool of knowledge for all investors to use to judge for themselves if a company's securities are a good investment."

Small Business Administration (U.S.): The SBA "provides financial, technical and management assistance to help Americans start, run, and grow their businesses." Their Library includes online business Forms, Business Magazines and Resources , and E-Books and Publications, full text of over 200 of their publications.

University of Michigan Documents Center: A comprehensive site linking to government information worldwide.

U.S. Business Advisor: Their mission is to" provide business with one-stop access to federal government information, services, and transactions." From the SBA.

Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S.)

Buros Institute of Mental Measurements

Business and Social Initiatives Database: "Comprehensive information on private sector initiatives which address labour and social conditions in the workplace and in the community where enterprises operate. The database features corporate policies and reports, codes of conduct, accreditation and certification criteria, and labelling and other programmes." From the UN's International Labour Organization.

Business Ethics Resources on the WWW Links to codes of ethics, to ethics institutes and organizations, and pages on specific ethics topics, e.g. corporate governnace. From the Centre for Applied Ethics.

Change Management Resource Library

Dialog on Leadership: "In February 1999, Michael Jung, Peter Senge, and I [Claus Otto Scharmer] met in Lech, a little town in Austria. Over a leisurely dinner, we talked about our experiences in various organizations and how the role of leadership and business was changing in the world. We agreed that the field of leadership and management was approaching an inflection point, and that a deeper and more comprehensive approach to leading change in larger systems was about to emerge. We wondered how we could help these new ways of thinking, leading, and working together to advance."

GAO Best Practices Review: From the U.S. General Accounting Office.

Guide to Human Resources and the Internet

International Labour Organization. Their databases. "UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights."

SHRM Online: Society for Human Resource Management: "The world’s largest association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 170,000 individual members, the Society serves the needs of HR professionals by providing the most essential and comprehensive set of resources available." Some free content, some viewable only with a membership. Student Memberships available.

Workindex.com: "Your link to the world's most comprehensive index of workplace-related Web sites as well as human resource tools and information. The site is produced and maintained by the publishers of Human Resource Executive magazine, in cooperation with Cornell University's School of Industrial Labor Relations.

American Marketing Association. Some content available without registering, but more is available with free registration. Sections include Best Practices, Articles and Reports. and Topics of Interest.

Internet.com Ecommerce/Marketing Channel: Links to web sites of e-commerce-related web sites, including eCRM Guide (customer relationship management), and ECommerce Guide.

Journal of International Marketing: Tables of contents and abstracts from this journal, which is "designed to serve both the practitioner and educator audiences. Its primary mission is to contribute to the advancement of international marketing practice and theory."
1993 - 2000 was published by Michigan State University. Click here for the abstracts of articles in these issues.
Since 2001, this has been published by The American Marketing Association. Click here for these abstracts. Some content on the site requires free registration. To obtain the full text of these articles, Hamline students and faculty may use our Interlibrary Loan service.

Marketing: Links to the web sites of marketing-related magazines, such as Catalog Age and Customer Support Management. These sites include industry news and some full text content.

Marketing (U.S. and International): A guide to marketing resources on the WWW from Louisiana State University Libraries.

Marketing North America Research Guide: "Comprehensive noncommercial resource directory for marketing professionals, academics and students. Fully indexed with 19 searchable subject categories, featured sites and hundreds of previewed links."

Quirk's Marketing Research Review: "One-stop source for information on marketing research -- everything from case studies of successful research projects and job postings, to the most comprehensive directories of custom research providers found anywhere."

See also Bush Library's Online Reference Shelf: Statistics

Compare Minnesota 2002-2003: Profiles of Minnesota's Economy and Population is a statistical fact book designed to support business growth in Minnesota. It provides accurate information and important input on business-related topics such as capital resources, workforce trends, real estate availability, telecommunications and energy prices, among others.

NAICS (North American Industry Classification System): "NAICS was developed jointly by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to provide new comparability in statistics about business activity across North America." Replaced the U.S. SEC's SIC.
NAICS and SIC Correspondence Tables

SIC codes: From the U.S. SEC. (see also NAICS)

Statistical Data Sources: A collection of links to international statistical sources from globalEDGE (MSU).

Guia NEI.com: Brasil and Mexico: "On Guía NEI México, you can search for over 27,000 industrial suppliers from Mexico, organized by over 7,000 industrial product classifications. On guianei.com, you can search for over 29,000 industrial suppliers from Brazil, organized by 7,500 industrial product classifications..."

Thomas Global Register: "Search for over 500,000 industrial suppliers, organized by 10,500 industrial product classifications, in 9 languages, and from 26 countries"

Thomas Global Register Europe: "Search for over 207,000 industrial suppliers, organised by 10,500 industrial product classifications, in 6 languages, and from 17 European countries."

Thomas Regional Industrial Directory. "Provides comprehensive coverage of industrial suppliers, arming buyers with resources they need to locate and purchase industrial products and services quickly and easily."

Thomas Register of Manufacturers  Search by company name, by product or service, or by brand name.

Business Planning. From The U.S. Small Business Administration.

Online Small Business Workshop: From the Canada Business Service Centres.

Sample Business Plans | Other Business Planning Tools: From the Wall Street Journal Center for Entrepreneurs.

Academic Paper Depositories: "Depositories of research papers written by academicians or researchers in credible institutions with an international business related focus."

Academic Simulations: "Websites providing computerized and non-computerized simulations of international business and intercultural situations."

Associations on the Net: Business & Economics: From the Internet Public Library.

FindLaw for Business

Online Women's Business Center "OWBO promotes the growth of women-owned businesses through programs that address business training and technical assistance, and provide access to credit and capital, federal contracts, and international trade opportunities."