Resources for Business Administration


Reference Sources

  • Business: the ultimate resource - Ref HD 38.15 .B878 2006
  • Encyclopedia of business - Ref HF 1001 .E466 1995
  • Encyclopedia of business and finance - Ref HF 1001 .E467 2001 (2 volumes)
  • Encyclopedia of business information sources - Ref HF 5353 .E9 2002
  • Michigan business directory, 1999-2000 : the ultimate sales and credit tool - Ref HF 5065 .M52 1999 (2 volumes)
  • Hoover's masterlist of major international companies 2002 - Ref HD 2755.5 H657 2001
  • The Oxford dictionary for the business world - Ref HF 1001 .O96 1993


Databases/Journal Articles

Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
S & P offers a wealth of company and industry information and reputable analysis and commentary. NetAdvantage provides searchable full-text access to Company Profiles, Stock Reports and Industry Surveys.

LexisNexis 
Full text information in legal, business, political science, and other topic areas. To access business news, industry news and company information, follow the link above and select "Business" from the menu on the left side of the page.

ProQuest Business Module
Offers a wide-ranging collection of business newspapers and magazines, many of which are available in full-text.

General BusinessFile ASAP
Access a variety of business magazines and journals, including many full-text resources. Infotrac also offers Company ProFiles, an excellent resource for snapshot data, financial data and industry information. To access Company ProFiles, go to the Advanced Search.

JSTOR
Searchable full text of scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines including history, economics, business, ecology, math, political science, sociology, and more.

Wall Street Journal
Abstracts and full text articles from the years 1984-present.

RIA's Checkpoint Tax Research Platform
A database of tax and financial research including tax law, for both federal and state governments.

New York Times
Full text access from 1980 to the present, available through ProQuest newspapers.

CountryWatch
CountryWatch.com provides up-to-date information and news on 191 countries of the world. Also available is access to a substantial set of geopolitical, economic, business and environmental background information and data on the countries of the world.

Internet Resources

Annual Reports.com
A free resource for locating Annual Reports. This site is the largest free repository of annual reports on the web and has a variety of search tools, such as company, sector and industry.

Edgar
"EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)." Information on publicly held corporations on file since 1996 with the SEC.

FirstGov
Gateway to government information for businesses and nonprofits and consumers. Firstgov is organized by topic and by audience and is searchable.

globalEDGE
International Business web portal covering 200 countries from Michigan State University.

 

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Graduate Profile

Drew Johnson

Drew Johnson
Graduation: 2008
Major: Athletic Training

Don’t fling that graduation cap too far from the stage! If you’re like alumna Drew Johnson, your tassels will take you back to your alma mater.

After earning her master’s degree in athletic training from East Stroudsburg University, she returned to Alma College, where she’s now the exercise and health science lab coordinator and assistant athletic trainer.