Whittemore Library: Management / Administration Resource Guide: Information about Management in the Library

The General Types of Information You'll be Using

Background Info: Basic, Authoritative, 'Facts', 'Intel'
AKA: 'Reference Information'
Found in:
-- Dictionaries
-- Encyclopedias
-- Specialized Handbooks
-- Directories
-- Specialized Database Business Intel Products (such as Company Profiles or Market Reports)
-- Government Websites (such as Regulatory info. or relevant statistics)
News & Trends
Found in:
-- Newspapers, online or off-
-- Databases containing Newswires/Newspaper/Newsletter content
-- Databases containing Trade Journal content
-- Online equivalents of Trade Journals (of varying quality)
Detailed, 'Deep-Dive', 'What Works' Analysis
AKA: Scholarly Journal Articles and Scholarly Books ('Monographs')
Found in:
-- Academic Databases with Journal Articles
-- Online Academic Journals
-- Academic Monographs (Online and Print)
-- Reports, Working Papers, Conference Proceedings, Dissertations (In databases but also online, and aka 'Grey Literature')

Our Specialized Business Databases & What They Offer

Why are we giving you so much detail about these business databases? Because they have a bit of every type of business information that you need to succeed in your business class assignments and program. Which is why we pay for the FSU community to access them, and why your professors make you use 'em.

Yes; there's also useful information online...but these databases have what you need.

ABI/INFORM™ Collection
A 3-database package from ProQuest:
-- ABI/INFORM Dateline - Includes hard-to-find local and regional business publications, including McClatchey Tribune titles, with news about local companies, analysis, information on local markets and more. It also allows users to research employment opportunities, compile data on benefits and compensation, learn about corporate strategies and other topics from a local and regional perspective.
-- ABI/INFORM Global - Includes in-depth coverage for thousands of publications, most of which are available in full text and the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels.
-- ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry - Includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends and other topics. With ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals and many others.
Business Source Ultimate
From EbscoHost. Includes:
-- Access to 3,696 active full-text journals
-- Active Full Text for FT50 Journals
-- Rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals
-- Expanding International Content
-- Comprehensive Non-Journal Content (i.e., Case Studies, Company Profiles, Industry Reports, Market Research Reports, Country Economic Reports, SWOT Analyses, Videos...)
-- A new 'BSI' business searching interface
Gale Business Insights
From Gale.
-- Supports business research about:
Companies
Industries
Countries/Territories
-- Includes:
Financial Reports
Investment Reports
MarketLine Industry Profiles
Plunkett Reports
-- Includes the following formats:
Almanac/Yearbook (46)
Blog (4)
Collection (8)
Directory (272)
Encyclopedia (1)
Handbook (17)
Investment report (3)
Magazine/Journal (5352)
Monograph (1)
Newsletter (959)
Newspaper (826)
Newswire (745)
Pamphlet (5)
Report (4489)
Textbook (6)
Transcript (6)
Video (58)

Our 'Discovery Tools'

In other words....all the 'search interfaces' - the individual databases and other places - where you can actually look for the information mentioned above - and, often, get immediate access to the full text. Or, if it's one of our print books, get the info you need to go retrieve it from our book shelves.

The Minuteman Network Catalog
The Whittemore Library belongs to this MetroWest network of 40+ libraries; together we save money on, and share our resources. Print books owned by other Minuteman libraries (but not FSU) can be borrowed online, whereupon they will be quickly sent here for you to pick up and use.
Best For:
-- Print Reference Books owned by FSU (In the 1st floor Quiet Study Room)
-- Print books owned by FSU and by other Minuteman libraries
-- Any 'legacy' physical media forms (CDs, DVD, Blue-Rays, Books on cassette tapes, etc.)
-- Minuteman's Libby/Overdrive & Kindle eBooks, shared by all
-- Minuteman's Streaming Audiobooks, shared by all
-- Minuteman's eMagazines (popular digital magazines), shared by all
A List of All Our Databases
Listed A - Z. Sortable; can limit by subject or format type.
Best for:
-- Articles, because the majority of our scholarly journal articles can be found here.
-- eBooks (Digital reference books and scholarly books). Most of ours are in a few eBook databases.
-- Streaming Documentaries and Instructional Videos. We have a few video databases that Ram Search cannot search; you must search in them directly.
Publication (Journal) Search
A way to look for individual journals directly, by title, without going through a database.
Best for:
-- Articles
The 3 general business periodicals that EVERYONE recommends, without fail:
-- Harvard Business Review
-- New York Times
-- Wall Street Journal
Ram Search
'Ram Search' is a 'federated search engine' that can search almost all our databases at the same time - except for our streaming video databases. Returns results (usually many...too many) in all formats, so we recommend that you 'limit' your results, post-search, to narrow it all down to a more reasonable number. But it really is a good place to get started, and especially helpful for interdisciplinary topics.
Best for:
-- Delivers a bit of everything, including print books owned only by FSU. Many people use it to efficiently find peer-reviewed articles, though.