Award winning database: Gale Small Business Resource Center

Are you doing small business research? You're in luck!

The library subscribes to Gale Small Business Resource Center - a two-time, award-winning database. Gale Small Business Resource Center has made the "best of reference" list for two years in a row. You can read more about the award from Gale's Blog.

Gale Small Business Resource Center offers:

• example business plans
• "how to" documents
• videos related to small business development and management
• articles from trade publications and business journals

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

LexisNexis Academic Library Database Errors

LexisNexis Academic is continuing to have some errors when you try to access it from off campus. I'm working with them to try to fix the problem.

In the meantime, try this solution:

Go back to the library databases page (using the back button in the same browser window) and click on the LexisNexis link again.

I hope this problem was not too frustrating for you. I know it's not working correctly, but I hope to have it working well soon.
Thank you for your patience.

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

28 Gale Databases Added!!!

WOW! What a great new addition to our library collections!

Here are the 28 new databases added. Please ask your librarian if you’d like more information about these or other article databases.
· Criminal Justice
· General Science (different than Gale’s Science Resource Center)
· Religion & Philosophy
· Military & Intelligence
· Pop Culture
· War & Terrorism
· Small Business Collection (different than Gale’s Small Business Resource Center)
· World History
· U.S. History
· Vocations, Careers, & Technical Education
· Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Issues
· Information Science & Library Issues
· Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine
· Diversity Studies
· Insurance & Liability
· Educator’s Reference Complete
· Student Resource Center – Gold
· Agriculture
· Business Economics & Theory
· Culinary Arts
· Communications & Mass Media
· Environmental Studies & Policy
· Fine Arts & Music
· Gardening, Landscape, & Horticulture
· Home Improvement
· Nursing & Allied Health (different than ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health database)
· Psychology
· Hospitality, tourism, & Leisure

Search them now!

- Happy researching!
Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Ebook of the Month: August 2008

The Ebook of the Month for August is DotCom divas: E-business insights from the visionary women founders of 20 net ventures.

This book is available through NetLibrary (searchable in the Online Catalog).Please contact your librarian if you have questions about how to use e-books.

Financial Enhancements!

Gale's Business and Company Resource Center database has made enhancements to their financial information. When you find a company, click on the "financials" tab. A pop-up will appear with financial information.



You can:

• analyze financial data on demand


• view income statements, balance sheets, and cash flows


• compare data to major competitors


• export to Excel


• and more!

To view a demonstration of this new feature, click here.

Search it today! If you have any questions, please contact your librarian.

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

NEW Gale Small Business Resource Center

The library has just purchased Gale's Small Business Resource Center database. If you do any business planning, entrepreneurship, or industry research, you are going to love this database!

Use the browsing buttons on the right (in the red box below) to speed up your research. For example, if you're researching "coffeehouses"

1. Click "business types"
2. Click "coffeehouses"
3. You'll get tabbed results of sample business plans, articles, industry overviews, and business directories - all specific to coffeehouses!

Here’s how you get to it:
1. Start at the library’s website: http://library.msbcollege.edu
2. Click on subscription databases
3. Click on Gale
4. If you’re off-campus, log in with your standard email login. If it’s not working contact the HelpDesk – helpdesk@msbcollege.edu
5. Scroll all the way down to the bottom and click on Small Business Resource Center

If you have any questions about how to access or use this (or other databases), please ask a librarian!

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

We value your input

We've got a couple of trial databases this month. If you take a look at them, please take the time to let us know what you think. When we trial a database it is because we are thinking of purchasing it and your opinion is important.

Here are our trials:

• LexisNexis Academic - this is a great database! It's strong with news, business, and legal information. Our decision for this database will likely come down to price and how it fits in with our other databases.
• Global Road Warrior - this is a map and cultural database. We already have a similar database called WorldAtlas. We're investigating the differences.

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

SBA offers free online webinars

The U. S. Small Business Administration has a lot of great features on their website. One of them is FREE online courses.

They offer courses in the categories of: Business Planning, starting a business, management, accounting, marketing, e-commerce, computer security, and more!

Find links to great websites like this one on the library's recommended websites page.

New Websites Added!

We've added more websites to the Library's Recommended Websites section!

Audio of the Declaration of Independence http://www.debrajeandean.com/constitution/Declaration.htm
Debra Jean Dean reads the Declaration of Independence. There is also a link to her reading of the U.S. Constitution. You can download it for free!

Financial Calculators http://www.mortgageloan.com/calculator/
MortgageLoan.com offers over 100 financial calculators for many situations: mortgage, auto, debt, home equity, investment, student, personal, retirement, and tax.

Business.gov http://www.business.gov/
Business.gov is the official business link to the U.S. government. There are Small business guides, state and local info, forms, and other business topics.

USA.gov for Business and Non Profits http://www.usa.gov/Business/Business_Gateway.shtml
Find official, government information about financial assistance, how to launch a business, managing and growing a business, data and statistics, laws and regulations, taxes, and more!

Historical Photos from the Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
The Library of Congress now has a Flickr site! The sets of photos are The 1930s-40s in Color and News in the 1910s.

Census Scope www.censusscope.org
Find U.S. Census 2000 data in a snap. CensusScope is provided by the Social Science Data Analysis Network.

Please ask your librarian, if you have questions!

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian