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

New Small Business Videos Added

Gale Small Business Resource Center database has recently added new video content. You can find the video content in the "websites" tab of your search results.

To browse through over 100 videos, search for "SBTV.com".
Here's an example: If you click on the image below, the link will take you to the databases page, where you can select Gale, scroll all the way down and select Small Busines Resource Center. Then, you can search for this or other videos such as:

• women in small business
• marketing
• money
• management
• legal issues
• and more!!!

  

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

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