Subject Guide: Small Business

This guide is to selected sources of small business and entrepreneur information. Additional sources can be found via the online catalog, databases, and the internet.


General Resources [ Top ]

AMA Complete Guide to Marketing Research for Small Business. Holly Edmunds. NTC. Business Books.
[Ref. HF 5415.2 E34 1996]

Business Talk: For Small Business and Self-Employed Taxpayers. Department of the Treasury/IRS. 2001.
[T22.44/2:1853/2001 Law Library Government Documents]

Gale E-Commerce Sourcebook. 2003. Gale Group, Inc.
[Ref. HF5548.32 G354 2003]

Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources. 2002. James Woy, ed.
[Ref. HF5353 .E3]

The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship. William Bygrave. Wiley & Sons.
[Ref. HD62.5 .B94 2004]

Small Business Sourcebook: The Entrepreneur's Resource. Gale Research.
[Ref. HD2346 .U5 S66]


Demographics [ Top ]

1990 Census of Population and Housing. U.S. Department of Commerce.
[C 3. 223/ Government Documents Center]

Editor & Publisher Market Guide. 2008. Editor & Publisher.
[Ref. HF5905 .E38]

The Lifestyle Market Analyst. 1999. SRDS.
[Ref. HF5415.33 .U6 L54]

Rand McNally Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide. 2009. Rand McNally.
[Ref. G1019 .R22]

The Sourcebook of County Demographics. 2008. CACI.
[Ref. HA203 .S65]

The Sourcebook of Zip Code Demographics. 2008. CACI.
[Ref. HA203 .S66]


Selected Periodicals [ Top ]

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice    1986-Current
     Also on nclive logo Business Source Premier and MasterFile Premier.

Entrepreneur - on nclive logo EBSCO

Inc.    1982-Current
     Also on nclive logo MasterFile Premier.

International Small Business Journal - on nclive logo Business Source Premier, Academic Search Premier and MasterFile Premier.

Journal of Business Venturing    1988-Current

Journal of Small Business Management    1982-Current
    Also on nclive logo Business Source Premier and Academic Search Premier .


Web Links [ Top ]

Bplans.com
Information includes sample business plans, advertising plans, marketing plans, and website plans.

CCH Business Owner's Toolkit
Includes how to plan, start, and finance a business, market a product, win government contracts, and deal with taxes.

Minority Business Development Agency
This site, from the U.S. Department of Commerce, provides start up financing, management and technical assistance, and information on e-commerce.

Morebusiness.com
An array of helpful information on starting a business, building a website, finding funding, business plans and legal forms.

Small Business Administration Online
A comprehensive site to the services provided by the SBA. Information includes how to start and finance a small business, how to write a business plan, current legislation and much more.

Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC)
Provides counseling and educational services for persons interested in starting a business in North Carolina. ** NCCU has a SBTDC located in the Alexander Dunn Building, lower level.

Yahoo's Small Business Information
Links to useful information for the new entrepreneurer.


Electronic Databases [ Top ]

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Access via NCCU only spacer Accessible only on NCCU campus. Any student, staff, or faculty member may access this database from anywhere on campus (or off-campus access via NCCU's Web VPN).

nclive logo Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost
Coverage: Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering a wide variety of subject areas from 1984 to present. Includes many complete articles from over 1,000 journals including 380 journals dating back to 1990.

Access via NCCU onlyBusiness and Company Resource Center via Gale Group
Coverage: Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company, and industry, news and information.

nclive logo Business Source Premier via EBSCOhost
Coverage: Provides abstracts and indexing for over 1500 business magazines and periodicals from 1984 to present, including The Wall Street Journal. Includes many complete articles from more than 750 business periodicals.

nclive logo MasterFile Premier via EBSCOhost
Coverage:
Covers a wide variety of topics from about 3,100 magazines and journals from 1984 to present. Includes many complete articles from more than 1500 periodicals from 1990 to present

nclive logo New York Times via ProQuest Company
Coverage: Index of the newspaper from August 1986 to present. Contains complete articles from the most recent 90 days of the paper.

Access via NCCU only News and Observer via NewsBank
Coverage: Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. 1991 - present.

Access via NCCU only NewsBank NewsFile Collection via NewsBank
Coverage: News articles covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people, health and science issues and events from more than 500 U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts. 1992-- present

.nclive logo Newspaper Source via EBSCOhost
Coverage: Provides abstracts and indexing 1995 to present for: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal (Eastern and Western editions), Christian Science Monitor and USA Today. Coverage includes everything except obituaries (exclusive of famous people), sports tables, ads/classifieds, stock prices, and weather. Includes many complete articles from the Christian Science Monitor from 1995 to present, and some complete articles from over 100 other U.S. newspapers.

Access via NCCU only North Carolina Newspapers via NewsBank
Coverage: The electronic editions of record for valuable local and regional newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded

nclive logo ProQuest Newspapers via ProQuest
Coverage: Includes all of North Carolina Newsstand and many full text articles from: Christian Science Monitor (1988 to present), Los Angeles Times (1985 to present), New York Times (1980 to present), Wall Street Journal (1984 to present), The Washington Post (1987 to present).

nclive logo Wall Street Journal via ProQuest Company
Coverage: Index of articles from 1981 to present. Includes many complete articles from 1984 to present.

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