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Scope: ABI Inform Dateline contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications. Indexes 193 tiles, with 180 providing full-text content.
Updated: Daily
Indexing: Abstracts, Full-text HTML, Full-text HTML with graphics, and PDF formats.

Scope: ABI Inform Global, via ProQuest Direct, indexes more than 1,300 periodicals, with more than 750 in full-text. As the premier business and management database, ABI covers the subject areas of advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, information technology, and management. For a list of titles indexed in ABI Inform Global visit the ProQuest Direct Title Lists page.
Updated: Daily
Indexing: Abstracts, Full-text HTML, Full-text HTML with graphics, and PDF formats.

Scope: ABI Inform Trade and Industry contains more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more.
Updated: Daily
Indexing: Abstracts, Full-text HTML, Full-text HTML with graphics, and PDF formats.

One of the largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for nearly 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host.

Scope: Accounting and Tax Index allows user to search accounting newspapers and periodicals. The newspaper section has accounting and tax information from major newspapers, while the periodicals section provides coverage of accounting and tax topics from key industry publications.
Updated: Daily
Indexing: Abstracts, Full-text HTML, Full-text HTML with graphics, and PDF formats.

Scope: The New York Times Historical (1851 - 2004) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2004
Indexing: Full-text PDF formats.

“Our ProQuest collection provides users with access to twelve of ProQuest’s most popular databases, including ten that are cross-searchable and two historic newspapers collections – The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. The ProQuest Newspaper database provides access to the full-text of thirteen newspapers including ten from Massachusetts.”

Scope: ProQuest Computing indexes more than 200 top computing journals for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
Updated: Daily
Indexing: Abstracts, Full-text HTML, Full-text HTML with graphics, and PDF formats.

Scope: ProQuest Psychology Journals indexes 300 academic journals in psychology and related fields.
Updated: Daily
Indexing: Abstracts, Full-text HTML, Full-text HTML with graphics, and PDF formats.

Scope: Research Library (ProQuest) allows users to search periodicals for information on a broad range of general reference subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. RLC also allows users to search peer reviewed literature on these same topics.
Updated: Daily
Indexing: Citation/Abstracts, Full-text HTML, Full-text HTML with graphics, and PDF formats.

Scope: ProQuest Telecommunications indexes more than 90 top telecommunications industry publications. Includes magazines, journals and newsletters for the latest in this fast changing industry.
Updated: Daily
Indexing: Citation/Abstracts and Full-text HTML format.

Scope: PsychARTICLES via ProQuest provides full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Associations, and Hogrefe and Huber. Coverage dates from 1988.
Updated: Daily
Indexing: Full-text PDF format.

Scope: These full-text, electronic editions of The Wall Street Journal are updated daily with access to United States edition back files since 1981 and European and Asian editions since 1991. Listed on Bentley's ProQuest page as ProQuest Newspapers.
Updated: Daily
Indexing: Full-text HTML <&> PDF format.

Scope: The Wall Street Journal Historical (1889 - 1990) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: July 8, 1889-Dec 31, 1990.
Indexing: Full-text PDF format.

World Development Indicators Online (WDI) provides direct access to more than 700 development indicators with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2007, where data are available.

The Business Searching Interface allows users to search for Business Source Premier content via a dynamic interconnection designed to highlight business and industry resources. BSI users can take advantage over 30 limiters to help narrow the focus of complex research questions related to companies, industries, products, services, and general business from peer reviewed journals to books to newspapers.

Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Communication & Mass Media Complete provides research in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State University) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of wide scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. Includes data through 9/03/03.

CCH TaxResearch Network provides access to a full range of tax information. Federal tax information includes primary sources, news, explanations and analysis, and Federal tax archives. State tax information includes state tax reporters, practice tools and state tax archives. There is a 20 simultaneous user limit on the CCH IntelliConnect (formerly CCH Tax Network).

Accounting Research Manager form CCH provides users with the most current developments in accounting, auditing, SEC, and government standards. The accounting section provides summarized guidence by financial statement caption and other common topics. All sections include interpretations and examples. ARM indexes FASB, GASB, SABs, and other accounting and auditing standards.

The ACM Digital Library (DL) is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. The ACM DL takes great pride in the quality of indexing and citations that the database provides. ACM DL citations include the following features: Citations consist of title, author, publication data, and, when available: abstracts citings (where the paper has been referenced by other papers) references (by the paper to other papers) index terms from ACM's Computing Classification System (CCS) reviews from ACM's Computing Reviews ACM member DL subscribers also get access to the Online Computing Reviews Service DOIs: Digital Object Identifiers, URLs that provide permanent links to papers on the publisher's Web site

SSCI and AHI from ISI Web of Science allow users to find bibliographic data. Both are multidisciplinary databases that index thousands of scholarly journals for topics, authors, sources titles, author address, cited author, cited work and cited year.

Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive provides full-text access to the Biblical Archaeology Society's publications, including Biblical Society Review (BAR). There is a one year embargo on BAR issues provided via the archive website. All issues are in full-text and can be browsed by issue date. Users can search the Biblical Archealogy Society website for topics published in BAR, Bible Review (BR), Archaeology Odessy (AO), or any other BAS title.

BNA Tax Library provides users with online access to expert BNA analysis, primary sources (tax cases), accounting and tax and tax planning articles and commentary. The "Practice Tools" section includes previous year's tax forms, the Federal Tax Calendar, working papers and tables and charts. Bentley's subscription to the Tax Library includes Federal materials only.

BioCentury provides business intelligence on the biotech industry. BioCentury produces weekly news letters covering stock performance and metrics for companies in the biotech industry. The BioCentury Financial Center allows users to track and compare biotech IPOs. *Please contact the Library Reference Desk (781.891.2300) for information on how to access BioCentury.

Britannica Online provides access to the electronic version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Internet Guide, and thousands media images including video. Britannica Online also provides a yearly almanac and a year in review timeline.

Cabell’s directories provide information on publishing opportunities in three fields, Business, Education, and Psychology, covering seven subject areas. Cabell’s provides authors and researchers with contact information, submission guidelines, readership, manuscript styles, acceptance rates, and review types. Cabell’s users can search for journals by subject area and acceptance rates. Subject areas covered by Cabell’s: • Accounting • Economics and Finance • Management • Marketing • Curriculum and Methods • Psychology and Administration • Psychology

College Source provides access to U.S. and international college and university undergraduate and graduate catalogs and web pages. Catalogs are provided in PDF format. Also provides a profile of each school in the database, that includes institution type, Carnegie Classification, enrollment statistics and more.

This is the Web version of the the CQ Researcher. Each week, the CQ Researcher examines an issue of compelling public interest. All CQ reports include an abstract, chronology, extensive bibliography and notes, and an outlook. The full-text of past reports and reports related to latest topic can be searched via the CQ search engine or index.

CQ Weekly covers congressional goings on from week-to-week, including floor votes from both houses the United States of Congress and the status of pending legislation.

Contemporary Authors provides biographic and bibliographic information for over 120,000 international and U.S. writers found in the print reference sources, Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Includes 20th and 21st century writers in fiction, general nonfiction, graphic novels, poetry, print and media journalism, drama, screenwriting and television scriptwriting, as well as, photojournalists, and syndicated cartoonists. Updated monthly.

Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select provides an extensive collection of critical essays on 20th and 21st century creative writers; interviews with featured authors; and excerpts from published criticism. Excerpts include criticism found in books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Coverage of all authors from the print reference source, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 95 forward is included, as well as, criticism on 266 of the most-studied authors culled from earlier volumes. Updated monthly.

Dictionary of Literary Biography provides over 10,000 essays profiling the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres. The 3,000 to 5,000 word essays in the DLB are written by major scholars and provide bibliographic and critical response on an author's writings, as well as, sources for further reading. The DLB also includes essays on literary movements, genres, trends and national literatures. Updates to the database are ongoing as print volumes are published.

Cutting-edge news, commentary, and analysis from an inclusive point of view. Registration required. To obtain your Bentley-sponsored online access, complete the form using your Bentley University e-mail address. You will receive an e-mail confirmation of your username and password.

The Dun and Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory allows users to search for company information by geographic location, industry, company size or ticker symbol. Users can search for company executives by name, title or biography. Users can compare companies across industries using SIC codes or NAICS codes.

Emerald Full-text provides users with access to more than 140 periodical titles, with special emphasis placed on management, finance, library science and marketing. Emerald provides full-text access in HTML and PDF formats. Users can browse titles or search the entire database using the Emerald search engine.

ISI Emerging Markets provides access to general news, company and industry information, financial information, macroeconomic analysis, and legal news from emerging markets in 57 countries and regions in Europe, Latin America, Africa, The Middle East, Central Asia, and Asia. ISI gathers information from a number of sources, including The Economist Intelligence Unit and the OECD.

Euromonitor's GMI database provides information on consumer lifestyles, consumer market size, major market profiles, forecasts, companies and brands, and market analysis.

Factiva is a new service combining Dow-Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. Factiva indexes full-text editions of around 8,000 newspapers, newswires, magazines and trade journals, including Dow-Jones and Reuters publications. Factiva provides company screening reports and company/industry comparison reports, industry reports, and stock and fund quotes. There is a six simultaneous user limit on Factiva.

Use OCLC First Search to find books, articles, films, computer software, and other material on the subject you need. Bentley's subscription to First Search does not provide and full-text, just citations and abstracts. Contact the Bentley Library Reference Desk at 781.891.2300 for the password to access the First Search databases.

Forrester Research is an independent technology research company. Forrester analysts provide timely, in-depth information for business, marketing and IT professionals working at the intersection of technology investment and overall business goals. Students wishing to access Forrester Research should contact the Bentley Library Reference Desk at 781.891.2300. Faculty and staff should send an e-mail to library@bentley.edu requesting an account with Forrester.

“Gartner Research provides up to date research at the intersection of business and technology. Users can search for Gartner research by market area, topic, or industry. In addition to Gartner’s expert analysis and opinion on all manor of IT related topics users can also use Gartner Research to read Gartner’s blogs and download Gartner Voice podcasts. Bentley University students, faculty and staff can access Gartner using a Bentley University network username and password.” Users need to authenticate using their Bentley University e-mail address and network (AD) password.

General Business File ASAP (1996-present), indexes more than 900 periodicals, with more than 450 being full-text. Subjects covered include company profiles, finance, international trade, money management, business trends, investments, and banking.

General Reference Center -- Magazine Index (1995-present, with a back-file from 1980-1994), indexes more than 415 general interest magazines, with more than 300 being full-text. Coverage also includes a number of ready-reference almanacs and encyclopedia.

Grove Art Online comprises the full text of the 34 volume Dictionary of Art, 1996; the Oxford Companion to Western Art, 2001; and new and updated articles. Advanced searching functions include both internal and external cross-reference hyperlinks. Contains more than 1,500 thumbnail art images with links to searchable image databases and over 40,000 art images on museum and gallery web sites from around the world. Updated quarterly.

IEEE Digital Library offers full-text electronic access to 22 IEEE periodicals (with back-files to 1988) and more than 1,500 conference publications. Documents are available in searchable HTML and PDF formats. IEEE Digital Library allows users to take advantage of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to automatically deliver abstracts from selected periodicals to your desktop. The Digital Library offers two interfaces, one for subject searching, and another for title browsing. Please follow the links below to view both interfaces:
Subject searching link: http://computer.org/dlsearch.htm
Browsing link: http://www.computer.org/publications/dlib/

JSTOR provides access to almost 200 titles in the Arts and Sciences collections (I, II, and III). Titles are indexed with the complete runs of journal titles up to the moving wall point. Moving walls are embargoes that go back from zero to five years, with most titles averaging a two year moving wall. JSTOR titles list for Arts and Sciences I and Arts and Science II are here.

Lexis Academic Universe is a collection of full-text database files that cover the subject areas of law, business and current events. News sources include regional, national, foreign, and international publications and wire services. The subject areas of legislation, litigation and regulation are also indexed. The Legal section of the the database allows users to research state and Federal court cases and the general laws of each state.

Management and Organization Studies from SAGE provides users with full-text access to 36 management and business titles published by SAGE Publications. M & O Studies covers such subjects as: organizational behavior, organizational development, strategic management, organizational theory, industrial psychology, human resource management, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, environmental management, leadership, group processes, organizational communication, management learning, management education, training, industrial relations, labor economics, international and cooperative management, entrepreneurship, small business management, e-commerce, non-profit management , compensation and benefits, environmental management, service organizations, hospitality, travel, tourism, marketing, macromarketing, social marketing, marketing education, marketing theory, service marketing, sociology of work, business and government relations, critical theory, simulation, action research, research design, research methodologies. For a complete list of M & O Studies titles click here.

Accessing Mintel Reports 1. At the first screen, review the 'academic conditions of use' and click "I Agree" for access to the database. 2. Register and create your profile using your @bentley.edu e-mail address. 3. You now have access to Mintel Reports. Mintel offers market research reports covering U.S. and International marketplaces. Each report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape, market share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market.

Investors are constantly searching for reliable sources of information about the markets and the securities being traded in those markets. As a result, Morningstar was founded in 1984 to provide investors with useful information that is essential for making intelligent, informed investment decisions. Morningstar began its operations with the release of its first book, the Mutual Fund Sourcebook. Morningstar covers all stocks traded on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX, and nearly 14,000 mutual funds; nearly 20,000 securities in all. Morningstar Investment Research Center contains powerful screens, detailed financial information on stocks and funds, analyst reports for 1,000 stocks and 2,000 funds including buy and sell directions, portfolio management tools, and more.

National Journal: Weekly journal that covers politics and public policy. Provides focused coverage of Congress, the economy, foreign affairs, defense, taxes, trade, Homeland Security, and lobbying. National Journal Online also includes access to content in the following sections: Ad Spotlight: Archive of political issue and campaign ads from across the countryâ€”dating from 1998. Almanac of American Politics: A reference on every member of Congress and governor. Campaigns: Quick-reference guide to campaigns around the country. Poll Track: Database of results and trends from every publicly available state and national poll

The NBER Working Papers are intended to to encourage discussion and suggestions from economists and other interested parties on research supported by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The NBER explains the working paper series as: "NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world. Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals."

Newsbank provides full-text access to The Boston Globe (since 1980), Boston Herald (since 1997), Worcester Telegram & Gazette (since 1989), and Springfield Republican (since 1989). Newsbank also provides coverage of timely news events.

As the preeminent dictionary of the English language the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) provides the authoritative spellings, etymology and definitions for more than 500,000 words. The OED also traces word usage from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period with more than 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of language sources. Advanced searching functions assure that you will never be vexed by a crossword puzzle again!

Plunkett's Research Online provides users with access to all 24 of Plunkett's Industry Almanacs. Data is updated weekly and easily printable. Thousands of company profiles can be searched by company name or keywords. This database replaces the Plunkett's Industry Almanacs kept on the Index Table in the Reference area of the Bentley Library.

Project MUSE is an online resource providing nearly 250 scholarly journals from 40 publishers. Members of the Bentley community now have access to some of the most important academic resources in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Journals can be searched by title, subject, or collection. MUSE offers articles in full text (HTML and PDF formats), in a variety of subject areas including, economics, education, film, history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, women's studies and more. Users can sign up for Journal Alerts to be notified when new issues of their favorite journals are added to the database. Muse will e-mail users the table of contents of their selected journals. Search results can be managed in several ways, including e-mail citations that link to full-text articles, printer friendly formatted articles and support for citation management software such as EndNote© and RefWorks©. Search features include the option of searching the entire database or within specific subject ranges. Users can also search the full text of articles or by subject, author, or title.

Predicast PROMT (1996-present), indexes nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, market research studies, news releases and investment reports. Use this database to do research on companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which the compete.

Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News (EBSCO) incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. The database is updated daily.

RIA Checkpoint offers tax professionals advanced research and analysis tools. Checkpoint provides authoritative and up-to-date research on ever changing taxation issues. Practice areas include Federal, State and Local, Estate Planning, Pensions and Benefits, International, and Payroll. Users can search by citation for codes and regulations, cases, rulings, and IRS publications. Checkpoint is updated constantly throughout the day to ensure that users are searching the latest in tax research.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy offers online access to more than 2,000 entries from respected scholars and philosophers. Entries in REP Online are linked to articles and editorially reviewed websites. REP Online covers a large breadth of subject matter, including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental, and contemporary philosophy.

Safari Books, from ProQuest, provides user with access to more than 100 electronic tech books, including titles from O'Reilly press. Users can search for authors, subjects or publishers. All titles were published in 2003 and 2004 and available to all members of the Bentley Community. To see the titles to which Bentley subscribes click on "Bookshelf" when logged into Safari.

Net Advantage from Standard & Poor's provides access to S&P's Industry Surveys, Stock Guides, Dividend Records, Mutual Fund Ratings, Corporation Records and much more. Industry surveys are updated twice yearly and provide key data on more than 50 industries from Health Care to Telecomunications.

Thomson Research provides corporate reports and company financials, including 10-Ks, 10-Q's, tear sheets, stock quotes, and daily, weekly and monthly stock graphs, from 1995 to the present. Search for company information on companies publicly traded on the major U.S. stock exchanges by ticker symbol or company name. Search results can be returned in .pdf, .xls, .doc and .html formats. De-listed companies do not reside in the database. Replaced Global Access from Primark in 2003.

ValueLine Historical Reports provides access to ValueLine company reports from 1997 to the present. Reports can be searched by ticker symbol or company name and report date."

Expanded Academic ASAP (1980-present), indexes more than 1,500 periodicals, with more than 500 being full-text. Subjects covered include astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications, and the general sciences.

The MLA Directory of Periodicals contains information on over 5,500 current and out-of-print journals and series included in the MLA International Bibliography. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, peer review, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.

MLA International Bibliography is an index of books, articles, and dissertations on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics, with some linking to full-text. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains more than 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers. It is compiled by the staff of the MLA Department of Bibliographic Information Services with the cooperation of more than 100 contributing bibliographers in the United States and abroad.

Aggregated Databases: In general, an aggregated database is a collection of periodical titles organized with a common interface and often providing full text of the articles indexed. Aggregated databases provide content published by various sources. Some popular library aggregated databases include those from ProQuest, EBSCOHost, Factiva, and InfoTrac.

Bibliographic Databases: A bibliographic database is a collection of titles organized in a database suite with a common interface not providing access to the full text. Bibliographic databases can index books, journals, movies, sound recordings, spoken word pieces, and other content. OCLC's First Search databases and the library's catalog are examples of bibliographic databases.

Citation Databases: A citation database is a collection of periodical titles organized with a common interface and often providing indexing of the articles in various subject areas. Citation databases provide citations to content published by various sources, but rarely provide the full text of the articles indexed.

Newspaper Database: Newspaper databases provide access to the full text of newspaper. They can include historical collections from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal historical collections via ProQuest. Many newspapers are indexed in aggregated such as Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, InfoTrac, EBSCOHost and ProQuest. To check on whether the full text of a journal or newspaper is available electronically via one of our databases or information services, please consult our Full-Text Journal Finder.

Full-text Resource (Select Full-text): Full-text resources are resources that provide electronic content from one or more publishers. If a database is listed as having Select Full-text then some of the content provided will be citations or abstracts. To check on whether the full text of a journal or newspaper is available electronically via one of our databases or information services, please consult our Full-Text Journal Finder. Many of Bentley's tax databases also provide primary source materials. Examples include Forrester Research, West Law Campus, Congressional Quarterly, and a variety of tax databases.

Online Journal: Online journal databases provide access to electronic editions of the full text of traditional print journals or journals that were created and live in the electronic realm.

Reference Resource (Database): A reference resource is the electronic version of a traditional reference volumes. They can include dictionaries, encyclopedia and handbooks. Examples include Encyclopedia Britannica, Oxford English Dictionary and Grove Art Online.

Bibliographic Database: A bibliographic database is a collection of titles organized in a database suite with a common interface not providing access to the full text. Bibliographic databases can index books, journals, movies, sound recordings, spoken word pieces, and other content. OCLC's First Search databases and the library's catalog are examples of bibliographic databases.

Forrester Research is an independent technology research company. Forrester analysts provide timely, in-depth information for business, marketing and IT professionals working at the intersection of technology investment and overall business goals.
Students wishing to access Forrester Research should contact the Bentley Library Reference Desk at 781.891.2300.
Faculty and staff should send an e-mail to library@bentley.edu requesting an account with Forrester.

SRDS Media Solutions database provides current media rates and related information. Media types include print, broadcast, newspaper, direct marketing and online.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Business and Company Resource Center 1980 - Jan 2001 with access to back file (1980 - 1997). Use this database to find articles on: finance, acquisitions and mergers, international trade, money management, new technologies and products, local and regional business trends, investments and banking.

Use Business Index ASAP for research on management issues, economic indicators and business theories and practices, as well as on the activities of companies and industries worldwide. Provides access to academic and business journals with full text and images.

E-book Databases: An e-book database is a collection of electronic titles organized with a common interface providing full text of the books indexed. E-book databases provide content published by various sources. Safari Books, Books24x7.com and NetLibrary are e-book databases provided by the Bentley Library.

Elsevier Science Direct – College Edition provides full-text coverage from 2002 to the present for 350 peer reviewed journals in the social and behavioral sciences.

“The ReferenceUSA database contains detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses. ReferenceUSA records contain contact information, corporation information, company descriptions, management directories, and competitors. ReferenceUSA records allow users to view a company’s Corporate Family Tree. The custom search feature in ReferenceUSA allows users to set up a personalized search form to help identify and compare companies. Custom search options include business type, geography, business size and ownership type.”

“EconLit with Full Text contains all of the indexing available in EconLit, plus full text for more than 400 journals. It provides indexing and full text for articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and more.”

LRC is a comprehensive full-text database. From antiquity to the present in scope it provides information on thousands of authors and their works; both as independent writers/works and in cultural context. In a single interface LRC combines articles and essays from major reference works, books, and literary journals; as well as, original content. Includes 27,500 plot summaries and overviews, 350 literary journals, 140,000 author biographies, over 500,000 book reviews, 4,000 author interviews, and images of key literary figures. Notably, LRC also includes the full-text of over 70,000 selected poems, short stories and novels.

NetLibrary provides access to your library’s eContent collection. eContent is the digital version of books, journals, and database content. You can access your library’s eContent 24 hours a days, seven days a week.
To access NetLibrary from off campus, you first need to set up an account from a computer with a Bentley I.P. address. From on campus, start at NetLibrary [http://www.netlibrary.com] and click on the “Create a free account” link on the top left of the page to set up your account.

World News Digest provides more than 200,000 news articles dating back to 1940 plus primary documents, special essays including country profiles and descriptions of key people, events and issues.

Electronic Commerce & Law Report provides national and global perspectives on the digital economy with news of trends and developments, insights and legal expertise. Topics include: copyright, domain name disputes, information licensing, internet-related regulation, online marketing, and privacy issues.

Privacy & Security Law Report covers the new laws and rules in this emerging practice area. Topics include online advertising, identity theft, patient privacy, network security and employee e-mail monitoring.

Refworks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. Sign up for an account on campus using your Bentley e-mail address.

Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 journals across 150 scientific disciplines.

Central Search (

) allows users to search multiple Bentley Library databases, including our catalog, with a single search engine.

Central Search (

) allows users to search multiple Bentley Library databases, including our catalog, with a single search engine.

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