Management Theory and Practice

MANAGEMENT THEORY & PRACTICE

BMGT 301/Abzug
Guide for finding sources at the George T. Potter Library
Irene Kuchta - September 26, 2006

ikuchta@ramapo.edu

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I. Library Homepage: http://library.ramapo.edu

Provides access to the catalog (OPAC), databases, interlibrary loan forms, etc.

II. Country Information

Doing Business in....( K3826.4 .D64 ) and Doing Business and Investing in... . ( K3826.4 .D642)

CountryWatch

(Databases A-Z )

Provides political and economic surveys of 191 countries. Coverage is updated continuously. Provides on-line information update from United Press International and nine other international news organizations, as well as periodic data updates provide the latest political, economic, corporate, and environmental information on a country by country basis as it occurs.

Library of Congress Country Studies

Subject Resources/Countries

This website contains the online version of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army

Background Notes from the U.S. Department of State

Subject Resources/Countries

This site, from the Bureau of Public Affairs, contains the full-text to the "Background Notes" publications. Information is included on people, history, government, and political conditions from countries which the United States has relations

III. Company Information

General Business File	Provides business and industry content via periodical articles, news articles, and press releases; detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations, including information on corporate hierarchical structures; investment reports; corporate chronologies and company histories; brands and product information; industry and company rankings; financial overviews; industry overviews; HR Law Case Digests.
Business Source Premier	Business Source Premier provides expanded indexing and abstract backfiles for the top scholarly business journals, dating back to 1965 or the first issue published (whichever is more recent).
Thomson One Banker Analytics	Thomson ONE Banker provides access to relevant real-time global market data, news, and authoritative content from industry-leading sources.
Regional Business News	With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 50 sources.
RefUSA	ReferenceUSA is an Internet-based reference service from the Library Division of infoUSA. The site was designed for use as a reference tool in libraries and is continually enhanced based upon suggestions from librarians and library patrons. The ReferenceUSA database contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses;

IV. Newspapers and Journals

Wall Street Journal

ABI/INFORM Global - 1984-

Wall Street Journal (Historical) 1889-1988

New York Times

ProQuest Newspapers 1984-

New York Times (Historical) 1851-2001

LexisNexis Academic 1980-

America's Newspapers

America's Newspapers from NewsBank provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 300 U.S. newspapers. Newsbank includes the full-text of the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Record (NJ), and The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ).

Scholarly/Peer Reviewed/Refereed articles have been reviewed by a selected panel of experts in the discipline covered by that journal).

Journal Finder: this provides information regarding if a journal is available full-text online, in print in the library, or available on microfilm.
Interlibrary Loan: allows studens to borrow a book or article that the Potter library does not own. There is a link from the Journal Finder page.

Both of these links can be found under QUICK LINKS on the library's homepage.

V. Evaluating Web Sites: What to look for when using the internet for research.

VI. Bibliographies

Use the Citing Websites and Print Sources for citation style guidance.

If the website does not answer your question, MLA handbook for writers of research papers / Joseph Gibaldi. LB2369 .G53 2003 is available at the circulation desk.

Need more help? Visit or call the Reference Desk: 201.684.7574

Use QandA NJ a 24/7 virtual chat with a reference librarian.

Please send your suggestions and comments to:
Liz Siecke