Business
Library Hours
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Friday: 8:00am-1:30pm
Saturday & Sunday: Closed
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Phone: (803) 535-1262
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Business
Use the tabs below to find resources for your business papers and projects.
These databases are most useful for business research.
- Business Source Premier This link opens in a new windowProvides resources covering business and management topics, including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, management information systems, and operations management.
- Company Profiles This link opens in a new windowProvides MarketLine profiles on most significant companies in the world. This information includes, ownership, performance, and number of employees.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowStreaming service providing academic, career-related, and educational videos. Contains a large collection of videos covering a wide range of academic topics.
- Regional Business News This link opens in a new window75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering the US
Try these databases if you are not sure where to start
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowProvides information in nearly every area of academic study, including arts, biology, chemistry, computer sciences, ethnic studies, engineering, language and linguistics, literature, medical sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion, social sciences, and more.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowProvides access to full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular titles. And Credo brings the facts alive with images, sound files, animations, and much more. Find speedy, simple answers and authoritative, in-depth articles.
- Ebook Central This link opens in a new windowA collection of eBooks ranging across all academic subjects. eBook Central gives students and faculty seamless and immediate access to the eBooks they need.
- EBSCO Academic Collection This link opens in a new windowA collection of multidisciplinary eBooks representing a wide range of academic subjects.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowStreaming service providing academic, career-related, and educational videos. Contains a large collection of videos covering a wide range of academic topics.
- Hoopla This link opens in a new windowHoopla is allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, eBooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone – and even your TV!
- Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new windowA resource which covers current controversial social subjects, with articles that offer informed, differing views on both sides of each issue. Includes, reference articles, infographics, news articles, images, video, audio, and more.
- Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new windowA full-text database that offers students with a series of comprehensive essays with point and counterpoint arguments related to current issues in the news.
- SIRS (Social Issues Resources) This link opens in a new windowUse SIRS Issues Researcher to locate articles about controversial issues selected from newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. It features information about a variety of social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, and political issues from around the world.
Search here for print and electronic resources
All Databases (A-Z)
A-Z list of all library databases, available both on and off campus.
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