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Scope: Covers - business plans; management; marketing; and small business and new ventures.

Browse Books by Call Number:  

HD 30.28 - Business planning

HD 62.2 - 62.8 - Management of Special Enterprises

HD 2340.8 - 2346.5 - Small and medium sized businesses, artisans, handicrafts, trades

HF 5410 - 5417.5 - Marketing. Distribution of products.

HG 4001 - 4285 - Finance management. Business finance. Corporation finance.

KF 1659 - Small business - Law and legislation

Subject Keywords to Search : administration, business planning, entrepreneurship,  management, marketing, new business enterprises, small business

Sampling of Books in our Catalog:

• 100 great businesses and the minds behind them

• Business for beginners: From research and business plans, to money, marketing, and the law

• Business plans made easy

• The complete idiot’s guide to finance for small business owners

• Entrepreneurial small businesses: A resourced-based perspective  [electronic book]

• The entrepreneur’s guide to writing business plans and proposals

• Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technological Change  [electronic book]

• Flying solo :  how to go it alone in business

• Guerrilla marketing research :  marketing research techniques that can help any business make more money

• How to get the financing for your new small business :  innovative solutions from the experts who do it every day

• How to raise capital :  techniques and strategies for financing and valuing your small business

• How to write a business plan

• If at first you don’t succeed-- :  the eight patterns of highly effective entrepreneurs

• Legal guide for starting & running a small business

• Marketing plans for service businesses: A complete guide

• Marketing revolution!: The radical new approach to transforming the business, the brand & the bottom line  [electronic book]

• Small business, big life :  five steps to creating a great life with your own small business

• Small business management :  an entrepreneurial emphasis

• Start-up :  a practical guide to starting and running a new business

• Steps to small business start-up :  everything you need to know to turn your idea into a successful business

You can also search the VCCSLinc Library catalog for other business-related books.

Electronic Books via NetLibrary:

The library catalog will also link you to NetLibrary online business-related books. To access a NetLibrary book from the library catalog:

1. From the Search Results screen, click on the http://www.netlibrary.com link from the Ext. Link column.

2. When the Copyrights Information window appears, read this information, then click on image next to Click to View.

3. When the initial NetLibrary screen appears, click on View this ebook.

You can also go to NetLibrary directly to search for books at http://www.netlibrary.com. You will need to create an account on any Internet-accessible computer on campus before you can access the NetLibrary service from off-campus.  See the NetLibrary handout for more information.

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Database Search Tips:

• Use the Boolean Operator, AND, in between your search terms. For an explanation of how the Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) work, click here.

• You can also use the truncation symbol (*) to pick up both the singular or plural of a word or all forms of a root wood.

  • small business* AND plan*

• If you retrieve too many articles, try an Advanced Search. Find terms in one of the following fields:

  • subject

  • title

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Library Databases:

If you plan to use any of the library's research databases from off-campus, you will need to login with your VCCS username and password.  For more information see: Off Campus Access.

Academic Search Complete     

Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database includes articles in all disciplines of business. More than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals (EBSCOhost)

Business Source Complete     

Includes full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. Indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.  (EBSCOhost)

Factiva     

With a business focus, Factiva is a product of Dow Jones that offers full text access to over 10,000 magazine, journals, leading local, national and international newspapers and news wires.  It provides in-depth research on a company, industry or marketplace.  In addition, about 3,000 images are added daily.  Richmond Times Dispatch is covered from 1989 - . (Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) 

LexisNexis Academic       

Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, medical and reference sources, including: regional, national and international newspapers, broadcast transcripts; U.S. and international company financial information, market research, industry reports, SEC filings; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, law reviews, patents, and Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789, plus polls and surveys from the Roper Center, biographies and country and state profiles. (LexisNexis)

Regional Business News       

Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. (EBSCOhost)

Database Symbol Legend:

Full-text database.  Either all material or at least a portion of material in database is available in full-text.

  Help information on searching this database.

VIVA database subscription (Virtual Library of Virginia - statewide library consortium)

  Database subscription for JSRCC only (not a VIVA or VCCS database subscription).

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