Company Research Databases at Milne Library
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Business Insights: EssentialsA comprehensive business resource which provides access to periodical and newspaper articles, information about domestic and international companies, investment reports, brands, industry and company rankings, corporate histories. Coverage includes public and private companies. A good source for company histories and chronologies. Combines all of the content formerly found in Business & Company Resource Center.
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Business Source CompleteProvides full-text for scholarly business and management journals as well as financial data, case studies, industry reports, market reports, and company profiles. Journal coverage is from 1886 to the present.
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NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's)Includes Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, and The Outlook.
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Nexis Uni (LexisNexis)Offers more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790 across all content types.
Relevant Internet Site for Company Research
Provides annual and other financial reports. Submissions from companies required to file forms with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism: What it is and how to recognize and avoid it
From the University of Indiana. Provides a description of plagiarism and information on how to identify and prevent plagiarism.
Citation Sources
Citing Business Sources in MLA
The William F. Maag, Jr. Library at Youngstown State University has examples of business citations in MLA format. The rules are taken form the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 8th edition. The link to the website is below:
https://maag.guides.ysu.edu/businesscitations/mla
Links to resources that provide examples of how to write citations, create a works cited list, and format written documents in MLA format. The link to the Milne Library citing sources in MLA guide is below:
https://lgapi-us.libapps.com/widget_c.php?g=300602&p=2006636
The print MLA Handbook is available in the following locations in Milne Library:
Milne Library Reference Collection (1st floor REF LB2369 G53 2016)
Circulating Collection (LB2369 G53 2016)
Note: Library staff will retrieve print books from the collection for students. Instructions on how to borrow print books from the collection are below:
How does borrowing work?
- Find an item using the library discovery service (make sure it says Available at Milne Library….)
- Go to Get It! and select Request Item for Remote Check-Out.
- The item will be checked-out to you and you will be notified by email when it is available for pick up. Pick up location is on the first floor of the Milne Library across from the Main Circulation Desk.
- Library items can be returned at any time through the book drops located at the Circulation Desk or on the exterior of the Milne Library building (to the right of the main front entrance, central to the rear entrance).
- Returned items will be quarantined for 3 days. See the REALM Report for more details on minimizing the spread of COVID-19 through control and quarantine of library resources https://www.webjunction.org/content/dam/WebJunction/Documents/webJunction/realm/test1-report.pdf.
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Revised: August 12, 2020