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Research Guide

Business & Management Resources
Online and in Ludcke Library

Getting Started / Finding Books / Finding Articles / Web Guides / Specific Topics

Resources for Getting Started

If you are unfamiliar with your topic or would like to get some basic information about a topic, here are resources that will help.

Encyclopedia of Business & Finance
Ludcke Library Reference Collection - [Ref] HF1001.E467 2001
Free Management Library

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Finding Books

FLO Catalog
Search here for books, videos, and all other materials we have here in the library. To help get you started, here are suggestions for terms to use for some popular topics.

leadership
"business planning"
"communication in organizations"
"business communication"
"organizational behavior"
"target marketing"
consumers and marketing
women and management

Tips: Put quotation marks around multi-word phrases like "communication in organizations" OR instead join individual words together with "and," such as women and management.

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Finding Articles

Library Databases

myLesley

Getting Started

General Business File
A great place to look for scholarly business articles.

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
News from all over the world plus financial info and articles.

Academic Search Premier
Chock full of business, management, and industry information.

Free Web Sources

Literature of the Nonprofit Sector

Google Scholar

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Web Guides

Large collections of links on a wide variety of topics in business and management, usually organized by subject.

Knowledge@Wharton
BE Online+

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Sources on Specific Topics

If you do not find your topic below, try one of the general Web Guides above.

Leadership / Women in Business / Organizational Behavior & Management / Nonprofit Management / Technology / Marketing / Business Plans / Financial Information / Economic & Labor Statistics