Business Resources

Business Source Complete
FM Radio was a tough topic for me to understand the results. I noticed academic journals, reports and periodicals as the types of sources. The visual search was "wicked cool." I used FM radio again, but then tried "green interior design" and the results made more sense to me. It didn't take long at all to see where the articles were located and how you could limit and adjust your search using "sort" "filter by date" and "display styles." Seeing this made me wish that all the databases offered a visual search (do they?). I'll have to take a look.... I just checked "Academic Search Complete" and it has a visual search - a whole new world has opened up for me.

Econ Lit
There were many results for "small business owners" most of them were academic journals but there was one icon I did not recognize, it had 3 overlapping images, the middle one being a book. From looking at the article, I think it means a chapter from a book. Since I liked the visual search, I tried to find "EPA" and "Small business" using that, but got zero results. I went back to the "advanced search" and had 3 hits with this search. Searching "Tax policies" and "small business" resulted in a number of
hits.

Regional Business News
National company: Follett Library Resources resulted in one hit, but it was in Chinese! So I looked up Amazon and most of the articles appeared to be about Google, no surprise. Regional company: I tried a couple of family businesses in Massachusetts, but found nothing. I looked for Hannaford and found some interesting articles about sustainable fish and their environmentally friendly store in Augusta. Locally, I struck out with a few tries, but found many articles on Cianbro.

Value Line
Guess I lucked out. Other than one of the links being blocked by our school filter, I navigated around with no problem. I explored all the links and it brought me to different sections of their newsletter - I think. Lots of information. I was able to look up one stock, but couldn't determine where the full record was.

Wall Street Journal
Small business and health care resulted in 19683 hits, but the offered keyword combinations suggested small business and health insurance which only resulted in 120 hits - much better. I was able to narrow my search by using "location" and other limiters.