Research Guide: Business Law (BU 312)
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Large, scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing indexing for over 8,500 journals with full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed publications. Covers all subjects. Good place to start your search. Provides access to well over 400 journals in the area of law and legal studies (from EBSCO)
1975--current | Some full text | More info
Designed for business researchers, provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Use the Business Searching Interface for the journals along with easy access to country economic data, company profiles, industry information, SWOT analyses, and market research (from EBSCO)
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Provides access to scholarly journals. Our collection (Arts & Sciences 1) includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also contains titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Overall, there are 119 titles in fifteen disciplines.
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Access to over 500 national and international newspapers. Includes full text for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. (from ProQuest)
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"Points of View Reference Center™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 250 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide." (from EBSCO)
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Reference Books of Note |
Battleground: Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Amy Lind & Stephanie Brzuzy. Greenwood Press, 2008.
R305.403 B33 | 2 vols.
Black's Law Dictionary. Bryan Garner, ed. Thomson West, 2004.
R340.03 B62
Children, Young Adults, and the Law. Lauren Krohn Arnest. ABC CLIO, 1998.
R346.7301 A74
Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Vincent Parrrillo, ed. Sage, 2008.
R361.103 E56 | 2 vols.
Encyclopedia of White Collar & Corporate Crime. Lawrence Salinger, ed. Sage, 2005.
R364.168 E56 | 2 vols.
Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court. David Savage. CQ Press, 2004.
R347.7326 G94 | 2 vols.
Magill's Legal Guide. Timothy Hall, ed. Salem Press, 2000.
R349.73 | 3 vols.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and Law. Peter Newman. Macmillan Reference, 1998.
R330.03 N53n | 3 vols.
Supreme Court Compendium. Lee Epstein, ed. CQ Press, 2007
R347.7326 S95e
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From Fastcase.com, largest online database of free law. covers federal law as well as the laws of all 50 states.
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