TBUS 300 - Managing Organizations
Check out the Foster Business Library page for additional resources and research guides.
Finding Company and Industry Information
- Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
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Electronic access to the full-text reports from Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys as well as access to company profiles including financials, competitor lists, key executives, business news and press releases. - Mergent Online
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Search for detailed company financial information (such as debt ratings from the major reporters: Moody's, S&P and Fitch). Offers options for creating detailed comparison reports. Also includes the largest collection of national and international annual reports available in pdf. - Thomson Research (Investext)
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Investext investment research featuring research reports written by top analysts at over 1,000 leading investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms worldwide. Nearly 4,000 new reports are added each business day.- Please be aware that it looks like there is a charge for some pages of the reports - this is for information purposes only. If you are on campus or logged into off-campus access, you will be able to view the full reports at no charge.
- MarketResearch.com Academic
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Provides access to detailed, full-text market research reports across a variety of industries and products. Many of these reports range from 50-200 pages.- Please be aware that it may look like there is a charge for the reports - this is for information purposes only. If you are on campus or logged into off-campus access, you will be able to view the full reports at no charge.
Finding Journal and Newspaper Articles
- Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
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A full-text database containing scholarly articles from a wide variety of business areas including: marketing, management, MIS, accounting, finance and economics. - LexisNexis Academic
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An excellent resource for researching legal information, company specific news and data as well as world news affecting the business environment. You can also specifically search English language international publications. - Access World News (Newsbank)
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Can be used to search national and international newspapers, but it's also the best resource for searching current Washington State Newspapers if you're researching a local company or perspective.
- UW Libraries Catalog - Books, journals, videos, and other materials
- Tip - you can narrow your search down to UW Tacoma books if you're in a hurry and can't wait to order from any of the other UW libraries.
- Worldcat [UW Beta-test Catalog]
Discover books, articles, videos and materials from libraries around the world. Easy to request items not located in the UW Libraries.
Resources for Constructing Your Cited References
- APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources
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A pdf document with the newest recommendations for citing electronic sources. Includes instructions on using DOIs. - APA Style Guide Handout
Based on the 5th Edition APA manual. Please see the more recent Guide to Electronic Resources to cite anything retrieved from the web. - Refworks Bibliography Tool -
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Can be used to export and store citations from databases such as Ebsco as well as the Library catalog. Once citations are stored, they can be exported as a formatted bibliography. - Consider making an appointment with the UW Tacoma Teaching and Learning Center for citation or writing assistance.
Collaborative Study & Learning Space
Introducing the newly remodeled collaborative study and learning space, including the new "TeamSpot" technology, leading-edge software that will make your group projects much easier. Tidebreak "Teampspot" software facilitates in-person, interactive, small group projects or meetings. Group members can collaborate through shared desktop displayed on a large plasma screen, visible to all group members.
- Connect to UW-restricted resources from off-campus.
- How to locate the full-text of articles.
- What about Wikipedia?
- Contact Your Librarian:
- Serin Anderson, Phone: 253-692-4815
- Email: serin@u.washington.edu
- Erica Coe, Phone: 253-692-4651
- Email: elcoe@u.washington.edu