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Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

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Comprehensive reference database for locating reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape and electronic media.

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Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of investment and business information and analysis on industries and companies including financial data and market trends. It provides online access to many Standard & Poor’s research publications. Core titles include:

Industry Surveys which contain detailed analysis of over fifty U.S. industries and in addition over 140 Sub-Industry Reviews. Also includes retrospective industry reports back to 1999.

Stock Reports which contain detailed company analysis and financial data for some 4,000 public companies.

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The Global Industry Research section of the IBISWorld database is now available. This section provides world analysis of selected global industries. Content will continue to be added over the next 12 months.

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Do you need to find the impact factor for a particular journal? The Thomas Cooper Library and the School of Medicine Library have partnered to bring you Journal Citation Reports online access! Both the Science and Social Sciences journals are included in this resource.

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Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. There is full text for more than 300 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books. Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope, with material collected from countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia. Subject areas covered include the culinary arts, demographics & statistics, development & investment, food & beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management & administrative practices, leisure & business travel, market trends, technology and more.

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Current Research@ the University of South Carolina: A Digital Library of Dissertations and Theses has changed titles to Dissertations & Theses @ University of South Carolina. The database is now on the Proquest platform. It is currently listed under both titles on the Electronic Resources page.

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Oxford Reference Online contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource.

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In addition to the 24 electronic reference books provided by DISCUS, our subscription to Gale Virtual Reference Library now contains access to nearly 100 additional titles. The library has purchased electronic access to the Gale titles we currently have in our print reference collection. Catalog records for these titles will soon provide links to the e-text as well.

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Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.