Business Administration
Best Databases
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete provides access to peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business:
- Articles from business journals, magazines, and trade publications
- Case studies
- Industry profiles
- SWOT analyses
- Books/Monographs
- Market research reports
- Product reviews
- Country reports
Business Onefile
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.
Economics and Theory
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory offers a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. This content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.
Hospitality and Tourism
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. The database offers current and relevant content that provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.
Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Additional Resources
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's English language journals and reference sources. It has extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects, and millions of full-text articles available in both PDF and HTML.
View an online tutorial.
Academic Search Complete
Provides full-text access to thousands of journals, including peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
View an online tutorial.
Films on Demand
Films on Demand is a comprehensive collection of high-quality educational videos licensed from a long established educational media distributor (Films for the Humanities and Sciences). Other content providers for Films on Demand include BBC Shakespeare, HBO, Davidson Films, California Newsreel, PBS and many more. Over 50,000 videos cover a wide range of topics organized into broad subjects. Individual segments subdivide each video into discrete shorter units.
Kanopy Streaming
Kanopy is a leading distributor of educational videos. Major subjects covered include the arts, business and training, health sciences, media and communication, natural sciences, social sciences, and teacher education. Users can search, browse and stream videos. Login Instructions
HCC Online Catalog
Most of HCC's online books are linked from the online catalog. The catalog also includes physical items in the library: reference books, circulating books, music, dvds, audio books, and other media. You may also use the online catalog to search for items in your public library.
Ebook Central
This is a collection of over 80,000 books online.
eBook Academic Collection
This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, and is a strong complement for any academic collection. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that users will have access to information relevant to their research needs.
We also have access to this Collection of EBSCO e-books.
A collection of thousands of e-books that can be read online or with the EBSCO eBooks App.
Best Databases
ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Social Sciences Full Text
Provides access to over 300 of English-language journals published in the social sciences with coverage back to 1983 and includes peer-reviewed journals.
Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
Massachusetts News Sources
Search through ten local newspapers simultaneously: Advocate (North Adams), Amherst Bulletin, Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield), Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton), North Adams Transcript, Recorder (Greenfield), Republican (Springfield), Springfield Advocate, Springfield Examiner, and the Valley Advocate.
View our online tutorial.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Academic Search Complete
Provides full-text access to thousands of journals, including peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
View an online tutorial.
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's English language journals and reference sources. It has extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects, and millions of full-text articles available in both PDF and HTML.
View an online tutorial.
Google Scholar
Search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. If you are using this from off-campus, be sure to enable links to HCC resources (instructions)
Websites
Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
- Graduation Rates and trends
- Statewide reports (Economically disadvantaged, low income, ...)
- Massachusetts Deptartment of Higher Education
United States
- National Center for Educational Statistics
- US Department of Education
- Rankings of the States 2021... from the National Education Association
- National Center for Children in Poverty (for Parental Education Levels)
Competitors
- Imentor
- 100 Males to College (see the Research section)
Business Plan Books
Sample of Business plan books:
- Writing your plan for small business success (online)
- Business Plan Checklist (online)
- Anatomy of a business plan (online)
- Anatomy of a business plan (in library: Call # HD30.28.P5 2014)
MyBib Citation Generator
MyBib is a free online citation bibliography creation tool. It can create citations and bibliographies in many styles including MLA and APA. MyBib allows you to paste in a website URL or even search for a book, article, or other source by title, and will pull most of the information you need to create a citation (though you may need to double check that the information is correct and complete).
Once you've created your citations, MyBib allows you to copy paste your citations, download them as a Word document, save them to your Google Drive, print them, or email them to yourself.
You can also contact us at the library. We are here to help!
HCC has a Writing Center that can help with citations and examples can be seen in the MLA Guide and APA Guide from Purdue.
