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Sunday, February 25, 2018

NC LIVE Resources

by Edward Hirst  Rowan Public Library


Rowan Public Library provides access to a number of high quality business resources through our partnership with NC LIVE, a consortium of 200 member libraries across North Carolina. They offer free electronic access to resources for all ages on topics ranging from careers, business, and investing, to health, history, and genealogy. Ebooks, audiobooks, videos, magazines, newspapers, journals, language-learning tools, and other online materials available through NC LIVE are designed for at-home use, and are available from any Internet connection via library websites, and through NCLIVE.org. All North Carolinians may use NC LIVE resources.
The ABI/INFORM Collection for business research is the gold standard when it comes to business research databases. Full text articles are availalbe for the following journals: Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of International Business Studies,American Economic Review, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, The Economist and US News & World Report. Subjects covered through ABI/INFORM include Business, Economic Conditions, Accounting, Finance, Economic conditions, and Management Theory. ABI/INFORM is available through NC LIVE and provided by ProQuest, s a world leader in serving the information needs of researchers around the world.
Morningstar Investment Research Center available through NC LIVE is an investing resource for collecting finacial information, learning about investment options, and reading up to date financial news commentary. Morningstar provides research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds and stocks. It also includes access to an Investing Classroom, that includes access to over one hundred courses on stocks, funds and building your portfolio.
With US Newsstream you are able to search the most recent US news with archives that go back to 1980. US Newsstream includes content from newspapers, newswires, and blogs. US Newsstream offers access to one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers as well as access to the LA Times and Chicago Tribune.
ReferenceUSA is a database that provides access to information for over fifty million US businesses. Businesses can be search by size, type, and geographic location, and more. It is useful for accessing information about corporations, associations, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, potential employers and suppliers. The information is updated monthly. Reference USA also provides access to Canadian business information, the US White Pages with access to 156 million US residents, and US Healthcare with information on 1.2 million physicians and dentists.
You can access resources by visiting rowanpubliclibrary.org or nclive.org. Just use your card number and PIN.

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