Small Business Resource Center Trial through August 31, 2007

The Library has a trial subscription, through August 31, 2007, to Gale's Small Business Resource Center, a comprehensive database offering content that covers all major areas of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax and more.

After trying Small Business Resource Center, we encourage you to leave a comment here on Screenings to let us know what you thought about the database.

Small Business Resource Center features a wealth of resources, including the entire Business Plans Handbook Series, which contains hundreds of sample business plans created by real-life entrepreneurs, as well as Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Management and Small Business Management – A Framework for Success. Also included are dozens of titles from John Wiley & Sons, publisher of the well-known “For Dummies” series, including Portable MBA in Strategy, 2nd Ed., The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth, and Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship.

Small Business Resource Center also includes a number of business journals – both specialty/vertical market and general business – including titles like:

• Better Asset Management


• Black Enterprise


• Consumer Comments


• Cosmetics International


• Direct Marketing


• Financial Management


• Family Business Review


• The Tax Adviser
  … and many more

For additional information about Small Business Resource Center, please visit the Gale website.

LitFinder Trial through August 31, 2007

The Library has a trial subscription through August 31, 2007 to Gale's LitFinder database, which contains 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays and more.

Please explore LitFinder and then leave a comment here at Screenings to let us know what you think about the database.

LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more.

LitFinder's easy-to-use interface allows users to easily target the information they are looking for or to browse the database through various refine search and browse options. For example, users can find everything from the sonnets of Shakespeare to the poetry of Maya Angelou, the love poetry of the 13th century to contemporary poems by African American women, the inaugural speeches of George Washington through George W. Bush, short stories by Edgar Allan Poe to stories by up-and-coming writer Elizabeth Weld, or essays on such subjects as the arts, science, and religion.

LitFinder also features a new user interface, 850 Spanish-language poems with English translations, and coverage of more than 600 nationalities and ethnicities and approximately 27,000 women writers. It focuses on contemporary works, including more than 3,500 full-text poems published for the first time in the current year, and new content is loaded on a quarterly basis.

For additional information about LitFinder, please visit the Gale website.

Biography Resource Center Trial through August 31, 2007

Through August 31, 2007, the Library offers a trial subscription to Gale's Biography Resource Center, a comprehensive biographical reference database in the areas of literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.

After exploring Biography Resource Center, please leave a comment here at Screenings to let us know what you think about the database.

By combining more than 135 of the most frequently consulted Thomson Gale™ biographical sources with nearly 300 full-text periodicals, the Biography Resource Center delivers in-depth, full-text answers to a wide range of questions. This expansive reference integrates more than 1.4 million biographies from numerous sources including: Contemporary Authors®; Contemporary Black Biography; Contemporary Musicians; Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television; Dictionary of American Biography; Encyclopedia of World Biography; Notable Black American Women; Notable Scientists; Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives; and Who’s Who Among African Americans as well as the Marquis Who’s Who® add-on module. Users can learn about the lives and accomplishments of past and present noteworthy figures for their own interest, to complete a research project, or as a starting point for in-depth research on a particular event, country or era — all within one, easy-to-navigate product.

Biography Resource Center provides fulltext coverage of the sources most often cited as key to biographical reference collections. Students and other library patrons will appreciate the following features when conducting their research:

• Narrative biographies — extensive biographical profiles collected from databases such as the Encyclopedia of World Biography


• Thumbnail biographies — one or more brief biographies containing key facts


• Full-text magazine articles from publications such as Time, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report that amplify and update the narrative biographies and thumbnail biographies, and also provide information on individuals not yet profiled in the Biography Resource Center


• Recent Updates — brief updates on individuals in the news


• Links to Web sites that amplify an individual’s life and works

For additional information about Biography Resource Center, please visit the Gale website.