Core Resources

• Business Source Complete - provides citations and full text for case studies, country reports, company profiles, Harvard Faculty Seminar videos, industry reports, scholarly journals, SWOT analysis, and major magazines, with coverage from 1922 to the present.(SPU Only)
• ABI/INFORM Research - provides citations and some full text on North American business issues, with coverage extending from 1971 to the present. It also includes company profiles and access to the Wall Street Journal.(SPU Only)
• ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry - provides citations and some full text on North American business issues, with coverage extending from 1971 to the present. It also includes company profiles and access to the Wall Street Journal.(SPU Only)
• IBISWorld - aids industry and company research, covering 723 industries and 8,000 companies.(SPU Only)
• Simmons OneView - provides access to U.S. consumer data including product and brand usage, spending behavior, media habits.(SPU Only)
• - Simmons OneView provides information on 3 designated market areas (DMAs): Seattle/Tacoma, Spokane, and Portland. Only 5 concurrent users are allowed at a time.
• Business Analyst Online - Business Analyst Online allows users to generate reports to help identify ideal locations for products by providing detailed demographic information (to the zip code level) on consumer spending habits, lifestyle, and buying behavior.
  
  To create an account, contact Cindy Strong at 206.281.2047 or clstrong@spu.edu.
  
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• PsycINFO - This comprehensive research-based psychology database is produced by the American Psychological Association and indexes journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations from 1887 to the present. It focuses on peer-reviewed literature in behavior science and mental health.(SPU Only)
• - PsycINFO also covers information on consumer psychology, marketing, personnel management, personnel attitudes and working conditions.
• Mergent Online - allows users to search for U.S. company information, financials, and annual reports.(SPU Only)
• Statistical Abstract of the U.S. - is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.(SPU Only)

Additional Resources

• Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Its coverage ranges from 1984 to the present, with some back files (to 1975) and searchable cited references available.(SPU Only)
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library - offers a full-text collection of ACM's publications, including journals, transactions, and proceedings.(SPU Only)
• Computer Source - provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology, with full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.(SPU Only)
• New York Times Index - offers full-text coverage of the U.S. newspaper of record. Important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts are included.(SPU Only)
• Google Scholar - This search engine searches for scholarly research across many disciplines and sources. By starting your Google search from the SPU pages, the results will link to SPU-owned full-text.
• Research Library Complete - covers a broad range of topics, with coverage extending from 1971 to the present.(SPU Only)
• ATLA Religion Database & ATLA Serials - This database, produced by the American Theological Library Association, indexes journals and essay collections in religion, with links to full text. Its coverage extends from 1949 to the present, with some retrospective indexing underway.(SPU Only)
• Religion & Philosophy Collection - offers 300-plus full-text journals, covering world religions, denominations, biblical studies, history of philosophy & religion, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, and moral philosophy.(SPU Only)
• Legal Collection - contains full text for more than 250 scholarly law journals.(SPU Only)
• GreenFile - offers a collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.(SPU Only)
• Europa World Yearbook - offers an online, dynamic version of the Europa World Year Book, first published in 1926.(SPU Only)
• Culture Grams - offers educational resources for educators, librarians, and administrators of K-12 schools.(SPU Only)
• National Newspapers Core - local, regional, and national news coverage - newspapers (SPU Only)
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• Communication and Mass Media Complete - offers over 1,000 titles on communication, mass media, and related fields, many with full text available.(SPU Only)
• JSTOR - offers digitized versions of core scholarly journals in many disciplines.(SPU Only)
• Western Newsstand - provides access to leading newspapers from the Western Region of the United States including the states of CA, AZ, WA, OR, AK, HI, MT, ID, WY, NV, UT, CO and NM..(SPU Only)
• Dissertation Abstracts - covers the full range of academic subjects found in dissertations, with coverage extending from 1861 to the present.(SPU Only)
• PsycTESTS - provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.(SPU Only)
• Pacific Northwest Regional Newspaper and Periodical Index - contains citations from hundreds of newspapers and periodicals, as well as monographs, theses, dissertations, pamphlets, etc., covering Seattle, Washington, and the Pacific Northwest.
• Mental Measurements Yearbook - contains full-text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.(SPU Only)
• Military and Government Collection - provides full-text coverage for 300 journals and periodicals, as well as indexes and abstracts for 645 other sources, pertaining to all branches of the military and government.(SPU Only)

Other resources 

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)  Claims to be the "world's most voluminous search engines for academic open web resources."

Puget Sound Business Journal  News portal for Seattle business news

Documentation of Resources
APA Style Guide to Electronic References  You will need ot authenticate yourself as an SPU patron. Supplement to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 6th edition. Covers how to cite myriad electronic resources. Click on the Online access to e-book -- Login using your Seattle Pacific University email user name and password link. Use your Banner login information to access this resource.

Purdue University's OWL (Online Writing Lab)--very helpful resource on how to propery cite sources using the APA format.

Harvard--Principles of Paraphrasing use this free resource to learn about paraphrasing