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Earned Income Venture Resources

Books - to find broad information on a topic, or the history of a given topic, try the book collection. This information may not the most up to date, but should give you a good sense of the "big picture." To look up books on a given topic, go to the library catalog:

http://cmars.cwmars.org/search~S38/

Once you're in the library catalog depending on your topic, try broad keyword searches like:

business plan*
non-profit and management
earned income venture

Remember that we have access to many more books than are located at MWCC library. To see what books other libraries own on your topic, search "All Central MA Libraries" or pick a specific library to search, within our system. Also, if you do locate a book which contains good information on your topic, see if there are bibliographies in the book, which list other sources. Here are some useful reference books which you might use in your work:

Business Plans Handbook, edited by Amy Lynn Park - Ref. HD62.7.B865
Encyclopedia of Business, edited by Jane A. Malonis - Ref. HF1001.E466 2000
Encyclopedia of Small Business, edited by Kevin Hillstron - Ref. HD62.7.H553 2007
Business Statistics of the United States, edited by Cornelia J. Strawser - Ref. HC101.A13122 2004
Small Business Model Letter Book, by Wilbur Cross - Ref. HF5726.C87 1992
Small Business Sourcebook, edited by Sonya D. Hill - Ref. HD2346.U5S66 2007

Periodical Indexes/Databases - to find the most current information on a topic, try journal or newspaper articles. In order to locate them, you must use an index. Just like in the back of a book there is an index which tells you what page to look at in the book, there are indexes to journals and newspapers which tell you which issue and page to look at in the journal. These indexes used to be just available in print but are now available online as well. Some online indexes which you should use in your work would be:

Academic Search Premier - huge, all-purpose article database
Business Source Premier - great for more business oriented journals
Business & Company ASAP - again, good for general business information
General BusinessFile ASAP- useful for looking up information on individual companies
LexisNexis - newspaper articles plus journal coverage
Reference USA - database of business and residential listings

The really exciting thing about these online databases is that about 50 percent of the time, the articles which are indexed online, are available online, full-text. These are all available through the library's Database page:

http://www.mwcc.mass.edu/HTML/Library/login.html

Find these online indexes in either the alphabetical or subject arranged database listings. Once in these databases, try specific keyword searches such as:

business plan* and non-profit
capacity and non-profit
earned income venture

Hint: If you haven't decided on a topic yet, browsing through a subject specialized journal can give you ideas for your paper.

Websites - To supplement your investigation, you may want to be aware of these online resources:

Kirstein Business Branch of the Boston Public Library: http://bpl.org/research/kbb/kbbhome.htm
University of Massachusetts, Amherst DuBois Library: http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/business/
Getting Attention Blog: http://www.gettingattention.org/my_weblog/earned_incomeventures/index.html
Community Wealth Ventures Inc.: http://www.communitywealth.com/resources_links.htm

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This page was last updated 5/19/08