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Foster Business Library Databases:
A search in this database for the keyword Entrepreneurship produced over 1,000 theses and dissertations; click here for an example of an abstract from one such disseration.
See Entrepreneurship, in the 2002 Encyclopedia of Small Business, and Entrepreneurship, in the 2001 Encyclopedia of Business and Finance.
A search for Entrepreneurship, limited to full text documents, produced a list of over 15,000 references.
A search for the keyword Entrepreneurship produced a list of over 800 citations including journal articles, chapters in books, theses, etc.
A search in this database for the keyword Entrepreneurship produced a list of over 500 records.
A search for the topic Entrepreneurship produced a list of over 2,800 citations.
Foster Business Library Reference Collection:
To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library. Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.
If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.
The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).
A subject search for Entrepreneurship
retrieved over 380
records in the UW Libraries, with over 180
records in the Foster Business Library. Examples include:
A more focused search for the subject Entrepreneurship retrieved over 800
records in the UW Libraries, with over 280
records in the Foster Business
Library.
Related subject terms include (but are not limited to):
The Foster Business Library Periodical Collection consists of over 800 magazines, newspapers and journals, arranged alphabetically by title, and located in the northwest corner of the ground floor of the library. Click here for a list of the titles in this collection.
Entrepreneurship-related titles in this collection include:
The UW Libraries also subscribe to electronic journals, some of them in the area of business and economics. Access to these electronic journals is limited to authenticated UW users. For a list of these journals, click here.
Entrepreneurship-related titles in this collection include (all of them UW Restricted):
Foster Business Library Articles:
All four of these databases are available from any computer on the campus network as well as from home (via the UW Connectivity Kit or the Libraries' Off-Campus Access link, using your UW Net ID and password). The easiest of these databases to use is ProQuest Databases. For more information about accessing Foster Business Library databases from off campus, see Database Access. For more information about business databases, see the research guide entitled Databases, A to Z.
This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search for your topic in the Topic Guide. Article full text is often available in several formats, including text, text plus graphics, and PDF. This database also offers a very useful subject structure, to narrow search results, as well as article citation information.
Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article. For tips on searching this database, see About ProQuest Databases.
As an example, a search in this database for the subject
SUB(Entrepreneurs) produced over 95,000 articles, including over 5,000 articles in scholarly journals (many, unfortunately, without full text), over 17,000 magazine articles, almost 34,000 articles in trade publications, and over 48,000 newspaper articles. It is also possible to narrow a search for SUB(Entrepreneurs), in the Topic Guide, for five pages of applicable related terms. For example, a search for
SUB(Entrepreneurs) and SUB(Business Plans) produced a list of over 380 articles.
A more general search for Entrepreneurship produced over 28,000 articles,
including over 4,000 articles in scholarly journals, over 1,300 magazine articles, over 3,400 articles in trade publications, and over 14,000 newspaper articles.
Examples of articles produced by such searches include:
See also the Foster Business Library's Business & Economics FAQ, and, in particular, the section for Management.
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.