Web Resources:

Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.
• BehindTheBuyouts.Com:   This site is subtitled "inside the world of private equity" and is the creation of the Service Employees International Union, "the fastest-growing union in North America, with 1.9 million members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico" and "the largest health care union, the largest property services union, and the second-largest public employees union." The site provides a copious amount of news, information, blogs, and commentary on the private equity industry, from the point of view of this labor organization. See their Media Center.

• European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association:   This association is a valuable source for information about its industries, in both Europe and the U.S., and, unlike some other private equity associations, its data and industry information is available free to the public, without registration requirements. See their Latest Data and Facts & Figures.

• Private Equity (DealBook):   This New York Times special section on deals covers daily happenings in mergers, buyouts, investment banking, hedge funds, venture capital – and private equity.

• Private Equity Council:   This organization is "an advocacy, communications and research organization and resource center established to develop, analyze and distribute information about the private equity industry and its contributions to the national and global economy. The PEC opened its doors in February 2007. PEC members are among the world’s best-known and most-respected asset managers. They are Apax Partners; Apollo Advisors; Bain Capital; the Blackstone Group; the Carlyle Group; Hellman and Friedman; Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts; Providence Equity Partners; Silver Lake Partners, Thomas H. Lee Partners; and TPG (formerly Texas Pacific Group)." See their Private Equity Backgrounder and Fact Sheets.

• Private Money:   This Fortune magazine site explains the private equity industry. See their Private Equity Power List of the top ten figures in this industry.

• Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship:   "The Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship aims to advance the understanding of private equity investing—the engine behind the entrepreneurial activity that drives global innovation and productivity. The center focuses on macro and micro issues relating to private equity: capital markets, financing structures, governance and entrepreneurship." See their Research.

• Wikipedia:   This free online user-created and maintained encyclopedia can be a good starting point for an orientation to a topic though caution must be exercised with this resource; see What About Wikipedia from the UW-Tacoma Library. See the Wikipedia entry for Private Equity (including their warning about lack of source citations).

The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.
• Pratt's guide to private equity sources.
  This reference work, formerly Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources, starts with over 120 pages of information about the venture capital industry, with essays on the background of private equity, how to raise it, sources for business development financing, and other topics. The major part of this reference is a directory of U.S. and non-U.S. private equity firms (arranged by state), with indexes by individual, industry and stage preferences, and by company name.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG64 .P73 2004.

  See Washington state on page 1483.

• The corporate finance sourcebook.
  This large paperback is a guide to major capital investment sources, including venture capital, both in the U.S. and internationally.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4057 .A1565 2003.

  See Washington on pages A262 to A263 and the Northwest on page 371.

• The handbook of alternative assets.
  This handbook covers hedge funds, commodity and managed futures, private equity, credit derivatives, and corporate governance.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4530 .A57 2002.
  (Also available online)

  See section III, chapters 14 to 19, for Private Equity, on pages 259 to 405.

• The directory of venture capital & private equity firms.
  This large new paperback, in its eighth edition, lists U.S. and international firms in two A to Z lists, with over 3,300 firms, indexed by college or university, executives, geography, industry preference, and portfolio companies. The A to Z listing of firms includes, for each firm, its mission statement, geographic preference, fund size, average and minimum investments, investment criteria, industry group preferences, portfolio companies, locations, and key executives.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4751 .F582 2004.

  See executives associated with the University of Washington on pages 839 and 840, and firms located in the state of Washington on pages 942 and 943.

• Vault guide to the top private equity employers.
  This paperback, from the Vault Career Library, provides an overview of this industry and profiles of the major firms.
  Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4963 .V38 2006.
  (Also available in the Foster database known as the Vault Career Library)

The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.

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 title search for Private Equity retrieved just nine records in the UW Libraries. A subject search for the same term produced just eight records in the UW Libraries. A keyword search for this term produced over thirty records.

Foster Business Library titles from these searches include:

• Angel capital: how to raise early-stage private equity financing   (2005)
• Private equity : transforming public stock to create value   (2003)   (Also available online)
• Venture capital and private equity: a casebook   (2000)
• Private equity funds: business structure and operations   (1999)
• The private equity market: an overview   (1997)   (Available online only)
• Barbarians at the gate: the fall of RJR Nabisco   (1990)   (The classic text on this topic)

Foster Business Library Periodicals:

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.

Private equity-related titles in this collection include:

• Journal of private equity,   v.1, no.1-     (Summer 1998-)

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.

Private equity-related titles in this collection include (all of them UW Restricted):

• Buyouts
• European venture capital & private equity journal
• The journal of private equity
• Private equity week

Foster Business Library Articles:

In addition to the 800 journals in the Foster Business Library Periodicals Collection, the Foster Business Library offers access to over 100 million full text articles in over 10,000 periodicals through its full text article databases such as EBSCO Business Source Premier, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, and ProQuest Databases. These article databases may be found on the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under Databases.

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.

• ProQuest Databases:

  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.

  A subject search for SUB(Private Equity) produced over two thousand articles, including over sixty articles in scholarly journals, over 160 magazine articles, over a thousand articles in trade and industry periodicals, and over six hundred newspaper articles.

  Examples of articles, from the searches above, include:

  • "The birthday party: a profile [of Stephen Schwarzman, of Blackstone]"   (The New Yorker. New York: Feb 11, 2008. Vol. 84, Iss. 1;  pg. 100)
  • "A Movie and Protesters Single Out Henry Kravis "   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Dec 6, 2007.  pg. C.4)
  • "Cashing Out"   (The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Sep 2007. Vol. 300, Iss. 2;  pg. 46, 2 pgs)
  • "Leveraged Buyout Remorse? Costs Throw Deals in Doubt "   (Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Aug 10, 2007.  pg. C.1)
  • "Wall Street's Lucrative Tax Break Is Under Fire"   (The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Aug 3, 2007.  pg. A.1)
  • "The private equity casino"   (CA Magazine. Toronto: Aug 2007. Vol. 140, Iss. 6;  pg. 60, 1 pgs)
  • "In Opposing Tax Plan, Schumer Supports Wall Street Over Party"   (New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jul 30, 2007.  pg. A.1)
  • "In Defense of Schwarzman"   (Andrew Ross Sorkin. New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Jul 29, 2007. pg. BU.6 )
  • "Close look at risky businesses"   (San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco, Calif.: Jul 12, 2007.  pg. C.1)
  • "Best Private Equity House: Cerebus"   (Euromoney. London: Jul 2007.  pg. 1)
  • "Private Equity's Long View"   (Harvard Business Review. Boston: Jul/Aug 2007. Vol. 85, Iss. 7,8;  pg. 18)   (Full Text)
  • "Blackstone's Quest for Value"   (Directorship. Westport: Jun/Jul 2007. Vol. 33, Iss. 3;  pg. 32, 2 pgs)

The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all of the hours that the library is open. The staff at the desk will be happy to help you find business research tools and resources, exploit business databases to the fullest or advise on research strategies. For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.

For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.

• Team Consultation Course/Program Index
• Team Consultation Industry Index
• Team Consultation Quarter Index
• Team Consultation Title Index
• Team Consultation and Research Guide Index

See also:

• Hedge Funds
• Leverage Buyouts
• Venture Capital

Other business libraries' guides:

• Goizueta Business Library, Emory University
• Baker Library, Harvard Business School
• Jackson Library, Stanford Graduate School of Business