Accounting & Tax w/ Standards

ProQuest Accounting & Tax with Standards database has recently integrated professional standards with academic journal content, creating the definitive database for research in accouting topics. Utilizing the familiar Proquest search engine, Accouting & Tax w/Standards includes abstracts and full-text articles from over 2,000 accounting titles from 1972 to present as well as full-text articles from leading tax publications.

Relevant standards are takenfrom the leading boards:

• FASB - Financial Accouting Standards Board
• GASB - Governmental Accounting Standards Board
• IASB - International Accounting Standards Board

Access on campus via the Proquest link or off-campus through the remote log-in.

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CINAHL or Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature®.

CINAHL "provides indexing for over 2,931 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines."

CINAHL is available for Sullivan students via the EBSCO databases. To use off campus use this login.

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What is critical thinking?

According to Grolier's Encyclopedia Online, it is:

... a wide range of cognitive skills and intellectual dispositions an individual needs to evaluate claims and arguments in everyday situations, to discover and overcome personal prejudices and biases, to assess the reliability of information according to established intellectual standards, and to make decisions about what to believe and what to do.

The Opposing Viewpoints Database contains a way to not only research a topic for journal or newspaper articles, but also provides a thorough view of a topic including a glossary of key terms and thought provoking questions designed to inspire thinking and examination of the topic from both sides of an argument. Each of the critical thinking topics have a quiz to test knowledge of the subject and a bibliography to suggest useful books if more information is needed.

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Have you ever wondered about the history of the candy cane?

It's 2 weeks until finals and you need something more scholarly for a paper -- such as the nutritional aspects of certain kinds of cheese?

Both of these topics can be found in the
Hospitality & Tourism Index, a bibliographic database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. The collection contains more than 670,000 records from more than 640 titles, with coverage dating as far back as 1965.

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ABI-Inform is the definitive business database for articles on economics, human resources, finance, marketing, computers as well as fast access to information on over 60,000 companies. Searches can track business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, and corporate strategy and tactics.

Sullivan Libraries subscribe to the ABI-INFOM Research module which contains over 1,750 journals, with more than 1,160 available in full-text. Also included is indexing for the The Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition back to 1984.

For searching help, there is a Proquest tutorial as well as a Quick Reference Guide available. Help is always available at the Reference Desk -- a librarian can walk you through how to access or search in ABI-Inform.

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The Sullivan University Library E-Journal Index provides access to magazine and periodical titles full-text availability within other databases as well as in local library collections.

Journals can be found by title or subject or keyword in title. Database links will go to a table-of-contents listing for the journal which can then be used to locate needed material if citation is known or search within the journal by keyword or subject.

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The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides access to education literature from journals and periodicals, book chapters and conference proceedings. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

Access to ERIC is within the EBSCO database subscriptions.

Database of the Week

Alt Press Watch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses. An interdisciplinary resource, Alt Press Watch provides a valuable source of viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge mainstream media coverage. Through investigative reporting by independent and critical sources, these are essential voices pursuing freedom of the press.

Examples of titles include:

• LEO: Louisville Eccentric Observer
• Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
• The Village Voice
• E : the Environmental Magazine

Database of the Week

The Morningstar database provides comprehensive financial information on more than 6,000 stocks, 20,000 funds, and 150 ETFs as well as detailed analyst guidance on 1,800 stocks, 2,000 funds, and more than 150 ETFs.

With Morningstar's Portfolio X-Ray you can assemble picks and the stocks, funds, and ETFs you own into a portfolio. You can check your asset allocation, sector weightings, and more. The Morningstar Help & Education Center has many tools for investment learning. Find help on how to use the site, tips on choosing funds or stocks, and a complete glossary of investment terminology.

For more information, see the Quick Guide or access Morningstar via the Library's database links.

New Database

Sullivan University students and faculty now have access to the Westlaw Campus Research database. Campus Research provides access to comprehensive collection of news, business, and legal information.