Imagine

Imagine that you can access information about any business topic at any time from anywhere. Imagine that you have a vast library at your disposal - thousands of journal subscriptions, full-text articles from all of the leading business publications, reports on almost every publicly traded corporation in the world, investment research from the leading Wall Street firms, daily country intelligence on all the nations of the world, a fully integrated tax research library, U.S. and international marketing research, multiple sources for company and industry information, access to millions of downladable data series, market share data and business rankings, economic reports, electronic books and much more. Imagine that you have your own Digital Business Library on the Web. More than 50,000 faculty, staff and students at the University of Florida do.

The Business Library is the World Wide Web Gateway to  business information at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries. Read today's Wall Street Journal in Factiva. Keep abreast of international business with EIU ViewsWire. Research companies on Hoover's Online. Take advantage of investment intelligence from Standard & Poor's. Get your own US Business Browser account on OneSource. Learn how to conduct business research through step-by-step Tutorials. Review detailed Case Studies. Check out eBooks from a collection of 10,000 titles in netLibrary.  Connect to the Business Databases from campus, from home or from anywhere in the world. Click on the Remote Access page for instructions. Access to our subscription databases is limited to UF faculty, students and staff.

Tour

Take the Business Library Tour to learn your way around and how to get the most out of the Articles, Books, Databases, Subjects and Tutors.

Subject Centers

The heart of the Business Library are the Subject Centers. Each guide provides access to subject-related Databases and sources of full-text Articles and Books, as well as a selection of relevant Web Sites and additional materials available in Reference and Business Reference.

Databases

The Library subscribes to many general business and specialized subject databases. Links to relevant World Wide Web databases are prominently placed in each of the Subject Centers. The Databases page lists all of the business databases in all formats, including those on CD-ROM, Data Tapes, Online, and on the World Wide Web.

Note: You must be faculty, staff, or a registered student to access the subscription databases.

Remote Access

Go to the Remote Access Page to learn how to access the World Wide Web-based databases from off-campus.

Tutors

The Tutors are step-by-step guides to using the information sources in the Business Library to solve common business research questions.

Cases

Case Studies illustrate the use of the information sources in the Business Library in a particular example.

Books

The Business Library Book Collection features core collections of business books available at the University of Florida in more than forty major business subjects. netLibrary offers access to over 10,000 eBooks including many business and economics titles that may be read on the Web or downloaded to your workstation. Books24x7 has up-to-date collections of books on most business topics as well as current computer manuals and IT books.