ProQuest Entrepreneurship

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ProQuest Entrepreneurship: Fits Range of Needs

ProQuest Entrepreneurship: Initial Content

Content Qty

Books 48

Business Cases – Total/FT 1067/321

Annual Reports 7K

Hoovers Co Profiles 45K

Conferences Papers 140+

Scholarly Journals 90

Other periodicals 40

Market Research Reports 12K

Other Reports (ongoing) 2

Business Plans 6

Blogs 3 groups

Templates & Forms 1K+

Video collections/clips 11K+

Dissertations 500+

Working Papers (SSRN) 505+

Key Publishers & Partners

• Videos:– eClipsNet (developed by Cornell University)– Demo.com (elevator pitches)– Technology Review TR 35 Winners– vatorTV.com

• John Wiley & Sons (“For Dummies” series)• Market and Company Research:

– Biz Miner – financial ratios, industry & financial benchmarks– New Strategist –demographics– Direct Marketing Association - media response rates and trends– Just-Auto, Food, Style, and Drinks– Snapshots – industry overviews, worldwide coverage– Hoovers Company Profiles

• Other key partners: Dow Jones, Emerald, Palgrave, SSRN, USASBE (United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship), International Council for Small Business (ICSB)

• Publications, guides and dissertations from top universities

Key Journals & Articles

• Complete coverage via A&I or full-text of all notable entrepreneurship journals

• Covers key journals in entrepreneurship and related fields:• Innovation

• Venture and Private Equity Financing

• Technology Commercialisation

• Includes specially selected articles refreshed weekly: • Drawn from ProQuest Platform databases e.g. ABI/INFORM, news,

technology databases

• Content scan done on over 11K publications with articles from 6K publications

• Based on most common entrepreneurship topics

Top Full-Text Coverage Examples

Journal of Small Business Management Small Business Economics

Journal of Evolutionary Economics Journal of International Entrepreneurship

Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal Journal of Microfinance

International Journal of Entrepreneurship Journal of Private Enterprise

Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship

Journal of Private Equity

Journal of Business StrategiesJournal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship

Journal of Small Business Strategies

Journal of Entrepreneurship Education Journal of Technology Transfer

New England Journal of Entrepreneurship Review of Austrian Economics

Small Business and Enterprise Development

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Non-periodical content: eClipsNet

• Collection of 11K video clips• Nearly 500 speakers• Covers full range of business start and

growth topics• Small businesses to largest companies • Created by known entrepreneurship

educator, Deborah Streeter, PhD, Senior Professor of Personal Enterprise, Department of Applied Economics and Management

Non-periodical content: Biz Miner

• Local Market Vitality Profiles:  50

• US Marketing Research Profiles for all two-digit industry classification codes: 70

• Startup Expense & Cash Flow Profiles for all available two-digit industry classification codes: 1070

• Small Business Financial Analysis for all available two-digit industry classification codes: 1070

Non-periodical content: Wiley and Jossey-Bass books

• 44 Wiley and Jossey-Bass books, including companion “Kit” content

• Topics covered specific to entrepreneurship and small Business:– Management, managing technology, getting results, leadership, change

management, strategic planning, vision, team formation– Company formation options and incorporation– Creativity and innovation– Hiring– Innovative Marketing, including buzz Marketing, blogs, branding, marketing research,

meetings & events– Legal advice, contracts, forms, employment law– Business planning– Communication, presentations, technical writing, training– Grant writing– Home Based Businesses– Financial management

Non-periodical content: New Strategist

• 37 books rich in market data• Who’s buying – 14 consumer industries• Who we are - Asians, Blacks, Hispanics• American Consumers: Attitudes and

behaviour (13 books)• Market Segments (Baby Boom, GenX,

Teens, Millennials, Older Americans)• Pages of information: almost 6,000 pages

ProQuest is Exclusive Provider of Snapshots to Library Market

• 40 countries• 40 industries• More than 9120 reports (508 are

2007&8)• Provide up-to-date statistical

overviews of each industry by individual country

• Market trends are demonstrated with historical market size data, key companies, segmentation, distribution and forecasts

Non-periodical content: Snapshots Market Reports

• Nearly 45,000 Company Records

• Users can integrate business information from one of the world’s leading electronic distributors of information about companies, industries and the people who lead them

• With IntelliDocs™ technology, users can put company information in context by linking directly from articles in ProQuest® to Hoover’s Records

ProQuest is only library vendor offering Hoover’s Company Records

Non-periodical content: Hoovers Company Profiles

o Over 500 scholarly working papers by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

o Provide cutting edge information in business trends months or years before they appear in the final publication

o Often provide previews of published scholarly articles or more information than the final edited article

Non-periodical content: SSRN Working Papers

ProQuest is the only library vendor offering working papers from SSRN

Non-periodical content: Business Cases

• Growing collection of full text business cases found in journals such as: o International Academy for Case Researcho Idea Group (IGI) Collectiono HEC Montreal Collection

• Over A&I cases from leading business school collections:o Harvard Business Reviewo Iveyo Thunderbirdo Dardeno Babsono Case Research Journal

• Enhance connection between library research collections and the classroom as users can identify business cases relevant to their interests

Features: Video Document View

With ProQuest Entrepreneurship you don’t just read

about entrepreneurs, you see them in action.

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Applications & User Benefits

User Applications/Benefits

Student• Tips and advice about starting a business• Resources for developing a business plan

Researcher• Full spectrum of scholarly literature• Journals, Working Papers, Conference Proceedings• Easy citation and RSS feeds

Librarian• Resources to help answer increasingly complex and real world questions e.g. market sizing and financial benchmarks• Help set up RSS feeds for patrons

Entrepreneur• Tools for starting a business – templates, forms, guides, sample plans• Tips and Advice from other entrepreneurs• Tools for surfacing and evaluating new ideas

Educator • Business cases and other resources for teaching• Videos to include in lectures

Why ProQuest Entrepreneurship?

• A central access point to a variety of traditional and innovative tools specific to the needs of entrepreneurship

• An unprecedented collection of resources to address the business needs of all types of researchers worldwide

• Innovative interface leads to powerful results

• Robust and varied content from top publishers

• Dynamic additions: weekly refresh of content via article level selection

• Available for trial and purchase in July 2008