Business Resources

Recognizing that our city is a bustling community of commerce, Bentonville Library proudly serves corporations and vendors, plus small business owners in the area.

We are happy to offer a special collection: Business & Career books and audiovisuals that cover issues relating to small business owners, current trends in professional development, corporate culture, leadership issues, job and career topics plus résumé resources. Visit the Library to see our complete collection. Our business and finance resources also include magazines and newspapers.

If you have questions or need assistance with our Business collections, please contact BPL’s Reference Desk at 479-271-6815 or email library@bentonvillear.com.

Online Resources | Magazines | Newspapers | Reference | Websites

 Featured Online Resources

  • Business Economics and Theory Collection
    With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find hundreds of full-text journals to support their research.
  • Business Source Elite
    This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.
  • Communication and Mass Media Collection
    From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information in full-text from journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics and many more.
  • Hoover's Company Profiles
    Company information on 40,000 public and non-public companies including location, competitors and more. Also includes summary financials, top officers and company history for public companies.
  • Reference USA: US Businesses
    “US Businesses” is an extensive business directory of 14 million United States businesses. Features of US Businesses allow users to conduct powerful market research. Select a location and perform a radius search to look up the number of similar businesses in the area. Check the strength of the competition with years in business and credit rating. Search for businesses to buy or connect with fellow business owners.
  • Regional Business News
    This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
  • Small Business Collection(Gale: State Library)
    Provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories for business school students and entrepreneurs, this compilation with 280+ subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
  • Small Business Resource Center(Gale: Bentonville Library)
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    Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.
  • Universal Class
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    From professional development to personal growth to continuing education, learn something new today! Universal Class offers hundreds of online classes facilitated by real instructors teaching courses on almost every imaginable subject, such as: accounting, business management, interview skills, medical courses, legal training, computer classes, project management, wedding planning, grant writing, nutrition and wellness information, plus more. 

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 Magazines

  • Businessweek
    Delivers the business information you need: surprising and timely perspectives on the most important issues of today and stories you won’t find anywhere else.
  • Communication Arts
    Professional journal for designers, art directors, design firms, illustrators, advertising agencies, photographers, students, and everyone involved in visual communication.
  • Economist
    Each issue explores domestic and international issues, business, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts.
  • Entrepreneur
    Entrepreneur magazine is for businesses owners, offering inspiration and information on marketing, management, technology, the latest trends and strategies.
  • Forbes
    Forbes focuses on top management and those aspiring to positions of corporate leadership in business.
  • Fortune
    Fortune offers readers an unparalleled look at business and economic news, with incomparable access to business drivers around the globe.
  • Harvard Business Review
    Where global business leaders turn for ideas and inspiration with cutting-edge articles from industry experts.
  • Inc.
    Provides fresh, insightful analyses to give the major players in the business world the tools they need to excel. Big and small organizations alike turn to Inc. to make sense of ever-changing business world.
  • Money
    Money's mission is to help readers make better decisions, not just in their investment portfolio, but everywhere life and money intersects - family, home, health, finances, career, spending and their future.
  • New Yorker
    In-depth reporting, surprising opinions, sharp wit, the best in prose, poetry and the visual arts
  • Newsweek
    Reports on each week's developments on the national and global news front through news, commentary and analysis.
  • T + D
    Training and Development supports better performance through workplace learning.
  • Time
    TIME reveals what today's headlines mean to you and your family - politics, science, human achievement, arts, business and society

 Newspapers

  • Barron’s
    Contains in-depth analysis of how the capital markets impact on the future of business and government. Each issue contains corporate evaluations, financial columns, and a complete listing of economic indicators and market results
  • Investor’s Business Daily
    Newspaper covering companies, industries, potentially successful stocks, and developments in the economy, as well as providing analysis of national news stories
  • Northwest Arkansas Business Journal
    Business and community leaders rely on this journal for the kind of valuable insight and analysis that goes into making critical business decisions.
  • Wall Street Journal
    This daily newspaper publishes the latest in news from the business and finance world. It also seeks to inform the educated reader about pressing economic changes and evolution.
  • Arkansas-Democrat Gazette
    News, business, sports, feature stories and more in Arkansas.
  • Benton County Daily Record
    News, business, sports, feature stories and more in Benton County.
  • New York Times
    World, US and New York news, plus business, books and feature stories.
  • USA Today
    News, business, money, sports, entertainment and more.

 Reference Resources

  • Morningstar
    Provides stock market analysis; equity, mutual fund and Exchange Traded Funds research, ratings and picks.
  • Value Line
    Provides a wealth of in-depth financial information that enables both new and experienced investors to make timely, better-informed decisions.

 Recommended Sites

About Recommended Sites

Our goal is to provide you with educational, entertaining and reliable information on the internet. All web content should be viewed with a discerning eye for accuracy, authorship and currency. Please note, by providing these web links for easy access, inclusion does not imply endorsement by Bentonville Library.

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