Business & Career

Welcome to your virtual library!  BPL is everywhere you are with Business and Career information available 24/7 from any internet connection.  From job and résumé titles to vocational resources to career and professional development, these online resources are certain to educate, inform and inspire. 

Some resources require login with your Bentonville Library card or online registration.  To access certain Traveler databases, you may be required to enter your Arkansas location.  For assistance, please contact the Reference Desk at 479-271-6815 or email library@bentonvillear.com.   

Bentonville Library is grateful for the Arkansas State Library Traveler database project for providing valuable online resources for all Arkansas residents, schools and public libraries.


Business Plans Handbook: Volume 11 - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual Reference Library. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

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.

Criminal Justice Collection - Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to hundreds of full text journals.

Culinary Arts Collection - The Culinary Arts collection includes major cooking and nutrition magazines, culinary journals and several Delmar Reference titles. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

eBook Collection (Ebsco) - Search and view the full text of eBooks. Titles covering career information, computers, health, small business and writing. Public domain texts are also available, including Project Gutenberg titles.

Encyclopedia of Management, 5th ed. - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection - Farmers, landscape architects and biotechnologists will appreciate this collection of journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping and other areas of horticulture.

Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition - This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers generic and brand name drug patient education sheets.

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.

Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection - With current and relevant content from industry journals, travel guides and magazines this collection provides well-rounded coverage of tourism, including history, current practices, plus cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism and more.

Information Science and Technology Collection - 100 leading industry journals covering information infrastructure, data processing techniques, metadata architectures and more, beginning in 1980.

Insurance and Liability Collection - 20+ journals with a broad view of the insurance industry covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking and legal issues.

International Directory of Business Biographies - Login Required Offsite. eBook in Gale's Virtual ReferenceLibrary. A great research tool, containing reliable reference information.

Job & Career Accelerator - Registration Required: Use Library Barcode as Username. Job & Career Accelerator combines everything you need for a successful job search into one easy-to-use online application. Explore your career or learn how to break into a new field, apply for jobs, practice interviewing and much more! To begin using Job & Career Accelerator, set up a profile using your library barcode as a user name. Your profile will allow you to track your success and access Learning Express Library.

Learning Express Library - Registration Required: Use Library Barcode as Username. Perfect for high school and college students and adults! Includes practice exams for GED, ACT, SAT, GRE plus CDL, ASVAB, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, Firefighter, EMS and US Citizenship. Plus, math, science, reading and other subjects for younger students. To begin using Learning Express, set up a profile using your library barcode as a user name. Your profile will allow you to track your success and access Job & Career Accelerator.

Legal Collection - This database contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

Legal Forms - Login Required Offsite. Locate and download free Arkansas legal forms: includes bankruptcy, divorce, power of attorney, real estate, rental contracts, business agreements and many others. Also includes a dictionary of legal terms.

MEDLINE - MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing.

Military and Intelligence Database - 500+ titles and 7 million+ articles with links to related sources outside of the current article, includes reference books, magazine and newswire articles.

Newspaper Source - Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 US and international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional US newspapers. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are also provided.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection - Covers all aspects of the Nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. This collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection - This predominantly full text collection of 60+ titles covers physical therapy and sports medicine, beginning in 1980.

Power Search - Central location to search all or individual Gale databases.

Professional Development Collection - Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

Reference USA: US Businesses - Login Required Offsite. “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) - Comprised of 280+ subject-appropriate full text periodicals, provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories for business school students and entrepreneurs.

Small Business Resource Center (Gale: Bentonville Library) - Login Required Offsite. 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.

Teacher Reference Center - Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Universal Class - Registration Required. 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.

Vocational & Career Collection (Ebsco) - Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related periodicals.

Vocations and Careers Collection (Gale) - 300+ largely full text journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

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