Business Research

Compiled by
Bobbi A. Weaver
Foreign & International Law Reference Librarian
California Western School of Law
July 2008

SCOPE:  This research guide is not all-inclusive.  It does, however, present resources available at the California Western library on the topics of business and business law.  It is designed to provide the researcher with guidance as to the location of materials dealing with this subject.  Additional research can be conducted by using the KIM system, legal periodical indices, and other finding aids.  Access to licensed databases is limited to students and faculty at California Western.  We welcome suggestions for improvement on this and other research guides.  Please consult the Reference Librarian with suggestions and further research questions.  This research guide was originally compiled July 2008.

[NOTE ON INTERNET:  Internet site addresses change frequently.  Accordingly, some of the sites noted throughout this research guide may no longer exist under the addresses provided.  To locate changed addresses, search for the page title using an Internet search engine such as Google (www.google.com).]

General Business Information Sources

New York Public Library,
Prospecting for Business Information (2008), available at http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/sibl/pbi2/home.html
--Online tutorial for conducting business research.

San Diego Public Library,
Business Reference and Marketing Resources at the San Diego Public
Library (2007), http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/pdf/bizrefmarketing.pdf

Business:  The Ultimate Resource (2006)
LOCATION:  Reference Collection
CALL NO.:  HD38.15 .B878 2006

Robert Berkman, The Skeptical Business Searcher:  the inform-
ation advisor's guide to evaluating Web data, sites, and sources (2004)
LOCATION:  3^rd Floor
CALL NO.:  HF54.56 .B4685 2004

Rita W. Moss, Straus’s Handbook of Business Information:  A Guide for Librarians, Students and Researchers, 2^nd ed. (2004)
LOCATION:  Reference Collection
CALL NO.:  Z7164 .C81 S7796 2004

Ruth A. Pagell and Michael Halperin, International Business Information:  How to Find It, How to Use It, 2^nd ed. (1998)
LOCATION:  Reference Collection
CALL NO.:   HF54.5 .P33 1998

BNA Publications
--Available through “Electronic Resources”  [Alphabetical list at http://www.cwsl.edu/content/forms/library_links.asp
--Various titles pertaining to business  law topics.

Matthew Bender Practice Guides
--Available through “Electronic Resources” [Alphabetical list at http://www.cwsl.edu/content/forms/library_links.asp
--Various titles pertaining to business law topics.

Business Periodicals

ABI Inform (ProQuest)
--Index for business periodicals.  Selected coverage available on Lexis/Nexis

EBSCO Host Business Source Premiere
--Available to San Diego Public Library card holders (http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/, click on “Research Databases.”)

Harvard Business Review (Abstracts)
      --Available on Westlaw (DB ID:  HARVBUSRAB)

Wall Street Journal
--Current issues available at Reserve Desk.  Past issues available on Lexis/Nexis

Financial Times
--Current issue available at www.ft.com
--Available on Lexis/Nexis

The Economist
 --Current issue at Reserve Desk.  Past  issues covered on Westlaw (DB ID:  ECONOMIST)

Forbes
--Available on Westlaw (DB ID: FORBES)

Business Week
     --Available on Westlaw (DB ID: BUSWK)

Business Formation & Dissolution

Model Business Corporation Act Annotated (2008)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF1414 .A51 2008

Selecting and Forming Business Entities (2007-)
LOCATION:  Core Collection and Reserve-Permanent
CALL NO.:  KFC339 .S45

California's 1995/96 guide to corporate filings (1995)
LOCATION:  Reserve-Permanent
CALL NO.:  KFC340 .A81 1995

California Secretary of State, Business Portal, at http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/

L. Stinson, Searching tricky company names, Searcher, Sept. 1999), at 28.  [Available on WilsonWeb's Library Literature & Information Full Text]

Forming and Operating California Limited Liability Companies (2007-)
LOCATION:  Core Collection & Reserve-Permanent
CALL NO.  :   KFC339.5 .F67

Delaware Law Governing Business Entities (2006)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor [CD on Reserve]
CALL NO.:  KF1415.Z9 D45 2006

Delaware Division of Corporations, http://corp.delaware.gov/     
--Can download corporate forms from  this web site.

John L. Reed & Frank E. Noyes, Incorporate in Delaware—Yes, Directors & Boards,  Winter 2001, at 33 [Available on Westlaw]

Addison D. Braendel,  Winding up a Delaware corporation: directors' fiduciary duties and statutory procedures, 26 Sec. Reg. L.J.  344 (1999)
[Journal title available with 3^rd Floor Periodicals]

William Jarblum, Incorporation Issues:  Why Delaware?, Am. Bankr. Inst. J., Oct. 1999, at 6.  [Available on Lexis]

Kelli A. Alees, Moving toward a federal law of corporate governance in bankruptcy, 31 S. Ill. U. L.J. 621 (2007) [Journal title available with 3^rd Floor Periodicals.]

James L. Leet, James Clarke, Philip P. Whynott, The limited liability company (2004)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor [CD on Reserve]
CALL NO.:  KF1380.Z95 W49 2004

How to form a nonprofit corporation in California (2005)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor [CD on Reserve]CALL NO.:   KFC342 .M36 2005

Business Form Books

California transactions forms. Business entities.
LOCATION:  Core Collection  [Also available on Westlaw—DB ID:  CTF-BE]
CALL NO.:  KFC68 .C3 1996 

California transaction forms.  Business Transactions
LOCATION:  Core Collection [Also
available on Westlaw—DB ID:  CTF-BT]
CALL NO.:  KFC68 .C32

California Legal Forms:  Transaction Guide
LOCATION:  Core Collection [Also
available on Lexis/Nexis]
CALL NO.:  KFC68 .C34 

Drafting business contracts : principles, techniques, & forms (1994-)
LOCATION:  Reserve-Permanent & Core Collection
CALL NO.:  KF801 .D72 

Product & Industry Information

Standard Industrial Classification Manual (1987), available online at http://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/sic_manual.html
--This classification code has been replaced by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (See below)

North American Industry Classification System, United States (2002), available
online at http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html

Standard and Poor’s Industry Surveys
--Selected Industry Surveys available on Westlaw; Search IDEN for “Standard & Poor’s”

Thomas Net
(http://www.thomasnet.com/index.html)
[Product Information]

Corporate Information

Standard & Poor’s Register of Corporations, Directors, Executives
--Available on Lexis/Nexis; File Name:  SPCORP

LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations
--Available on Lexis/Nexis; File Name DCA

Hoover’s Company and Industry Reports
--Available on Lexis/Nexis; File Name: HOOVER

Directory of Corporate Counsel (2004
LOCATION:  Reference Collection
CALL NO.:  KF195.C6 D57 

Securities Information

Gene Walden, EDGAR:  The Investor’s Guide to Making Better Investments
LOCATION:  3^rd Floor
CALL NO.:  HG4910 .W258 2003

LIVEEDGAR    
LOCATION:  CWSL’s “Electronic
Resources”

SEC Filings & Forms [EDGAR]
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

James D. Cox, Securities Regulation:  Cases and Materials (2006)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF1438 .C69 2006

U.S. Master Blue Sky Law Guide (2002)
LOCATION:  Reference Collection
CALL NO.:  KF1070.Z9 U54

Blue sky law reporter : state blue sky laws, legal investment laws, regulations, forms lists (c1946-) (looseleaf)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF1068.4 .B55 

Corporate Finance and Securities Law (2006-)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF1428 .J58 2006

Marc I.  Steinberg, Understanding Securities Law (2007)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF1440 .S74 2007

The Merrill Lynch Guide to Understanding Financial Reports, available at http://www.ml.com/media/14069.pdf \

Merrill Lynch, How to Read a Financial Report, available at http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande271/onlinetools/HowToReadFinancial.pdf

Corporate Governance

Counseling California Corporations (2008)
LOCATION:  Reserve-Permanent & Core Collection
CALL NO.:  KFC345 .C68 2008

Corporate Governance:  Law, Theory & Policy (2004)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:   KF1422 .C6728 2004

Stephen M. Bainbridge, The Complete Guide to Sarbanes-Oxley (2007)
--Available through SSRN at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=1028033

Thomas G. Bost, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002:  A Summary (2003)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF1423 .B67 2003

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002:  Law and Explanation (2002)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF1423.Z9 S27 2002

Daniel Westman, Whistleblowing : the law of retaliatory discharge (2004)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF5338 .W47 2004

International Business

Herbert M. Bohlman & Mary Jane Dundas, The legal, ethical and international environment of business (2002)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF1600 .B64 2002

Paul B. Stephen, International Business and Economics:  Law and Policy (2004)LOCATION:  3^rd Floor
CALL NO.:  K1005.3 .S74 2004

Ralph Haughwout Folsom, International Business Transactions (2001)
LOCATION:  Reserve-Permanent
CALL NO.:  KF1976 .F65a 2001

Ralph Haughwout Folsom, International Business Transactions in a Nutshell (2004)
LOCATION:  Reserve-Nutshells
CALL NO.:  K3943 .W54 2004

Ralph H. Folsom, Michael Wallace Gordon, & John A. Spanogle, International Trade and Economic Relations in a Nutshell (2004)
LOCATION:  Reserve-Nutshells
CALL NO.:  K3943 .F64 2004

Ralph Haughwout Folsom, International Trade and Investment in a Nutshell (1996)
LOCATION:  Reserve-Nutshells     
CALL NO.:  K3943 .F64

Ralph H. Folsom, NAFTA in a Nutshell (1999)
LOCATION:  3^rd Floor
CALL NO.:  KDZ944 .F653 1999

Duke University School of Law.  “Research Guides:  NAFTA.”  http://www.law.duke.edu/lib/researchguides/nafta.html

Michelle S. Viegas, The Development of the Free Trade Area of the Americas:   A Guide for Legal Research, 33 Intl. J. Leg. Info. 11 (2005) [3^rd Fl. Periodicals or Westlaw]

Cheol S. Eun & Bruce G. Resnick, International Financial Management (2007)
LOCATION:  3^rd Floor
CALL NO.:  HG 3881 .E655 2007

Trends in U.S. Inbound and Outbound
Direct Investment (2006), available at
http://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/working_papers/pub3870.pdf

Howard E. Shatz, Business without Borders:  The Globalization of the California Economy (2003)
LOCATION:  3^rd Floor
CALL NO.:  HF3161.C2 S53 2003

James K. Jackson, Foreign Investment Treaties:  Impact on Direct Investment (1998)
LOCATION:  3^rd Floor
CALL NO.:  HG4538 .F67 1998

Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries (2007)
LOCATION:  Reference Collection
CALL NO.:  HD2755.5 .D57 2007

Miscellaneous Issues

Taxation

Howard E. Abrams and Richard L. Doernberg, Federal Corporate Taxation, 5^th ed.
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF6464 .A73 2002

Leandra Lederman, Understanding Corporate Taxation (2006)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:   KF6464 .L426 2006

Business Tax Stories (2005)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF6367 .B36 2005

Samuel C. Thompson, Jr., Corporate Taxation Through the Lens of Mergers and Acquisitions:  Including Cross-Border Transactions (2005)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF6499.M4 T46 2005

U.S. Tax Treatment of Financial Instruments Issued among a U.S. Corporation and Foreign Entities It Controlled, 106 J. Tax’n. 59 (2007).
LOCATION:  3^rd Floor Periodicals

Ted D. Englebrecht & Wei-Chih Chiang, S Corporation Shareholders-Workers and Employment Taxes, 85 Taxes 17 & 59 (2007).
LOCATION:  Full-text available on LegalTrac ["Electronic Resources"]

Mark J. Cowan & Denise English, A Tax Primer for CPAs Volunteering at Nonprofit Organizations, 38 Tax Adviser 150 (2007)
LOCATION:  3^rd Floor Periodicals

Katherine E. David, Non-profit Governance in the Wake of Sarbanes-Oxley, 21 Prac. Tax. Law. 49 (2007). LOCATION:  Lexis/Nexis

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property in Business Transactions (2008) [looseleaf]
LOCATION:  Reserve-Permanent & Core Collection
CALL NO.:  KFC550.A6 C34 

Robert A. Bohrer, A Guide to Biotechnology Law and Business (2007)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF3133.B56 B64 2007

Business Method Patents:  How to Protect Your Clients’ Interests (2002)LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF3133.B87 B87 2002

Corporate Counsel’s Guide to Licensing (2002-) [looseleaf]
LOCATION:  4^th Floor [Disk on Reserve]
CALL NO.:  KF3145 .C67 

Licensing Intellectual Property in the Information Age, 2^nd ed. (2005)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF3145 .L53 2005

Qutbuddin Siddiquee & P. Bhattacharya, Online Patent Searching Techniques: An Overview, DESIDOC Bull. of Info. Tech., July 2003,  at 3.
LOCATION:  WilsonWeb’s Library Literature and Information Full-Text

Robert Ambrogi, Patent and Trademark Searching Via the Web, Bench & Bar of Minn., Mar. 2004, at 16.
LOCATION:  Microforms Room [Hein’s Bar Journal Service]

Judith Beth Prowda, Work for Hire, Freedom of Contract, and the "Creative Genius" after the Martha Graham Case, 53 J. Copyright Soc. U.S.A.  645  (2006).
LOCATION:  3^rd Floor Periodicals 

Commercial Real Estate

D. Bartlow Burke, Real Estate Transactions:  Examples and Explanations (2006)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF665.Z9 B865 2006

Roger Bernhardt & Ann M Burkhart, Real Property in a Nutshell (2005)
LOCATION:  Reserve-Nutshells
CALL NO.:  KF570.Z9 B5 2005

Telecom Real Estate Strategies:  How to Lease & Develop the “Smart Building” in the dot.com Age (2001)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF5698.3.Z9 T44 2001

Retail Property Development (2001
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF5698.3.Z9 G64 

Jerome D. Whalen, Commercial Ground Leases (2001)
LOCATION:  4^th Floor
CALL NO.:  KF593.G7 W48 2001

Miller & Starr California Real Estate, 3^rd ed. (2000-) [looseleaf]
LOCATION:  Core Collection
CALL NO.:  KFC140 .M6 2000
--Miller & Starr California Real Estate Digest
LOCATION:  Reserve-Permanent
CALL NO.:  KFC140 .M63
 --California Real Estate Forms
 LOCATION:  Reserve-Permanent
 CALL NO.:  KFC140.A65 M56