Library Resources for Business Classes: Finding Books

Books you can check out and take home can be found in the library's General Collection, or the white-labeled book shelves. You can check out up to 20 general books at one time using your BC student ID card at the Circulation Desk. Each book can be checked out for 3 weeks, with up to two renewals of 3 weeks each.

Look at the boxes on this page about how to use the book's information in OneSearch to find the book on the library shelves.

Using OneSearch from the Library's homepage allows you to search EVERYTHING the library has access to including books (print and electronic), but also journal articles, and open access sources. Simply click on OneSearch and enter your search!

If you want to specifically look for books/ebooks, you can limit your search by clicking "BC Library Books & eBooks" in your search. (NOTE: there are several other ways to limit your search to books, but this is by far the easiest). 

Note: The most efficient way to search is by using terms directly related to your topic. Business research can overlap many other disciplines and relevant books will not always be indexed with the term "business". For example, in a PESTEL analysis, Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, and Legal (regulatory) terms are also used.  

Library of Congress Subject Terms Examples:

• Business
• Business Ethics
• Business Mathematics
• Business Writing
• Accounting
• Economics
• Specific Company names
• International Business

The following books - and many, many more -  can be found in the library's General Collection, or the white-labeled bookshelves. Use the call number to find the book on the shelves. You can check out 20 general books at one time. Each book can be checked out for 3 weeks, with up to two renewals of 3 weeks each.

eBooks are books available online and not in print on our shelves. Clicking on the book title will take you to a page where you can click on the link under the "View Online" section, which takes you to another page where you need to click on the PDF (or EPUB when available--see below for the difference) in the left margin to read the full book.

PDF stands for Portable Document Format.  It is basically an electronic image of text or graphics that can be read, printed, and transmitted electronically.  It is static and cannot be interacted with or edited.  If you zoom in you will have to move the page around to read it all.

EPUB stands for Electronic Publication.  It is the universal format used by most e-readers (iBook and Nook, but not Kindle).  It is dynamic.  It can adjust to the e-reader or device on which you are reading it. If you zoom in it will resize the text and move the words on the screen so that they all still fit and you don't have to move the page around to read it.  EPUB is also interactive, with links to footnotes, original sources, and/or other pages in the book.  

Print  (These reference books must be accessed in the library only, they cannot be checked out. Students can make copies or take pictures for academic use):

Reference eBooks - Available online 24/7:

If you cannot make it to the library to check out books, you can search for eBooks only in the following databases.

Note: Gale eBooks primarily has electronic reference books such as subject encyclopedias. 

eBooks are available to students 24/7: