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Gale Business: Plan Builder

Gale Business: Plan Builder is a step-by-step online planning tool to help aspiring entrepreneurs and experienced small business owners plan, start, and optimize a small business or nonprofit. Ideal for self-guided business planning, the intuitive program guides users through five areas of exploration: Entrepreneur Profile - Entrepreneurs explore their abilities and reflect on how prepared they are to start a business. Business Ideation - Employ tools such as Lean Canvas, SWOT, Porter’s Five Forces, and more to plan the high-level framework in which a business will operate. Break-Even Analysis - Determine when a business will be able to cover all its expenses and begin to make a profit. Business Plan - Create a plan that can be presented to potential investors and lenders. Financial Projection - Produce a robust analysis of a company's financial future. Use Gale Business: Plan Builder in conjunction with Tulsa City-County Library's other free tools for expert business research. Access: Home, School, Work, All Libraries

Gale Literary Sources

Provides access to all Gale Literary resources in one place. You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. New platform allows searching across your library's Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews. Search these resources and more at one time: Gale Virtual Reference Library (Literature), Literature Resource Center, LitFinder, Literature Criticism Online (LCO) and the popular Twayne's Authors on GVRL collection. Access: Home, School, Work, All Libraries

Gale Directory Library

Includes Encyclopedia of Associations, Government Research Directory, Market Share Reporter and more. Access: Home, School, Work, All Libraries

Gale Databases

All-in-one access to the Gale products: Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Biography in Context, Literature Resource Center, Litfinder, Something About the Author, Twayne Authors Series. Access: Home, School, Work, All Libraries

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Provides access to over 25,000 encyclopedic entries with various images and brief biographies. Access: Home, School, Work, All Libraries

FirstSearch

This index primarily provides access to WorldCat, a catalog of books, Web resources, and other materials worldwide. Access: Home, School, Work, All Libraries

First Research

First Research database is now part of the Mergent Intellect suite of content available for customers, student and business applications. Mergent First Research contains profiles of more than 900 Industry Segments. Each profile includes an industry overview, forecast, news, trends and many industry ratios. Access: Home, School, Work, All Libraries

ERIC

Provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Access: Home, School, Work, All Libraries

eLibrary (formerly Electric Library)

Through eLibrary, users can find images, video, eBooks, and full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. They can also find maps, transcripts, audio files, graphics, interactives, dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, timelines, slideshows, editorially created research pages, and hand-selected websites. Publications are updated promptly, and thousands of new images are added every day. Access: Home, School, Work, All Libraries

EBSCOhost Databases

Access the complete list of EBSCOhost databases featuring aggregations of full-text articles from thousands of magazines, journals, encyclopedias and other authoritative reference sources.Includes option to simultaneously search some or all of the databases provided by EBSCOhost: Academic Search Elite, Auto Repair Source, Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America, Business Source Elite, Consumer Health Complete, Hobbies and Crafts Source, Legal Information Source, Masterfile Complete, Novelist Plus and Novelist Plus K-8, Small Business Source and much more.Access: Home, School, Work, All Libraries