MMI 6

Business Source Complete
There were certainly many types of sources.  However, I had fun noting some of the titles of articles like “More woes for radio than Stern.”, “Radio rats fight for cheese.”, and “He who pays the piper calls the radio tune.”  Visual search is an interesting way to look at articles.  I’m not sure if it is easier or harder.  I do like having the option to try out both ways of searching.

EconLit
When doing the small business search I found that I went immediately to the visual search because I could see way more articles than with page listings.  On a search for EPA and small business I found only one article listed.  When asked to do tax policy and small business I again went directly to visual seard due to the layout and being able to see way more articles on the page.  Sure beat paging through them.

Regional Business News

I looked up Keebler for a national company and found that they have a terrific award with the Red Cross to recognize blood donors who inspire others.  I had recently learned that Keebler donates 6 million cookie packages a year to ARC and nice to know they take things even further in recognizing “good cookies”.  I put in New England and had many articles to choose from again.  Narrowing again to Maine gave a different set.  When I made the choice of a Maine company I found that several small companies here in town weren’t reported.  Going with bigger companies (L.L. Bean, CMP, B&M) I did find many articles to choose from.

Value Line

I was able to get into VL easily since it is late evening as I’m doing this.  The amount of information available makes my head swim.  Read the description, looked at the reports, and checked out both Pepsi and Coca-Cola (when I figured out how to spell it correctly).  Couldn’t find the “full research report” requested and at this point am very glad I’m a Children’s Librarian and can refer all questions about VL to our Reference Librarian.

Wall Street Journal

19,792 results popped up for me on the search for small business and health care.  Six results were in the suggested search box to start and when I chose the view all button there were 18 subjects offered.  It looked like a great way to narrow down the results and focus in on a particular subject. When I chose one of the results it narrowed the search down to 148 articles.  Much less to sift through.  It seemed very straight forward to be able to set up an alert if someone wanted to follow up on a particular subject.