Library Resources
It’s no secret that using the library contributes to student learning and success. Whether in person or virtual, they can help.
Research guides help to focus your efforts
Provide suggested reference sources, databases and websites for various subjects and courses, compiled by your friendly librarians.
Research Resources
Learn how to take your research to the next level.
Expansive dataset subscriptions available to the LCOB
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is the award-winning research platform and business intelligence tool for 50,000+ corporate, academic, government and nonprofit users at 450+ institutions in 35+ countries.
WRDS provides researchers with one location to access over 350 terabytes of data across multiple disciplines including Accounting, Banking, Economics, ESG, Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, Marketing, and Statistics. Flexible data delivery options include a powerful web query method that reduces research time, the WRDS Cloud for executing research and strategy development, and the WRDS client server using PCSAS, Matlab, and R. Their Analytics team, doctoral-level support and rigorous data review and validation give you the confidence to tailor research within complex databases and create a wide range of reliable data models.
SUMMARY LIST OF WRDS DATABASESFull List of WRDS DatabasesResearch financial & accounting data like never before
Calcbench is a next-generation financial data platform for data-intensive analysts and investors looking to go a level deeper. Created by former investment professionals to bring usability to the detailed, hard-to-get information in financial filings. Academics use Calcbench to aid in classroom instruction and perform cutting edge research. Our interactive platform plus Excel add-in is used to collect and analyze data for academic research purposes, or augment students’ learning with an innovative yet affordable tool.
Sophisticated research made simple
Understand your market, your customers and your competitors better than ever before. Qualtrics Brand Experience™ puts you in control with powerful, easy-to-use tools to help grow your brand.
Get the data you need to make the most important decisions. From product, pricing and ad testing to customer feedback and brand tracking, join the 9,000+ brands and 99 of the top 100 business schools that make Qualtrics the world’s most-trusted research platform.
An exciting upgrade from our previous Business Source Premier subscription
Business Source Ultimate works for your students like a solid business plan – it offers an unprecedented wealth of peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business that spark discussion on future developments and changes in the business world.
Access to all areas of business, national and international, and includes full text articles from scholarly journals, trade publications, case studies, industry profiles, SWOT analyses, market research and country reports, news videos, and detailed company profiles.
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The Journal Blacklist - fighting back against a growing trend that threatens to undermine
scholarly communication
A searchable list of journals whose practices have been described as deceptive. The Blacklist exists to aid scholars avoiding the submitting manuscripts to publications of questionable reputation. Specialists analyze over 60 behavioral indicators to keep the community aware of the growing threats and to keep academia protected from exploitative operations.
LEARN MORE ABOUT Cabells Journal Blacklist
Faculty Resources
- Digital Measures Login
- FGCU Electronic Faculty Resources Guide
- LCOB Summer Teaching Guidelines
- FGCU: Faculty Performance and Evaluation Document (FPED)
(Approved by VPAA: 12/17/2020) - Pre-Promotion Review Process
(Approved by PRC: 11/2/2016; revised 3/3/17; 3/22/2017) - LCOB Framework and Standards for Contract Renewal and Promotion
(Effective 8/62017; Last revised 7/27/2016) - College Promotion Guidelines for Instructors and Advisors
Instructors - (Adopted: August 2007 )
Advisors - (Adopted: February 2008) - LCOB Bylaws
(Revised: 11/07/2018) - Guidelines: Faculty Sufficiency and Qualification for AACSB
(Revised: 8/8/2016) - United Faculty of Florida (UFF) - FGCU Chapter website