LibGuides: Rady Graduate Students' Intro to Library Resources: Popular Titles

Useful Sources/ Current Awareness

UC Library Search
Want to know where to find something? Is there something you're looking for not on the list below? This link is where to search across all of our resources in one swoop. Use Advanced Search > Catalog search screen to find out if we have a particular item. Want to just see what's "out there"?: Use the landing page to search a topic across all sources, not just ours. Covers UC holdings and beyond, print and electronic.

Below is the short list of the most-requested items. Let Adele know if you want to add other titles here that you frequently look for.

Barron's (Factiva)
Barron’s is a long-standing business news publication focused on financial markets and investing. Content is international in scope, through a "Wall Street" lens. This link searches across all Barron’s content via our Factiva platform, covering the print editions (1987-present) plus the Barron’s Online content (starts 2008), blogs and podcasts (starts 2022). Alternative access points:
- Newsstand format provides the four latest editions arranged section-by-section, and browseable like the original newspaper. From the main Barron’s link, navigate to Home on Factiva’s menu, and scroll to the US Newsstand section. Barron’s is on the fourth dot of the carousel.
- Individual Factiva articles offer translate-on-demand into multiple languages, or text-to-audio for English content.
- There are direct links to Barron’s China (simplified) and Barron’s China (traditional) editions (starts 2021).
- Barron’s Archive is available on ProQuest platform (1921-2010).
- Online access also occurs via ProQuest’s Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection (1988-present). This version allows email alerts for new issues or topics.
- Current print editions are in Geisel Library’s Current Journals area, call number HG1 B3.

Bloomberg BusinessWeek
The link above combines the recent contents of BusinessWeek (print) and Bloomberg.com, so you can simultaneously read/search the combined content.. Source: Business Source Complete database.

Harvard Business Review
This link goes to the online, fulltext access to HBR in Business Source Complete database.
Chronicle of Higher Education (main link)
Use CHE to keep up with developments in higher education. Sign up for its newsletters to get daily or breaking news right to your email's inbox. Includes a Data/Almanac section on enrollments, endowments and employment, Also see Career Resources, Free Reports, and Jobs. for more featured contents.
The Economist
Offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology.
FT.com (Financial Times)
Covers current issues. To start your access, register using your current UC San Diego email at https://ft.com/UCSD. To learn more about all the FT.com features and apps, go to our background page.

Consumer Reports Buying Guide by Consumers Union
Call Number: Business Source Complete e-book
Publication Date: annual
Longstanding publication that intends to improve buying decisions through providing reviews, ratings and advice on electronics, home appliances, cars, and supermarket items. Each volume also includes features like shopping advice and brand repair histories. Interim articles are in the monthly Consumer Reports magazine. Here is a feed of recent articles:

Full Listing of All SoCal Business News
See the "Regional News Sources" box for a full listing of state and local news publications.

More Newspapers

Access World News
Dates vary, but some historical coverage as far back as 1690. More than 5000 sources worldwide, including nearly 1500 in the U.S. Many historical newspapers are in digitized image form. Largely newspapers, with newswires, transcripts, newsletters, magazines, videos.
U.S. Major Dailies
U.S. Major Dailies provides access to current content and significant archives dating back to the 1980s for five of the nation’s most respected national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal, in full-text format.
Newsbank: America's Newspapers
Dates vary. Now part of Access World News. Full-text content of more than 650 U.S. newspapers (116 in California). Local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics and government,local companies and people.
Business Journals
Metropolitan business news coverage across 44 U.S. geographies, including Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Sacramento, and San Francisco. Typical contents include articles on businesses and regional economies, events, and the annual Book of Lists publications culled from weekly compilations of top organizations within a metro area. This resource is great for studying competitors/partners or job-seeking. Quick links:

San Francisco Book of Lists

Silicon Valley Books of Lists
Note: Southern CA business news for San Diego, Orange County and additional Los Angeles regional titles are covered on other platforms. See this guide for those direct links.
Business News Americas
Covers business news of Latin America, including our cross-border region. In Spanish and English. Industry and company news and reports covering technology, telecom, electric power, oil and gas, mining, infrastructure, banking, insurance, water, and privatization sectors across Latin America. Enter your @ucsd.edu domain email to initiate access and establish your ongoing platform customization. Check your spam folder/filter for initial "magic link" message. Restricted to UCSD email addresses.

Latinnews.com
Family of daily, weekly, and monthly newsletters covering political, economic, business, and strategic issues across Latin America. Includes focused, special reports, such as commodity reports, regional reports, and security and strategic reviews. The Mexico News and Mexico Country Reports feeds frequently cover cross-border business & economics topics.
Newspapers Guide
This more comprehensive guide will help you locate current and historical newspapers to which we have access.

Recent Books

Below are some examples of recent additions to the collection, which are updated quarterly. Also, see the link to the fuller listing.

Business Books: Popular Reading
Want to find more than what's listed below? Here's the link to recently-added books (mostly e-books, but some print). Topics include: Leadership, Marketing, Business Ethics & CSR, Biographies, International Business & items recently mentioned in the press or social media.

Unwavering by Nellie Borrero; Hannah Carmona (Narrated by)
Call Number: Ascent audiobook
ISBN: 1663734151
Publication Date: 2024
When Nellie Borrero joined Accenture, bigotry and bias went unnoticed and unchecked; it was simply the workplace norm. Now, 35+ years later, this first-generation Latina shares how she led diversity strategy and developed award-winning DEI programs that transformed Accenture into the #1 ranked employer for inclusion, diversity, and equity. Borrero draws on her experiences with remarkable candor and courage to inspire you to think bigger, know your value, and show up with it everywhere, every day.
Mixed Signals: how incentives really work by Uri Gneezy
Call Number: Yale Univ. Press, print & e-book
ISBN: 0300255535
Publication Date: 2023
An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our work, and our world. Rady faculty author.
Cutting the Cost of Confusion: eliminate the high price of failure to communicate by Richard Layton
Call Number: Routledge e-book
ISBN: 9781032293288
Publication Date: 2023
There are implications of information overload and miscommunication to the bottom line. This book presents a tested methodology to improve communication, based on the author's nearly 30 years' experience.
Walk Away to Win by arle, Megan Morfitt
Call Number: O'Reilly e-book
ISBN: 9781264950126
Publication Date: 2023
According to a recent review in Ft.com, the author "Think of this book as the what, the why, the where, the whenand the how of workplace bullying, so that it doesn't ruin you, a colleague, a comrade or a company."
Social Entrepreneurship: building impact step-by-step, 2nd ed. by Teresa Chahine
Call Number: Routledge e-book
ISBN: 9780367556860
Publication Date: 2023
This book provides a ten-step framework for building impactful ventures within and across new and existing organizations. The book summarizes the basic steps and tools needed to understand a social or environmental challenge of your choice, develop potential solutions, build a business model, measure outcomes, and grow your impact.
Commercializing successful biomedical technologies: basic principles for the development of drugs, diagnostics, and devices, 2nd ed. by Shreefal S. Mehta
Call Number: Cambridge e-book
ISBN: 1108186696
Publication Date: 2023
The second edition of the popular title, covers drugs, devices and diagnostics. This book provides a step-by-step introduction to the process of commercialization, offering a vision of how to create a realistic business plan that can develop your ideas into approved biomedical technologies.
Launchpad Republic by Howard Wolk; John Landry
Call Number: O'Reilly e-book
ISBN: 9781119900054
Publication Date: 2022
The authors provide an insightful and thought-provoking history of entrepreneurship in the United States, with a focus on the political, legal, and cultural forces that have sustained "creative destruction" and propelled the country forward for more than 200 years. Aside from assessing how American entrepreneurial capitalism unfolded, the authors address current challenges such as the rise of the "Big Tech," concerns about inequality, inclusivity and sustainability, and the evolution toward stakeholder capitalism. Fascinating comparisons between the United States and other countries, both historical and contemporary, provide important context to many of today's critical issues.
An Anatomy of Everyday Arguments by Marnie Jull
Call Number: McGill's e-book
ISBN: 9780228008446
Publication Date: 2022
Easier: 60 ways to make your work life work for you by Chris Westfall
Call Number: Wiley e-book
ISBN: 9781119834571
Publication Date: 2022