An inventory of publicly accessible resources on U.S. academic library entrepreneurship research guides

Abstract

Academic libraries increasingly provide reference and research assistance to student, faculty, staff, and community entrepreneurs and small business owners. Electronic resource license agreements may limit who can use a resource and for what purpose; nonaffiliated community members and institutional affiliates working on commercial ventures are often excluded. This article seeks to establish an inventory of publicly accessible resources that are featured most often on entrepreneurship- and small-business-focused research guides at U.S. universities with the goal of establishing a set of resources from which library workers can draw when creating or revising learning objects and instructional materials for their users.