A CCA Libraries guide to resources in business and design, supporting the research demands of CCA's MBA in Design Strategy.
Off-campus access
To access most library online resources, such as article or image databases, from off-campus you need to login with your CCA library card. Your CCA student ID card is your library card. Take it to the circulation desk at either library to obtain a library barcode. The registration process takes about 5 minutes, but must be done in person.
Articles, journals, and periodical databases
The library website provides online access to a number of periodical indexes and scores of full-text articles in leading business and design journals.
» Article Search
When you don't have a citation, and are doing basic or beginning research, you can use the Article Search feature to search a number of article databases at once.
» Journal Finder
If you already have a reference or citation to a specific article, you can use the Journal Finder to search by journal title and find whether or not CCA has the journal online or on the shelves.
» Design & Applied Art Index
Provides access to abstracts for journal articles published in over 450 international craft and design journals since 1973 and includes data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops and companies.
» OmniFile Full Text Select
Full-text database providing full text
articles in all subject areas, including business. Mark the "subject area" for business at the bottom of the search page to limit your results to articles from business-related journals:
Business & Economics journals by subject (view all subtopics »)
- Accounting (15)
- Advertising (23)
- Economic history (67)
- Economic theory (40)
- Marketing & sales (72)
- Financial management & planning (9)
- Management styles & communication (14)
- Management theory (24)
Books
» Library Catalog
To find books on the library shelves use the CCA Library Catalog Basic or Advanced Search pages. Below is a list of new acquisitions related to the MBA program.
Helpful subject headings
Follow the links below to view books in the library by subject.
- Advertising
- Branding
- Consumers' preferences
- Creative ability in business
- Economics
- Industrial design coordination
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Manufacturing processes
- Marketing
- Materials
- Organizational behavior
- Organizational change
- Problem solving
- Social responsibility of business
- Strategic planning
- Sustainability resources
- Techological innovation
- Work environment
Other libraries
» UC Berkeley Business & Economics Library
Materials in the UCB Business Library are not available for visitors to check-out, but "campus visitors are accorded free on site access to reference assistance, electronic research resources, reference collections, government reference materials, and the Library's reading rooms." Visitors can purchase UC Berkeley library cards for $100/year (cheaper if you join the alumni association), but there is no off-campus access to electronic resources and databases for visitors.
- UCB business and economics research guides
- UCB business resources online (from UCB campus only)
- UCB library card info
- Business library hours
» San Francisco Public Library
» Oakland Public Library
» Berkeley Public Library
More help
Call or visit Simpson Library - 415.703.9574
Additionally, librarians respond to general reference desk email (refdesk [at] cca [dot] edu) as quickly as possible during business hours (M-F, 9-5).
