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Small Business Resource Center (SBRC)

There has been a surge in entrepreneurial education over the last several decades. In fact, as of 2005, two thirds of all colleges and universities in the United States offered at least one course in the area of entrepreneurship.1 In addition to the emergence of entrepreneurship as an area of scholarly inquiry, small businesses have become a significant part of the U.S. economy and have increasingly become the focus of local and regional economic development efforts. The Small Business Administration (SBA) reported that the 26.8 million small firms in existence in 2006 accounted for 99.7% of all employer firms and accounted for more than one half of nonfarm private gross domestic product (GDP).2 As a result of these larger economic and educational trends, there have been increased demands on business libraries to provide information on small business and entrepreneurship. Despite this increased demand, there has not been a comprehensive database dedicated specifically to these areas. Until recently, researchers, students, and small business owners had to consult a multitude of sources to obtain the information they needed. Gale’s Small Business Resource Center (SBRC) is one of the first online resources developed to respond to this need, and it is discussed at length in this review.