VBIC is a collection of electronic and print business resources intended to provide research assistance to the Robert H. Smith School of Business and general users seeking authoritative business information. Please note that some resources are limited to University of Maryland students, staff, and faculty.

This site include links to Internet resources with substantial free offerings and fee-based commercial services that are available to University of Maryland faculty, students and staff through the University of Maryland libraries as well as pointers to print sources available in the University of Maryland libraries.

This site was initially developed in 1998 by Dr. Eileen Abels, a professor in the College of Information Studies with support of the Robert H. Smith School of Business, and is currently maintained by the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the University of Maryland Libraries.

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The VBIC is under continual development, both in content and design, in order to respond to the information needs of the target audience. The VBIC team welcomes suggestions for improvement.