Wasting Time on Google? Learn Effective Article Searching Anne Esler Richard Felver Karen Sluzenski
Wasting Time on Google? Learn Effective Article Searching
Anne EslerRichard Felver
Karen Sluzenski
Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost) ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest) Entrepreneurhip (ProQuest) Factiva Lexis-Nexis Academic UNIVerse Econlit Web of Science Google Scholar
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When you have a citation: About a topic of interest:
Butman J. Lessons from the Egg Master. Harvard Business Review . May 2005;83(5):26-26.
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publication/source/journal in which the article appeared
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computer
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Partnerships/ing benefits software
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strategic alliance economics
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Developing a Search StrategyAre joint ventures worthwhile in the computer industry?
(joint venture* OR partner* OR strategic alliance* OR collaborat*) AND (profit* OR benefit* OR economic*) AND (comput* OR software)
Contents/Coverage 1886 to date; 3,500+ trade, scholarly, news, magazines Industry profiles Market research SWOT analysis Product research
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AND (vermont AND new hampshire) OR (moon OR lunar) NOT (computer NOT (apple OR macintosh)) N# (market N3 share) (finds terms in any order) W# (mortgage W3 default) (finds terms in exact order)
◦ Wildcard/Truncation: * (econom* = economy, economic, economics, economist, etc) ? (globali?ation = globalization, globalisation)
Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost)
Contents/Coverage 1923 to date; 3,535+ business publications worldwide Scholarly journals Trade publications & magazines Working papers Dissertations Business cases (Darden, Ivey, Thunderbird)
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AND (vermont AND new hampshire) OR (moon OR lunar) AND NOT (computer AND NOT (apple OR macintosh)) W/# (market W/3 share) (finds terms in any order) W/PARA (mortgage W/PARA default)
◦ Wildcard/Truncation: * (econom* = economy, economic, economics, economist, etc) ? (globali?ation = globalization, globalisation)
ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest)
Contents/Coverage 1987 (approx.) to date; 550+ journals Scholarly journals Video clips (11,000+) Business cases Market research Start-up plans, templates, forms Dissertations
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◦ Wildcard/Truncation: * (econom* = economy, economic, economics, economist, etc) ? (globali?ation = globalization, globalisation)
Entrepreneurship (ProQuest)
Contents/Coverage 1970 (approx.) to date; 28,500+ sources from 200 countries in 25 languages Newspapers, newswires Trade and business magazines TV and radio broadcast transcripts
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AND (vermont AND new hampshire) OR (moon OR lunar) NOT (computer NOT (apple OR macintosh)) W/# (market W/3 share) (finds terms in exact order) ADJ# (market ADJ5 share) (finds terms in exact order) NEAR# (mortgage NEAR3 default) (finds terms in any order) /N#/ (mortgage/N10/default) (finds terms in any order) SAME (wireless SAME telecommunications) (words in same paragraph)
◦ Wildcard/Truncation: * (econom* = economy, economic, economics, economist, etc) ? (globali?ation = globalization, globalisation)
◦ Miscellaneous WC># (federal reserve bank and WC>5000) (word count of article > 5000) atleast# (atleast10 berkshire hathaway) (At least 10 mentions of berkshire hathaway)
Factiva
Contents/Coverage 1970 to date (news); 10,000+ news, legal, & business sources Newspapers, newswires Trade journals, magazines TV and radio broadcast transcripts Some non-English language publications Legal: law reviews, court cases (back to 1789)
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◦ Wildcard/Truncation: * (econom* = economy, economic, economics, economist, etc) ? (globali?ation = globalization, globalisation)
◦ Miscellaneous atleast# (atleast10 berkshire hathaway) (At least 10 mentions of berkshire hathaway)
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Contents/Coverage 1969 to date; 1,000+ journals Scholarly journal articles, books, dissertations Economic theory and application
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◦ Wildcard/Truncation: * (econom* = economy, economic, economics, economist, etc) * (behavi*r = behaviour or behavior) (multi-character wildcard) ? (globali?ation = globalization, globalisation) (single-character
wildcard)
Econlit
Contents/Coverage Academic/scholarly publications
Science Citation Index (1900 to date; 7,100+ journals)▶ Social Sciences Citation Index (1956 to date; 5,900+ journals) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 to date; 7,395+ journals)
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◦ Wildcard/Truncation: * (econom* = economy, economic, economics, economist, etc) ? (globali?ation = globalization, globalisation) (single-character wildcard) $ (behavi$r = behaviour or behavior) (multi-character wildcard)
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Web of Science
Contents/Coverage ????? “…broadly search for scholarly literature…across many disciplines and
sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.”
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