Introduction to this Library Guide (Panopto recording)
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Panopto RecordingThis recording serves as an introduction to credible vs non-credible sources, scholarly vs popular articles, and a demonstration of Business Scholarly & Trade (ABI/INFORM), Google Scholar and eSearch. It runs a little over 23 minutes.
Useful Databases for your Project
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ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
Key source for business articles.
Subjects: Accounting, Auditing, Business, Communications, Economics, Ed Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Health Admin, Hotel Restaurant Mgmt, Management, Public Admin, Technology
Info type: scholarly articles, professional articles, magazine articles, news, reports, dissertations
Brief Instruction Video: ProQuest Basics -
Conference Board - Business Knowledge Research This link opens in a new windowOverviews of current business topics and the economic outlook
Subjects: Business, Consumer Confidence Index, Economic Indicators
Info type: research reports, webcasts, statistics
Access Tips: Browsing topics usually works best -
Esearch This link opens in a new window
Search the library’s collection of books, articles, ebooks, dissertations, videos, music, and more.
Search Instruction: Finding Articles using Esearch -
Google Scholar with EMU Full Text This link opens in a new windowSearch for scholarly materials on any topic
Info type: scholarly articles, books, research reports, theses, working papers, cited sources
Access Tips: Use link above to get access to EMU subscriptions with Findtext+ links.
If this link does not work and you receive an error message from Google then use this alternate link to Google Scholar and also set your Google Scholar preferences to show EMU library access links.
Search Instruction: Google Scholar Video -
PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowSubjects: Psychology, Education, Business, Communication, Linguistics, Social Work
Info type: scholarly articles, book info, conference papers, dissertations
How To: ProQuest Basics
Locating Quantitative and Qualitative Articles in PsycINFO
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Statista This link opens in a new windowSearch for statistics, demographics, opinions, data series and studies on many topics and industries. Useful for all subject areas.
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EBRIThe mission of the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) is to contribute to, to encourage, and to enhance the development of sound employee benefit programs and sound public policy through objective research and education. Look under the Research tab for research articles and reports related to employee benefits.
Classification Codes in Business Scholarly & Trade
Classification codes are a very broad way that articles are tagged in Business Scholarly & Trade (ABI/INFORM). For instance, there are over 80,000 articles tagged with 6200 for Training & development.
It can be useful to do a search that combines a classification code with keywords or subject terms.
Example:
emotional intelligence AND CC(62??)
This finds articles with the keyword phrase emotional intelligence that are also tagged as related to 6200 Training & Development.
(The ? marks are wildcards, meaning that any single digit number can fill those spots)
Scholarly v. Popular
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Anatomy of a Scholarly ArticleClick on the highlighted areas to learn about typical elements of a scholarly journal article.
If you are looking at a research article or an empirical article, the article will most likely also have a Methods or Methodology section.
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Example of a scholarly research articleLehman, B. (2015). Physical and nonphysical bullying victimization of academically oriented students: The role of gender and school type. American Journal of Education, 122(1), 133-159. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/683294
