Wasting Time on Google? Learn Effective Article Searching

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

Article Databases for Business Research

Finding Articles…

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.

Library Catalog◦ Search for title of the

publication/source/journal in which the article appeared

OR Find an Article/Citation

Finder

Doing business in Chinaor

Strategic Marketing

What type of articles are you looking for?◦ Newspaper◦ Trade Publications◦ Academic/Scholarly

Select the appropriate database to search

Which Database?

Web of Science

Econlit

ABI/Inform Global

Entrepreneurship

Business Source Complete

Factiva

Lexis-Nexis

Concept A Concept B Concept C

Joint venture/s

AND

Profits

AND

computer

OR OR OR

Partnerships/ing benefits software

OR OR OR

strategic alliance economics

OR OR OR

Collaboration/ate

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

Search Tips◦ Connectors:

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)


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)


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


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)


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


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)


◦ 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)


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) PRE/# (share PRE/2 market) (finds terms in exact order) W/p (planning W/p strateg*) (within same paragraph) W/s (brand* W/s strategy) (within same sentence)


◦ 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


AND (vermont AND new hampshire) OR (moon OR lunar) NOT (computer NOT (apple OR macintosh)) Within # (market Within 3 share) (finds terms in any order) NEAR (mortgage NEAR default) (finds terms within 10 words any order) BEFORE (social BEFORE security) AFTER (initiative AFTER strategic)

◦ 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)


AND (vermont AND new hampshire) OR (moon OR lunar) NOT (computer NOT (apple OR macintosh)) SAME (initiative SAME strategic) (terms appear in the same sentence)

◦ Wildcard/Truncation: * (econom* = economy, economic, economics, economist, etc) ? (globali?ation = globalization, globalisation) (single-character wildcard) $ (behavi$r = behaviour or behavior) (multi-character wildcard)

Cited Reference Search Find papers that cite another paper Find how many times an author has been cited

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.”

Search Tips◦ Use Advanced Scholar Search◦ Set Scholar Preferences

Library Links = dartmouth

◦ Search Basics “ “ “new hampshire” (phrase search = words next to eachother) OR [moon OR lunar] (operator must be ALL CAPS) - computer [-apple OR –macintosh] (exclude words) + share +of +the market (include words, etc. normally ignored) author: author:”matthew j slaughter” OR author:”mj slaughter” intitle: intitle:global (search term must be in title of document)

Google Scholar

Use Advanced Search Useful Tips:

◦ Filetype: filetype:xls (only .XLS files in results) filetype:pdf filetye:doc

◦ Site: site:edu (only search .edu websites) site:org (only search .org websites) site:jdpower.com (only search JD Power’s website)

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