Business Dynamics IIVSB 1002

Spring 2010

Linda Hauck

Research Support Librarian

Getting your money’s worth out of your library

Objectives

1. Best tools for the job

2. How to use them

3. Free full text

4. Evaluating sources

5. Academic Integrity

Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Research Tools

Which tools would you prefer your surgeon to use?

Images : http://commons.wikimedia.org

Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Research Tools

• Airfare comparison -reservations

• Finding out what friends are up to

• Getting health information

• Movie reviews, theatres and locations

Images: www.movies.com, www.expedia.com, www.orbitz.com, www.medlineplus.gov, twitter.com, www.wikipedia.org, www.facebook.com

Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Research Tools

Business Resource Types• Scholarly, peer reviewed or referred articles Business Source Premier, ABI Inform,

Google Scholar• Trade or professional journals, newspapers ABI Inform , Lexis-Nexis, Regional

Business News, Google News• Country Reports EIU (Euromonitor), Stat-USA, MarketInsight, World Bank Business

Planet• Company Reports (Private) Hoovers, Lexis-Nexis, RefUSA• Company Reports (Public)All of the above and..ValueLine, Mergent,, MarketInsight• Industry Reports Datamonitor, MarketInsight, BizMiner• Market Research MarketResearch.com, Mintel, GMID (Euromonitor)• StatisiticsStatisiical Lexis-Nexis, GMID, State & Federal Government (ie. Census

Bureau), Trade Associations

Internet Resource Types• Paid (subscribed) or free (supported by ads or owner)• Mediated or unmediated (paid editors, no editor, community editor)• Commercial (.com), trade association (.org), educational(.edu), personal

Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Research Tools

library.villanova.edu

Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Search Techniques

Multiple databases, multiple searches

1. Keywords or phases (synonyms) v. subject terms, controlled vocabulary, descriptors

2. Boolean AND / OR

3. Limit or Narrow search by document type, year, language

Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Search Techniques

Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Getting Full Text

In Falvey collection Through Falvey

Within database

Article in another database

E-Journals A-Z

Catalog

Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Getting full text

APA Style Reference Components Author, A. (Publication date). Title of the article or chapter. Periodical or Book Title. vol, pages or Publication place: Publisher Retrieved from ….

Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Academic Integrity

Works Cited Methods1. Cut & Paste from database

2. RefWorks

3. Scratch

PowerPoint Presentations4. Note sources for data, exhibits and graphs

5. Avoid using full images lacking permissions

6. Use images in the public domain or with creative commons permissions.

Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Evaluate Quality

• Ownership of site• Purpose of site or publisher• Authors expertise, credentials• Independent verification• Appropriate for purpose

Evaluating Sources

Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Evaluate Quality

news.google.com scholar.google.com

Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Where to Get Help