Research assistance: MGT 220

Help with Assignment

Contact Information

Paul Galfano – pag@berkeleycollege.edu

I’m with the NYC campus Library

Topic – online database & research Discussion of two databases for the MGT 220

class

MGT 220 Libguide (all in one access point to online resources)

Tips for doing research

A Survey Monkey 4 question survey that I ask you to complete at end of the week on discussion board (you can use this powerpoint)

Our Learning Outcome

Students will use appropriate controlled vocabulary to navigate subject/discipline-specific databases, identify gaps in information gathered, and employ alternative search tools—including bibliographies and citations to find additional materials

Using Controlled Vocabulary – Subject terms

Keyword searching is a very general way of searching (i.e., a simple Google search). You get a result if the word/phrase you are searching is in the text of the article

vs.

Using Controlled Vocabulary or “subject” terms - - are descriptive of the content/theme of the article.

Use with the databases - - you get much more targeted results.

ALSO: Bibliography & Citation

Viewing citations and reading bibliographies is a great way to further your research on a specific topic

By examining where an author has gathered his information from you can flesh out some of the specifics within a given article

Scholarly articles will have cited sources and list a bibliography

Subject Specific Databases

Berkeley subscribes to over 60 databases. Some are general and cover many disciplines while others are specific (many are devoted to business topics)

Berkeley’s business-related databases include

ABI/INFORM Complete (Proquest)

Business Source Premier

Use Blackboard to access our library website.

The ‘Find’ button provides a menu of options to choose, including the online databases.

Selection of Databases

ABI/INFORM Complete (get articles)

Basic keyword search

As an example let’s look for research material about leadership qualities as they relate to business management

Too many results ? A lot of ful-text articles that mention leadership” are listed here. Takes an effort to sift through, but they are there on the database.

Add another term - reduces the number

Or choose an Advanced Search

Search “Leadership” as a Subject

Use ‘leadership in the first search box. Change the field codes to ‘subject’Heading.

Add “management” as second subject

More targeted results

Other subject termsClick ‘Subject’ - breaks the article results by the different subjects covered in each.

Ideas for future searchesExample – There are 3,461articles on ‘Management styles’ – better than going through a million.

Limit search to scholarly journals

Select one of the scholarly articles

Bibliography found at end of article

Scholarly articles? Where and why These come from academic journals, which

are peer reviewed by scholars and professionals in particular fields.

Harvard Business Review is an prominent example - - ABI/Inform provides full-text access for your research assignments.

Many of the articles contained in journals have extensive bibliographies and/or citations. Important for further research in specific areas.

Business Source Premier

For Company Research

McDonald’s

Table of contents/links allows you to jump to any section of the

company report. Bear in mind you’ll want to compare with the

profile within the Business Insights database for greater

context. You can strengthen your paper with this approach.

Use the ‘Help’ button and chooseCourse Libguides - - access the Management Libguide for accessto online resources in one place.

Explore each of these on your own, but for now we’ll use the management Libguide.

Note that there are still other libguides to explore that willBe helpful – there’s libguides in the ‘Business Administration’And ‘International Business’ at left in the ‘Browse By Subject’ box

Note: each tab at top leads various resources that will be helpful for your online research. ‘Find Articles’ leads to onlinedatabases useful for research on management (see next slide).

These databases are all useful to find articles for the class

Great information on writing and citing!