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- International Business Policy
- Library Research
- Spring 2006
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- sjackso4@csulb.edu
- Please use email to contact me. Use one of the following subject lines
in your email: research help or business
student or student needs help.
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- A wealth of web based tools to support your research.
- Research consultation services with experienced business librarians.
- Free InterLibrary Services for any research materials you need that are
not available at CSULB.
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- Find out how to Connect From Home
- Access the Library’s Electronic Resources
- Find Books: which leads you to COAST our online catalog
- Find Articles: or click on Research Databases By Topic or By Title
- Research Guides: See Business, generally
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- Contains materials that the CSULB Library owns: books, videos, ebooks,
ejournals, journals, government documents, reserve material…
- COAST tells you where it is located and if it is checked out.
- Start with keywords to find material.
- Create a Library password on COAST and View your Library Account.
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- Link+ (books only): allows you to search about 37 other libraries’
catalogs. You can electronically request books from Link+. It takes 3-5
working days to arrive at the CSULB Library’s Circulation Desk.
- ILLiad(InterLibrary Services): allows you to request journal articles or
books from other libraries. It takes 7-10 days. So plan ahead.
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- Create a clear statement of your topic
- Identify concepts and keywords
- Use AND to narrow a search statement
- Use OR to broaden a search statement
- Think of synonyms and alternate spellings
- If the database uses subject headings look at them to help you find
other relevant material
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- Under the heading Electronic Resources locate Find Articles.
- Notice the Databases By Topic or Databases By Title links.
- Use research databases to identify articles on certain topics or
research a company or an industry.
- These databases index: newsletters, journals, trade magazines,
newspapers & wire services. Some databases give you access to
directory type information and reports on a company or industry.
- These databases contain: citations to specific articles, abstracts
and/or the full-text articles.
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- ABI Inform Complete: includes ABI Inform Global, ABI Inform Trade &
Industry and ABI Inform Dateline
- ABI Inform Global: contains nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals
from 1971 to date. Many full-text resources in the database.
- ABI Inform Trade & Industry: contains more than 750 business
periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus from 1971 to
date.
- ABI Inform Dateline: contains local and regional news within major
business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city,
state, and regional business publications from 1985 to date.
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- Factiva: a full-text database that contains nearly 8,000 publications in
22 languages (newswires, newspapers, magazines, trade journals, and
media transcripts).
- Lexis Nexis Academic Universe: a full-text database that contains major
newspapers, magazines, and newswires. Contains international sources.
Use the GUIDED SEARCH to allow more flexibility in your search request.
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- Public Policy (PAIS): an index for the following subjects- public
policy, social policy, and generally social sciences. Contains citations
to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical
compilations, committee reports, and more. This database is
international in scope.
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- Business Monitor Online: this database covers up to 175 markets
worldwide. It provides daily alerts and news stories, country risk
ratings, economic analyses and forecasts. It also contains market
research and forecast reports covering 14 industries in 55 countries and
a database of thousands of multinational companies.
- CountryWatch: a full-text database that contains in-depth reviews of
about 190 countries, including geographical, political, economic,
corporate, and environmental information.
- Mergent Online: using the Country Profile option on the search screen
you can search by country for statistical data and a country map.
- Stat USA: a full-text database that contains business, economic, and
international trade information provided by the U.S. government. Click
on Globus & NTDB and page down to click on Country Commercial Guides
or Country Background Notes.
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- Mergent Online: company records, annual reports and EDGAR files for over
11,000 U.S. public corporations and 17,000 non-US public companies.
- Factiva: click on Companies/Markets then click on Company located on the
top of the screen. Type the name or ticker symbol in the search box.
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- Business Monitor Online: this database covers up to 175 markets
worldwide. It provides daily alerts and news stories, country risk
ratings, economic analyses and forecasts. It also contains market
research and forecast reports covering 14 industries in 55 countries and
a database of thousands of multinational companies.
- IBISWorld: Industry Market Research reports covers about 680 U.S.
industries written at the 5-digit level of NAICS. Each report contains
key statistics, market characteristics, segmentation, industry
conditions, performance and outlook. These reports are written by
industry specialists.
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- Datamonitor Industry Reports: Datamonitor’s reports are based on primary
research with industry panels and consumers. They include information on
market segmentation, market growth and pricing, competitors and
products, and forecasts. This series provides over 5000 reports. These profiles
provide important qualitative and quantitative summary information you
need-including predictions and forecasts. This database is international
in scope.
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- From the Library’s web site click on Electronic Resources.
- Click on Research Guides.
- Use the drop down menu and choose Business, generally.
- See our Corporations and Industries, generally guides located under the
red heading of Frequently Used. In addition, see our Country Guides located
under the green heading of Business Topics.
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- The Internet offers information and data from all over the world.
Because there is so much information available you need to develop
skills to access and evaluate the information you see on the web.
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- Who wrote this? Is the author well-known? Is there contact information
for the author?
- Where does the document you found on the Internet live? Is it attached
to a viable organization, library, university, or government agency?
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- If the document contains research, does it include the data and an
explanation of the research method(s) used to gather the data? Is there
a bibliography attached to the document?
- Is the information timely? Does the document include the date the
information was gathered? Is there a copyright date or a “last updated”
date?
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- Using another person’s ideas, expressions, opinions, facts, or
quotations has to be documented.
- One way to document this is to take good notes while you are conducting
your research.
- Identify information that you are taking from your sources and write
down the page number and author or title of the source.
- Keep a working bibliography so you will be able to go back to all your
sources. This will also make the “works cited” section of your papers
easier to create.
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- Cite the following:
- direct quotes
- paraphrases
- ideas
- sayings or quotations that are not familiar
- facts that are not “common knowledge”
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- From the Library’s web site look under the heading Electronic Resources
- Click on Research Guides
- Scroll down the page to the heading: General Research and Writing Guides
- See the option Style Manuals and Citation Methods
- http://www.csulb.edu/library/eref/vref/style.html
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