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- Seminar in Management Planning and Control Systems
- Library Research
- Fall 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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- 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 38 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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- ABI Inform Complete: is a comprehensive business database with over
3,200 journals (over 2,460 full-text titles) covering business and
economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as
well as competitive and product information.
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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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- 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.
- Lexis Nexis Academic: click on Business and look at the section on
Company Information. You can access detailed financial data, including
SEC filings.
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- Million Dollar Directory: a directory of over 1.6 million public and
private companies (across all industries) with sales of one million
dollars or more, or 20+ employees, or branches with 50+ employees.
It includes companies in the U.S. and Canada.
- Hoovers Company Records: a directory that gives you history, summary
financials, people, and competitors for more than 40,000 companies.
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- 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.
- 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 industry reports. These
profiles provide the important qualitative and quantitative summary
information you need - including predictions and forecasts. This
database is international in scope.
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- Snapshots Market Research Reports-North America: includes over 1,100
market reports from North America. It is a unique source for market
research data, offering market data for a broad range of industries and
regions. The Snapshots Series reports provide concise business
information including market size, market segmentation, market shares,
market-share weblinks, market distribution, market forecasts, and
socio-economic data provided by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Much of
the information is available in graphs and charts.
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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 there contact information for the author?
- Where does the document you found on the Internet live? Is it attached
to a government agency, university, or library?
- If the document contains research, does it include data and an
explanation of the research methods(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 “last updated” date or a copyright
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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