Library Resources for SBE Graduate Students

David Bezotte, Librarian (487-3041; dbezotte@mtu.edu) Library Website: www.lib.mtu.edu

 

Databases (Indexes & Abstracts)

To find citations to articles from journals, conference proceedings, and other publications, go to the Librarys website and select Databases. The resulting screen offers the options of searching database titles and/or descriptions, browsing an alphabetical list by title, viewing databases grouped by title, and viewing databases grouped by publisher/provider. These databases may be accessed from off-campus by entering your MTU ISO (Husky Mail) user id & password.

 

FirstSearch

WorldCat A worldwide library catalog; does not index periodicals at the article level.

Business and Management Practices - Covers business and management issues such as decision making; implementing new technology; planning for the future; dealing with internal and external issues; and expanding business. Covers business methodology with emphasis on case studies and practical applications. Approximately 60% of the records include full text.

EconLit Indexes over 600 economics journals as well as books, dissertations, and working papers. Corresponds to Journal of Economic Literature, Index of Economic Articles, and Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.

PsycFirst - Most recent three years of the PsycINFO database covering worldwide research in psychology and related fields. Wilson Business - Provides complete and accurate indexing and abstracting of 345 leading business magazines.

Wilson Select Plus - Full text articles from over 1400 periodicals covering research in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Business, Education and General Sciences. Allows a Reviewed Journal Phrase field search for peer-reviewed journal.

Article 1^st - Contains citations for items listed on the table of contents pages of over 12,600 journals in all subject areas.

 

ISI Web of Knowledge

Web of Science (1973-present)

Offers access to ISI Citation Indexes (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index). Citation indexes allow researchers to take an older paper they know is useful/relevant and find who cited it in more recent papers. JRVP Library is licensed to provide this database to a maximum of three users at one time.

INSPEC Provides indexing and abstracts for published works in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing & control, including information systems.

 

JSTOR - Back issues of over 200 scholarly journals dated from with 2-5 years. Coverage includes Business, Economics, Finance, Political Science, Population Studies, Psychology, Public Policy & Administration, Sociology, and Statistics.

 

LexisNexis Academic Wide range of business, legal, medical, and current affairs information. Extensive U.S. newspaper coverage in full text. Updated daily.

LexisNexis Congressional Search - Provides access to U. S. legislative information including Congressional publications, bills, laws and regulations. It is produced by Congressional Information Service and includes the complete CIS Index.

LexisNexis Statistical Search - Includes all of American Statistics Index (ASI) 1973-current abstract and index records, links to full-text documents published after 1994 and stored on Lexis-Nexis, and links to over 2,000 publications on federal agency Web sites. Full text documents are available in several formats: HTML, PDF, GIF and spreadsheets/comma-delimited format files.

 

Mergent - U.S. & international company data and EDGAR filings. The U.S. Company Data provides a fully searchable database of 15,000 U.S. active and inactive public companies listed on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges. The International Company Data provides global public company information on 20,000 active and inactive non-U.S. companies.

 

ProQuest

ABI/Inform - Covers nearly every aspect of business, including company histories and new product development. Citations include abstracts and indexes of significant articles from current business and management periodicals. Includes some full text.

Current Research @ Michigan Technological University - A searchable full text database of dissertations submitted by Michigan Tech to UMI's Dissertation database. Full-text PDF files are available for most dissertations from 1968. Also includes some theses. In ProQuest, select Interdisciplinary Dissertations & Theses to search this database.

 

Thompson Gale

Academic OneFile -Premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature & other subjects.

Business and Company Resource Center - A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. Continued--

Computer Database - Computer-related product introductions, news, and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. Includes full text.

Expanded Academic ASAP Scholarly and popular research on a variety of academic subjects. Includes full text.

General Business File ASAP - Industry events & trends, and the latest in management, economics and politics.

 

Keyword Searching Basics

Boolean/Logical Operators AND, OR, and NOT

AND narrows your search by connecting concepts. The citations retrieved will contain all of your concepts.

 

EXAMPLE: nuclear and waste and disposal retrieves only the records containing all three terms.

 

OR broadens your search by connecting synonyms. The records retrieved will contain at least one of your synonyms.

 

EXAMPLE: nuclear or radioactive retrieves all records containing nuclear as well as all records containing radioactive

NOT excludes a concept from your search.

 

EXAMPLE: disposal not water retrieves all records containing disposal that DO NOT contain water

 

Nesting

Enclose search phrases in parentheses, a process called nesting, when using more than one Boolean operator in a search statement.

EXAMPLES: (nuclear or radioactive) and waste and disposal

((nuclear or radioactive) and waste and disposal) not water

 

Proximity/Positional/Adjacency Operators

Proximity operators specify where search terms are located in relation to each other in a record.

They might require that search terms be

 

adjacent to each other in the order specified,

EXAMPLES: w (with) or adj (adjacent)

waste w disposal retrieves records containing the phrase waste disposal

 

adjacent to each other in either order,

EXAMPLE: n (near)

waste n disposal retrieves records containing the phrase waste disposal or disposal of waste

[Note: Words like a, an, the, of, etc. are normally stopwords and are ignored.]

 

within a specified number of words of each other

EXAMPLE: n2 (within two words of each other in either order)

waste n2 disposal retrieves records containing both waste disposal and disposal of hazardous radioactive waste.

 

Normally, proximity operators cannot be used with nested expressions. For example, searching (nuclear or radioactive) w waste wont work; instead, use nuclear w waste or radioactive w waste.

 

Truncation/Wildcards

Truncation symbols or wildcards allow the researcher to substitute a symbol for a character or characters in a word in order to retrieve various forms of the word, thus broadening the search. The symbols used will vary from one system to another. As an example, heres one of the symbols used by Thompson/Gale databases; consult the systems Online Help for more details.

 

* multiple character

 

EXAMPLE: dispos* retrieves dispose, disposed, disposing, disposal, etc.

 

For tips on applying these search techniques to specific databases, select Tutorials on the Librarys website, then Database Keyword Search Tips, or consult the online Help offered by each database.

Electronic Journals at JRVP

JRVP subscribes to a number of journals which provide electronic versions of their publications online, found under E-Journals on the Librarys web page. In addition, many of the Library's licensed databases (see page 3) contain journal articles in full text. If you're viewing an article citation from a database and see the Husky Fetch symbol , click on it to view options for locating the article.

 

JRVP Online Catalog - On the Library's web page

 

Database	Boolean	Proximity/ Phrase	Truncation/ Wildcards	Full Text	Retrieve Results
JRVP Library Catalog lists what is available in the JRVP Library	AND, OR, NOT in a Keyword Search.	Choose as a phrase in a Keyword Search.	? multiple-character   Automatic truncation in a Basic search.	No	E-mail, Disk, Print

 

To find what books, journals and government publications that the Van Pelt Library owns and where they are located, use the JRVP Library Catalog. When you enter the catalog, a Basic search screen appears.

 

To search for a periodical title, click on the Journal Title button, then type the title of the periodical in the box provided. A Journal Title search may result in a list of several records for the same title; you may need to view more than one of these to find the issue date youre seeking.

 

To find the full title of a journal from an abbreviation, consult Periodical Title Abbreviations: By Abbreviation, available at the Reference Desk (Z 6945 .A2 W34 2007 REF DESK), or this web site: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm

 

When searching for more complex titles such as conference proceedings, a Keyword Search is usually effective. Click on the Keyword Search button, then enter several of the most unique keywords from the conference title, then select all of these from the pull-down menu on the right.

 

Evaluating Information Sources - Consult these sites provided by other institutions:

Identifying Research Articles & Refereed Journals: http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/lsx/tutorial/section3.html

Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Sources: http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/LibraryGuides/primsrcs.shtml

Evaluating Web Sites: http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html

 

Citation & Style Guides

Using APA Format: http://www.lib.mtu.edu/xmldata/course_guides/52.aspx

Concordia Universitys site on Citation & Style Guides: http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/citations.html

 

Government Information on the Web

USASearch.gov: www.usasearch.gov - Portal to federal and state government information. All sites linked by USAsearch are evaluated for accuracy and authority.

STAT-USA

Delivering reliable, timely, and authoritative statistics from across the Federal Government since 1985. Includes access to USA Trade database. Access Note: Available on several workstations in the Library. Please ask for assistance at the Reference & Information Desk.

 

Recommended Web Sites

A subject listing of web sites recommended by librarians at MTU. Subjects include Business & Management and Economics & Finance.

 

 

 

 

Finding Your Way Around the Library

A Library Guide, a Self-Guided Tour, and Maps of the building are available at Circulation (1^st floor) and Reference & Information (2^nd floor).

 

Library of Congress Classification System (LCCS) - Examples

Used to assign call numbers to books. For a more detailed outline, go to http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html

H Social Sciences (General)	HC Economic Theory & Conditions	HF Commerce
HA Statistics	HD Industries. Land Use. Labor	HG Finance
HB Economic Theory. Demography	HE Transportation & Communications	HJ Public Finance
HV 6773 Computer Crimes	QA 76.9 .A25 Computer Security	TS Manufacturers

Reference Collection-2^nd Floor

The reference collection contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, standards, codes, catalogs, etc., shelved by Library of Congress Classification System call number. Here are some examples:

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) BF 78.7 .P83 2001 REF DESK

Standard & Poors Industry Surveys HG 4961 .S8 REF DESK
Magazines for Libraries - Z 6941 .K2 REF DESK - Reviews & evaluates periodicals; indicates refereed titles.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory - Z 6947 .U4 2006 REF DESK - Refereed publications indicated with arrow (>) before title.

Guide to Economic Indicators HC 103 .F9 2000 REF

IEBM Dictionary of Business and Management - HD 30.15 .I37 1999 REF

International Directory of Company Histories HD 2721 .I63 REF

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) HF 1041.5 .N674 2002 REF

See also http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html

Standard Industrial Classification Manual HF 1042 .S73 1989 REF

Annual Statement Studies: Financial Ratio Benchmarks HF 5681 .B2 R6 2005/2006 REF

 

Locating Books & Periodicals

Books are located on the Third Floor in the Main Collection, shelved by Library of Congress call number.

Periodicals in print format are shelved by Library of Congress call number in these locations:

CURRENT JOURNALS (1^st Floor): Recent issues kept here until bound or reissued in microfilm/fiche.

SERIALS COLLECTION (Garden Level): Older volumes in print format.

MICROFICHE & MICROFILM AREA (2nd Floor, west): Older volumes on microfiche or microfilm.

Electronic journals are found under E-Journals on the Librarys web page.

 

 

Services for Graduate Students

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) To request material not available at the JRVP Library

To request books and articles from other libraries, complete an Interlibrary Loan Request Form, available by selecting Interlibrary Loan on the Library's website and logging into ILLiad.

 

Reference & Information / Library Use Instruction

         For online library tours, guides, maps, and tutorials, select Tours, Tutorials,, and/or Maps on the Librarys website.

         For a copy of this guide, and for lists of resources recommended for specific classes, select Course Guides.

         For individual assistance or instruction from a librarian, visit the Reference & Information desk on 2^nd floor, phone 487-2507, or use e-mail or instant messaging by clicking Ask a Librarian on the Library's website.

 

We encourage you to contact us to arrange a one-on-one consultation with a librarian when you begin your literature search.