Research Hacked: Business Topics
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This guide introduces how to get started researching business disciplines such as Accounting, Management, Marketing, Transportation & Logistics, Economics, Business Law, Entrepreneurship, and International Business.
Business research can provide information on a wide range of topics, companies, industries, and more! When researching in business disciplines you may need to find background information on a company, industry reports, market research reports, demographic data about a region or consumer group, legal documents, trade journals, or scholarly journals. Industry jargon can make researching difficult, but many library search tools exist to help you find exactly what you need!
Pick Your Search Tools
Discipline Specific
- ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
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Use this resource to find scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos, and more. This resource combines several business collections into one easy search tool. - Statista This link opens in a new windowUse this resource to find statistical data from thousands of institutions and sources. It provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government agencies. Data can be downloaded in multiple formats such as JPG, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowUse this resource if you need news, business, or legal sources. The Company Dossier module retrieves detailed company information and financial performance measures. Nexis Uni also provides federal and state court cases dating back to 1789.
Power Search Tools
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
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Serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covering more than 160 subjects areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning online reference resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. *This is a Traveler resource. The Traveler Statewide Resource project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
- Gale Power Search This link opens in a new window
Cross-search the content of multiple Gale databases (including the content of Gale eBook titles) at one time through a streamlined, common user interface. Filter by source type easily using tabs to limit to Academic Journals, News, Images, Videos and more.
- Search Everything This link opens in a new window
Search all of the Library's physical collection and most of its eresources.
Select Your Search Strategies
Exact Phrase
Add Quotation Marks to search for an exact phrase or words in a specific or EXACT order. An exact phrase will return more accurate results because it snaps all of the words together, turning it into a phrase that must be found exactly in that order.
Example: social media marketing vs. “social media marketing”
3 Magic Words - AND, OR, NOT
Filters
Apply filters to limit your search results. Because they limit your results, filters might also be called limiters. The most common and helpful filters to limit your results are:
- Date: Limit to the past 5 years, or a specific date range
- Source Type: Limit to academic/scholarly sources or any other type, such as news or ebooks
- Peer Review: Limit to scholarly sources that have been peer reviewed
Keywords
Create a list of keywords associated with your topic.
What else could it be called (synonyms)? What describes it specifically (hyponyms)? What is it related to broadly (hypernyms)?
Topics can be narrowed or broadened depending on the use of search terms.
General: management styles
Narrower: delegative management style
Broader: management