1. Business Dynamics II
VSB 1002
Spring 2010
Linda Hauck
Research Support Librarian

2. Getting your money’s worth out of
your library
Objectives
1. Best tools for the job
2. How to use them
3. Free full text
4. Evaluating sources
5. Academic Integrity

3. Getting your money’s worth out of
your library: Research Tools
Which tools would you prefer your surgeon to use?
Images : http://commons.wikimedia.org

4. Getting your money’s worth out of
your library: Research Tools
• Airfare comparison -
reservations
• Finding out what
friends are up to
• Getting health
information
• Movie
reviews, theatres and
locations
Images:
www.movies.com, www.expedia.com, www.
orbitz.com, www.medlineplus.gov, twitter.co
m, www.wikipedia.org, www.facebook.com

5. Getting your money’s worth out of
your library: Research Tools
Business Resource Types
• Scholarly, peer reviewed or referred articles  Business Source Premier, ABI
Inform, Google Scholar
• Trade or professional journals, newspapers ABI Inform , Lexis-Nexis, Regional Business
News, Google News
• Country Reports EIU (Euromonitor), Stat-USA, MarketInsight, World Bank Business
Planet
• Company Reports (Private) Hoovers, Lexis-Nexis, RefUSA
• Company Reports (Public)All of the above and..ValueLine, Mergent,, MarketInsight
• Industry Reports Datamonitor, MarketInsight, BizMiner
• Market Research  MarketResearch.com, Mintel, GMID (Euromonitor)
• StatisiticsStatisiical Lexis-Nexis, GMID, State & Federal Government (ie. Census
Bureau), Trade Associations
Internet Resource Types
• Paid (subscribed) or free (supported by ads or owner)
• Mediated or unmediated (paid editors, no editor, community editor)
• Commercial (.com), trade association (.org), educational(.edu), personal

6. Getting your money’s worth out of
your library: Research Tools
library.villanova.edu

7. Getting your money’s worth out of
your library: Search Techniques
Multiple databases, multiple searches
1. Keywords or phases (synonyms) v.
subject terms, controlled
vocabulary, descriptors
2. Boolean AND / OR
3. Limit or Narrow search by document
type, year, language

8. Getting your money’s worth out of
your library: Search Techniques

9. Getting your money’s worth out of
your library: Getting Full Text
In Falvey collection Through Falvey
Within database
Article in another
database
E-Journals A-Z
Catalog

10. Getting your money’s worth out of your library: Getting
full text
APA Style Reference Components
Author, A. (Publication date). Title of the article
or chapter. Periodical or Book Title. vol, pages or
Publication place: Publisher Retrieved from ….

11. Getting your money’s worth out of
your library: Academic Integrity
Works Cited Methods
1. Cut & Paste from database
2. RefWorks
3. Scratch
PowerPoint Presentations
1. Note sources for data, exhibits and graphs
2. Avoid using full images lacking permissions
3. Use images in the public domain or with creative commons
permissions.

12. Getting your money’s worth out
of your library: Evaluate Quality
• Ownership of site
• Purpose of site or publisher
• Authors expertise, credentials
• Independent verification
• Appropriate for purpose
Evaluating Sources

13. Getting your money’s worth out
of your library: Evaluate Quality
news.google.com scholar.google.com

14. Getting your money’s worth out of your
library: Where to Get Help