2. CLASS TOPICS
Athens: Description, Location & Access
Individual database searching
EBSCO
A-Z List via Athens
Specific Arts information
Specific Business information
3. ATHENS
Athens is designed to allow users access
databases off campus & allows users search
databases one-by-one.
On Campus via
Website
Off Campus via Athens
4. SEARCHING ONE-BY-ONE VS. DISCOVERY
Q. I thought that when I searched through
Discovery I was searching every DBS database, why
bother going into each database individually. Seems
like unnecessary effort?
A. Discovery is an EBSCO tool, as such it works
best with all of the EBSCO databases. To get the
most from non-EBSCO databases we should search
each individually.
5. EBSCO DATABASES VS. NON-EBSCO
EBSCO NON-EBSCO
ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE CREDO REFERENCE
BUSINESS SOURCE COMPLETE EMERALD
COMPUTER AND APPLIED SCIENCES
COMPLETE
JSTOR
FILM AND TELEVISION LITERATURE
INDEX
LEXIS NEXIS
GREENFILE MINTEL
HOSPITAILITY AND TOURISM
COMPLETE
PASSPORT
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
SCIENCE SOURCE
WARC
REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS ***ALL THE LAW DATABASES***
PEP ARCHIVE PSYCINFO
EBSCO is a multinational company. In DBS
they provide databases, the Discovery
service and other services
6. JOURNAL TITLES (ARTS & BUSINESS)
Like all
databases,
the A-Z list
allows
users to
either
search
or to
browse
by subject
7. A-Z LIST RESULTS PAGE
Name of
the
journal
Database it’s
held in. Click
link for
access
Year(s)
available
Time
embargo
**
** An embargo is a publisher restriction stipulating that the most recent
edition(s) of a journal will not be available online, this example the
editions from previous one year.
8. BROWSING/SEARCHING A JOURNAL TITLE
(EBSCO DATABASE)
To search within
this title click
here,
Discovery page
opens
To browse,
select the year
to view issues,
then select the issue to
view the articles.
9. SPECIFIC INFORMATION (ARTS)
Although Discovery is a huge resource and will provide many
academic (peer reviewed) journal articles, sometimes database
specific searching is required:
List of Arts Journal Titles
Freud Standard Edition Books (PEP Archive)
Newspaper entries (Nexis)
Irish Studies/History (JSTOR)
Encyclopaedias/Dictionaries/Biographies (Credo)
10. SPECIFIC INFORMATION (BUSINESS)
As a Business Student certain specific information will be
required
List of Business Journal Titles
Country Information
Company Information
Consumer Information/Trends
Industry Information
Case Studies
Product Information
SWOTs
PESTELs
Market/Marketing Information
11. COUNTRY INFORMATION
Web is great for this, especially the government
websites of the chosen country
ESRI, CSO, and specific Government
Departments
Passport
Business Source Complete
Country Profiles and County Reports
12. COMPANY INFORMATION
Google (advanced options)
PDF
Domain name
The company website (PDF search is good
method to find reports).
Business Source Complete
WARC (World Advertising Research Centre)
Passport
Nexis (newspaper listings)
13. CONSUMER INFORMATION
Passport
WARC (Focuses on the larger countries and
regions)
Mintel (Specific to Ireland)
Business Source Complete
14. INDUSTRY INFORMATION
No company operates in a vacuum, to give context
industry information is also required.
Passport (Industries in Consumer Market)
Business Source Complete
WARC
15. CASE STUDIES
These are great to assess how specific practices
have been implemented in industry
EMERALD (Management)
Business Source Complete (General)
WARC (Marketing)
16. PRODUCT INFORMATION
Obvious choice is the net, but beware of bias.
Business Source Complete will provide
information on produces of selected companies.
WARC give general category information (soft
drinks, etc.).
Passport provides some product reviews but gives
insight from the consumer’s perspective
17. SWOT AND PESTEL
SWOTs can be found on Business Source
Complete, if company you require can’t be
found broaden it out to a larger competitor
(Opportunities/Threats similar)
PESTEL requires the use of all of the
aforementioned resources, including
Google (PDF search/evaluate),
Many of the Country Profiles on Business
Source Complete have PESTEL insights
