IL for MGMT100 Imber

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Screen-shot based tutorial for introduction to business. Tips and tricks to searching LexisNexis and EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite and Business Source.

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LexisNexis

Legal and Business Database of articles, laws, and company dossiers

1.) Select the business tab

2.) Type in the name of the business

3.) Click search

How to find a company dossier

Click on the company

How to find a company dossier

How to find a company dossierView this snapshot

report or get more information from the report section

Find articles about a company

1.) Select the general tab

2.) Enter the company name

3.) Select these limits

4.) Click Search

Find articles about a company

Click on a title for the article

Limit your results list by source

Enter a search term to narrow your search

FULL TEXT VIEW OF AN ARTICLE

Drop down arrow next to a word or phrase provides links to expand search

Print, Email, Save, Citation Export

EBSCOhost

Database of scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles

Once you click on the EBSCOhost link, (and enter your username/password if accessing from an off campus

computer) select these two collections, and click continue

Enter your search keywords (the words that best describe your research topic)

Select FULL TEXT and SCHOLARLY (PEER REVIEWED) JOURNALS

Then click search!

Your results page will contain of a list of titles like this one. The title is a link to more information about the resource.

Use these terms to guide your searching. *warning: they will take you to new results NOT related to your first search

The abstract provides a concise overview of the entire article

Once you view the expanded view of an article you can…

Get the full-text article in HTML (hypertext markup language, limited formatting) or PDF (portable document file, full formatting)

Titles of icons from left to right:Print, email, save, get the citation, save it to a file in EBSCO, create a note