ABI/Inform Global

Search 1000 premier worldwide business periodicals for

full-text information on advertising, marketing, economics,

human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.

Also, information on 60,000+ companies.

Feinberg Library subscribes to the database from a vendor calledProQuest. If you are completing your assignment from off-campusyou will need to authenticate (verify your PSU identity) using yourPSU email username and password constructed from the last four

digits of your SSN# followed by the first four letters of your last name in CAPITAL LETTERS.

This is the initial search screen. It automatically defaults to a citation and abstract field search.

Click this buttonto changetype of search

ABI/Inform Global Search

Fields Available to Search

These are all the kind of searches you can do. In other words,these are the fields that you can search or the queries you can make in the database.

Limit to Scholarly Journals

Check this box to include only scholarly journals in your search results

What is a scholarly Journal??

Enter Topic as a Citation and abstract Search(The computer looks for the words you type in the citation and abstract.)

Do a search for the topic glass ceiling

Search ResultsThese are your search results. The database found 160 scholarly articles with the words glass ceiling in the citation or abstract.

Full-text display formats:

Text + Graphics is an HTML version of the article.Page Image -PDF means the article has been scanned. Theseare larger files and take longer to download or print.

Limit by time period: Date Range

Remember you usually want the most current information. I usuallylimit my results to the past five years.

Pull down menu tospecify date range

Date Range Input

While the computer asks you for a specific format, I find it easiest just to type in the years. The default will fill in the rest

Parts of the Record: Searchable FieldsSearchable Fields

All words in the abstract can be searched

All words in the citation can be searched

Parts of the Record: Subjects

These are the subjects that this article is about. This article has four subjects: 1) Civil Rights Act 1991-US, 2) Government employees,3) Sex discrimination, 4) Auditors

The citation is what you will need to put the article in a bibliography or list of references. This is very important to avoid plagiarism charges.

Parts of a Citation

Title of article

Authors

Name of journal or magazine

Volume followed by number

Pages

New Search:Figuring out the Correct Subject(s) to use

It can be difficult to find the correct subject heading. Try a citation and abstract search for your topic: international business management. This search retrieved too many records to look atall of them

Examine the Subjects

Find one journal article that DOES seem relevant to your topic. Take a close look at its subjects.

Redo your search with the relevant subjects

ABI/Inform makes it easy for you to redo your search. Click on the More Like This yellow bar to see the subjects broken out.

Check the subjects you think are most relevant for internationalbusiness management. I’ve selected 1) multinational corporationsand 2) management styles.

Select your subjects from the list

New search results are on Topic Target

236 records is a much more workable number and they all reallyare about international business management.

Scholarly Journals Selection

The only thing I don’t like about redoing the search this way is that it doesn’t keep your scholarly journals selection. Click the Scholarly Journals tab to further limit your results.