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Sample Illustrated Research Guide

Research Guide for using the BUSINESS SOURCE COMPLETE database

(This Research Guide for the GEN 111 Course Materials includes graphics. Note that individual requests for Research Guides will generally not include Graphics, but will provide step by step suggestions.)

The Business Source Complete database specialized in articles with a business emphasis, but also contains great general information.

The following Research Guide will show you a basic process for searching a topic so you can find journal and magazine articles. It is written in a step by step format. The topics for this sample Research Guide as well as the topics for the Research Assignment are intentionally broad to ensure that you are able to easily obtain the articles and information you need for your assignment. The databases are designed so that you can easily add more terms to narrow down and be more specific. But for now, let’s keep the process simple to help you get into these great resources!

For articles:

Business Source Complete Database:

· Start at the OCLS homepage: www.indwes.edu/ocls.

· Find the area labeled: Article databases, and click on: Business.

*Click!*

· This will take you to a large list of specific business-related databases. DON’T WORRY—you will only use one!

· Click on: Business Source Complete (EBSCOHost).

· An “Authentication page” will come up.

· Enter your last name and your 14 digit Library Access # and proceed to the databases.

· The authentication area tells the database that you are an IWU student and have permission to use the database!

· Note that there are 3 search box lines.

· You will only use one search line for now.

· In the 1st search box line enter the term: Change management and change the search type from: “Select a Field (optional)” to: SU Subject Terms (use the dropdown arrow to the right side of the search box and scroll down to SU Subject Terms).

· Click on: Search.

· You should retrieve a large number of article citations using these terms.

· Any article that says Full TEXT is available to you in its entirety (full text) online to view, print, download, or email.

· Note that at this point not all articles are labeled Full Text.

Here is an example of an article citation which is available and labeled as Full Text (PDF):

To pull apart the above citation (you won’t need all of this information for your papers, but this is what the database is telling you about this article):

· The Title of the article is: Leaders of change.

· The Author of the article is: Rose Fass.

· The Name of the Journal/Magazine is: Leadership Excellence.

· The Date of the Journal/Magazine is: April, 2013.

· The Volume number is: 30.

· The specific Issue this article is from is: 4.

· The Page numbers are listed as 14-15 (2 pages long).

The “PDF Full Text” link allows you to click and pull up the whole article!

This is a portion of the above article. You can view, print, or save it to your computer!

Since you are getting started, we recommend that you limit to only Full Text articles. Full Text articles mean that the entire articles are available to you in the database. All you have to do is click on the Full Text link under the article. To limit to only Full Text articles:

To limit to Full Text articles:

· On the left side of the results page, check the box for: Full Text.

· Click on: Update.

Check Full Text.

Click on Update:

Left side of page.

· All of the articles are now full text for you to view, print, download, or email.

· To get the full text of the article, go to the full text link as shown above.

NOTE that some links are listed as PDF Full Text and some are listed as HTML Full Text:

The HTML Full Text version looks like a web page:

The article available in its entirety, but has a “web page” look. Some of the graphics (charts, tables, etc.) may be “thumbnails” which are hard to see. Page numbers are usually not listed.

The PDF Full Text version looks just like the printed journal/magazine:

The page numbers are listed in the PDF Full Text version, and all of the graphics are full size.

When you have a choice, the PDF Full Text is best.

If the HTML format is the only choice, you still have the full article to use!

We trust this helps you to navigate the Business Source Complete database!

To find Ebooks in the Ebrary book database:

· As above, start at the OCLS home page: www.indwes.edu/ocls.

· This time, under Books, select Ebrary:

· Authenticate with your Last Name and Library Number as with the Business Source Complete database.

· Enter your term in the Search box when the Ebrary database comes up.

· If you are searching a phrase, be sure to use Quotation Marks to keep the words together.

· Ebrary has over 80,000 books, and you are searching ALL of them cover to cover!

· The topic: Change management will be searched as in the Business Source Complete database:

· Usually a large number of book titles come up—they are listed in Relevancy order. This means that Ebrary determines which titles most closely match your topic.

· These are 2 book titles which came up with this search: “Employee motivation.”

· Click on a title to view the Ebook:

Click on Title to view the Ebook

· This is an example of the book contents page as well as the searchable Ebrary Page:

Books Content Page

Ebrary “Searchable” Contents Page: Click on any chapter to view!

Example of part of Chapter 3 of the above ebook:

· You can copy sections of the book content and save to use for your papers!

· Let’s say you are interested in this section on Kolb’s Learning Cycle:

· Highlight the text you want to save:

· Use the InfoTools to copy what you have highlighted:

Copy of the above put into a WORD document. Note that the citation information (not in APA format) is automatically provided for you!

Kolb's Learning Cycle (5) After a period of time again you will reach unconscious competence in new area (in new car) as they recede the background Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge through experience which leads to a change in behaviour. Kolb, an expert psychologist studied this as a cycle through which the individual has a concrete experience. The individual, when he actually does something (1) reflects upon his specific experience (2) makes some sense of the experience by drawing some general conclusions (3) and plans to do things differently in the future. Kolb's argument is that true learning could not take place without someone going through all the above stages of the cycle.

Citation information from the book—Ebrary automatically provides it for you!

Ebrary will also give you the page number!

Murthy, C.S.V.. Change Management.

Mumbai, IND: Global Media, 2007. p 38.

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/indwes/Doc?id=10415538&ppg=38

Copyright © 2007. Global Media. All rights reserved.

· Using the InfoTools, you can copy and save other sections of text in a Word document. Each section will provide the citation information, including the page number for each section!

· Ebrary is a great way to access books 24/7!

We trust this helps you with searching and using the Ebrary ebook collection for your research needs!

Feel free to contact Off Campus Library Services any time you have Research or Library related questions. OCLS is here to help you!

Off Campus Library Services—OCLS

Home page: http://www.indwes.edu/ocls/

Phone: 800.521.1848

Request for Services email form: http://www2.indwes.edu/OCLS/oclsform.html

Sarah Crume, OCLS 7/2/13