MCOM 320 - Harold B. Lee Library
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Transcript MCOM 320 - Harold B. Lee Library
Summer 2009
Val Johnson
The process of gathering information,
evaluating it, and applying it to a question
or problem.
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Business Web Page / MCOM 320 Wiki
Background Information
Types and Credibility of Sources
Searching Tools
Databases
Citations / Documenting
RefWorks
Accessing Resources
Where to Get Help
Business Page
◦ www.lib.byu.edu/business/
MCOM 320 Wiki
◦ Access through Business Page
Databases
Websites
Wikis
Blogs
Judge on:
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Appearance
Length
Audience
Citations
Peer-Reviewed
Relevance
Authority
Perspective
Timeliness
Books
Scholarly/Peer Reviewed Journals
Trade Journals
Popular Magazines
Newspapers
Websites
Wikis
Blogs
Primary Sources: Contain raw, original,
uninterpreted, and unevaluated data
◦ Ex. diaries, interviews, letters, original documents, patents
photographs, proceedings of meetings or conferences, market
surveys, opinion polls, and works of literature
Secondary Sources: Digest, analyze, evaluate, and
interpret the information contained within primary
sources. They tend to be argumentative. (This is
the type of information that you find in library
databases.)
◦ Ex. biographies, commentaries, dissertations, indexes, abstracts,
bibliographies, journal articles, and monographs
Keywords or Subject Terms
◦ Background Research
◦ Experts in the Field
◦ Common and Technical Terminology
Boolean Operators or Connectors
◦ AND
◦ OR
◦ NOT
AND – Finds documents containing two or
more search terms
school
prayer
Example: school AND prayer
OR – Finds documents that contain any one of
several search terms
college
university
Example: college OR university
NOT – Excludes a search term
◦ Warning – using NOT may discard useful as well as useless information
television
cable
Example: television NOT cable
◦ Note: some databases require you to put an AND in front of
the NOT
Example: television AND NOT cable
Phrase Searching
◦ When searching for a phrase use quotation marks –
this will look for the words in the sequence that you
entered them instead of looking for them
individually
Examples:
“Dress for Success”
“New Mexico”
“No Child Left Behind”
Truncation
◦ Expands your search by looking for variants of a
root keyword
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◦ Example: teach* - finds teach, teaches, teacher,
teachers, teaching, teachable
◦ Be careful not to truncate too soon or you will get
back unrelated results (ex. env* - environment,
envelope, envy)
Thesaurus or Subject Terms
◦ Terms used to index articles
◦ Use your original terms as well by using an OR
search
Keywords
Boolean Searching
◦ AND
◦ OR
◦ NOT
Phrase Searching
Truncation
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Thesaurus or Subject Terms
Scholarly Journals
◦ ABI/Inform and Research Library (ProQuest)
◦ Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
◦ LexisNexis
Trade and Industry Journals
◦ Business and Industry
◦ ABI/Inform (ProQuest)
◦ Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Newspapers and Magazines
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Factiva
LexisNexis
Newspapers (ProQuest)
Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Give credit to the people who created the
original work
To tell people how to find the original source
To comply with copyright law
Main Styles
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APA: psychology, education, and other social sciences.
MLA: literature, arts, and humanities.
AMA: medicine, health, and biological sciences.
Turabian: designed for college students to use with all subjects.
Chicago: used with all subjects in the "real world" by books, magazines,
newspapers, and other non-scholarly publications.
Online citation guides
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APA
MLA
Chicago / Turabian
CSE
Harvard
Print citation guides
◦ Chicago / Turabian
◦ MLA
◦ APA
APA STYLE
References
Reingold, J. (2009). The new JOBLESS. Fortune, 159(3), 60.
MLA STYLE
Works Cited
Reingold, Jennifer. "The New JOBLESS." Fortune 159.3 (2009): 60.
CHICAGO STYLE
References
Reingold, Jennifer. 2009. The new JOBLESS. Fortune 159, (3) (Feb 16):
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Bibliography Generator
Double check the bibliography
Access from the HBLL Web site
Interlibrary Loan
◦ Articles
Scanned
24 – 48 hours
◦ Books
Mailed to the library
3 – 4 days up to 2 or 3 weeks
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UALC Libraries
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U of U
Weber
USU
UVU
Business Web Page and MCOM 320 Wiki
Background Information
Types & Credibility of Sources
Searching Tools
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Keywords
Connectors
Phrase searching
Truncation
Thesaurus / Subject Terms
Databases
Citations / Documenting
RefWorks
Accessing Resources
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