For anyone researching a topic related to business, take a look at the Business Source Premier databases, which offers access to articles from thousands of different journals, magazines, and newspapers. The database also offers access to company profiles, market research reports, and industry profiles. It’s a very large database with lots of content. To help you maximize your time spent using this database, take a look at the tutorial! Brand new and just for you! Hope this helps!
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Check out Wired Magazine’s article Wikipedia Sleuths Win Journalism Award for Wired.com, which describes some of the more dubious edits found in Wikipedia. Using the Wikiscanner tool, citizens just like you have been able to link false statements, biased information, and dubious edits back to corporations and organizations who would like the world to believe they’ve never done any harm. This article demonstrates perfectly the vigilant attitude each one of us needs to take when it comes to absorbing and assessing information. Keeping a critical eye towards information sources that have not been vetted, and that have limited authority over content and subject matter is a basic skill in the world of information literacy.
As always, its worth pointing out that the resources and information found on the Regis Library website come from sources you can trust. There is plenty of good stuff on the web, but also lots of junk, so we’ve taken the best of the best, and put it in a single spot for you at the library. So if you are not sure where to start your research, look to us first!
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Hey, are you thinking about doing some research on Nonprofits? Looking for information related to philanthropy? Want to find contact information for NGOs? Then take a look at the library’s tutorial for Nonprofit Management!
If you’ve been searching any of the EBSCOhost database this week, you’ve probably noticed they rolled out their new search interface. The library is prepared for the changes, and most of our handouts and tutorials have already been updated to reflect the changes. We’ve added a new tutorial (Accounting!) , and changed the format and content of some of the older tutorials. We are also busy working on tutorials for the Business Source Premier database and for resources covering Not-For-Profit Management. So if you haven’t had a look yet at our tutorials, or if your just looking for some more helpful research tips, then make sure to look at our research tutorials page!
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When conducting research on your topic, it is often helpful to consider the type of documents you need. One distinction to make is whether or not you need to refer to primary or secondary resources. Take a look at the following web pages from other university websites that offer good definitions for primary and secondary sources.
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In the coming weeks, EBSCOhost will be unveiling a new interface for their databases, which include ERIC, Academic Search Premier, PsycINFO, and others. To help familiarize our students with the new interface, we are updating our research tutorials to reflect the changes. In addition, this summer we hope to create new tutorials for the Business Source Premier database and resources related to Non-Profit Management. So keep your eyes open for new tutorials!
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Thinking of your research paper topics yet? Take a look at the following short tutorial: Developing a good research question. Your ability to focus on your topic and develop a strong thesis statement will help in the long run. Once you know the question(s) you need to answer, then you will be ready to conduct your research.
Looking for publicly available electronic books on the web. Try using the OAIster search engine! OAIster takes advantage of the many persons and institutions involved in the Open Archives Initiative. Unlike the Google Books Project, OAIster provides complete access to thousands of items in the public domain. If you need a book for your topic, and you need it NOW, check OAIster!
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LexisNexis Academic is a large database, popular with many academic and public libraries, in part because it offers full text access to hundreds of local, regional, national, and international newspapers. The tutorial below describes how to search the LexisNexis database for newspaper articles.
Note: This tutorial was produced by the library at Georgia Tech. To access the LexisNexis Academic database via the Regis Library, go to the A-Z database list.
Hot of the press, the Regis Library Distance Learning and Electronic Services departments now offer browser plug-ins for Firefox and Internet Explorer users. The Regis Library LibX toolbar allows you to search by keyword, title, author, subject, ISSN/ISBN, or call number in Lumen (Regis Library catalog), Prospector (statewide Colorado library catalog) or Google Scholar. Want an even easier way to search the library catalog, try the search engine plug-in for Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7 instead. Both of these plug-ins allow you to search the library direct from you browser, without opening the library catalog in a new tab or window. Quick, easy, and convenient. And all for you!
Click here to get the plug-ins
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