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MEL’s Database of the Week for 1/22/10

January 22nd, 2010

Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL).  These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.

This Week’s Featured Database: Business Source Premier, from EBSCOhost.

Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.

Description/focus: Business Source Premier provides access to articles and reports.

Start with this hint: Business Source Premier opens at the Basic Search, but if you choose the Advanced Search tab, before you even start your search you can select options such as Full Text.  The Advanced Search page also lists the indexes that can be browsed such as author names and publication types.  You should also take a look at the Visual Search tab.  This brings up the results of your search in an appealing interactive display. Visual Search does not offer options such as full text and it only brings up the 250 most relevant hits, but if you don’t need 8000 articles on your subject, it is an easy to use alternative.

Why you should know this database: Because of its broad range of content and ease of use, Business Source Premier is one of our most highly recommended databases.  It includes journals, trade magazines, Datamonitor reports, newspapers, and more.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Whether students need to find scholarly articles, market research reports, or company information, Business Source Premier can guide them by offering suggestions to narrow down a broad search.

Cost: Business Source Premier is an Inspire database with enhanced features paid by the Libraries.  For more information contact mdugan@purdue.edu.

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