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March 23rd, 2012
Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These weekly database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.
If you have a suggestion for a database or research topic that should be covered, please let us know.
This Week’s Featured Database: Business Source Premier, from EBSCO.
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 articles and reports.
Start with this hint: Business Source Premier opens at the Basic Search, which is a good place to start exploring your topic. If you choose the Advanced Search tab, you can select options such as Full Text, and see the browsable indexes, such as author names and publication types. Also take a look at the Visual Search tab, which brings up the results of your search in an interactive display. Click here to see the basics of searching Business Source Premier.
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 with SWOT analyses, 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 provided by Indiana, with enhanced features paid by the Libraries. For more information contact mdugan@purdue.edu.
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