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Parrish Library’s database of the week (3/30/12): Find it at Purdue Libraries

March 30th, 2012

Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics.  We usually offer basic information about a single database, but this week our feature is a tool that makes searching more efficient.

This Week’s Feature:  Find it at Purdue Libraries.

Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, available in the article databases in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases list.

Description/focus:  Find it at Purdue Libraries provides links to fulltext articles.

Start with this hint: Find it at Purdue Libraries is available in most of the article databases. For example, ABI/Inform, Business Source Premier, and Web of Science include this tool.  These databases offer fulltext articles, but they also include citations that don’t link to the full text, and for these the Find it at Purdue Libraries icon is right there in the citation.  Click on it and it will walk you through the steps to get the fulltext.  At times this will be a direct link to the article in the publisher’s website, or it may be a link to another database, or it may be to Interlibrary Loan.  Click here to see the basics of using Find it at Purdue Libraries.

Why you should know this tool:  Find it at Purdue Libraries eliminates the frustration of spotting a relevant title that is not offered as fulltext in the database.

How this tool can be integrated into the curriculum:  As students get closer to deadlines for projects, Find it at Purdue Libraries can be a valuable timesaver.

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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know.  If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu.  Database of the Week is archived  at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/. For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).

If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.