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ADVANCED RESEARCH VIA ATHENS
CLASS TOPICS
Athens: Description, Location & Access
Individual database searching
EBSCO
A-Z List via Athens
Specific Arts information
Specific Business information
ATHENS
Athens is designed to allow users access
databases off campus & allows users search
databases one-by-one. On Campus via
WebsiteOff Campus via Athens
SEARCHING ONE-BY-ONE VS. DISCOVERY
Q. I thought that when I searched through
Discovery I was searching every DBS database, whybother going into each database individually. Seemslike unnecessary effort?
A. Discovery is an EBSCO tool, as such it works
best with all of the EBSCO databases. To get themost from non-EBSCO databases we should searcheach individually.
EBSCO DATABASES VS. NON-EBSCO
EBSCO NON-EBSCO
ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE CREDO REFERENCE
BUSINESS SOURCE COMPLETE EMERALD
COMPUTER AND APPLIED SCIENCES
COMPLETE
JSTOR
FILM AND TELEVISION LITERATURE
INDEX
LEXIS NEXIS
GREENFILE MINTEL
HOSPITAILITY AND TOURISM
COMPLETE
PASSPORT
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
SCIENCE SOURCE
WARC
REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS ***ALL THE LAW DATABASES***
PEP ARCHIVE PSYCINFO
EBSCO is a multinational company. In DBS
they provide databases, the Discovery
service and other services
JOURNAL TITLES (ARTS & BUSINESS)
Like all
databases,
the A-Z list
allows
users to
either
search
or to
browse
by subject
A-Z LIST RESULTS PAGE
Name of
the
journal
Database it’s
held in. Click
link for
access
Year(s)
available
Time
embargo
**
** An embargo is a publisher restriction stipulating that the most recent
edition(s) of a journal will not be available online, this example the
editions from previous one year.
BROWSING/SEARCHING A JOURNAL TITLE
(EBSCO DATABASE)
To search within
this title click
here,
Discovery page
opens
To browse,
select the year
to view issues,
then select the issue to
view the articles.
SPECIFIC INFORMATION (ARTS)
Although Discovery is a huge resource and will provide manyacademic (peer reviewed) journal articles, sometimes databasespecific searching is required:
List of Arts Journal Titles
Freud Standard Edition Books (PEP Archive)
Newspaper entries (Nexis)
Irish Studies/History (JSTOR)
Encyclopaedias/Dictionaries/Biographies (Credo)
SPECIFIC INFORMATION (BUSINESS)
As a Business Student certain specific information will be required List of Business Journal Titles Country Information Company Information Consumer Information/Trends Industry Information Case Studies Product Information SWOTs PESTELs Market/Marketing Information
COUNTRY INFORMATION
Web is great for this, especially the government websites of the chosen country
ESRI, CSO, and specific Government Departments
Passport
Business Source Complete
Country Profiles and County Reports
COMPANY INFORMATION
Google (advanced options)
Domain name
The company website (PDF search is good method to find reports).
Business Source Complete
WARC (World Advertising Research Centre)
Passport
Nexis (newspaper listings)
CONSUMER INFORMATION
Passport
WARC (Focuses on the larger countries and regions)
Mintel (Specific to Ireland)
Business Source Complete
INDUSTRY INFORMATION
No company operates in a vacuum, to give context industry information is also required.
Passport (Industries in Consumer Market)
Business Source Complete
WARC
CASE STUDIES
These are great to assess how specific practices have been implemented in industry
EMERALD (Management)
Business Source Complete (General)
WARC (Marketing)
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Obvious choice is the net, but beware of bias.
Business Source Complete will provide information on produces of selected companies.
WARC give general category information (soft drinks, etc.).
Passport provides some product reviews but gives insight from the consumer’s perspective
SWOT AND PESTEL
SWOTs can be found on Business SourceComplete, if company you require can’t befound broaden it out to a larger competitor(Opportunities/Threats similar)
PESTEL requires the use of all of the aforementioned resources, including Google (PDF search/evaluate),
Many of the Country Profiles on Business Source Complete have PESTEL insights
MARKET/MARKETING
WARC (Case Studies/Campaigns/Strategies)
Business Source Complete
Mintel (Irish)
