Read the business news every day to stay informed about companies, industries, management practices, marketing trends and more! Use the resources below if you don't already have a method. Some are purchased by the library and others are free.
We do not. Instead we offer secondary access through ProQuest and EBSCO. The available articles represent the majority, but not all, of the articles published in the print versions of the publications. Most include text only with occasional images. For full and unrestricted access or subscriber only content look at subscribing directly. Most of these publications offer student or educational discounts. That said library access does provide a majority of the content.
Many public libraries do offer temporary direct access to nyt.com and/or www.washingtonpost.com. If you live in Henrietta, NY (this is where the RIT Campus is) You can get a Henrietta Public Library card. As of January 2024 HPL offers residents remote access to both nyt.com and www.washingtonpost.com. If you live in another area check your public library to see what they offer.
Attending RIT in person at the Henrietta campus? Residents in Henrietta have access to the New York Times and the Washington Post websites from the Henrietta Public Library!
Attending RIT in person at the Henrietta campus? Residents in Henrietta have access to the New York Times and the Washington Post websites from the Henrietta Public Library!
NOTE: Articles available appeared in the print edition. No access to via library to articles only published on the web.
Looking for Harvard Business cases? The library does not own or redistribute these.
BusinessWeek is available also through the Saunders Bloomberg terminals in the Sklarsky Center for Business Analytics.
Let's go beyond browsing the latest news.
To locate articles on a topic, use the library databases to search across both scholarly and practical articles and books.
For an introductory class like this, try ProQuest, Business Source Elite, APA PsycArticles and Psychology Database. These 4 article database will provide great business and psychology coverage for your organizational behavior class.
When we don't have immediate full-text access to an article order it from Interlibrary Loan.
Have a specific journal, newspaper or magazine you are looking for? Use the A-Z Journal Search to see if we have the full text.
This video is a little dated by the searching concepts are still applicable.
The library has a service called IDS which can ask other libraries for books and articles we do not have immediate access to. This service is free to all patrons. It takes time to receive items and sometimes items cannot be obtained from other libraries.
Already know the name of the magazine or journal you need an article from? Use the A-Z Journal List.
More article databases!
Many article databases have advanced search commands buried in their help manuals. Here are a few advanced tips for specific products that can help make searching more effective.*
Proximity:
near/# OR n/# will look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within a specified number of words apart. Replace # with a number. You can go up to 100 words but stay within 2-20 for better results.
PRE/# or P/# will look for documents that contain one search term that appears within a specified number of words before a second term.
Quotation Marks
Surround your words with quotation marks—to force ProQuest to look for your words as a phrase only, rather than finding each word separately.
Proximity:
Near Operator (N): N5 finds the words if they are a maximum of five words apart from one another, regardless of the order in which they appear.
Within Operator (W): W8 finds the words if they are within eight words of one another, in the order in which you entered them.
Quotation Marks:
When a user encloses search terms with double quotation marks (i.e. "global warming") the search engine looks for words in the exact order in any field in the metadata and full text (when applicable).
Proximity is a command to find words close to each other. This is helpful to find words close to each other buried in the full-text. For example if you want to find the words coffee close to the word forecast you would use a proximity command.
Boolean commands are linkage words that help you find or eliminate specific words in a title, abstract or full-text search. Common examples are AND, OR, NOT. In many academic databases use upper case Boolean commands to distinguish them as a command.
*Keep in mind product programming can change so consult help manuals within each product to confirm you are using the most up to date commands. Most databases with have a HELP or ? link at the top right when you are in the product.
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