Frequently Asked Questions for Business Students
This page is designed to provide students in Philadelphia University's
School of Business Administation with information about using Gutman Library and its
resources for research assignments. Please submit your questions and suggestions
for improving this page to
Steven Bell.You will find the following questions on this page:
What are Gutman Library's hours?
We maintain a
schedule page within our site
that lists our current schedule. The hours posted change as necessary to reflect
holidays, intersession periods or other deviations from the normal semester
schedule. We also post any schedule changes on the Gutman Library Home page and
communicate this information in
Get
It At Gutman, our library blog.
How do I access the Library databases from off campus?
Go to the Gutman Library Home Page and proceed as usual to connect to any
database. When you are off campus you will be taken to a screen that prompts you
for your Philadelphia University network account. Provide this information
as requested and you will be connected to the database. For more information
with instructions see the
OIT
page on remote access to library databases.
Should I use ABI/Inform or Business Source Premier for my
business research paper?
While there is some duplication between these two top notch business
literature databases, each has many unique publications. Also, if you are
looking for full-text, one may have it and the other will not (the Harvard
Business Review is a good example). Both could be good for any research
requiring scholarly journals (Profs. Rusinko and Lermack are just two SBA
faculty that will expect you to use scholarly journals in your research).
If you just need a few quick articles, either one could probably get the job
done. If you want to have the database provide the formatted citation for your
article, ABI makes it easier to do.
Where Can I Get Good Business Information on Lexis/Nexis?
To search companies, click on SEARCH and BUSINESS in the top left tabs. This takes you to the Company Dossier page, which also includes SEC filings, accounting and country profiles. In addition to searching for company information you can
- create a list of similar companies based on sales/revenu, SIC code, NAICS cade or geography
- compare up to 5 companies' balance sheets and income statements
If you click on SEARCH and GENERAL, you can search across LN resources for a topic.
SEARCH and PEOPLE allows you to find specific people, people in an industry or kind of position.
There are tutorials on nearly every screen to help you make the most of this powerful resource.
What is Refworks and how can it help me?
Refworks is web-based personal bibliographic software and can help you store information about the sources you find and then format them correctly for your bibliography.
Several of our databases, including both ProQuest and First Search,
allow you to automatically export citations you locate directly to Refworks.
This allows you to quickly and conveniently retrieve citations you want to use
again or to incorporate them into your research papers.
Since you set up your own Refworks account, you can access your citations
from anywhere you have an internet connection. For more information or to
establish an account go to our Refworks web page.
How can I get Table of Contents page alerts for journals that I
want to follow regularly while I'm a student at Philadelphia University?
Several of our Gutman Library databases and e-journal systems (like Proquest, Science Direct, Springer Online, and Ebsco) allow you to
create an e-mail Table of Contents (TOC) alert. Whenever a new issue of that
journal is added to one of our databases (whether it is available in
full-text or not) you will receive an e-mail message that lists the contents
along with links to the articles.
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