BUS 3280 Ops and Organizational Behavior

Company Information

Use the following links and databases to search for company profiles, SWOT analyses, legal cases, and literature.  Type the name of the company you are looking for into the database search bar.

Legal Cases

Search for legal cases in Nexis Uni.  Under 'What are you interested in?' click on 'Cases.'  Enter keywords or a company name in the search bar.

Scholarly Articles

Use library databases to find scholarly articles.  Click the 'peer reviewed' filter to narrow your search to scholarly, peer reviewed journals.

Google Search

Use the limiter site: to filter for websites that end in a specific domain.

Examples

• site:.gov  returns sites that end with .gov
• site:.edu  returns sites that end with .edu
• site:.org  returns sites that end with .org

Keywords

Identify keywords for your topic and brainstorm narrower, broader, and related terms.

Example: Factors that affect academic performance in first-generation college students.

Boolean Operators

Boolean Operators AND, OR, and NOT allow you to broaden or narrow your results in the library catalog and databases. You can easily use these to clarify what you need by choosing the advanced search option.

Found too many results?

Add more keywords.

Adding additional keywords to your search can help to further narrow your topic.

Example: college AND first-generation students AND academic performance

Use a filter

Look on the left side for ways you can filter your materials. Here are a few to consider, depending on your needs.

• material type - such as a book, newspaper article, or review
• peer-reviewed - to find scholarly articles
• date - typically to find the most current materials
• subject - to find articles about a certain topic

Found too few results?

Try different search terms.

What other words could you use to describe this concept? Brainstorm related terms, synonyms, and slightly different forms of your word or phrase. Also brainstorm broader categories or concepts it belongs to, as well as narrower elements or examples. (See the keywords section above for examples.)

It may also be useful to consider the official, academic, or formal way to write that term. This is more likely to be used in academic writing.

Use fewer search terms.

Sometimes less is more! The more words, phrases, or subjects you ask the database to find, the fewer sources will meet the criteria.

Use OR.

Broaden your search by using the boolean operator OR to link your terms.

Example: (college OR higher education OR university) AND first-generation students AND (academic performance OR student success)