Welcome to the OLS 454 Resource!
September 12, 2007 by melpurdueThis site will provide resources for your research in OLS 454.
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Cite Your Articles
September 12, 2007 by melpurdueCite the articles & Websites you find; use our Citation Style Guide to help.
Citation management tools are available; more information can be found in the Citation Management page.
EndNote and EndNote Web are tools to manage your citations and bibliographies. It assists with formating article citations into the correct format and it also helps with footnotes within your papers.
EndNote is available from the Union Copy Center for approximately $100.00. This version is best for faculty and PhD students with dozens of journal-specific citation formats.
EndNote Web is available for free. You must register within the Purdue Library’s Web of Knowledge first!
Following the path of research
September 12, 2007 by melpurdueInternet-accessible versions of ISI’s Citation Indexes: Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Index. Provides the most current index to over 8000 of the world’s leading scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities. Has a unique “cited reference” feature to find articles that have cited a given article. Includes abstracts for many of the articles. Pre-1977 citations can be used as the starting point for citation searches, but there are no displayable records for pre-1977 citations. Although Web of Science is primarily a database of journal citations, “cited materials” may be books, dissertations, government reports, in press articles, or any other material.
Background of an issue or event
September 12, 2007 by melpurdue- Business news and articles, current company and stock information, and thAugust 31, 2007ns a significant collection of international newspapers and business publications. Full-text.
- LEXISNEXIS Academic, is a full text database containing primarily legal, business, and newspaper sources. Search the Company Financial Information section for SEC documents, NAARS documents, Mergers & Acquisitions Reports, Bankruptcy reports, and more. Full-text.
- Provides selected full text articles from 143 U.S. and international newspapers.
- Regional Business News is a full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world. Included in this database are A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business News Wire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network and Phillips Business Information Highlights. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Diversity Articles
September 12, 2007 by melpurdueDiversityInc.com, founded in 1998, aims to provide education on the business benefits of diversity by positioning diversity as a strategic business opportunity. DiversityInc publishes both the bi-monthly magazine: DiversityInc, and the website: DiversityInc.com. DiversityInc.com includes regular features on diversity management, best practices, emerging markets, recruitment and retention, leadership, legal issues and more. They also publish the “Business Case for Diversity,” a 328-page foundational document, and feature a diversity career center on their site.
An index to over 255,800 records drawn from a variety of essential women’s studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts, Women’s Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Popline Subset on Women, Women of Color and Southern Women, and Women’s Health and Development.
Business & Management Articles
September 12, 2007 by melpurdue- The premier business and management database providing extensive coverage of North America and the world. Find research on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information on 60,000+ companies. Full-text & full image.
- Provided through EBSCO’s EBSCOhost web search interface. A database of news covering international business, economics, management, operations, finance, and accounting. The database contains full text format for over 740 titles including Business Week, American Banker, Forbes, Fortune, and The Economist. Full-text.
Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Articles
September 12, 2007 by melpurdue- The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including human resources, organizational behavior, psychiatry, sociology, education, physiology, linguistics, and other areas.
Social Science Articles
September 12, 2007 by melpurdueSocial Science Abstracts (Part of OmniFile Fulltext Mega)
Anthropology, area studies, family studies, law and criminology, political science, psychology, sociology, women´s studies, and related disciplines.
Activism & action research, community organization, demographics, family studies, feminist studies, gerontology, media, political science, social security programs, sociology are covered.
