Hey everyone,

Here is a summary of the different library resources the library holds for business students.  Remember, if you have any questions at all, please don’t be afraid to ask.  We are more than happy to help with anything you may need.

Library Catalog

Use the library catalog to find books or other materials in the library.  The catalog will NOT search for articles.  Type in a few keywords to find materials on the industry you have selected.  Don’t forget the results are based on the date, not relevance, so make sure to scan the entire list.  You may miss something really good if you only look at the first few.

Also, remember to check out some of the books on the Business Tables on the 1st floor in the reference area.  They may be especially useful.  Please also consult our “Business Resources” handout.

Library Databases:

LexisNexis

Use LexisNexis for several different kinds of information.  First, you can use LexisNexis to perform business news searches.

LexisNexis is also good for company financials, company profiles, and SEC filings.  To access all of these, make sure to click on the “Business” link on the left-hand side of the LexisNexis homepage.

Standard & Poor’s

Standard & Poor’s (SP) is great for industry analysis, company profiles, and financials.  Once you log in, you can search for specific companies or use the “Quick Links” box to find information on a specific industry.  Definitely consult this database for your assignment once you’ve identified the industry you’ll be researching.

Mergent Online

Mergent is a powerful database, most useful for company financials.  Mergent also allows you to create custom reports where you can select different data sets to include.  You can even compare multiple companies.  Try it out and create a comparison report with different companies within the industry you have selected.

Business Source Premier

You can use Business Source Premier (BSP) to obtain a variety of information.  BSP contains loads of different news and scholarly articles on different industries and companies.  You can also find SWOT analyses by typing:

Your Company AND SWOT

To obtain industry profiles, type the name of the industry into the search box, and use the “Publication Type” box below to limit the search to industry profiles.

Conclusion

Ok, that’s about it.  Remember, if you have any questions, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!

See you around the library!

Finding Information about careers:

One way to find out about potential careers is to take a career aptitude test or even a personality test to see where your skills and personality might best fit in the work world.

Here’s a link to the free personality test I showed you in class: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

You might also ask your school counselors, etc. if they have access to any career aptitude tests!

To browse library books dealing with careers and personality and skills….  First, go to our homepage and click on the Find Books (UCO Catalog) link:

Once inside the catalog, enter the following two words– career aptitude — into the search string box:

Then hit “enter” and the on the next page, you will find different books that can help you determine the right career path!

Once you have decided upon a job, you might want to look at the qualifications for that job– do you need a Master’s degree, a PhD?  You might also want to know if, in the future, there will be a high demand for the particular career you are interested in or what you future salary might be like!!!

You can answer all those questions by taking a look at the United States’ Department of Labor’s Occupational Outlook Handbook which can be accessed online at http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm

Just enter your chosen profession into the right-hand side search box and voila! all the information you can handle

Ways to improve your vocabulary:

Here are some sites my colleagues and I found that would be a great way to improve your vocabulary!

http://www.freerice.com/

Build your vocabulary while donating rice to the UN World Food Program.

http://www.visuwords.com/

Find definitions and word associations with this very cool visual dictionary.

www.quizlet.com

Familiarize, test, and play games with this SAT vocabulary site.

Crossword puzzles are a great way to build and quiz your vocabulary.

http://usatoday.com/

http://latimes.com/crossword

Now, remember, if you need any more help with your assignment or maybe another assignment, please feel free to stop by the Reference desk and ask!  We’re here to serve you

Also, please remember that you can call us, email us, chat and text us (during regular library hours) by visiting our Ask Us! page: http://library.ucok.edu/ask/index.cfm

Thank you and I hope you all have a wonderful week!

See you all around the library

Amanda

Greetings all,

If you need to find more information about MMY/TIP, scroll down a little ways and take a look at the blog post for Dr. Jackson’s PTE 5013 class. Also, feel free to contact us via chat, text, phone, email, in person, or with your secret telepathic powers.

Quiz

How to post your answers via the blog:

Scroll to the bottom on this page and look for the “Add Comment” button.

Questions

1. What are the names of the two tests that Dr. Malinda Green from UCO reviewed? Please give the full test names.

2. Who is the intended audience for Adaptive Behavior Assessment System-Second Edition?

3. Use the search options to search for tests in the Subject Category “Neuropsychological” published from the year 2000 to the present day. How many results do you get?

4. Using the results from the previous question, examine the first result in the list. What is the name of the test? What are the name/s of the reviewer/s? How many reviews are there for this particular test?

Good luck!

–Jason

Hello Students,

I hope you found today’s session useful.  I enjoyed working with you and Dr. Wetsel. Good luck with your research.

The website I mentioned for trying to find the cheapest prices for textbooks is http://isbn.nu/.

Find Articles

The following are some recommeded databases for your search. You are not limited to these databases.  If you need to try a different area just select Find Articles (Databases) > Choose a Topic. The databases mentioned in class can be found by going to Find Articles (Databases) > Choose a Topic > Family & Child Development.  Remember to select the advanced search and the peer reviewed or refereed option when possible.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) - education articles, documents, lesson plans, technical reports, reviews
Professional Developement Collection - Education articles and phamplets
PsychInfo - psychology articles, citations for books, book chapters, dissertations and technical reports
SocIndex - sociology articles

Is My article from a Peer Reviewed or Refereed Journal?

Find Articles (Databases) > Ulrichs Periodicals Directory
Use Ulrich’s to check publication type.  Be sure to type in the JOURNAL name not the article title.

Find Websites

Limit your searches to domains such as .gov, .edu or .org using site:
Example “african americans” site: edu

Use librarian reviewed websites such as Librarians Internet Index or Internet Public Library

Find Books

UCO Library Catalog - Search for materials located in our library

WorldCat - Search for materials from libraries all over the World

RSS

Here’s a short video about RSS that we briefly discussed in class.

Citation Creators:

KnightCite
Son of Citation Machine
Microsoft Word 2007 - Create your bibliography using the References tab.

WARNING!!! These are not 100% accurate. Always compare results with the APA manual. A copy is available at reference desk for in library use. The circulation department also has a limited number of copies available for in library use and checkout.

Writing Tips and Citation Information:

Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue

So, you survived that first class and now it’s time for your second class!

The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY)– The purpose of the yearbooks is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

To be included, a test must be:

1.) commercially available
2.) be published in the English language
3. ) and be new, revised, or widely used since it last appeared in the series.

The MMY, in print, in the Reference Collection goes back to the first yearbook and up to yearbook #15.

The library’s MMY online subscription provides coverage from yearbook #9 to the present yearbook #17.

Remember that “Advanced Search” tab we discussed in class?

This can allow you to do all sorts of funky things like search only certain yearbooks, test categories, publication years, etc.

So, if you really want to impress a certain PTE faculty member, I might suggest taking a look at one of their reviewed tests and discussing its absolutely fabulous content 

Now, what about those Tests in Print?

What is Tests In Print? Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Information includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). Tests in Print also guides readers to candidly critical test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series.

Now, remember, TiP does NOT contain test reviews, but it will give you quick information about tests such as publisher information, test time, scores, etc. It will also give you something called a “cross reference” which will tell you where in the MMY you can find a review for the test you’re looking at.

For this cross reference, TiP is telling you to go to the 14th edition of MMY and then to test number 54 for the test review. If you ever see a T before a number such as T3:153– This is a cross reference to another Tests in Print edition; thus, you would need to go to Tests in Print edition 3 then look at test number 153.

Alrightie… Have a glorious evening and please remember that if you need any additional assistance please contact us through the Ask Us! link on the library homepage or come visit us at the reference desk!We love questions!

>^..^< Amanda

Know the answers to these questions?

The first person to answer all four of the following questions will win a super fabulous prize!

How to post your answers via the blog:

Scroll to the bottom on this page and look for the “Add Comment” button.

1. What are the names of the two tests that Dr. Malinda Green from UCO reviewed? Please give the full test names.

2. Who is the intended audience for the test entitled Anger Disorders Scale?

3. What was the most recent MMY review for an Iowa Tests of Basic Skills test? Please give the MMY Yearbook number and test number.

4. Now, go to the aforementioned test (*hint* yearbook number and test name keyword). What is the exact name of this test?

Thanks for playing!

Session One - Education Resources

Databases

*Note - Direct links can be used on campus. If you are off campus select Find Articles (Databases) > Choose a Subject > Family & Child Development >

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) - Education related articles, documents, lesson plans, technical reports and reviews

Professional Development Collection - Full-text of 500 journals in education, 300 peer reviewed

PsychInfo - Full-text, citations, and abstracts to articles, books, and other materials related to pyschology

SocIndex - Full-text and citations to articles, books, and conference papers in sociology

Additional Databases for Speech/Language

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) - nursing, health and medicine

Medline - largest medical database with worldwide coverage - *Remember this database uses different subject headings (MESH) *Note - Direct links can be used on campus. If you are off campus select Find Articles (Databases) > Choose a Subject > Health and Medicine > Medline

Communication & Mass Media - communication, journalism and mass media

Peer Reviewed or Refereed Journals

Ulrich’s Periodical Directory  Use this database to ensure that your article is in a peer reviewed or refereed journal.  It is very important to type the name of the journal into Ulrich’s and not the article name. Some databases give you the option to search only for peer reviewed articles.  For this class you should still check the journal publication type in Ulrich’s.

Finding Primary Research

If you find an article that references another study or research, you can trace back to the original research by looking at the reference page of the article you are reading.  Find the name of the publication then type that publication name into Journal Titles on the library home page to see if we own that publication.   If we do, you can look up by the date, volume, issue etc.  If we do not own that publication you can order through interlibrary loan.

Helpful Resources for Citing Sources

APA Style Guide - handout given during class

OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) - Offers examples of citing sources and other helpful information for writing academic papers.

APA Website Gives updated information on citing electronic references not included in the APA Manual.

Knight Cite and Son of Citation Machine are just two examples of web sources you can use to help format your reference or bibliography page.  Microsoft Word 2007 also has a function that will assist you with inserting citations into text in addition to fomating your reference page. These should be used only as a guide as they may not be 100% accurate.  Always check results with the APA manual.

The Reference Desk has a copy of the APA manual that you may use in the library.  The circulation desk also has a limited number of copies that can be check out for limited periods of time. 

Session One– Literature Searching

Finding the appropiate databases for your topic

Once you have visited the library’s website and clicked on the Find Articles (Databases) link, please note the “databases by subject” sorter in the upper left corner.

For this class you might consider choosing the Advanced Professional Services or Education option which would lead you to the following databases:

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) - Education related articles, documents, lesson plans, technical reports and reviews

Professional Development Collection - Full-text of 500 journals in education, 300 peer reviewed

PsychInfo - Full-text, citations, and abstracts to articles, books, and other materials related to pyschology

SocIndex - Full-text and citations to articles, books, and conference papers in sociology

**Please remember that when accessing these databases off campus that you will have to log in with your UConnect username and password.**

You might also consider clicking on the subjects psychology, sociology or health and medecine if your topics branch into those fields. 

Each of our databases indexes unique periodicals thus your results from database to database will vary.

Ensuring your source is Peer-Reviewed or a Scholarly source

Using Ulrich’s Periodical Directory  will ensure that your article is from a peer reviewed or refereed journal not a popular literature periodical or a trade publication.  Please remember that you will need to type the journal name (not article name) into the search box. 

Ulrich’s is a definite must when searching via ERIC as ERIC indexes all sorts of publications such as trade publications and does not allow for a peer-reviewed search option as some of the other databases allow.

 Backtracking…

What I mean by backtracking is taking a reference you see at the end of an article or mentioned on a website and going to the original source.

All you need to do is look for the journal name in which the article appeared and then go to our Journal Titles tab on our frontpage and enter your information there.  Here, it will show you whether we own access to that journal and in what format (print or digital).

If you ever come accross an article but do not have the journal’s name in which it was published, please either stop by the Reference desk or contact us electronically and we will try our hardest to track down where that article came from!

Please remember that if you ever need a hand in your research process, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!

And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@ucok.edu!

I’ll see you around the library!

Amanda

You need to find information for your informative speech, heh?

Well, the library is a definite place to start!

A search example…

If you decided you wanted to do your speech over tornadoes, where should you start first?

Books

Books are great when you want an in-depth look at your topic. Books, however, go through a publication process; thus, they don’t always have the latest up-to-date information.

A quick keyword search in our online catalog would pull lots of results. Some relevant and some not, so you might consider a “stricter” search using the Library of Congress Subject headings. ** Make sure to put #2 on the Library of Congress Subject Headings” option!**

Once you complete your LOCSH search, you will find specific subject headings pertaining to tornadoes such as

Tornado warning systems–Oklahoma.

Tornadoes–Forecasting–Research–United States.

And, finally just Tornadoes.

Articles

Articles are great for when you’re looking for current, more “narrow” information. Instead of an entire book bout tornadoes, maybe you’re just interested in the hook echo patterns? Thus, you would want to turn to our databases to search for articles.

Remember you can sort that long list of databases by using the “Database by Subject” drop-down box in the upper left-hand corner!

When searching in our databases, just pick the key terms associated with your topics and plug these into the database’s search string:

Easy as pie! If you, however, feel you need more help with keyword searching via our databases please refer to page 2 of this handout.

Reference Sources

Reference sources are things such as encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, directories, etc., etc. Reference sources are great for a general overview of a topic.

Just think Wikipedia with authority– There aren’t random people writing these sources!

If you want to turn to a reference source such as an encyclopedia please visit the encyclopedia/atlas alcove on the north-east side of the Reference area near the restrooms.

Or limit your search in our online catalog to Reference (#3) to find other reference sources!

The Internet

Google ain’t all bad and neither is the Internet. You just need to be weary of who is behind your information.

Would you trust a .com for medical advice? An Obama supporter blogger on a biographical sketch of John McCain?

When using Internet sources, look to the authority of the page’s author, the accuracy of the content being provided, the objectivity of the content itself, the currency and finally the coverage. For more help, see this website evaluation page put together by the Libraries at the University of Idaho.

Alrightie, well I wish you all luck on your research adventures!

Please remember that if you ever need a hand in your research process, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!

And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@ucok.edu!

I’ll see you around the library!

Amanda

Assignment: Find a popular and scholarly article on a medical condition and critique them

Part I

Scholarly articles are written for readers who have advanced knowledge of their subject area. They often contain empirical research, are longer, and have a Works Cited list at the end.

Databases for locating a scholarly article:

CINAHL — (Recommended) Comprehensive database for nursing & allied health

Tips:

• Limit search to scholarly/peer-reviewed journals
• Limit Publication Type to Research for articles including an experiment

HealthSource Nursing/Academic — Many full text articles on all aspects of health

Tip: Limit search to scholarly/peer-reviewed journals on the Refine Search tab

Medline — Comprehensive in-depth coverage of materials on all aspects of medicine. Directed to physicians more than nurses or allied health fields.

Tip: Use Medline for more clinical information about a condition.

Part II

Popular articles are written for a general audience who know little about the subject area. Popular articles rarely have a Works Cited list.

Database for locating a popular article:

Academic Search Premier — Contains popular and scholarly articles on various subjects

Tip: After searching, click on the “Magazines” tab at the top of the Result List. Clicking on this tab will display only articles from popular magazines such as Time or Good Housekeeping

Other Databases to Consider:

PsycInfo — Comprehensive database for psychology materials

Tip: Consider checking PsycInfo for information about mental conditions or conditions where mental issues might be a factor, such as post-partum depression.

SocIndex — Comprehensive database for the social sciences

Tip: Consider checking SocIndex when ethnic, economic, or age is a factor in a condition or treatment.

Finding a biography about a nurse:

• Check the Nursing Biography Resources handout for useful books located in the library’s Reference Collection with short biographies of nurses
• Use Biography Reference Bank database by typing your nurse’s name into the search box to find short biographies online
• Use the UCO Library Catalog to find a book-length biography to check out from the library. Only very famous nurses will have book-length biographies

Handouts:

The Basics library guide — Consult to review searching techniques, locations, call numbers, etc.

APA Style Guide – Consult this guide for correct information on citing sources

Nursing Biography Resources — Consult for a list of useful books with biographies of nurses