Graduate Assistant Orientation

August 30, 2007

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 Getting Articles

The following resources are available under the “databases by title” link.

• ABI/Inform Proquest
• Scholarly Sources, Newspapers, Trades, Magazines, and other types of publications
• Business Source Premier
• Scholarly, Trades, Magazines, Datamonitor Reports
• Business Full Text
• Scholarly, Trades, Newspapers
• Business & Industry*
• Trade Publications
• Lexis/Nexis Academic*
• Primarily Newspapers, but some journal content.
• Others…
• Like Scopus, ScienceDirect, JSTOR, Wiley, etc.
The Find It box can help you locate articles in:

• Other databases*
• Print holdings
• Take you to an Interlibrary Loan Request Form

So:
• You don’t have to search every database all the time
• You should never limit to “Full Text”

* Service does not work with Lexis/Nexis or Business & Industry

 Citation Analysis

• JCR
Web: Science & Social Sciences Editions* (Journal C

• Provides the impact factor (the relative importance of journals within

a given field) and other citation data for around 7,300 scholarly and
technical journals worldwide. Coverage is multidisciplinary and
international, incorporating journals from 3,300 publishers
approximately 200 disciplines, and 60 countries.
 Citation Analysis

• Scopus

• Indexes 14,000 peer-reviewed journals in the sciences from 1966 to

present. Subject coverage includes the chemistry, physics, mathematics
and engineering, health sciences, biological, agricultural and environmental
sciences and the social sciences. Cited reference searching for the past five
years available as well as full text linking option via link.
 In Depth Research

Contact a Librarian because:

• It is our job to help students and faculty find the right research tools for their
work

• It helps us to be sure that our collections are capable of servicing the faculty
and students
 Questions

Research Assistance
• Dan Overfield
daniel.overfield@villanova.edu
• 610-519-8129/4374

• Linda Hauck
linda.hauck@villanova.edu
• 610-519-8744

• Merrill Stein
merrill.stein@villanova.edu
• 610-519-4272

• Dennis Lambert
dennis.lambert@villanova.edu
• 610-519-7966