Librarian
Virtual: Monday and Thursday.
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
Zoom room:
https://scu.zoom.us/my/pdebarros
Hello!
Welcome to the SCU Library from your Business & Data Services Librarian.
Here for you are thousands of business publications, data sources, and free subscriptions, along with research help to connect you with what you need for your courses, assignments, and projects.
My contact info is on the left. Please reach out with questions big or small. I'm always happy to connect by email, and you can also book an appointment with me for a virtual or in-person conversation.
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Best,
Paul
Easier Access to Scholarly Articles with LibKey Nomad
When you search for articles it can sometimes be difficult to tell if an article is available through SCU library access, especially if you are outside the library's website. LibKey Nomad is a free browser extension that facilitates one-click access to SCU Library's full text resources while you are browsing on the web. If you land on an article or database while researching on the web, the LibKey Nomad extension will recognize when the Library can give you automatic access and insert a link to give you one-click access to the full text of the resource.
Some Important Tools for Business Students
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Gale Business: Insights This link opens in a new windowThis database provides company and country profiles, industry reports, market share data, business rankings, company histories, and full-text articles related to global business, with daily updates.
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Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship This link opens in a new windowThis database provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories from throughout the business world. It's updated daily and includes full-text periodicals such as Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, and Tea & Coffee Trade Journal.
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Gale Business: Entrepreneurship This link opens in a new windowThis database provides periodicals, reference content, eBooks, articles, podcasts, radio shows, directories, glossaries, and websites related to all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, and tax. Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is designed for prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. It offers resources organized around the four key stages of building a business: plan, fund, start, and manage. Content includes the Business Plans Handbook series, small business-focused eBooks, articles from journals like The Economist and Inc., and content from local and national newspapers.
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SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new windowCovers all the major qualitative approaches in business studies (including case study research, ethnography, narrative inquiry) and underscores the nuances and decisions researchers face when designing projects.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCitation index tool which contains cited references (think Google Scholar ^2). WOS is an important tool for conducting systematic reviews and cited reference searches. Also includes Journal Citation Reports (JCR) which measure research influence (impact factor) at the journal and disciplinary levels.
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ICPSR This link opens in a new windowInternational consortium of more than 750 academic institutions. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social sciences. Resource is available for on-campus access only.
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LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new windowRequires registering through Technology Training, available for free to SCU students, faculty, and staff. Database has over 60,000 tutorials that rang from marketing, finance, I.T., software and web development, customer service, and more.
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ProQuest Research CompanionProvides a set of 9 learning modules, divided into 3 parts (Finding Information, Evaluating Information, and Using Information), that can be used as a basic guidance for organizing and examining research.