Information search

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Information search

• Internet
• Google
• Libraries
• Databases

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Searching the web

• Why using Google?
• Pdf
• Size
• Sorting
• Information about websearching
• notess.com
• searchenginewatch.com

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Searching the web - problems

• Searchengines discover only a fraction of the web
  less than 1!
• Poor documentation
• Limited search options
• Problems with sorting

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Invisible web

• Access to commercial cites
• Databases
• Sites with accounts and firewalls
• Use the Library
• Use databases

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Library Homepage

• Access to books e-books (Merkur)
• Order books articles (Self-service)
• Access to Master Thesis (Thesis.asb)
• Access to Databases
• Remote access to nearly all databases
• Use username password from Campusnet.

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Article search at the Library

• Access to 30.000 journals - covering all
  sciences
• Problem Not one single database
• Articledatabases
• ABI/Inform
• Business Source Complete
• Publishers
• Science Direct
• Emerald
• Sage (a.o.)
• ELIN (journal database)

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Advanced article search

• Subject search
• Combinations (remove dublicates)
• Type, Date, Length
• Full text search
• Citation search
• Documentation of contents !!

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Business Source Complete ABI/Inform

• Largest article database i economics
• High quality subjects (Thesaurus)
• Advanced search functions
• Not only scientific articles
• Databases to start when searching for articles in
  economics

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Science Direct (publisher)

• Journals from Elsevier
• All journals peer reviewed
• Covering all sciences
• Limited searchoptions (uncontrolled subject)
• Search articles of high quality

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ELIN

• Library journal database
• Find specific references
• Set up alerts on journals
• Make simple searches in the article databases (be
  carefull)

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Company market information

• Orbis
• Zephyr
• Factiva
• Business Company Ressource Center
• Global Market Information Database
• Kompass
• Derwent Innovations Index

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Orbis

• 50 mill international companies
• Detailed financial information on 12 mill
  companies
• Advanced search
• Flexible format options
• Export options (nearly unlimited)
• Import companylists from Zephyr

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Zephyr

• Mergers and Acquisitions with information on
  600.000 deals
• Advanced search
• Export options (nearly unlimited)
• Export options to Orbis
• Save file with BVD ID numbers
• Save file as Formatted text (Space Delimited)
  rename to .bvd
• In Orbis load company file

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Zephyr

• Mergers and Acquisitions with information on
  600.000 deals
• Advanced search
• Export options (nearly unlimited)
• Export options to Orbis
• Save file with BVD ID numbers
• Save file as Formatted text (Space Delimited)
  rename to .bvd
• In Orbis load company file

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Factiva

• Combines comprehensive global news with first
  class business information
• Advanced search options
• Proximity operators
• w/n (exact order), nearn (any order)
• Atleastn atleast5 carlsberg

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Kompass

• Detailed product classification
• Search on producers
• Look www.kompass.dk http//www.kompassonline.dk/
  WF/ to find information on the classification

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How to evaluate Databases

• Content
• Documentation
• Update
• Search options
• Index (subject, company, etc.)
• Output options
• (sorting, exporting)
• Easy to use

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Conclusion

• Choose database according to information need
• Important to have knowledge about the database
• Use reference information
• Be critical
• Test the Databases