ABIInform Global

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ABI/Inform Global Search 1000 premier worldwide
business periodicals for full-text information
on advertising, marketing, economics, human
resources, finance, taxation, computers, and
more. Also, information on 60,000
companies. Feinberg Library subscribes to the
database from a vendor called ProQuest. If you
are completing your assignment from
off-campus you will need to authenticate (verify
your PSU identity) using your PSU email username
and password constructed from the last
four digits of your SSN followed by the first
four letters of your last name in CAPITAL
LETTERS.
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ABI/Inform Global Search
Click this button to change type of search
This is the initial search screen. It
automatically defaults to a citation and
abstract field search.
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Fields Available to Search
These are all the kind of searches you can do.
In other words, these are the fields that you can
search or the queries you can make in the
database.
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Limit to Scholarly Journals
Check this box to include only scholarly
journals in your search results
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What is a scholarly Journal??
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Enter Topic as a Citation and abstract
Search (The computer looks for the words you type
in the citation and abstract.)
Do a search for the topic glass ceiling
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Search Results
These are your search results. The database
found 160 scholarly articles with the words
glass ceiling in the citation or abstract.
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Full-text display formats
Text Graphics is an HTML version of the
article. Page Image -PDF means the article has
been scanned. These are larger files and take
longer to download or print.
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Limit by time period Date Range
Pull down menu to specify date range
Remember you usually want the most current
information. I usually limit my results to the
past five years.
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Date Range Input
While the computer asks you for a specific
format, I find it easiest just to type in the
years. The default will fill in the rest
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Parts of the Record Searchable Fields
Searchable Fields
All words in the citation can be searched
All words in the abstract can be searched
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Parts of the Record Subjects
These are the subjects that this article is
about. This article has four subjects 1) Civil
Rights Act 1991-US, 2) Government employees, 3)
Sex discrimination, 4) Auditors
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Parts of a Citation
The citation is what you will need to put the
article in a bibliography or list of references.
This is very important to avoid plagiarism
charges.
Title of article
Authors
Pages
Volume followed by number
Name of journal or magazine
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New Search Figuring out the Correct Subject(s)
to use
It can be difficult to find the correct subject
heading. Try a citation and abstract search for
your topic international business management.
This search retrieved too many records to look
at all of them
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Examine the Subjects
Find one journal article that DOES seem relevant
to your topic. Take a close look at its
subjects.
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Redo your search with the relevant subjects
ABI/Inform makes it easy for you to redo your
search. Click on the More Like This yellow bar
to see the subjects broken out.
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Select your subjects from the list
Check the subjects you think are most relevant
for international business management. Ive
selected 1) multinational corporations and 2)
management styles.
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New search results are on Topic Target
236 records is a much more workable number and
they all really are about international business
management.
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Scholarly Journals Selection
The only thing I dont like about redoing the
search this way is that it doesnt keep your
scholarly journals selection. Click the
Scholarly Journals tab to further limit your
results.