DSC2006 Operations Management

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DSC2006 Operations Management

• Searching for articles from four core OM journals
  
• (Term Paper)
• This quickie Powerpoint is to be used with the
  Fuss-free Step-by-Step Guide available at
• http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/hlb/dsc2006.pdf
• Wong Kah Wei
• Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library
• kahwei_at_nus.edu.sg

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Learning Outcomes

• 1. Know how to search for articles within 6
  journals for period 2005-2007 for Term Paper.
• 2. Know how to quickly select articles which has
  full text in Business Source Premier
• 3. Know how to find other sources of electronic
  version if full text is not available in Business
  Source Premier.

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Term Paper
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There are typos in the journal titles. Here are
the correct journal titles

• Journal of Operations Management (JOM)
• Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
  (MSOM)
• International Journal of Operations Production
  Management (IJOPM)
• Production Operations Management (POMS)
• Harvard Business Review (HBR)
• MIT Sloan Management Review (MSMR)

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• Determine whether these 6 journals are
  electronically available.
• To do this, search LINC (NUS Libraries online
  catalog) by the journal title.

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3. List the electronic versions in a table. 4.
From the table, choose the database that has the
widest full-text coverage of the 6 journals and a
linking feature to LINC (NUS Libraries online
catalog).
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• 5. After selecting the database, decide on the
  OM topic you want to search. Eg. Just-in-time
  Supply Chain Management and so on.
• 6. Start with broad topics.
• 7. You are now ready to start searching in
  Business Source Premier.

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• 8. To access Business Source Premier, go to our
  NUS Libraries portal (www.lib.nus.edu.sg), under
  Major Databases, click on Business Source
  Premier.

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• 9. Proceed to login either via Campus Login or by
  entering your NUSNET ID.

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• 10. At the BSP search box, enter your search

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• supply chain
• and (Journal of Operations Management or
  Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
  or International Journal of Operations
  Production Management or Production
  Operations Management or Harvard Business
  Review or MIT Sloan Management Review)
• and Jan 2005 to Dec 2007

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• 11. The results are listed by Date. Note that
  most recent articles are usually not available in
  full text.

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• 12. But if you Sort by Relevance, you will see
  the most relevant articles usually have full
  text.

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• 13. When you are ready to download, print or
  email, click on Add to select.

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• 14. All the articles you added go into a Folder.
  Click on Folder Has Items.

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• 15. Click on Email.

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• 16. Emailing would mean obtaining both HTML and
  PDF files.

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• 17. If you decide you want articles which have no
  full text, click on Check NUS Libraries Holdings
  to look for the full text.

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• 18. The link will bring you the LINC record of
  the journal which displays all the electronic
  versions of the journal.
• 19. Click on the electronic version link that has
  no embargo period.

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• 20. The link will bring you to the Atypon site
  where all full text issues of POM are listed.

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• 21. The list of articles of Vol.16,no.3 are
  listed. Click on PDF to see the full-text.

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• 22. This is the full text of the article.

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• 23. Do other searches by changing or adding
  keywords.

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References listing the papers you selected

• 1. Go to How to cite references in LION
  http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/s/citation.html

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Chicago/Turabian Style
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  us
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