Management 100

Management 100. 2-09

EXPLORING ONLINE BUSINESS RESOURCES Lippincott Library


ABI Proquest is a database of business management journals.

Ulrich’s Periodical Directory is a database of information about particular journals.

RefWorks is a bibliographic tool for organizing and presenting your research sources.



Start at the Lippincott home page. http://www.library.upenn.edu/lippincott



A. Look for both practical, “how-to” and scholarly articles about COMMUNICATION AUDITS.


1. Type: abi in the FindIt box.

2. Select ABI – Proquest

3. Type: communication audit (plenty of case study-type material)

4. Limit to Scholarly Journals

5. Check an article “Communication Audits and the effects…”

6. Note that this record is an abstract only.

7. Click on penntext to find a full text version.



B. Is this article in a peer reviewed journal?

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION


1. Type: ulrichs in the FindIt box .

2. Type name of the journal. Note “document type” description.




C. Save your citations. Use REFWORKS

1. Type refworks in the FindIt box.

2. Register and learn how to use it via the tutorial.