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Here is a link to my post on how to find which database contains a particular article/journal.

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BE AWARE that HBR as a company does not necessarily publish all of their case studies in their journal.  If the case study is not in Business Source Complete, you will have to go to the website, http://harvardbusiness.org and click on the “case studies” link at the bottom of the page.   You will have to pay to download the case studies from their website.

MorningStar (only allows 2 users at a time):  Click on the Industries link under the Industries category (see screen shot).  This takes you into an alphabetical listing of industries.  Scroll down until you find the REITS link.   Voila!

Value Line Research Center (only allows 6 users at a time): Left-hand navigation bar- click “Standard Edition”.  Go down to the “Look Up Industry” box and hover your mouse until the entire box turns dark grey and click (see screen shot).  Scroll down the alphabetical industry list until you find the R.E.I.T. link.  

Note: The PDF next to the REIT link provides ValueLine’s overall assessment of that industry.  Once you click the REIT link, you are taken into a listing of companies… Another NOTE- the pdf and html pages next to the each company’s name contain some overlapping but some different info.  It pays to look at both.

Mergent Online (only allows 15 users at a time):  Click the “Enter Mergent Online” tab on the left side.

In the Classification box in the center of the page, select “Prim. NAICS” and enter 531 into the search box.  This basically takes you into a listing of companies in the Real Estate industry.

Let me know if you find any other resources or if I need to add anything else to this entry!

Wanting an investment overview of Bangladesh?  Try the TCU database, CountryWatch.  Click on the “Country Reviews” tab at the top.  It also has lots of good stuff: Political overviews, Economic Overviews, Envrionmental Overviews, etc.

There is some overlap between the two databases, but there are also many unique features.

Wanting more?  Try Country Commercial Guides located in our database, StatUSA.  After entering the database, click on StatUSA again, and then Globus & NTDB, then scroll down to the link into Country Commercial Guides. 

Country Commerical Guides contain info such as, market conditions, best export sectors, trade regulations, marketing strategies, services for exporters, etc.  It’s our government’s attempt to help business exports/imports.

Useful (and reliable) websites include:  www.buyusa.gov

www.cia.gov - click on the World Factbook link on the right side of the page

http://www.site-by-site.com/  An international investment portal

http://globaledge.msu.edu/  a portal to learning resources on global business activities

http://www.doingbusiness.org/downloads/  business regulations and enforcement information

Check out the country tag and the international tag in my delicious account for more!

• Go to the TCU database, Web of Science
• Click on the yellow tab at the top of the page titled “Additional Resources”
• Click on the link: “Journal Citation Reports”   (under ‘Analytical Tools’ heading)
• For business journals, you want to select “JCR Social Sciences Edition”
• I like to (A) “View a group of journals by subject category” since it provides a point of comparison, but you can also (B) search for a particular journal.  Make your choice and click the submit button
• If you have chosen option A from above, on the next screen, you just pick your subject category.  Please note that categories for business include: Business; Business, finance; Management; Transportation, and possibly some others.
• Once you get the search results (see screen shot below), if you don’t understand how a particular # is being determined, click on the ‘i’ button and then you will probably need to click on the ‘contents’ tab on the page that appears.

Here’s a sample of what you get (double click to enlarge):

• Go to www.lib.tcu.edu
• click on the “Journal Articles & Databases” link on the left side of the page.  (Alternately click on the “Find Article” link in the middle of the page)
• From this point, if you know the name of the database you want, click on that letter in the alphabetical listing and scroll down to find the link to your database
• If you don’t know the name of a specific database, but know the Subject (or topic) of your search, I recommend you use the drop-down box under “Databases by Subject” to get to a short list of databases applicable to your search.  For business research, here are the subject groupings you might be most interested in: Company & Industry, Finance/Accounting, Management & Marketing, Newspapers, Multi-Disciplinary, and Supply Chain Management.

Now that you know the pathway, here are a few key points about databases:

• If you are off-campus, you will need to use the same username/password that you use to get into MyTCU.
• Some databases have a limited # of users (click the ‘info’ link next to the database name to know for sure).  If you get a non-TCU password screen, chances are the max # of users for that database has been reached.  Wait approx. 10 minutes and try again.
• Databases are NOT websites.  Sure, you use the internet to get to databases, but databases contain electronic versions of Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, and sometimes Books.
• DON”T Google to get to the databases!  It has to recognize that you are coming from a TCU IP address.  In addition, many of the databases (like Hoover’s) also have corresponding websites: problem is, the websites will try to charge you $$$$$ to get the info; whereas, you could be getting the info for “free” by accessing it through TCU.   Everybody is trying to make a buck.

Let me know if you have any questions!

I would look in the following TCU databases (keep in mind that some of these databases have limits on the # of simultaneous users, so if a non-TCU password screen pops up, just wait and try again later):

Business Source Complete, EconLit, General Business File ASAP, Promt, Business Reference Suite (2 users), and Factiva (5 users). 

Here is how I would structure my basic search if you have multiple boxes on the page:

Box 1: iasb OR “international accounting standards board”

Box 2: fasb OR “financial accounting standards board”

Box 3: differences

In box 3, you may need to replace the word ‘differences’ with a keyword from some of the other criteria for your assignment (someone needs to post the questions being asked for me to give better suggestions here- my feeble mind cannot recall the entire assignment from my one glance at it).  In some databases, you need to NOT use the word differences in order to get results.  Try some variations and don’t give up on the first attempt.

If the database has a single search box, construct your search like this:

(iasb OR “international accounting standards board”) AND (fasb OR “financial accounting standards board”) AND differences

Good luck!

Someone sent me the assignment- yeah!  Here are some more suggestions for searches. 

• I am numbering my searches to match your assignment 
• I will put the search in black and any personal commentary/explanations in blue
• I will structure the searches as if I had one search box on the database page (if you have multiple boxes, put the items in parenthesis in a single box, together) 
• Feel free to post your own suggestions for classmates in the comments
• Same databases mentioned above.

1. (ifrs OR “international financial reporting standards”) AND (advent OR history OR emergence OR development)  You may want to delete the word, development, from your search since it will pull up lots of articles talking about the effects of IFRS on business development.  Play around with it.

2. (ifrs OR “international financial reporting standards”) AND politic*  The * symbol tells the search engine to look for all the variations that could be added to the end of the word (ex. politics, political, etc.)

3.  I think my original suggestions pertain to this (see above this added section)

4. (ifrs OR “international financial reporting standards”) AND (benefit* OR cost* OR pro)  Pro, because some databases will have articles that talk about the pros & cons of IFRS  (try truncating it also (i.e., adding the * symbolel- pro*)

5. (ifrs OR “international financial reporting standards”) AND “early adopt*”  If you don’t get anything back putting “early adopt*” in quotations, take out the quotation marks and try just the word, adopt*.  Or, you can try early AND adopt*

“If you go to the Help and Education page of Morningstar Investment Research Center, you will find our Investing Classroom. There are courses on stocks, mutual funds, and portfolio analysis. The nice thing about Investing Classroom is that it can help anyone–from the novice to the expert. You will find course levels ranging from basic terms at the 100 level to derivatives and contemporary theories at the 500 level.”

Just click on the Help and Education tab.  Remember, our database only allows 2 simultaneous users, so if you get a strange (i.e., non-TCU) password screen, wait a few minutes and try again.

Double click the screen shot below for an indication of what you will find:

EBSCOhost is a publisher (i.e., vendor) of various databases.  Here are some of the EBSCOhost databases that TCU subscribes to that you may be interested in: Fuente Academica, Communication & Mass Media Complete, EconLit, Academic Search Complete, MasterFile Premier, Newspaper Source, PsycInfo, Regional Business News, SocIndex, Vocational & Career Collection, and Business Source Complete.

Here are the step-by-step instructions for setting up a journal alert  If the directions ask you to set up an EBSCOhost account, you can set-up your own sub-account underneath TCU’s account with your own personally created user name/password.

Instructions to set up an RSS feed

Note: Business Source Complete contains the Harvard Business Review.

Another note: Most of our databases allow for Alert/Feed options, look for a ‘help’ icon within the database to find instructions.  Post a comment if you have another database that you want me to post these directions for!