Introduction to library resources
1. Course goals
Use the library portal
Find documents relevant to your work
2. How to search
Types of resources
The library portal
User account
e-books
Scholarvox
Articles
Scientific articles
Business Source Premier
Newspaper articles
FACTIVA
Market research
Company profiles
SWOT analysis
Financial information
How to
How to find an article when you already know exactly what you are searching for
How to find a doctoral thesis, master thesis, training report
Thèses-Unistra
theses.fr
How to find case studies
What to do when you don't find anything
Google Scholar
Interlibrary Loan service
Yet more resources to browse
3. Methodology
How to use each type of document
Books: background knowledge
Scientific articles: state-of-the-art knowledge
Newspaper articles: latest developments
Narrow down your search
Search filters
Using more precise words
Thesaurus
Determine whether the document is useful
Subject terms
Keywords
Abstracts