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

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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