Library Resources for GSA 515 : Effective Written Communication

GSA 515 - Effective Written Communication

Spring 2006

Instructor: Paul Olsen

Guest Speaker:
Steve Burks
Office: Library 210
Phone: 654-2354
sburks@smcvt.edu

	Library Hours
	Reference Hours
	ALSO, by Appointment:

If you get lost... go to the St. Michael's Library homepage

Contents

Reference Section - Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Browse in the Library of Congress HC-HG section

Library Catalog: SMC books, videos, maps, journal holdings, and more
- MSA Theses in the HD30.12.S3 section of the stacks (3rd floor)
- Subject searching -
- Keyword searching -

Other Library Catalogs: UVM, Library of Congress, WorldCat

Indexes and Full Text Databases - Alpha List: Business Source Premier, Lexis-Nexis, Academic Search Premiere, Wall Street Journal, Morningstar, Vanguard, New York Times

Indexes by Subject - Business

Business Source Premier: Basic Searching // Advanced Searching & Limit Results

Signing into MyEbscohost

Example Database Search -

offshoring and unemployment

outsourcing and unemployment

Wall Street Journal
-

Set Up Alert

outsourcing and unemployment

	Ejournals A-to-Z - finding electronic access to journal holding example -- Harvard Business Review , New York Times
	Off Campus Access to LIS Databases
	Interlibrary Loan

SEARCH STATEMENT

Write Out Your Search Statement and Circle the main topics. Then break the topics into synonymous, broader, and narrower terms

Example Search Statement:

I'm researching the impact of outsourcing to foreign countries on the US economy
- highlight the main search terms in your search statement

Break down statement terms into broader, narrower and synonymous terms - use terms found in journal citations and ERIC Thesaurus
outsourcing	foreign countries	US Economy
contracting out offshoring off shoring	India China Mexico	unemployment wages

Search Statement:

Term:	Term:	Term:

Use OR to search Synonymous Terms
Use AND to search and narrow