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Discovery Tools
Discovery tools support searching for a topic across multiple databases.
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Library Quick SearchA discovery tool for library resources. Keep in mind that specialized business resources have to be searched individually.
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Google ScholarAssociate yourself with UTSA Libraries to gain access to full text licensed by the Libraries.
Literature Searching
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Search current and retrospective information from 12,000+ high-impact research journals worldwide. Provides seamless access to Science Citation Expanded (1900- ), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900- ), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975- ), Conference Proceedings Index (1990- ), and Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-2017). Cited reference searching enables tracking prior research, gauging the impact of research, and to locate articles that share common references.
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PsycINFO (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowCovers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. Contains over two million citations and summaries of articles from journals, books, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports. Some full-text.
Aggregated Full-Text Databases
Provide many types information in multiple formats from 3rd party providers. May include articles from peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, magazines, newspapers, reports, videos, etc.
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ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowContains a wealth of business and financial information, both current and historical across three databases. Global offers full text of both scholarly and trade journals, market and industry reports, as well as dissertations and working papers. Trade & Industry is focused on specific companies, executives, products and trends. Dateline contains city, state, and regional company and market news. Coverage: 1984-present. Updated daily.
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Business Source Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text coverage for over 9,400 general and scholarly business journals and other sources in marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Includes full-text business books; case studies; investment research, industry, market research, and country reports; and SWOT analyses. Includes the Harvard Business Review since 1922.
Publisher Platforms
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Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to journal articles, e-books, book chapters and major reference works published by Wiley in science, technology, medicine, business, humanities and social sciences. Significant full text.
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Oxford Journals This link opens in a new windowAccess to hundreds of journals published by Oxford University Press and academic societies across a range of disciplines including science & mathematics, law, medicine & health, arts & humanities, and social sciences.
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Emerald Insights This link opens in a new windowProvides access to books and journals in accounting and finance, economics, education, engineering, health care, HR and organizational behavior, LIS, management science, marketing, strategy, tourism and hospitality, and more.
Find Top Journals
It is helpful to be aware about top, high-impact journals in your discipline. You may set up alerts for a new issue of this journal or for a specific topic of interest.
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) This link opens in a new window
A tool for evaluating and comparing journals. Metrics include journal impact factor, eigenfactor, and more. Citation data drawn from approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. JCR is a leading source of citation data on journals in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. JCR includes data from Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index in Web of Science (Clarivate, formerly Thomson Reuters).
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Google Scholar MetricsA list of top publications based on the citations within Google, ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. Lists by subject areas and narrow subcategories are available on the left. Released in July annually.
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Library Quick Search: JournalsUse the Journals tab to look up any periodical, including journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Dissertations
When selecting a topic for your research projects / dissertation, you may want to research if any similar work has been done, get ideas about methodology, and review the bibliography.
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Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowProvides citations and abstracts, as well as full text PDFs, to millions of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from graduate schools and universities around the world. Full text coverage is primarily from 1997 forward, with a significant number of full text titles previous to 1997. Coverage is from 1637 to the present.
Boolean, Natural Language Searching, and Emerging AI Assistants
Originally, databases required the use of Boolean operators to run queries:
- AND - requires all keywords to be present
- OR - allows any of the keywords to be present
- NOT - excludes the keywords from search
Advances in web searching led to natural language searching, even in some databases. Boolean operators may be implied or not required. Searching in databases is more structured, with fewer results and less "noise." After you run your search, look out for filtering options to narrow down your search.
In the past couple of years, vendors have been introducing a number of AI-based tools that provide summaries of the articles and other features. Beware of hallucinations where AI tools "invent" non-existent sources!