Pardee Library provides access to several databases and datasets that may be helpful for your research. These resources include a wide variety of financial, economic, government and marketing data. To learn more about the data resources at the Pardee Library take a look at the following library guides: Business &... Read the rest of this entry »
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RSS FeedEvaluating Information Sources
Librarians at Brigham Young University created a video that nicely points out how students can learn to evaluate different types of information sources. This includes peer-reviewed and scholarly sources, which are often conflated as being one and the same. You can also find more tips on how to evaluate sources in... Read the rest of this entry »
Featured Resource: The Paula H. Foster Collection
The African Studies Library at the BU Libraries houses collections by and about women within African Studies. We are highlighting some of these collections through the month of March in honor of Women’s History Month. Care to learn more? Stop by the African Studies Library on the 6th floor of... Read the rest of this entry »
Featured Research Guide: Women in Business and Entrepreneurship
The Women in Business and Entrepreneurship guide provides a helpful starting point for researching issues relating to women in business. The guide includes a wide range of resources including books, articles, videos, statistics/reports, business cases, and more. For a complete list of our guides, please consult the Pardee Library Research Guides... Read the rest of this entry »
Featured Resource: HistoryMakers
In recognition of Black History Month, we are highlighting a resource that includes information regarding Black business leaders. HistoryMakers is a collection of video oral history interviews with historically significant African Americans in many fields. Transcripts are included with the interviews. The BusinessMakers section of HistoryMakers includes interviews with 290... Read the rest of this entry »
Featured database: ERIC
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database contains records of literature and other material useful for K-12 teaching, counseling, administration, higher education, public policy, and other areas within education. The “thesaurus” section is a guide to the standardized education-related subject headings used across the records, and those standardized headings are also... Read the rest of this entry »
Finding Business Journals
If you need help finding a particular business journal, try using the Journal and Newspaper Titles feature of the BU Libraries Search. Type the journal name into the search box and the results will be limited to journals and newspapers currently available through the BU Libraries. The BU Libraries currently... Read the rest of this entry »
Now Streaming: Merchants of Doubt
The film Merchants of Doubt is part of the BU Libraries Academic Video Online database. It examines the process of determining scientific policy in the United States, and highlights how that process sometimes gets warped by lobbyists and pundits-for-hire. Merchants of Doubt is of value to science educators who go on to... Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome back to Pardee Library!
Welcome back! Pardee Library staff is available to assist with your research needs. Many of our services and resources are available online. Please note that our hours of operation recently changed. Some of the resources currently available: Research Guides: Our library Research Guides cover a wide variety of business-related topics and... Read the rest of this entry »
National Science Digital Library – lesson plans and more
The National Science Digital Library is an excellent site that provides plenty of lesson plans, information on educational standards (including the Common Core), and Science Literacy Maps. Their lesson plans are often available in multiple translations to support students in many languages. It was produced by funding from multiple grants from... Read the rest of this entry »