Featured eJournal: Exceptionality

The BU community has full text online access to the current issues of the peer-reviewed title Exceptionality: A Special Education Journal.  This quarterly serial offers excellent articles on the state of current research in special education practice. Articles from Exceptionality can be found in many databases, including BU Libraries Search, Academic Search Premier and Education Full Text. Our subscription provides access to current issues and issues going back to 1997.

From the journal’s Aims and Scope: “Areas of scholarship published in the journal include quantitative, qualitative, and single-subject research designs examining students and persons with exceptionalities, as well as reviews of the literature, discussion pieces, invited works, position papers, theoretical papers, policy analyses, and research syntheses.”

Featured Tutorial: Citing Business Sources

If you need help citing sources for your research projects or class assignments, Pardee librarians have created a Citing Business Sources tutorial with sample Chicago Style, MLA Style and APA Style citations. The Chicago Manual of Style is also available online.

If you have any questions, please contact us at pardstf@bu.edu.

Business Research Guides

As you work on your final projects for the semester, we wanted to remind you that Pardee Library has several Research Guides, Tutorials and Course Guides available to assist with your research. For example, if you need help researching a business topic such as entrepreneurship, take a look at the Entrepreneurship and New Ventures guide. For helpful instructions on how and where to find financial information, check out the Financial Databases Overview tutorial or the Ratios tutorial. As for course guides, we currently have guides for several classes, including SM323: New Product Development, SM323: New Services Development, SM131: Business, Society and Ethics, SM275: Management Communications, and Online MBA.

If you have any questions, or need help with your research, please contact us at pardstf@bu.edu.

Featured Resource: Mintel Academic

Mintel Academic contains hundreds of consumer market reports in a broad range of industry sectors and provides analysis of consumer characteristics, market size, supply chain, and trends. Our subscription primarily covers products and markets in the United States. Each report combines data and analysis of the competitive landscape and consumer profiles.  To create graphs with Mintel data, check out our Mintel Graphing Tutorial.

For additional industry reports, use our Industry Survey Locator. This tool can help you find many reports, including IBISWorld, Marketline, and many others.

If you need help with your research, please contact us at pardstf@bu.edu.

Featured Resource: Mergent Online

Mergent Online provides in-depth company information and financials for international public companies. The database allows you to export financials into Excel and create company comparisons using ratios and other financial metrics. It is an excellent source for obtaining company annual reports and 10-Ks.

Mergent Online also provides access to research reports written by analysts at leading investment banks, brokerage houses and consulting firms. To access the analyst reports, click on the Investext tab at the top of the page.

For assistance with creating comparison reports, company lists, etc., see our Mergent Tutorial. If you need help with your research, please contact us at pardstf@bu.edu.

Data sources available through Pardee Library

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 & Economic Data Sources
• Economics
• Financial Databases Overview
• Company Annual and Financial Reports

A complete list of all Pardee Library databases is available through the Business Databases: A-Z page.

If you need help with your research, please contact us at pardstf@bu.edu.

Featured eBook: Handbook of Reading Research, Volume V

The latest update to this well-known work of scholarship presents the work of more than 50 contributing authors and is organized into 28 chapters.  The initial chapter introduces "game changers" in reading research, and following chapters address increasingly diversified populations, expanding forms of text and everyday communication methods, early language development and literacy, and implications for education policymakers.

Two final parts of the work deal with new methods in reading research - such as the usage of video data - and also better translating the fruits of research into actionable policies for classrooms and other learning spaces.

Did you know we provide access to more than a million eBooks in BU Libraries Search? Just type keywords into the search box and then select the limiter “Books / eBooks” along the right column.  If you would then like to see only eBooks, further select the “Available Online” limiter.

Featured Tutorial: Citing Business Sources

If you need help citing sources for your research projects or class assignments, Pardee librarians have created a Citing Business Sources tutorial with sample Chicago Style, MLA Style and APA Style citations. The Chicago Manual of Style is also available online.

If you have any questions, please contact us at pardstf@bu.edu.

Featured Resource: Factiva

Factiva is a powerful database from Dow Jones that provides access to a broad range of more than 32,000 international sources (newspapers, newswires, industry publications, websites, company reports, and more). Some of Factiva's top business publications include The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, and The New York Times. Factiva is a great source for obtaining information on companies and industries, including company reports and financials.

If you need help finding company and industry news in Factiva, please see our Factiva Tutorial. If you would like to use Factiva to find company ratios, please see our Ratios tutorial for assistance.

If you need help searching Factiva, please contact our Reference staff at pardstf@bu.edu.

Getting Started with Business Research

Not sure where to begin your business research? Here are a few starting points that may help:

Research Guides: Research guides are often one of the best places to begin. Pardee Library has a number of Business Research Guides, Course Guides, and Research Tutorials to assist with your research.

Databases: Visit our Business Databases by Subject page for an overview of the databases that are available. If you know the database that you want, you can find it quickly through our Business Databases A-Z page.

Industry Surveys: Are you researching an industry? Our Industry Survey Locator can help you search across multiple databases. We also have an Industry Information Sources guide.

Journals and Newspapers: If you are looking for a journal or newspaper, try using the Journals and Newspapers link of BU Libraries Search.

For assistance with your research, please contact the Pardee Library Reference staff at pardstf@bu.edu.