Business Source Premier Database (BSP) – More than just Articles!

One of the more versatile databases available to you at the Walden University Library is the Business Source Premier database, which is listed on the Library’s Research Databases page (http://library.waldenu.edu/JournalArticles_ResearchDatabases.htm).

This modern electronic resource has a wide variety of quality materials available for you to use when you research business, management, human resources, economics, and government policy topics. At the main database search screen, you can type in your subject terms or keywords in the search boxes, then scroll down and click on the full-text search limitation feature. (There is also a peer-reviewed search limitation feature, which is very important in article searches, but this really does limit what you will get in a search, and many of the useful items mentioned below are not peer-reviewed, and you do not want always want to exclude them.)

Now just down below the search boxes is an area that has even more search limitation features, so that, depending on what you are trying to do and the type of information that you need, you can limit the results to Case Studies, Obituaries, Working Papers, Company Reports, Editorials, Proceedings, and Industry Overviews.

Over on the right side of the database search screen there is a column where you can click to browse the titles in the available resource categories, such as Books and Monographs, Company Profiles, Trade Journals, Industry Profiles, Market Research Reports, Country Reports, and SWOT analyses.

Many of these materials are not available free via the Internet or in our other databases, so use this excellent tool to pull up some unique materials that can give your project the necessary solid documentary foundation that can lead to positive research results.

Give this a try and see how it works for you. And if you have any questions, you can always call the Walden Library Reference Desk at 1-800-930-0914, or click on the ASK – A – LIBRARIAN button on the Walden Library homepage, and e-mail us a reference question.

Happy Searching!

Finding more Statistics in the LexisNexis Database

The Lexis/Nexis Academic database, available on Walden Library’s RESEARCH DATABASES page, is a very powerful and extensive research tool.  One of the operations that you can use it for is to compare statistical information about companies, up to five different companies at the same time.

Here is how you can get to this portion of the database:

1) Go to the library’s Research Databases page at http://library.waldenu.edu/JournalArticles_ResearchDatabases.htm

2) Click on the LEXIS/NEXIS STATISTICS AND DATASETS link.

Enter your library login information when prompted.

3) At the main database search screen, click on the FIND A TABLE link.

Statistical Search Forms Search for Other Information

Statistical Publications & DataSets Find a Table Search the row-column headings & titles of published tables. List of Links Link to Web sites with useful information about social science statistics

4)  At the next page this form should appear:

This form searches the words that appear in statistical tables. It also searches the table titles, as well as subject descriptors and synonyms assigned to each table by LexisNexis™ indexers.
ENTER KEYWORD(S) Suggestion: Try 2 or more keywords (e.g. corn and Iowa) in   All FieldsTable TitleSubject TermsTable TextNAICS CodeSubject List TipsLimit to a Region: International  U.S. Totals  State & Local
NARROW YOUR SEARCH BY THESE BREAKDOWNS Multiple selections are searched using “and”
Geographic Any By Foreign Countries By Urban v. Rural By U.S. Region By U.S. State By Metro Area By County By City Demographic Any By Age By Disease or Disorder By Educational Attainment By Marital Status By Race and Ethnic Group By Sex Economic Any By Commodity By Government Agency By Income By Company or Institution By Industry By Occupation Frequency of Data Any Annual Daily Weekly Monthly Quarterly Tips Limit to documents with Excel spreadsheets
SELECT PERIOD OF COVERAGE Previous yearPrevious two yearsPrevious five yearsPrevious ten yearsPrevious twenty yearsAll available dates OR FROM  TO   Examples Find forecasts and projections

Study this page closely, so you can see all of the neat features that you can use.

Now you can type in your keyword/subject term in the top search box.

Over to the right you can access a drop down menu to change to a specific field to search.

To make your search more precise, you can limit your search to a region, and then limit further by clicking on a category in one of the four columns below that.

You can also limit to Excel spreadsheets, and specify a date range as well.

Then click on the SEARCH button.

5) Up should come a list of citations:

1.

Resident Live Births By Marital Status Of Mother And County, Number And Percent: Pennsylvania, 2002 [Part 01: All Counties; Adams-Jefferson] , Issued By: Pennsylvania Department of Health , Publication Date: June, 2004 Go to Table

2.

Resident Live Births By Marital Status Of Mother And County, Number And Percent: Pennsylvania, 2002 [Part 02: Juniata-York] , Issued By: Pennsylvania Department of Health , Publication Date: June, 2004 Go to Table

3.

Brides And Grooms, And Percentage Distribution, By Marriage Order And Race, Mississippi, 2001 , Issued By: Office of Business Research and Services , Publication Date: December, 2002 Go to Table

Click on the GO TO TABLE link to be taken to the page with the table:

Resident Live Births By Marital Status Of Mother And County, Number And Percent: Pennsylvania, 2002 [Part 01: All Counties; Adams-Jefferson]

Report Title: Pennsylvania Vital Statistics Annual Report, 2002 (Full Document…)
Issued By: Pennsylvania Department of Health
Publication Date: June, 2004
Table on Page(s): 62

Then there will be a table or graph, which did not reproduce for this blog entry.
Subject Descriptors: Pennsylvania;Births;Births out of wedlock;Marriage and divorce;Counties;

You can then print off or download the page.  You can then back up and look at other tables, or do a new search.

Give this a try and see how it works for you.  And if you have any questions, you can always call the Walden Library Reference Desk at 1-800-930-0914, click on the ASK – A – LIBRARIAN button on the Walden Library homepage, and e-mail us a reference question.

And finally, please don’t use the comments field in this blog to ask the Library a question — this will delay your response considerably. Use the Ask – A – Librarian link at the top of  the right hand column.

Happy Searching!