Purchase Solution

Assistance in Finding Relevant Academic Literature

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Could you please help me with tips and suggestions for finding relevant academic literature?

These tips may relate to navigating particular electronic databases, applying general searching techniques, constructing search term queries, broadening or narrowing your initial search results, finding monographs and other resources, or other topics.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The solution provides assistance in finding relevant academic literature.

Solution Preview

The best tip is to keep trying when looking up sources. Change word order when you need to. Also, find substitutes for phrases, such as 'corn liquor' for moonshine. Be creative when looking for information. The Boolean method works well at times.

Boolean: rather than put in horses, shows, 1999, you would instead put the phrase in parenthesis, "horse shows, 1999" as a single term.

Pick out key phrases and when you have found a good article, use the references they have ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Business Processes

This quiz is intended to help business students better understand business processes, including those related to manufacturing and marketing. The questions focus on terms used to describe business processes and marketing activities.

Marketing Research and Forecasting

The following quiz will assess your ability to identify steps in the marketing research process. Understanding this information will provide fundamental knowledge related to marketing research.

Lean your Process

This quiz will help you understand the basic concepts of Lean.

Business Ethics Awareness Strategy

This quiz is designed to assess your current ability for determining the characteristics of ethical behavior. It is essential that leaders, managers, and employees are able to distinguish between positive and negative ethical behavior. The quicker you assess a person's ethical tendency, the awareness empowers you to develop a strategy on how to interact with them.

SWOT

This quiz will test your understanding of the SWOT analysis, including terms, concepts, uses, advantages, and process.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Support Of or Against a Social Proverb

    274619 Finding evidence in support of or against a social proverb Finding Evidence in Support Of or Against a Social Proverb i) Your instructor will separate the class into work groups of three to four members each.

  • structure follows strategy

    The extensiveness of their literature review and how you relate the finding in the literature with your organization is determined.

  • prepare a literature review

    I think that finding the most recent, relevant research is often daunting since there is so much available worldwide. Once found, I also have a difficult time in narrowing which ones to use.

  • Research material

    620065 Research material I need help in finding academic literature in the following areas: ***Public Administration in Trinidad and Tobago - minimum of at least three pieces of the most recent literature ***Business events management in Trinidad

  • Should College Athletes Get Paid

    As for the literature review, I am going to share with you a source that I use all of the time and keep in my notes. This will guild you step-by-step in the process of reviewing literature for academic studies.

  • A Relevant Literature Review

    Literature review is that academic activity that surveys articles, books, dissertations, conference proceedings, electronic sources etc. which are relevant to a particular topic and field.

  • The Importance of Literature Review

    It supplies a critical discussion and a summary of facts relevant to the particular area of research and gives an author a fresh perspective in his or her own research question.

  • Extent marketing, entrepreneurial, customer

    question: Corporate culture has been cited in the popular press and in academic literature as being an important internal environmental element in achieving a competitive advantage.

  • Annotated Bibliography Global Sourcing

    In this assignment, you will engage in scholarly inquiry to analyze evidence-based research and scholarly literature related to your selected topic.

View More Related Solutions