INTD 205: Business Communication (Professor Beabes): Library Instruction Session
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
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Ithica College Library's Research 101 pageThis guide page goes into detail about primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.
Your assignment
Students will be writing a 10-15 page informative report. They need to cite at least 6 sources, most of them primary
Find Articles (Recommended Databases)
Use one or more of these databases to locate articles on a topic.
Search strategies include:
Quotations marks (" ") will group words as a phrase, ensuring they appear next to each other in the record. For example: "Corporate Speak" or "constructive criticism."
An Asterisk (*) at the end of a term will allow you to search for different forms of a word with what you enter as a base. For example: econ* will return results for economy, economic, economics, economist, economical, etc.
Check out our how to guide for even more search tips.
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Business Source CompleteBusiness Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
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D&B HooversD&B Hoovers provides key company, executive and industry intelligence. One database with millions of fully-integrated global company profiles, executive listings and corporate structures. Multi-year archive of corporate financials, news, SEC filings, and analyst reports.
