ABI/Inform Global
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full-text information on advertising, marketing, economics,
human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.
Also, information on 60,000+ companies.
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you will need to authenticate (verify your PSU identity) using your
PSU email username and password constructed from the last four
digits of your SSN# followed by the first four letters of your last
name in CAPITAL LETTERS.
ABI/Inform Global Search
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This is the initial search screen. It automatically defaults
to a citation and abstract field search.
Fields Available to Search
These are all the kind of searches you can do. In other words,
these are the fields that you can search or the queries you can
make in the database.
Limit to Scholarly Journals
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your search results
What is a scholarly Journal??
Enter Topic as a Citation and abstract Search
(The computer looks for the words you type in the
citation and abstract.)
Do a search for the topic glass ceiling
Search Results
These are your search results. The database found 160
scholarly articles with the words glass ceiling in the citation
or abstract.
Full-text display formats:
Text + Graphics is an HTML version of the article.
Page Image -PDF means the article has been scanned. These
are larger files and take longer to download or print.
Limit by time period: Date Range
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specify date range
Remember you usually want the most current information. I usually
limit my results to the past five years.
Date Range Input
While the computer asks you for a specific format, I find it easiest
just to type in the years. The default will fill in the rest
Parts of the Record: Searchable Fields
Searchable
Fields
All words in the citation can be searched
All words in the abstract can be searched
Parts of the Record: Subjects
These are the subjects that this article is about. This article has four
subjects: 1) Civil Rights Act 1991-US, 2) Government employees,
3) Sex discrimination, 4) Auditors
Parts of a Citation
The citation is what you will need to put the article in a
bibliography or list of references. This is very important to
avoid plagiarism charges.
Title of article
Authors
Pages
Volume followed by number
Name of journal or magazine
New Search:
Figuring out the Correct Subject(s) to use
It can be difficult to find the correct subject heading. Try a citation
and abstract search for your topic: international business
management. This search retrieved too many records to look at
all of them
Examine the Subjects
Find one journal article that DOES seem relevant to your topic.
Take a close look at its subjects.
Redo your search with the relevant subjects
ABI/Inform makes it easy for you to redo your search. Click on
the More Like This yellow bar to see the subjects broken out.
Select your subjects from the list
Check the subjects you think are most relevant for international
business management. I’ve selected 1) multinational corporations
and 2) management styles.
New search results are on Topic Target
236 records is a much more workable number and they all really
are about international business management.
Scholarly Journals Selection
The only thing I don’t like about redoing the search this way is
that it doesn’t keep your scholarly journals selection. Click the
Scholarly Journals tab to further limit your results.