Let's say you want to find articles on cheating that appeared in the Journal of Business Ethics. There are different ways to do this; here's one approach:

1. find a database that indexes Journal of Business Ethics. Databases like ABI/INFORM and Business Source Elite index several thousand business journals and magazines.

2. Connect to ABI/INFORM. Click the Publications tab and enter Journal of Business Ethics in the Search box. You will get a page for this journal - the page lists available issues and includes a search box to enter terms. Click here to see what the page looks like.

3. Enter the term cheating in the search box to identify articles on this topic from this journal.

Another approach is to use the Advanced search form in databases like ABI/INFORM. In the Advanced multi-row search form, enter the name of the journal in the first row and use the drop-down to indicate the name must be the journal title field. In the second row of the form, enter the search term, like cheating. This can also be used to identify articles by a certain author in a certain journal.

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Answer: Business students are probably looking for the ProQuest database called ABI/INFORM Global. (Rod Library subscribes to other ProQuest databases that cover fields like criminal justice, art, and music.) When you connect to ABI/INFORM, you'll see that ProQuest is in large letters, and the name of the database is in small letters.

1. ABI/INFORM Global can be accessed from the Rod Library Business Portal at http://www.library.uni.edu/ris/business/

2. It can also be accessed from the Databases A-Z and by Field of Study in the middle of the Rod Library home page.

3. And this nasty looking URL should work from on campus as well as off campus: http://0-www.umi.com.unistar.uni.edu/pqdauto?COPT=REJTPTM@

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LexisNexis Academic is undergoing a redesign; Rod Library will move to this new interface later in the year. If you want to take a look now at the redesign, click this link. (There also is a link to this beta version at the top of the page of the current version.)

LexisNexis is changing the search interface and adding new content that may be useful to business researchers, such as the "Company Dossier." A company name search, for example, creates a nicely-packaged collection of data on the company drawn from various sources in LexisNexis Academic.

Another feature that might be of interest is the "Dossier Create a Company List" function. This can be used to create lists of companies that fit specified criteria such as industry, geographic locations, and financial characteristics. Company lists can be downloaded to spreadsheets. The company data come from various sources such as InfoUSA.

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