This document provides guidance on finding scholarly articles online. It discusses different sources for articles such as journals, news sources, and market research reports. Tips are provided for searching databases like Business Source Premier and Discover to find scholarly articles on specific subjects using keywords, Boolean operators, and subject filtering.

1. Finding Scholarly Articles online
Emma Thompson

2. Getting the mix right:
• Scholarly Articles
• News sources
• Market research reports
• Company information

3. The Peer Review
Process

5. Journals Ranking

6. Know the journal you need?
Use the library catalogue to search
for the title

7. Why aren’t they on
Google?

8. Searching for articles by Subject?
• Business Source Premier
• Discover

9. ford Job-satisfaction
taylor productivity
Critically evaluate the claim that Taylorist and
Fordist Management control methods increased
organizational productivity at the expense of
employee job-satisfaction.
Organisation or “management control”
organization? production
management/managerial/manager

10. Make your
Too many
search more
Results?
specific
Search
Make your
Not enough
search more
results?
General

11. Combining keywords
supermarkets AND globalisation
social media OR social networking
apple NOT fruit
refines search

13. Should a corporation care about and
protect the natural environment?
Which keywords would you
use?

14. Via LibGuides
Discover searches the Liverpool collection of
books and the journals we subscribe to
Filter your results to find
Scholarly articles

15. Business Source Premier –
a subject specific database

16. Business Source Premier –
has gears...
DISCOVER:
Automatic Search

17. find relevant results quick...
Phrase searching “strategic management”
combine keywords: retail and china
manag* finds manager/ management etc.

18. Now try using
Discover and
Business Source
Premier
Library LibGuides
Management
Emma Thompson
Liaison Librarian, Management
emma.thompson@liv.ac.uk