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COURSE RELATED RESEARCH INSTRUCTION

Course Name: Business Ethics and Modern Society
Course Instructors: H. Carpenter
Session Librarians: Patricia Bentley
Session Dates: August 27, 2009
 

Plagiarism and Information Ethics

Quick quiz
http://www.uwec.edu/markgrjs/plagiarism/Plagiarism.ppt

Student Academic Honesty PowerPoint
http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/holly.hellerross/BusinessEthicsandAcademicIntegrity.ppt

 

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Citation Help for APA, MLA & Chicago:
http://www.plattsburgh.edu/library/instruction/citationguides.php

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Finding Books

The Search Feinberg link will lead you to books with business ethics information.  Start by trying some of the following SUBJECT searches:

Business Ethics          Corporate governance          Social responsibility of business

Whistle blowing         Corporate culture                 Corporate Corruption

If our library doesn't have what you want, click the Search Worldwide link.
The Borrow From Other Libraries link lets you borrow anything you any material you want.

Finding Magazine and Newspaper Articles

To see the full list of newspaper and magazine databases, click HERE or click the By Database Title link on the library homepage.
To see the full list of business databases, click HERE or go to the By Subject link on the library homepage and click on Business.  

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Information on social issues, including overviews, statistics, primary sources, websites, and full-text articles from a variety of perspectives.

ProQuest Research Library: To look for articles about a specific company or organization, select Company/Org from the drop-down menu, then click Browse Companies and choose from the alphabetical list.   It will save you lots of time!

LexisNexis Academic: allows you to search over 7,000 legal, newspaper, and business sources including the Wall Street Journal

ABI/Inform Global: allows you to search 1000 worldwide business periodicals for full-text information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and 60,000+ companies

ProQuest Newspapers: Full-text coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers.

Custom Newspapers: A collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international.

Newspaper Source: Full-text of 20 national U.S. and international newspapers, over 230 regional U.S. newspapers and selected television & radio news transcripts.

Finding Websites

Try something better than Google! Use the index Librarians' Internet Index  It's so worth it...  No web site evaluation needed!