COURSE RELATED RESEARCH INSTRUCTION
FIN350
Financial Planning
Professor: Karyn Neuhauser
Librarian: Karen Volkman
Webpage: http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/karen.volkman/researchguide/fin350.htm
Date: February 27, 2008
Use Online Encyclopedias
for Topic Ideas / Definitions
Credo
Reference
Go directly to the business area of this set of online reference
books. Use the search box to
find information across the 20 titles
listed
Find Books
The Search
Feinberg link will lead you to books with finance information.
Finding books is different from finding articles or searching the
web. Try some general
searches with the following as subjects:
finance personal consumer
credit United States investment analysis
investment United
States retirement
income portfolio management
investments
foreign globalization economic
aspects mutual funds
banks and banking United
States electronic funds transfers
mortgage
loans real
property saving and investment United States
You can also easily have books
located in other SUNY Libraries
sent directly to you. Search
SUNY by author or subject.
When you find a book that you want to read, select the link in red
called
"Request Item". The information about the books is filled
in for you and you are directed to
Feinberg's interlibrary loan form.
Find
Articles
Your
FIN350 syllabus outlines: "Sources such as the Wall Street Journal,
Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, New York Times, and the
Economist are highly recommended."
All of these financial
newspapers and journals can be found in online
databases on the
Feinberg Library web pages!
ABI
/ Inform Global
Contains: Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, Financial Times,
Economist
Search 1000 premier worldwide business
periodicals for full-text information on advertising,
marketing, economics,
human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also,
information
on 60,000+ companies.
Q&A
If I want to just search for my topic in the Business Week can I do that within
the
ABI / Inform database?
Not a problem. . .
. Just add the Business Week title as a publication title in the
drop down menu .
Academic
Search Premier
Contains: Forbes
Search this large, multidisciplinary, full
text database designed especially for colleges &
universities with articles
from over 4,000 scholarly journals in full-text as far back as 1975
and indexing
for articles in another 4,000 scholarly journals.
ProQuest
Newspapers
Contains: New York
Times
Includes 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.
Other Business
Article Databases to Try
Business
Source Premier
Full text coverage in all disciplines of business,
including marketing, management, MIS, POM,
accounting, finance and
economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market
research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and
SWOT analyses.
Lexis-Nexis
Full-text access to over 7,000 legal, news, and
business sources.
Should I use Internet Resources?
Please read your paper guidelines VERY carefully.
I would suggest only using
sources that you can determine come from other professors,
government agencies,
or reliable economic "think
tank" type organizations.
The librarians at the UC Berkeley Library have developed a
very useful set of guidelines:
Evaluating
Web Pages:
Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
There are internet document
repositories that have undergone scholarly review.
Intute
is from universities in the UK and has an international
flair.
This is set to go directly to the economics section.
Sources from the Librarians
Internet Index have also undergone review
General Questions
Is a
Journal available online??
This link will take to to a product called Journals A to Z. Just
type in the name of the journal
and it will tell you if it's in any of our
full-text databases. It links directly to the full text journals
by
date.
How do I cite the articles and books once
I've found the five references I want?
See the short sample APA
guide.
You may also want to try the Citation
Machine.
Can I find books and find
articles from off-campus?
Yes, all you need is your NetID
Information about Off-Campus
Access
This page created by: Karen Volkman, volkmake@plattsburgh.edu
Last Updated: February 25, 2008
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