Please:

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Please

• Grab handouts
• Put name on and hand in class assignment
• Log into your lab account
• Open Netscape or Internet Explorer
• go to www.lib.berkeley.edu/BUSI/

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Getting Started, Workstations Web Resources
Gary PeeteLong Business Economics Library
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Goals

• Prepare you for your class projects
• Explore the literature of business
• Learn advance search techniques to improve future
  research--

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When you need help

• Talk to a reference librarian
• Be sure to describe what you are trying to
  accomplish
• What your end product will be, not what you think
  you need
• Allow the librarian to provide most appropriate
  information source and format

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Long Library Homepage

• URL http//library.berkeley.edu/BUSI/
• Good starting point for your research
• Gives info about the library
• Berkeley Business Guides provide research
  assistance
• Contains links to Internet resources--must be on
  campus or connect to a campus modem

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Library CD Network

• Available Only in Long Library, Main Library and
  other branches
• Has Indexes and Textual/Numerical Information

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Reference workstations--basic tool

• In main library and branches
• Allow access to multiple resources
• Catalogs (Melvyl and Gladis)
• World Wide Web
• Library CD-Rom information network--not remotely
  available

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CD-Menu--Indexes and full-text

• EconLit (index and abstract only)
• Wall Street Journal (full text)

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CD-Menu Company Information

• American Business Disc
• Compact Disclosure
• CorpTech
• Hoovers Company Industry Database
• Investext
• Medical Health Care Market Guide

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Information types

• Books (monographs)
• detailed coverage
• not as up to date
• via our catalogs
• Serials--includes annuals, journals, magazines,
  newspapers (paper electronic)
• more current
• articles or reports on a specific
• Numerical Database--raw data sources

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Locating library materials at U.C. Berkeley--the
catalogs
Gary Peete Business Economics Library
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Two catalogs

• Pathfinder/Gladis to find information at U.C.
  Berkeley--primarily a catalog
• Melvyl covers books serials for all of the
  University of California as well as
• provides indexing, abstracting, and some
  full-text of periodicals
• many links to other libraries and resources

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Pathfinder/Gladis-- Where are they?

• Gladis telnet//gladis.berkeley.edu
• URL http//sunsite2.berkeley.edu8000/

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What does it do?

• Acts as a catalog of books and periodicals
• Shows circulation status
• Indicates holdings (what we have)
• Inventories and renews what you have borrowed
• Tells what is on reserve for a class
• Restricts to a specific branch (web only)
• Provides links to Melvyl (web only)

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Using Pathfinder

• Quick
• limits search to single term or phrase
• six most used fields
• Full featured
• allows multiple search terms
• contains many more fields to search (thirty)
• finer format breakdown
• permits sorting of results

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Quick Search Steps

• Type in query
• Select field to search
• Choose type of material (format)
• Pick Library location
• Execute search
• Use tips for more help

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Full Feature Search Steps

• Type in query
• Select field to search
• Type in secondary query and select field
  (optional)
• Limit location (optional)
• Limit date (optional)
• Limit format (optional)

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Saving and storing

• Create a save list by clicking on Save box
• Click on Show Saved
• Click on email or
• To print
• click on File
• click on Print
• To save
• click on File
• click on Save as
• be sure to change Save as type to plain text

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Other features on Pathfinder

• Links into Melvyl
• Locates reserve material
• Renews books
• Provides inventory of books check out

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Melvyl (Web and Telnet)--Where is it?

• web version http//www.melvyl.ucop.edu/
• telnet/command version telnet//melvyl.ucop.edu

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What does it do?

• Searches all 9 U.C. campuses for books
• Searches U.C. campuses, C.S.U., Stanford, U.S.C.,
  and the State Library for serial titles
• Provides links to catalogs around the globe
• Indexes magazines, newspapers, and journals
• Provides some full-text

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Melvyl--user profile, customizing your searches

• Select library location to search
• Pick a default database to search
• Recognize your email address
• Determine format of results
• Change timeout settings

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Start by selecting database to search

• Catalog of books (cat)
• Catalog of periodicals (pe)
• Business related serials indexes
• ABI-abstracts and some full-text
• Comp-abstracts and some full-text
• Mags-abstracts and some full-text
• News-indexes only

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Next select field(s) to search

• Title
• Author
• Subject
• Or Power Search (multiple options)

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Display and save results

• Click on Display
• Click on the boxes next to the items you want to
  save
• Once results are displayed and saved, you can
• print them
• download them
• email them or
• save to a list
• Be sure that you are in the correct format
  abstract and/or text in indexes

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Suggested settings for saving, mailing, and
printing

• Citation format Long
• Abstracts/Text Abstracts and text
• Location UC Berkeley (all libraries)

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Business serials

• Business magazines (Forbes, Fortune..)
• Academic journals (California Business Review..)
• Trade/industry publications (Adweek, Automotive
  News..)
• Business newspapers or journals ( S.F. Business
  Times)
• Company Reports (annual reports to stockholders,
  10-Ks)

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Tips for searching electronic resources--record
structure

• Understand record structure, i.e. know what
  fields (or segments) are searchable

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Tips for searching electronic resources--record
structure

• Understand record structure, i.e. know what
  fields (or segments) are searchable
• typical fields include
• author
• title (of source or of articles)
• subject
• keyword

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More search tips concepts--

• Read help or tips to make more precise
• Use controlled vocabulary when possible as oppose
  to free text
• Case sensitivity
• Exact phrase
• Truncation or wildcards

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More search tips concepts--

• Use connectors
• Boolean--and, or , not
• adjacency proximity---near, w/, pre/
• Frequency--how many times word or phrase appears

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Business Industry

• Go to http//search.rdsinc.com/login
• User ID train-berkeley
• Password base2000