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Johanna Tunon Distance and Instructional Library
Services tunon_at_nova.edu [phone] ext. 4608
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Distance Library Services
Document Delivery [phone] X4602 (954)
262-4602 FAX (888) DLS-DOCSlibrary_at_nova.eduhttp
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Library training and


instructional materials
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Items that can be received through Document
Delivery
Journals
Host Libraries
Items from the Main Library
Dissertations Practicum, Eric
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UNIX ACCOUNTS

• Your key to the Electronic Library!
• Submit applications to your department
• forwarded to UNIX representatives
• receive your account name/password by mail
• library cannot provided passwords

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Click on troubleshootinglink and scrolldown to
linkfor online NSU email application.
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library
http//www.nova.edu/
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ABI/Inform is the most scholarly of the business
indexes.
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You can type a word at the Search for
prompt
business communications
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Text images
Page image
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Enter Search Term
Do you have to narrow or broaden your search.
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Narrowing a search
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Boolean Operators
business communications AND email
business communications OR email
Saturn NOT planet Kaiser NOT aluminum
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WilsonWeb Business Full Text
WilsonWeb Business Full Text indexes business
periodicals and includes full text for 75 of
those journals.
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Click in box in front of the database andthen on
the SearchPlus button.
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Use SearchPlus because it has more powerful
searching capabilities.
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Use SearchPlus to search specific fields...
You can limit to Full Text and/or Peer Reviewed
articles.
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Full text articles have anicon. Citations with
onlyabstracts have no special marks.

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Click on hyperlinked title or icon.
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• PDF or Image Files
• Advantages
• Accurate reproduction of page
• Includes any graphics and charts
• Includes page numbers
• Disadvantages
• Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free software)
• Loads slower
• Cannot copy and paste

• HTML or Text
• Advantages
• Loads fast
• Requires no special software
• Text can be copied and pasted
• Disadvantages
• No graphics or charts
• No page numbers

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When you find a relevant article, try another
search using the Descriptors.
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NSU Business Databases
ABI/Inform (part of ProQuest Direct) --
Scholarly and trade articles NetAdvantage and FIS
Online -- Corporate information EIU
International business information
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Using Your Computer and NSU in the Research
Process
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Remember -- The library doesnt just throw
you in the deep end.
Help is available
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Whether you have questions about how to zero in
on the precise information you need or about
which databases to search, you can always call
the Reference Desk in the Library, Research, and
Information Technology Center.
In the Caribbean, call [phone] or (800)
550-6682, ext. 4613
refdesk_at_nova.edu
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