University of Massachusetts Amherst Subject Research Guides - Business & Management

WELCOME FACULTY

Contact Business Librarian Mike Davis for help with library services, including reference questions, consultations, and classroom support.

Key resources for faculty scholarship are listed below, information about course guides at right. Course guides support classroom learning and help the library achieve a key goal - the integration of online library resources into the UMass curriculum.

KEY DATABASES FOR FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP

Key Resources: ABI/Inform Global & Business Source Premier - indexes to business journal scholarship; SSCI - for cited reference research; JCR - to compare journal impact factors; RefWorks - to manage your research findings.

ABI/Inform Global. Scholarly/trade journals, business dissertations. Best subject indexing of business scholarship. 1971-, including WSJ 1889-.

Business Source Premier. Scholarly/trade journals, 6,000 titles indexed. Plus market, industry, and SWOT reports, 1965 -, including HBR 1922-

Dissertations & Theses. Index to doctoral dissertations. The first 23 pages of each in PDF format, 1637 to present.

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). Index to peer-reviewed journals. SSCI identifies all articles that cite a known author or work.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Measures the scholarly impact of peer-reviewed journals - 1700 social science journals, 5900 science journals.

RefWorks. Citation management software. Collect, store, and organize citations. Format/reformat into any citation style.

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COURSE GUIDES - A LIBRARY SERVICE TO UMASS FACULTY

Course guides list the best library resources for a specific course assignment. Course guides teach business information literacy and save students valuable research time. Insert Course guides into SPARK using links or widgets. To request a course guide, contact Mike Davis, Business Librarian.

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