Information Resources & Strategies for IMT 595

prepared by Anne Zald, University Libraries
zald@u.washington.edu
April 10, 2004

The University Libraries Information Gateway is an important starting point for many of your academic information needs. You may find the following pages from the Information Gateway useful:

• Connecting From Home, especially useful for those items marked UW restricted
• Libraries FAQ
• Ask A Librarian
• Browse Subjects, and in particular the
  • Library Science Subject Page,
  • Computer Science Subject Page, and the
  • Business / Economics Subject Page
• Research 101
• and the ever popular UW Libraries Catalog

For the assignments in this course you will probably want to start with academic articles in the subject areas of business or information technology. If the following don't address your needs completely, check the Browse Subjects page for additional resources.

• ABI/Inform - Trade & Industry UW restricted

  Covers 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Very good for practicioners needing the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, etc. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, and construction.

• ABI/Inform - Global UW restricted

  Covers approximately 1800 business magazines and scholarly journals for topics such as business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, etc. 1971-present.

• Library & Information Science UW restricted

  Covers more than 200 library and information-science periodicals published internationally, and more than 600 books per year. Online version covers December 1984 to the present and includes full-text for selected periodicals.

• Library & Information Science Abstracts UW restricted

  Produced by the Library Association (UK), LISA currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages, 1969-present.

• INSPEC UW restricted

  Indexes and abstracts journal articles, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, electrical engineering, and computer science, 1969-present.

In many of the databases provided by the UW Libraries you will find links to the electronic text of articles, or to information on where to find the article text (whether the format is paper, microfilm, or electronic). If no such links are provided, or you have a citation already in hand for which you would like to find the item (book, journal, magazine, videotape, musical recording or score, etc.), the UW Libraries Catalog is the place to start.

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posted March 24, 2004
by Anne Zald, University Libraries