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Still unsure? You can always Ask a Librarian! Or, you can take a look at one of our Research Guides, which can provide suggestions of where to begin your research or provide detailed instructions on how to find difficult to locate information.

Remember, EAGLEsearch will help you find books, articles, and more. It is a great place to start your research because it searches everything the library owns as well as many of our databases.

For more information about using EAGLEsearch, take a look at this Research Guide: https://guides.erau.edu/eaglesearch-help

Here are some suggested searches, using Facebook as an example. When completing your own searches, remember to substitute for your company and brainstorm the different key concepts you want to research:

facebook
facebook AND ethic*
"social media" AND ethic*
("social media" OR facebook) AND ethic*
("social media" OR facebook) AND ethic* AND (design* OR engineer* OR algorithm*)

Business Source Complete
Provides access to scholarly journals in the disciplines of business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Partial

Mobile Apps
Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ebsco.ehost
Apple - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ebscohost/id433269587?mt=8

Video Tutorials

Good to Know
- To create a free EBSCOhost account and access additional features such as saving preferences, research organization and sharing, saving and retrieving search history, etc., click on the Sign in link in the upper right corner of any page.
- Articles in HTML format can be read aloud using the Text-To-Speech feature.
Search Tips
- Enclose terms in quotation marks to search for exact phrases: “consumer behavior”
- Use the asterisk (*) to find variant endings of a root word: comput* will find computer, computers, computing, etc.
- Use the options in the Refine Search section on the left to further focus your results.
- To search for company information, first perform a basic search using the company name. When the results page appears, click on the desired company name under Company Information on the right.
- For help using and searching this database, click on Help in the upper right-hand corner.
Requesting Items
If full text is not available, copy the records you want, paste them into an email, and send them to library@erau.edu. Please include:
- Your name
- Daytime phone number
- Course number
- Whether you’re an undergraduate, graduate, or PhD student
- Whether you’re a Daytona Beach or Worldwide student

You can use Business Source Complete to find company information and analyses. You can also find both popular and scholarly sources from a large variety of business journals. To search, just follow these steps:

Enter your search term(s). This could be the company you are researching or you can add other concepts with the word AND
Note the suggested search terms. You can either click on these to immediately use them or note them for another search
Click Search
The results page allows you to use many limiters to narrow your results. These include narrowing to only Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals, Publication Date, and by Subject. Remember, think of the Subjects as keywords or additional search terms. These are subjects discussed in each article.

Once you click on an article, you will be taken into its record. From here, you have many options:

This is the title of the article.
This is the rest of the citation information, including authors, publication title, date of publication, volume and issue numbers, and pages.
You can use the Subject Terms and Author-Supplied Keywords in subsequent searches. You can either click a term or just make a note of it and add it to a search. Note, not all articles will have both Subject Terms and Author-Supplied Keywords.
The Abstract is a short summary of the article. It tells you what the article is about and any major findings the author(s) are reporting. You can also use the abstract to see the terminology experts in the field are using. You can add these terms to your search.
This is the Digital Object Identifier or DOI. You can add this to your full citation.
You can download a PDF Full Text of the article. Note, this option may not be available for every article.
You have many ways to save the article, such as printing it, emailing it to yourself, saving it, or exporting it to RefWorks. NOTE: If you choose the Cite option, always refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychology Association. For more information about citing sources, visit this Research Guide: https://guides.erau.edu/citestyle

Nexis Uni
Provides full-text access to news articles, legal cases, and company information.
Vendor: LexisNexis
Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Partial

Video Tutorials

Good to Know
Previously called LexisNexis Academic.

Search Tips
- Results are narrowed to the News category by default. Select another category (Cases, Statutes and Legislation, etc.) to view different results.
- Use the options in the Narrow By section on the left to further focus your results.
- Enclose terms in quotation marks to search for exact phrases: "law reviews"
- Use the asterisk (*) to find variant endings of a root word: brief* will find brief, briefs, briefing, etc.
- Use connectors AND, OR, NOT to separate terms and phrases: "municipal code" AND violation*
- For help using and searching this database, click on Help in the upper right-hand corner or click the Tips link beneath the Search box.
- For help finding particular types of documents (cases, statutory codes, regulations, etc.), use the Get a Doc Assistance link beneath the Search box.
Requesting Items
- If full text is not available, mark the items you want by checking the box to the left of each title.
- When you have finished adding items, click the envelope icon to use the Email feature.
- Enter your own email address in the To box and click on Email.
- After you receive the email containing your records, forward the email to library@erau.edu. Please include:
  
  Your name
  
  Daytime phone number
  
  Course number
  
  Whether you're an undergraduate, graduate, or Ph.D. student
  
  Whether you're a Daytona Beach or Worldwide student

Nexis Uni is helpful for finding business information and analyses. You can also find primary legal documentation such as regulatory, statutory, and court documents.
You can use the large Search box to search for information about the company you are researching. Connect concepts by adding AND.

To search for only company information in Nexis Uni, follow these steps:

Select Company Info in the Guided Search box
In the next search box, type the name of the company you are researching. You can also add search terms by connecting them with AND
Select All Company Information
Click Search
Use the limiters on the results page to narrow your results. For example, you can Search Within Results, select a Timeline, Subject, or Keyword

To search for only Court Cases, which are primary sources, you'll follow similar steps:

Choose Cases under Guided Search
You can choose either Federal Cases or State Cases
Type the name of the company you are researching
Keep All Dates
Click Search
You will have options to limit your search results, such as by Practice Areas & Topics and by Keyword