Westfield
State College Ely Library
Business Source Premier
Provides full text and indexing for business periodicals covering management,
economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. Periodical
coverage ranges from Business Week, Forbes, and Fortune to journals such as Harvard Business
Review, Journal of Management, and Academy of Management Review. The database
also offers research reports such as Industry Profiles, Company Profiles,
SWOT Analyses, and Country Reports, from the publishers Datamonitor
and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
ACCESS: At the Ely Library Home Page (http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/), click
on Quick Links to Databases, choose Business Source Premier.
If Off Campus you will be prompted for a username and password (same
logon as WSC email). See http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/offcampaccess.htm
for more information on off-campus access.
Basic Search:
- Under Search Options, choose a search option. Boolean/Phrase
allows you to combine search terms with "and", "or", "not".
Smart Text Searching will search any and all terms similar to a Google
search.
- Limit your results to Peer-Reviewed or Full Text
or by Published Date and Publication Type
- From the top toolbar, click on the Publications Button to find a
periodical indexed in the database.Click on Company Profiles
to find summary records on specific companies. Click Thesaurus to search
a list of database subject headings.
- Ask-A-Librarian will open a form for emailing the Ely Librarian Reference
Desk.
Advanced Search:
- Advanced Search offers multiple text boxes to enter terms.
- You may also Select a Field to search fields such as author, article
title, subject, abstract, journal name...
- Search by Duns Number, NAICS Industry Code, Ticker Symbol
and more.
Results
- Results from Business Source Premier are displayed, sorted by date.
Change to sort by Relevance for more relevant results.
- Use the toolbar at the left to Narrow Results by Source Type. Types
include Industry Profiles, Trade Publications, SWOT Analyses
published by Datamonitor, and Country Reports published
by the Economist Intellligence Unit. Also narrow results by Subject,
Geographic Area and more.
- Mouse over the
icon to see a preview of each result (abstract, subjects, citation info)
- Full Text availability: From your results, click
or 
- If full-text is not available (no full-text links for the publication,
follow the link Click
here to Check Availability in the WSC Full Text Periodical Directory
(http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/cgi-bin/ft_journals.cgi) and search the Directory
to see if we own the journal, magazine, or newspaper in which the article
appears.
Printing, Emailing, Saving citations.
- Create a list of citations by clicking Add to Folder for
each citation.
- click Go to: Folder View to retrieve your list.
- Select one of the following:
- Print button
:
This will bring you to the Print Manager.
- Click on "Estimate Number of Pages" to see total number of pages
to be printed.
- Click Print and hit enter.
NOTE: To Print PDF Full Text:
Click on the
Link. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Click on the Adobe Printer icon toward the left of the Article
window. 
- Email button
:
This will bring you to the Email Manager.
- Enter your full e-mail address (e.g. yourname@wsc.ma.edu) and a
Subject.
- Choose a Field Format or Citation Format (such as
APA or MLA)
- Click on Send.
- Your e-mail message will arrive from ephost@epnet.com.
- Save button
:
This will bring you to the Save Manager.
- Choose a Field Format or Citation Format (such as
APA or MLA)
- Click Save.
- Export button
:
This will bring you to the Export Manager
- Choose a format depending on the program to which the results
will be exported.
URL:
http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/bsp/bsp.htm
Page maintained by Oliver Zeff
Revised August 21, 2008