MGMT 429 Hickman

Books can be very helpful when you need in-depth information about a topic. Think older, well-established information. 

For example, maybe you just need to get a handle on the basics of marketing strategies.  Again, use keywords to get a variety of results on that topic. Then, limit the results in your list to Books. 

Start out using a broad-to-narrow keyword search strategy. Use one or two umbrella keywords and then narrow your results with additional qualifiers.

1. Start with your two umbrella keywords: marketing strategies
2. add "social media" notice the results are fewer yet more specific
3. limit the search results to books
4. when you find a book that may be of interest review Table of Contents, Location (if in stacks), Status, and Call Number
5. if you've found a physical book, use the shelf locator link to find where the book is in the library
6. Try out the permalink and citation generator

Boolean operators tell the search engine how to connect your keywords together, and significantly affect the search results. Note: when using the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT, you should type them in all capital letters.

"Quotation marks"

Use quotation marks around a phrase you want kept together. For example to search for "Organizational behavior," you will want to include quotation marks around both words.

Asterisk*

Use at the end of a word stem to search all possible endings of a word. For example if you search organization* using an asterisk at the end of the word, your search will include terms such as organizational, organizations, organization, etc. Mange* with an asterisk at the end will search management, manager, manage, manages, etc.

AND

Use the word AND typed in all capital letters between keywords or phrases when you want every result to include them. For example, search the words "Organizational behavior" in quotation marks, then include the boolean AND followed by the search term stress.

OR

Use the word OR typed in all capital letters between keywords or phrases when you don't care which term is included in a result, so long as at least one of them appears. This is most often used when you string together words of similar meaning to capture more search results, or if you aren't sure which research area to focus on. For example you may search diversity OR inclusion OR discrimination. Another example might be the search word stress OR strain OR "emotional distress", with emotional distress in quotation marks.

NOT

Use the word NOT typed in all capital letters to designate specific words or phrases you do not want included in your search results. Useful if you need to refine your search after getting too many irrelevant results. For example, stress AND workplace NOT diet.

(Parentheses)

To prevent misreading your search, use parentheses to enclose OR strings. For example, (stress OR strain) in parentheses AND (workplace OR employer OR organization) in parentheses AND "management practices" in quotation marks.

If a book is not available in SU Libraries, we can check to see if it is available through other libraries in the University System of Maryland. If not we can request it through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). You can access both your library account and interlibrary loan account from the Library Accounts webpage. If you've never used Interlibrary Loan before you will be prompted to provide some information to create your account first.