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Each record contains different fields. These usually fields describe a journal or magazine article. For example, in every record there is a title field, and author field, and a source field. These fields can be searched.
Accessing Business Source Premier
To access Business Source Premier, you need to:
1. go to the Library Electronic Resources page at:
http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm
2. go to Periodical Databases
3. Select the twelfth link under Periodical Databases, which is EBSCOHost On
Campus. Or if you are off campus, select EBSCOHost off campus.
4. If you are off campus then you will use the current userID and password, which you can get at the information desk at
the library.
5. Now select Business Source Premier from the list of databases available through
EBSCOHost.
Searching in Business Source Premier
There are two levels of searching in Business Source Premier:
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| Basic Search:Can search by keyword, phrase, date, full-text documents, scholarly journals, publication title, author, citation and abstract, citation and document text, document type, and publication type. |
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| Advanced Search: Can search by keyword, author, title, subject, abstract, geographic terms, people, reviews and products, company entity, NAICS code or description, DUNS Number, ticker symbol, publication name, ISSN, ISBN, or accession number. |
Boolean searching
Boolean searching is a way to search for more than one term at a time. Many databases allow boolean searching. Use boolean searching when you are searching for more than one term. There are three main boolean terms:
| Term | Explanation |
| AND | AND is used to refine or shrink a search. When you use AND, you are telling the search tool to find both search terms in every record. Example: If you searching for business and behavior, you would type in business AND behavior. |
| OR | OR is used to expand a search. When you use OR, you want all the results to contain either the first term or the second. Example: business OR behavior |
| NOT | NOT is used to omit a closely related term. For example if you wanted to search for management skills but not by the author Von Bergen, you would put in: management and skills not von bergen |
| index | meaning |
| All Text | Lets you search in the entire text of the document. |
| Author | The author index or field includes writers of books and articles, or reviewer |
| Title | The title of an article, such as "Peering into the Future of Careers." This search field locates the occurrence of search words in the title of the article. |
| Subject Terms | Business thesaurus terms preceded by an asterisk, and general subject headings d describing the articles content. |
| Abstract or Author-supplied abstract | The abstract field or index contains words from the abstract of each article. |
| Author-supplied keywords | This keyword field is a little different than the one in ABI-Inform. It uses author-supplied keywords, which means that not all terms are indexed. |
| Geographic Terms | Geographic terms pertaining to the article's content. |
| People | Use to find articles about a person. |
| Reviews and Products | Performs a keyword search for products referenced in articles. |
| Company Entity | The company or organization, DUNS number, and ticker number referenced in the document. |
| NAICS Code or description | The NAICS code defines the economic activity of a business as defined by the US Census Bureau. |
| DUNS Number | Performs an exact search for the Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number assigned to a record. You can find out more about DUNS number by going to the D&B website |
| Ticker Symbol | Search by company Stock market ticker symbol |
| Publication Name | Used to search by a specific publication or publications. |
| ISSN | Use to search for the International Standard Serial Number of a magazine or journal. |
| ISBN | USe to search for the International Standard Book Number for a book. |
| Accession Number | Search for an article by its accession number. |
Of course, by adding more search terms you can limit your search also. For example you can search by product name and year and lawsuits to narrow your search down.
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