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Supply Chain Management - BUSI 114 - Spero

Resources for completing the research assignments for Prof. Spero's Introduction to Supply Chain Management

Research Starters

These library databases will give you basic information to get started understanding the issues and your topic.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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This is an online collection of over 950 titles with particular emphasis on subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks as well as short reference videos, art images, and additional images across all subject areas. As subject coverage is diverse, this is a good place to begin a topic search before formal research.
Business Collection This link opens in a new window
A Gale database that provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
The database is updated daily with information from nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications and a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications.

Book and eBook Sources

Book sources are particularly useful for researching historical trends and changes over time in business and industry. Try using broad keywords when searching for books - imagine what the title of a helpful book would be and search for terms in that title. For example, to learn about the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, try searching the name of the act, but also search for terms like "transportation deregulation."

RVCC Books & Media Search

Search by Subject

Subject headings are tags given to books and articles that are about a specific topic. Searching by "Subject" or "Subject Heading" will give you fewer results but they will be more relevant to the topic you are researching.

These subject headings may be useful for supply chain research. You can combine subject headings with additional keywords to do very targeted searches if you are getting too many results.

Start with these subject headings and then add relevant keywords to the search box at the top of the screen once you have results.

Business Logistics

Supply Chain

Library Databases for Business, Company and Market Information

ABI/Inform Complete This link opens in a new window
A Proquest database with full-text business journals, magazines and trade publications. A good source of market and industry information, as well as supply chain journals, the database includes Business Monitor International and Dunn and Bradstreet reports.

How-to video for searching ABI/Inform Complete
A tutorial video demonstrating how to find company information using ABI/Inform Complete

Business Source Elite This link opens in a new window
An EBSCO database providing access to scholarly business, management, economics, and supply chain journals, many with full-text access.
The collection also includes non-scholarly publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, and sales. It includes access to over 60,000 videos from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency with footage from 1930 to the present, and is updated monthly.