Business Research

Welcome! Please find below search strategies and techniques to better find the sources you want and need.

• Use keywords (the words with the most significance).
  • Experiment with keywords by going broad and alternatively going specific (e.g., loss vs. "passive activity loss").
  • Try to anticipate the words experts and academics would likely use.
• Put quotations around phrases.
  • A search for simple trusts might return results with the words separated, but "simple trusts" can return results with the words in that exact order.

• You can limit and tidy up your results with filters (often found at the top or on the left side of results).
  • Adjust the publication date range if the information or subject is affected by developments, innovation, findings, and/or discoveries.
  • Check-mark the source types that will have the information you're looking for, excluding the types that will not.
  • Check-mark and play around with the other filters to show results that are in a specific language, or that have a subject heading (tag) provided by the publishers, etc.

• Boolean operators are terms you can use to broaden or narrow your search.
• The three basic operators are: AND, OR, and NOT.
  • AND links keywords and phrases
  • OR allows for synonym keywords and phrases
  • NOT excludes keywords and phrases

Example: ("accounts receivable" OR AR) NOT ("augmented reality" OR Arkansas)