News and information from the George Fox University libraries
New database:
Political Science Complete
Contains full text for over 400 journals, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product, such as British Politics, Ethnopolitics and the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary [...]
Business Source Complete now includes a business video collection with 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series. The series features video lectures from renowned professors and experts at the Business School. All lectures are captured from executive education programs, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues. [...]
GFU libraries subscribe to Cambridge Histories to provide you with online access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series with the most up to date and authoritative scholarly content.
TIP: Register with your email address and password in Cambridge Histories and you will have access to your own “My Histories” account. Within My [...]
Credo Reference allows you to seamlessly continue your research in one of our other library resources. On any entry page at the top, you’ll see ‘Continue searching in:’ next to a drop down menu. Simply select Foxtrax, Academic Search Premier, and Oxford Reference and your search will run in that catalog or database.
Twitter links were recently added to the list of social bookmarking links available on the SAGE Journals Online platform. You can now tweet links to your favorite articles and to let colleagues and classmates know what you are reading and researching. Twitter links are available at the abstract and full-text article pages [...]
Stanford Libraries conducted a survey of 1st year students and gleaned some interesting information. Read more at the Farel Librarian blog. Here are a few highlights:
Students who consulted a librarian were more likely to use library databases and the online research guides
Students who consulted a librarian rated the library databases more useful than those who [...]
Through GFU libraries you now have access to:
Oxford Journals
Over 200 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations.
Scholarly articles are also known as PEER-REVIEWED articles. A “peer-reviewed” article means that it has been subjected to a PROCESS OF CRITICAL EVALUATION by one or more experts on the subject. These are the types of articles that you will need for your scholarly research and they can be found in the scholarly journals that [...]
The basic search page of Credo Reference (located in the library’s “Database A-Z” list) has added new features:
An image-only search
A featured content section
An indication of the content you may find in Credo
Searching Credo’s 200,000+ images is easier. From the Search page, select the “Image Search” tab and [...]
New database:
Key Business Ratios (Dun & Bradstreet)
Key Business Ratios help you understand the true performance of a company by benchmarking it against its industry peers. The KBR has 14 key business ratios covering all critical areas of business performance—solvency, efficiency and profitability. Using this tool you can research risk, understand industry trends and identify company [...]
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