Business Information Technology

Starting your Research

Starting your Research

Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries will help provide useful background information, as well as terms to use when searching the databases. For example:

Andriole, S. J. (2009). Best practices in business technology management. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press.	Casarez, V. (2009). Reshaping your business with Web 2.0: Using the new collaborative technologies to lead business transformation. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Shane, S. (2009). Technology strategy for managers and entrepreneurs. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.	Malecki, E. J. & Moriset, B. (2008). The digital economy: Business organisation, production processes, and regional developments. London: Routledge.

E-books on this topic can be accessed from ITPro.
A GOOGLE search can also help find background information and suggestions for more keywords.

Keywords & OPAC

Keywords & OPAC

Use OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) to find books, journal titles and audio-visual materials in the Library. When searching for information, you need to use keywords. See below for some suggestions.

Business Enterprises	Business Intelligence	Business Planning
Computer Networks	Data mining	Database management
Data warehousing	Industrial management	Information resources management
Information technology management	Management information systems	Relational database
Technological innovations — Management	Web 2.0

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Finding Articles Online

Finding Articles Online

The articles inside magazines, journals & periodicals are very useful sources of information. Articles are different from books because:

• they are much more up-to-date
• they are shorter (less to read!)
• they concentrate on topics or specific aspects of topics
• there are many articles being published all the time so you have more choice.

The library catalogue, OPAC, does NOT tell you what articles the Library has, only which journals or periodicals, so the easiest way to find articles is to use the online databases.

• Academic Search Premier

• Business Source Premier

• Computer Source

• MAS Ultra

• Regional Business News

• Global Market Information Database (GMID)

Speciality Searches from Business Source Premier

• Country Reports - for reviews of countries, including economic studies and political risk.
• Company Profiles - for Datamonitor reports.
• Industry Profiles - for identifying the competitive landscape, market size, and more.
• Market Research Reports - for news and analyses on major events in specified markets.
• SWOT Analyses - looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats within specified companies.

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles are also very useful sources of information, and can be found in the LexisNexis Academic and the Factiva databases.

• Factiva (Dow Jones)

• LexisNexis Academic

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Click here for a list of all the databases subscribed to by TP Library.

Recommended Websites

Recommended Websites

Association for Computing Machinery –
ACM is the largest and oldest international scientific and industrial computer society. Learn how ACM fosters research and communication in a broad range of computing areas here.

Association for Information Systems – Provides information management scholars and practitioners with a single entry point to resources related to information systems technology.

BRINT – the BizTech Network -
BRINT is a useful portal for searching for information that is business technology related. Acting much like Google, BRINT divides search results into books and news; periodical articles; academic articles; forum discussions and images etc. In this way, the information is delivered in a highly organized manner.

TechWeb, the business technology network - Techweb is a very useful site to find out about the latest tech-related news. It also links you to blogs that discuss tech related news.

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