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MGT 357 - Evidence-Based Management

This guide will help students find articles to support evidence-based management practices.

Best Bets: Business Databases

The best place to start looking for scholarly articles is a library database. Our databases enable you to search for peer-reviewed articles on your topic that have been published in a variety of journals.

Library databases tend to be organized around a discipline, like business or economics. I recommend these databases as your best bets for finding articles related to evidence-based management.

What About Using Google Scholar?

Google Scholar logo

Yes, of course! Academic researchers do all the time. Be aware of its benefits ...

  • Allows you to search scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources rather than just a single database.
  • Suggests related articles and who has cited this work more recently
  • Excels at tracking down the full-text of an article when you only have the citation

and its limitations

  • Some articles in your results won't be available through JMU Libraries
  • Not all articles are peer-reviewed -- and there's no way to filter
  • Typically you'll get less precise results than those from a specialized academic database because there's no subject indexing

Find an Article From a Citation

Often, simply searching the title of an article in quotation marks in Google Scholar will bring you to the electronic version.

Follow these steps to link Google Scholar to JMU libraries. Then you should be able to click Get JMU Access to open the article.   

This video shows how to identify the journal title from a citation.

 

If JMU doesn't have access to the full-text of the article, we can borrow it from another library -- at no cost to you. Interlibrary Loan is a service for requesting articles and other materials that are not available in JMU Libraries collections. All students, faculty, and staff with a valid JMU e-ID can use Interlibrary Loan services. 

Our ILL team can retrieve the articles you need within a few days -- and sometimes within just a few hours! 

 

Does JMU Libraries Subscribe to a Journal?

Has your faculty member suggested you review articles in a specific journal, such as the Journal of Consumer Psychology

Use this search box to see if JMU subscribes and review the articles in its most recent issue.

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