Question? Ask me!
Question? Ask me!
Get Help with Research
As your research project progresses, you might have more questions or need to discuss a specific research topic in more depth.
Book an appointment with Business Librarians, Elizabeth Price or Valerie Linsinbigler to discuss:
- Narrowing your research topic down
- Finding articles or data
- Evaluating articles for quality
- Managing your citations with tools like Zotero
- and more!
Librarians cannot help with:
- Designing your final research product, e.g. advise on a poster design or copyedit your research paper
- Checking your citations for accuracy
Get Help with Writing & Presenting
- Schedule a meeting with the University Writing Center's consultantThe University Writing Center's professional writing consultants are ready to assist you with your academic, professional, and personal writing projects.
- Communication Center: Presentation SupportAny good presentation requires a lot of work ahead of the actual presentation. We can help you with brainstorming, research, outlining, organization and much more.
You and Your Faculty Mentor
While librarians can help introduce you to common quantitative and qualitative research methods and finding research methodologies used in your field through scholarly research, you will need to work with your faculty mentor on:
- Applying a research methodology to your research project, e.g. building a survey
- Interpreting or analyzing data proprietary data or data collected from your research study
- Data storytelling, e.g. visualizing data in a infographic
Use the following guides to learn more about these topics and what support is available through the Libraries:
Read Business News
Reading business news published by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times can help you see how the concepts, principles, and rules you're learning about in business courses operate in the real world.
News organizations also publish more frequently than scholarly journals, so they are more likely to talk about current issues affecting the business world. News organizations tend to publish articles daily, whereas scholarly journals might publish new articles every 3 months or 6 months.
When a significant business development occurs, such as an accounting scandal or product safety investigation, it might take 18 months or more for that event to be studied in the scholarly literature.
JMU Libraries subscribes to several business news sites. With your JMU email address, you can sign up to read these articles in your browser or on your phone at no additional cost.