Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2021.1916721
Kara Van Abel
Abstract The Business Research Toolkit (BRT) is a free, noncredit-bearing course designed to serve students, faculty, and staff who are interested in learning more about the intricacies of business research. It began as a face-to-face course and evolved into an asynchronous, online course offered in the campus LMS. Transitioning the program to an online-only format required extensive planning and collaboration. This article describes the process of transitioning the toolkit online, answers common questions colleagues have about the toolkit, and provides strategies for practitioners to create similar programs at their institutions.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2021.1916725
Stephen Fadel
With around three million total global subscribers (News Corporation, 2020, p. 49), The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), published by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., is a leading business newspaper and has long been required daily reading for many in business as well as business teachers and students. The WSJ University Membership (WSJUM) provides direct online full text access to the WSJ for students, staff, and faculty campus-wide. Besides article access, additional resources available with a university membership include Professor Tools, the Students Hub, newsletters, and business news in different multimedia formats.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2021.1916724
Michael Levine-Clark, Esther L. Gil
Abstract This study compares search results in Google Scholar (GS), Microsoft Academic (MA), Scopus, and Web of Science (WoS) for a set of fifteen business and economics journals, ten of which had impact factors, and five that did not. These results were analyzed to evaluate the relative performance of each database in identifying citations for articles, and to determine whether one source might be preferable to another in different circumstances. Results showed that Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic have nearly the same number of average citations, with GS only slightly higher, and each has twice as many as either Web of Science or Scopus. Even so, higher numbers did not automatically lead to an unequivocal recommendation to use the related databases without considering other aspects of each database, such as how citations are reported in each of these sources and the transparency that is provided in the fee-based databases.
摘要本研究比较了Google Scholar（GS）、Microsoft Academic（MA）、Scopus和Web of Science（WoS）对15种商业和经济期刊的搜索结果，其中10种有影响因素，5种没有。对这些结果进行分析，以评估每个数据库在识别文章引用方面的相对性能，并确定在不同情况下一个来源是否比另一个来源更可取。结果显示，谷歌学者（Google Scholar）和微软学术（Microsoft Academic）的平均引用次数几乎相同，GS仅略高，并且各自的引用次数是科学网（Web of Science）或Scopus的两倍。即便如此，更高的数字并没有自动导致明确建议使用相关数据库，而不考虑每个数据库的其他方面，例如如何在每个来源中报告引文，以及收费数据库中提供的透明度。
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2021.1877506
G. Liu, LuMarie Guth, Ilana Stonebraker
Abstract This article explores business information literacy applications of the “Information Has Value” frame from the ACRL Framework for Higher Education. The authors share three approaches with the corresponding lesson plans to integrate the frame from three distinctive perspectives: (a) information has value as a commodity, (b) information has value in decision-making, and (c) different voices have their unique value.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2021.1919823
M. Colquitt
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2021.1920174
S. Klopper
Becker’s Healthcare website states that its content “is a go-to source for healthcare leaders and players.” Its focus is to “equip healthcare leaders with the information and forums they need to learn, exchange ideas and further conversations about the most critical issues in American healthcare.” Its free, digital platform captures all the content from its print newsletters and digital access. Written from the perspective of healthcare executives, Becker’s encompasses news, analysis, commentary, surveys, studies, rankings, and more that provide timely insights on strategy, operations, supply chain, finance, administration, innovation, the practitioner, and more for the healthcare market. According to a faculty at my institution with joint School of Public Health and Business School appointments, “I find that the Becker Healthcare Suite (I get e-mail notifications on about 4 different topics) provides one of the best daily updates of a broad range of news stories in healthcare. In addition, the suite often contains links to rankings and other data related to various healthcare companies. I frequently use this information in my MBA [courses]. Most of the information is from other newspapers, peer reviewed journal articles and whitepapers from other public websites. There are also a lot of links to free webinars on operational/IT, quality improvement and healthcare policy.” It’s extremely well-suited for academic business librarians supporting student projects about the healthcare space.
{"title":"Becker’s healthcare website review","authors":"S. Klopper","doi":"10.1080/08963568.2021.1920174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08963568.2021.1920174","url":null,"abstract":"Becker’s Healthcare website states that its content “is a go-to source for healthcare leaders and players.” Its focus is to “equip healthcare leaders with the information and forums they need to learn, exchange ideas and further conversations about the most critical issues in American healthcare.” Its free, digital platform captures all the content from its print newsletters and digital access. Written from the perspective of healthcare executives, Becker’s encompasses news, analysis, commentary, surveys, studies, rankings, and more that provide timely insights on strategy, operations, supply chain, finance, administration, innovation, the practitioner, and more for the healthcare market. According to a faculty at my institution with joint School of Public Health and Business School appointments, “I find that the Becker Healthcare Suite (I get e-mail notifications on about 4 different topics) provides one of the best daily updates of a broad range of news stories in healthcare. In addition, the suite often contains links to rankings and other data related to various healthcare companies. I frequently use this information in my MBA [courses]. Most of the information is from other newspapers, peer reviewed journal articles and whitepapers from other public websites. There are also a lot of links to free webinars on operational/IT, quality improvement and healthcare policy.” It’s extremely well-suited for academic business librarians supporting student projects about the healthcare space.","PeriodicalId":44062,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship","volume":"26 1","pages":"171 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08963568.2021.1920174","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49261734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-09DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2021.1893962
J. Wilhelm
Abstract At Texas A&M University, business librarians have formed a partnership with the institutional career center which has given librarians the opportunity to share how business resources can be used in job searches and career exploration. This research sought to understand how other business librarians are collaborating with career centers, what forms these partnerships take, and how the collaborative efforts are received by faculty and staff. Responses from librarians at 43 different institutions revealed a high number of career center/business librarian partnerships that were as varied as the institutions themselves.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-19DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2021.1872247
Dave Zwicky, Ilana Stonebraker
Abstract The ways in which a technology is invented, owned, and approved are strongly influenced by the same oppressive and exclusionary structures that critical librarianship interrogates. Patents, limited-term grants of rights to inventions, are issued to inventors in exchange for detailed specifications of the invention. This paper examines current practices used by business librarians in teaching students how find patents and how these practices could be critically informed given the nature of the United States patent system as it exists today. An output of this work is a suggested lesson plan with recommended resources.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-08DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2020.1847546
Lauren Reiter
Abstract Demands for data from business faculty are both increasing and increasingly challenging for libraries to meet. Acquiring and providing access to data, particularly proprietary data resources from commercial vendors, can be costly and complex. Libraries need more information to evaluate their investments and strategies in data collections and services. In this study, the author reviews scholarly articles published by researchers at Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) institutions from 2014 to 2019 to identify the commercial data resources used and if the library facilitated access to these resources. Findings show to what extent commercial data resources are being used in academic business research, what resources are being used, and how libraries are supporting data-based research.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-29DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2020.1847551
Diego Mendez-Carbajo
Abstract This article documents the degree of baseline data literacy displayed by high school students and college students. It employs data collected from an online instructional module produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to identify specific areas where students exhibit both high and low levels of knowledge. As a novel contribution, this work documents the degree of self-efficacy displayed by each student when answering data literacy-related multiple-choice questions. This analysis finds very similar levels, on average, of baseline data literacy competencies among college students and high school students. At the same time, there are significant differences in the perceived self-efficacy of each group of students. These differences are more marked when students answer questions correctly than when they answer questions incorrectly. Lastly, this work documents overall higher degrees of student competency in the domains related to understanding and communicating about data than in the domains related to evaluating and using data ethically.
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