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FINDING DISSERTATIONS

UO Theses

    1. Search the library's online CATALOG to find dissertations written on U of O campus.
    2. Select UO Local Catalog.
    3. Type a word or phrase in the search box. For example, consumer behavior.
    4. Open Language drop box and limit the search to English.
    5. Open Material Type drop box and select MANUS. & THESES.
    6. Click Submit Query.
    7. Search results show on next screen.

    Theses from Other Institutions

    Search WorldCat to find theses written from other institutions.

      1. Click WorldCat from Library home page.
      2. Use Keywords search. Type consumer behavior and (theses or thesis) in the search box.
      3. Open the drop box of Language and select English
      4. Search results are displayed on next screen.
      5. Click the title link to see the full record.
      6. Click the check box to select the ones of your interest.
      7. Click Marked Records in the blue bar on the left to view the marked items.
      8. If you want to e-mail the records to your own account, click E-mail button on top or bottom of screen.

    Search Dissertation Abstracts

      1. Click Articles, Databases, Indexes at library home page.
      2. Click Browse databases A-Z at next page.
      3. Select D.
      4. Click Dissertation Abstracts link at the next page.
      5. Type your topic in the search box. For example consumer behavior
      6. Select English in Language.
      7. Select PhD in Degree Type
      8. If you want to look at the recent years' dissertations, enter the year range. For example, 1998-2007
      9. Click the Search button.
      10. Search Results are shown on next screen. Click the title link to view the details of a record.

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    FINDING ARTICLES

    To find journal, or magazine, or newspaper articles, search the following databases:

    • Academic Search Premier
      Offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,880 journals covering areas in social sciences, humanities, general science, and education. Provides full text for nearly 1,380 journals.
    • Business Source Premier
      Full text from nearly 930 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,570 journals.
    • Factiva
      Factiva offers full text of 8,000 international business and general publications including the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present, financial profiles for companies worldwide and historical stock prices as well as current data and market indexes.
    • JSTOR: Electronic Journal Archive
      A fully searchable electronic database that contains the scanned images of over 100 major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines including business and economics, some of which began publication as early as the 1870s.
    • Lexis-Nexis Academic
      Provides comprehensive coverage of current news, business and company information, government and legal information, and more.
    • ScienceDirect
      ScienceDirect is the web database of approximately 1,800 Elsevier journals covering mostly scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature, but also business, law and other social sciences. The UO's access combines paid subscriptions to nearly 200 electronic only titles and pay per view access (PPV) to the remaining Elsevier titles.
    • Web of Science
      The Web of Science provides access to both the Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), from 1975 to the present. The database can be searched to look for words in article titles, by author, and to look for cited references.

    ADVERTISING RESOURCES

    • Ad$pender Requires Internet Explorer.
      Ad$pender provides advertising expenditure data for millions of product brands across television, radio, magazine, newspaper, internet and outdoor channels. Data can be retrieved by brand, product class/category, company name, brand and more. Use the link below in Database Guide to get the username and password. Username/Password
    • SRDS Media Solutions
      "The SRDS database of media rates and information is the largest and most comprehensive in the world-cataloging more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties." The library has online access to Business Publication Advertising SourceŽ, Consumer Magazine Advertising Source, Newspaper Advertising SourceŽ, and Radio Advertising Source, and TV and Cable Source.

    GOOGLE SCHOLAR

    • Google Scholar
      Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
    • Scholar Help
    • Advanced Scholar Search

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    Maintained by: Kaiping Zhang, kzhang@uoregon.edu
    Last Modified: 10/02/2009