LANG 1406 Academic English for Business Studies

PowerSearch is a great starting point for searching both academic journal articles and news and magazine articles. Limit to them by checking the "Article+" box. If you forgot how to use it, go back to 3.1.

1. Select Advanced Search from the top menu bar.
2. Enter keywords in the search boxes. Choose the search field from the Anywhere drop-down menu (e.g. Author, All subjects & indexing, etc). 
3. Use search operators (AND, OR, NOT) to combine different search terms.
4. Add rows to enter more search terms or publication titles (e.g. Journal of Business Ethics) if necessary.
5. Check Limit to: Full text to retrieve those results with full text.
6. Choose Publication date (e.g. Last 3 years).
7. Click Search

1. Enter keywords in the search boxes. Choose the search field from the Select a Field drop-down menu (e.g. Author, Abstract, etc).
2. Select a Boolean operator (AND, OR, NOT) to combine different search terms.
3. If you want articles from a particular publication source, enter the journal title (e.g. Journal of Business Ethics) in the search box, and select SO Source from the Select a Field drop-down menu.
4. Click Search

The "classic method" allows you to search backwards.

Now modern tools also allow you to search forwards! You can learn more about Citation chaining in the Citation Chaining Guide by watching the videos below

Citation chaining helps you quickly find related articles through citations. It is an essential technique to support your literature review process.

You can do backward and forward searching based on an article in hand.

This video by the Claremont College Library (2 min 03 sec) introduce the concept of citation chaining.