Research Resources

• SCELC provides access to a range of electronic resources, including databases, journals, and e-books, as well as support for technology and other library-related initiatives.
• Ask librarian for login

Data-Planet Statistical Datasets

• Thousands of statistical datasets
• On-campus: No password

Open Library for business and economics 

Open Library for Business and Economics

Google Scholar

• Thousands of free academic journals
• No password

Entrepreneurship for research and statistics

OECD is an international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives.

A “periodical” is a magazine, newspaper, or scholarly journal that comes out regularly or occasionally. It is important, however, to understand when and how to use them, as magazines and newspapers are different from scholarly journals

1. Newspapers
A “newspaper” is a periodical containing written information about current events (usually daily or weekly) and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Los Angeles Times, OC Register, New York Post, Washington Post, and New York Times are newspapers.

CALUMS Newspaper Collection:

• Wallstreet Journal
• Orange County Business Journal

2. Magazines
A “magazine” is a periodical with a popular focus, i.e. aimed at the general public, and containing news,
personal narratives, and opinion. Articles are often written by professional writers with or without expertise
in the subject; they contain “secondary” discussion of events, usually with little documentation (e.g.
footnotes). Magazines use vocabulary understandable to most people, and often have lots of eye-catching
illustrations. Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, and Psychology Today are magazines.

CALUMS Magazine Collection:

• Bloomberg Businessweek
• Entrepreneur
• Fast Company
• Harvard Business Review
• Inc.
• Wired

CALUMS Journal Collection:

• Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC)
• ProQuest

Understanding the Differences

It’s important to understand the differences between journals and magazines/newspapers. Magazines/
newspapers are not necessarily bad or low quality (nor are journals necessarily high quality) — they simply
aren’t designed to support most upper-level academic research. This is because they do not document their
sources of information, and they generally lack the depth of scholarly journals.

The CALUMS Library provides journals, magazines, and newspapers for its students, faculty and staff to use within the library.

Directory of Open Access Journals

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Access DOAJ

Free Access to eBooks in the Public Domain

Public domain: the book is no longer under copyright and can be freely distributed.

 Purchase Books

• Aamazon eBooks
• Google eBooks

When conducting research, it is important to credit other people’s words and ideas that are not your own, in order to give your work more credibility and to allow readers to further their own understanding of the topic.

APA Style

1. Print: a written work or composition that has been published – typically printed in pages bound together.

Author, F.M. (Year of Publication). Title of work. Publisher City, State: Publisher.

Dunn, R. (2010). Healthcare Management (9th ed.). Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.

1. eBook: written work or composition that has been digitized and is readable through computers or e-readers (Kindles, iPads, nooks, etc.)

Author, F.M. (Year of Publication). Title of work [E-reader Version]. Retrieved from http://xxxx or doi: xxxx
Best, J. (2012). Damned lies and statistics: Untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Retrieved from: https://books.google.com/books?id=RnJz1LSlcjAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false

1. Article found in a database with more than one author:

Last, F. M. (Year Published). Article title. Journal Name, Volume (Issue), Page(s). doi: xxxx or Retrieved from http://xxx

Rosacker, K.M., Zuckweiler, K.M., & Buelow, J.R. (2010). An empirical evaluation of hospital project implementation success. Academy of Health Care Management Journal, 6(1), 37+. Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=SPJ.SP03&sw=w&u=anah89027&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA246254504&asid=c5c92ea4#.WjhLt21uBCs.gmail

Resources

MLA Eight Edition. Purdue Online Writing Lab. MLA Works Cited Page:
Print Books: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/06/

APA Sixth Edition. Purdue Online Writing Lab. Reference List:
Print Books: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/08/
Electronic Sources (Web Publications). Electronic Books and Kindle Books:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/

EasyBib a Chegg Service
http://info.easybib.com/apa-citations-series