IDIS
302
Instructor - Oveta Popjoy
Fall 2008
Individual course index /fa8/idis302_popjoy.htm
Introduction |Academic Integrity Tutorial | Recommended Databases | Book catalogs | Suggested Websites | Other helpful information
Introduction:
This guide provides information on finding and using quality information from the Langsdale Library.
For questions,email us at langref@ubalt.edu or phone us at (410) 837-4274.
Recommended databases (this only includes selected databases based on topics; for more, see full list of Electronic Databases):
General Ethics:
Academic Search Premier [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).
Business Ethics:
ABI Inform [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Indexes more than 1,300 journals on business, management, with 75% full-text.Business Source Premier [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies– present. Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Includes company profiles, many of which contain SWOT analyses.
Book
catalogs:
Use these to locate books, journals (not individual articles), videos,
and government documents. There are
multiple subject headings for ethical issues in various arenas:
Business ethics
Ethics (with various sub-headings)
You may also search for subject headings for your particular discipline in combination with moral and ethical aspects (e.g., Information technology)
Catalog USMAI [help]
Books, journals, government documents and other materials in the University System of Maryland, including UB. You may search up to six individual locations or the entire system.Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts from Proquest) [on-campus]
Coverage 1861 – present. Indexes U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. A 24 page preview of dissertations published since 1997 is available. The full text of dissertations may be obtained by clicking the free download button.WorldCat [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. International database of collections (including books, journals , dissertations, documents, and other materials) held by libraries worldwide. Maryland libraries that own copies of the items display at the top of the list of libraries so you can easily determine if local libraries own the material needed. Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
Suggested
websites:
These may
provide useful information or agencies or organizations who may be sources
of information.
American Marketing Association (AMA): Code of Ethics http://www.helleniccomserve.com/marketingcodeofethics.html
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)Code of Ethics : http://www.acm.org/constitution/code.html
Center of the Study of Ethics in the Professions (n.d.). Codes of ethics online. http://ethics.iit.edu/codes/coe.html
Ethics Resource Center. (2005). http://www.ethics.org/
Makkula Center for Applied Ethics. (2004). Ethical links database. http://www.scu.edu/ethics/links/links.cfm
Stoerger, Sharon.(2004). Business ethics. http://www.web-miner.com/busethics.htm
Citation Styles
Guides to MLA, APA, and other citation styles.Comparing Scholarly Journals and Popular Magazines
Evaluating Web Resources
Guide to evaluating material obtained via the Internet"How To" Research Guides
Series of subject bibliographies and tutorialsHow to Cite Sources: APA Style
Detailed guide to creating reference list according to APA citation styleRegister Online for your Library Barcode
For more information email langref@ubalt.edu, call 410-837-4274 or Chat with a Librarian at http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/info_services/contact.htm.
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