Niagara University Library: Guide to Research in Global Finance

Niagara University Library
Guide to Research in Global Finance

This guide is intended to help you find articles for your paper assignment in Professor Tomkins's Global Finance course.

You will be pointed to databases that you can search from anywhere on campus. If you are connecting from home, you will need a user id and password, which you can obtain from a reference librarian. Call 716-286-8022, stop by the reference desk, or send an email request to reflib@niagara.edu (please make sure to include your name and student ID number in your message).

Search ABI-INFORM Global

ABI-INFORM Global is available via ProQuest Direct (www.niagara.edu/library/pquest.html). It lists articles from about 1,000 business, economic, and management journals.

After connecting, you will be presented with a list of databases. Click ABI-INFORM and click the Continue button. You will then see a screen that looks like the one below. We recommend that you choose the Guided Search page by clicking the Search Methods icon.

Let's say that you are researching the financial crisis in Japan. You might construct your search like this:

Note the following about the search:

The box labeled Show results with full-text availability only is checked. This will limit your search to articles that can be viewed on your computer.
The default date range search is 1999 to the present, though you can choose to search earlier dates using the drop-down menu.
Note how the connectors OR and AND are being used.

OR: retrieves synonyms or variations of a word.
AND: coordinates the different aspects of your search.

Searching in this way employs something called Boolean Logic (www.lscc.edu/library/guides/boolsea.pdf)

Search Business Source Premier

If you found what you needed in ABI-INFORM, you may be done. But you might also want to search the Business Source Premier database via EBSCOhost (www.niagara.edu/library/ebsco.html). After you enter the system, you will see the Business Source Premier link. Click on it. Then, once you see a search box, click the Advanced Search tab at the top of the screen. This will display a screen very similar to the one you used above. You will also be able to limit your search to full-text articles if you wish.

Here is a search of the concept of dollarization in Argentina.

Search Newspaper Articles

Newspapers often do a good job covering significant stories, like a debt crisis or currency devaluation.

By far ,the best source of U.S. and International newspapers is Lexis/Nexis (www.niagara.edu/library/ltrial.html).

Cite Your Articles Properly

The articles you will be retrieving originate in print publications, though you will have to cite them as the online versions.

Here are some examples, using APA style as a model:

Journal Articles

Borman, W. C., Hanson, M. A., Oppler,
   S. H., Pulakos, E. D., & White, L. A.
   (1993). Role of early supervisory
   experience in supervisor performance.
   Journal of Applied Psychology, 78,
   443-449. Retrieved September 12, 2002,
   from Business Source Premier database.

Magazine Articles

Kerwin, K. (2002, October 7). Bill Ford's Long Hard
   Road. Business Week, 88-92. Retrieved September 12, 2002,
   from ABI-INFORM Global database.

Newspaper Articles

Pacelle, M. Lawsuit Reveals a Tangled Enron Web (2002, September 25,)
   Wall Street Journal, p. C1. Retrieved September 12, 2002,
   from ABI-INFORM Global database.

If no author is listed in a newspaper article, start with the title.

Additional information about citing electronic resources and web sites can be found at the APA web site.

www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

If Necessary, Find Statistics to Support Your Arguments

Here are a few good web sites that provide economic statistics on countries.

CountryWatch (www.niagara.edu/library/cwatch.html): This database provides long country reports, which includes economic data.
International Monetary Fund Reports (www.imf.org/external/pubind.htm): The IMF produces a variety of country, regional, and world reports of relevance to the field of global finance.
World Bank Country Data (www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/regions.htm)

Currency Converters

Oanada Currency Converter (www.oanda.com/site/cc_index.shtml)

Universal Currency Converter (www.xe.com/ucc/)

Yahoo Finance Currency Converter (finance.yahoo.com/currency?u)

If You Did Not Find Everything You Need,
Ask a Reference Librarian For Assistance

If you need assistance, please stop by the Library reference desk, or contact David Schoen, the librarian specializing in business, at schoen@niagara.edu or 716-286-8001.