Literature Review

There are many excellent online guides to doing a lilterature review.  Samples include:

•     The Literature Review: A Few Tips on Conducting It - Univeristy of Toronto
•     Academic writing: what is a literarure review - Simon Fraser University
•     Conducting a Literature Review - Georgetown University Medical Centre
•     Literature Review - Deakin University Library
•     Learn to Write a Review of Literature - University of Wisconsin - Madison
•     Guidelines for Writing a Literature Review - University of Minnesota, Duluth

Introducing Summon

The library's new search tool, Summon, allows you to search for books, journal articles, media, and more with a single search. You can access Summon from the library's homepage.  Also try the Advanced Search.

Once you have your results:

To see only BOOKS click on Book/eBook.

To see only JOURNAL ARTICLES click on Journal Article and click on Scholarly & Peer-Review.

Because there will be many results, it is important to narrow your search.  

However, Summon doesn't search everything that the library owns so you will still need to search other resources to find everything that you need. Summon also doesn't let you do sophisticated searches that you may be used to doing in specific databases or the library catalogue.  

Use Summon when starting research on a topic or when you are not sure which databases to use.  

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

• Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management - search all volumes or limit to V. 6: International Management
• Dictionary of international business terms
• Dictionary of trade policy terms
• International encyclopedia of business and management
• Key concepts in international business
• Oxford Reference Online: Economics & Business

Handbooks

• Handbook for International Management Research
• Cambridge handbook of culture, organizations, and work [electronic resource]
• Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for International Business
• The Blackwell handbook of cross-cultural management

Key Databases

• Business Source Complete 
  Provides indexing and full-text to scholarly journals, business magazines and trade publications.
• Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (previously CBCA Complete) 
  Canadian index to scholarly journals, business news sources and magazines.
• Emerald Management eJournals 
  Indexes over 100 scholarly journals on all streams of business.

Additional Databases

• EconLit
• PAIS Index (previously PAIS International)
• Scopus 
• Web of Science Core Collection

Cited Reference Searching

Cited Reference Searching is a powerful tool in staying up to date with scholarly research.  Use Web of Science and Scopus  to find if a particular author and/or paper has been cited by other authors.
 

Grey Literarture, Policy Reports, Think Tanks

Consult the library guide Searching for Grey Literature for sources and searching tips.  Good databases for grey literature include:

• Business Source Complete (select publication type "Grey literature", also search market reports and company information)
• Dissertations and Theses Global
• IEEE Xplore Digital Library (narrow down to "conference publications") 
• CURVE (Carleton University Repository Virtual Environment)
• Government Information (use our Google custom search engine)
• WorldCat (covers resources outside of Carleton's collection)

      Policy Reports and Working Papers

• NBER (National Bureau of Economics Research) Working Papers)
• PolicyFile (U.S. Policy)   Provides access to U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature.

      Think Tanks

      Think tanks are independent, nonpartisian, public policy research institutes that are often non-profit such as the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institute, etc.  They conduct research and analysis on current issues and topics.  Hillwatch provides a listing of key Canadian and international think tanks and the Harvard Kennedy School provides a searchable database of over 600 listings.  

Dissertations & Theses

• Dissertations and Theses Global  Covers all the same theses from the former Dissertations & Theses Full Text  (full-text of North American theses) and  Dissertations & Theses: UK and Ireland (selected full-text, others may be found in the EThOS database listed below)  plus it now adds more international coverage of some European and Chinese theses.
• Dissertations and Theses@Carleton (a subset of the full Dissertations and Theses database)
• EThOS The UK’s national thesis service, provides a record of all doctoral dissertations with a growing number of them in full-text
• Theses Canada / Thèses Canada
• Foreign Doctoral Dissertations

View the full list of our theses and dissertations databases.