Business Source Elite Sgass May14 2009

Business Source Elite

Maryland Library Association

May 14, 2009

Shana M. Gass

Clipart ETC: http://etc.usf.edu/clipart

Business Source Elite Available to all MD public library card holders via

- http://www.sailor.lib.md.us

Online Databases:

Company Profiles in Business Source Elite

Company Profiles in Business Source Elite…

Useful details about how the company operates…

Who bought Petco!

More good stuff in the Company Profile

Sweet! A “SWOT”

Strengths & Weaknesses = INTERNALStrengths & Weaknesses = INTERNAL

Opportunities & Threats = EXTERNAL (industry-wide)

Threat of Intense Competition Discussed in Competitor’s

Company Articles in Business Source Elite:

Haystack Approach

• Advanced search > Full text search + date slider + relevance sort

• Screenshots follow…

Select Advanced Search

Search in Full Text

Use the Date Slider

Use the Relevance Sort

Education