The staff of the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library have created a number of brief videos on popular research topics. The content is based on our online database subscriptions and is designed to help you to identify the best electronic resources to use in researching the topic and to give you some tips on how to navigate the databases.

In addition we are providing links to online tutorials created by the various database vendors or ones that we found on other academic libraries’ websites.

If you find these useful and want us to create one on another topic please send your request to Elizabeth Watson, Head of the Bronfman Business Library. And equally important, please let us know if you find a video confusing as we are always interested in your comments and want to ensure that we are providing the help you need when you can’t reach us directly for help with your research needs.

• in person at the reference desk or by appointment
• by email
• IM chat reference service
• by phone (416-736-5139 during library reference hours)

Videos available on the following topics

• Business Articles – the Basics- scholarly/peer reviewed, popular magazines and trade publications (5:39 minutes)
• Business Articles – how to find when you have an article citation to a specific article (4:40 minutes)
• Business Articles – how to find articles in newspapers (4:04 minutes)
• Citation and Academic Integrity with examples from all of the Bronfman Business Library databases and more.
• Finding Company Ratios
• Finding Materials Placed on Reserve for your Course
• Finding a SWOT Analysis
• Finding Analysts’ Reports using Investext Plus
• Zotero Webinar – teaches you how to save, organize and format references using Zotero.

how to use the York University Libraries Resources

• How to do basic and advanced searches for books, journals and e-resources using the Find Library Resources Search
• How to find books using the call number system

Videos available for specific databases

• Business Source Premier
• Datamonitor 360
• Datastream on the right side navigation [ Historic Stock Prices, Multiple Series]
• Factiva
• Hoover’s – Build a list of companies
• Hoover’s – Exploring Company Information
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Newspapers
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Business, Industry and Financial
• Mergent Horizon
• Mergent Online
• Proquest Business – Advanced Search
• Proquest Business – Creating Alerts
• RefWorks 2.0 citation management software (Flash is required) or RefWorks 2.0 help via the Scholars Portal Subject Guide
• Zotero introduction and a series of screencasts showing you how to do specific tasks like Finding Items, Managing your Library, Tagging

Tutorials for individual databases may be available. Please use this finding tool to see if one is available for the database you are using. http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=015778009153265508312:r8-xkhcytig

Created by Elizabeth Watson, YUL/BBL December 1, 2010 Updated March 19, 2012