Skip to Main Content

Business & Management: Searching in Databases

Example Topic and Keywords

Topic: How do organizations place value on intangible assets?

Based on your topic, you'll need to develop a search strategy and some keywords. Our Develop a Research Strategy guide walks you through this process. In the examples below, we'll use some example keywords:

Example Keywords:

  • value
  • intangible
  • assets
  • organization
  • brand
  • sales
  • company

About ABI/INFORM Global

ABI/INFORM Global provides access to thousands of professional publications, academic journals and trade magazines in all aspects of business, industry and management, including competitive intelligence and new product development.

Conducting a Search

The screenshot examples below search for articles about how to place value on intangible assets in organizations.

  • I used quotes to search for words together as a phrase (i.e. "intangible assets").
  • I put my keywords in different search boxes to make s simpler search.
  • I checked the box next to Peer-reviewed so that I could show only scholarly journal articles in my search results.
  • Click the green Search button to get results.

Put your keywords in the search box. I used quotation marks around intangible assets to search for the words together as a phrase.

Reviewing Search Results

This search found 14,371 results.

  • Results are sorted by relevance with the most relevant articles appearing at the top of the list.
  • You can select Scholarly Journals under Source Type to show only journal articles from scholarly journals in your search results.
  • To access any of the articles you've found, click on either the Full text (for HTML) or Full text - PDF link (one or the other, or both may be available).

This search found over 14,000 articles. Results are sorted by relevance with the most relevant articles appearing at the top. Click on either the HTML Full Text or PDF Full Text links to download an article. 

About Business Source Premier

Business Source Premier is the industry's most used business research database and provides full text coverage and searchable cited references.

Conducting a Search in Business Source Premier

The screenshot examples below search for articles about how to place value on intangible assets in organizations.

  • I used quotes to search for words together as a phrase (i.e. "intangible assets").
  • Click the green Search button when you're done entering your keywords.

Put your keywords into the search boxes. I put intangible assets in quotation marks to search for the word together as a phrase. Click the green search button to start searching.

Reviewing Search Results in Business Source Premier

As you can see below, our search found 3,231 results.

  • Select Peer Reviewed from the options on below the search bar to show just scholarly journal articles in your search results.
  • Results are sorted by relevance with the most relevant articles featured at the top of the list of results.
  • To read the article in full, click on the Access Options or Access Now button (depending on what is available for that article).
    • Access Options will appear when the article is available in multiple formats in the database, or if you need to check for full text in another database. If you are only interested in articles that are available in full text in the database, select the Full Text option from below the search bar.

Screenshot of Business Source Premier. The peer reviewed button, number of results, sort drop down, and access options button are all highlighted.

Helpful Guides