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June 2025: Find Research Databases & EJournals, Books and more on PRIMO, the new site for Case research tools!

Get quick, convenient links to EJournals & Research Databases, print materials, OhioLINK, and more, from one page on PRIMO 

• EJournals helps you find online journals & the databases that cover their subjects.
• Get targeted databases via the Research Databases All Subjects drop-down menu - select your department. 
• TIP: Select the Management Subject for the most databases best suited for WSOM,  or others as needed (sociology, etc.)

TIP: Before you begin work, especially when remote, always have your computer on the network before opening a browser.
Make sure you are securely on via Case Wireless (on campus) or with VPN plus DuoMobile app,  before you logon to  our research resources.

A fast way to build upon prior research is to build upon a known article or author. Locate the article with the EJournals link on the Case Catalog page  to see  online journal formats and/or a database that includes the journal title.

When you know what database covers a journal with good content, you can follow & read the journal in there–and you can also do more searching within the database. Use Business Source Complete as the primary business & management database, building a search construct that works for your topic.

Example: Cover story of Bloomberg Business Week September 22, 2014 is an 8-page article about Apple's Tim Cook. Find Bloomberg Businessweek–and then find articles similar to Three Long Years for One More Thing... (cover story). Brad Stone and Adam Satariano, Bloomberg Businessweek. 9/22/2014, Issue 4395, p 64-71.

Find the journal:

•  NEW June 2025, use PRIMO, our newest platform to group your research tools' access points. Search to get the database your journal is within, or search classic catalog information for a book or journal title (print and also online versions), or see suggestions for databases per your search topic.
  
  • Sample: Stone, Brad and Adam Satariano. Three Long Years For One More Thing (Cover Story)​, Bloomberg Businessweek, 9/22/2014, Issue 4395, p64-71 [find it on Business Source Complete]
   
• Click title hyperlink = nextpage, see .pdf or .html text, full abstract & indexed terms, for potential new search
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• "Tools" on the right sidebar, when in Business Source Complete & databases on the EBSCOhost platform. Click into the title link on any article that's in a search result list. You'll have many helpful options to save time, accuracy, links for further/similar searching, plus author links within the database:
  • Easy print, save, email options 
  • Export to citation managers.
  • Permalink creates stable url, insert in emails, documents = seamless click-through back to full article
  • Folders: save to a temporary session folder. Create an account [top of screen] to save permanently, name folders for specific projects.

Tools in the EBSCOhost platform make life easiser and save time. Print only when you need to, avoid downloading +++articles on your computer–often with obscure naming structure. Create a personal workspace & then always Sign In when you go to one of the EBSCOhost databases with the large blue icon. Customize your preferences: your result display, number of results per page, export preference, & more.

• In any EBSCOhost database, "Sign In" at the top of the screen.

• 1st time only : "Create A New Account" using whatever is easy to remember 
• Select "Preferences" at top banner: select 50 results per page, Standard View display format
• Choose other options for export & citation style, change as needed for publication or course
• "Standard Display" saves time, informs quickly with a line or two of text on the results page...  vs Brief/No text display
  See samples below: left: result from setting Standard Display vs minimal information with no personal preferences:

• Mark the folder icon on an article [folder turns yellow], from 1) result page or 2) click thru title hyperlink => full page view
• "Saved" articles remain permanently if you signed in at the start; otherwise they are only saved during your session
  • Sign in when you start...mark/save items 
  • Go to your folder at the top, "Create" a new folder & name it
  • Select your marked items & "Move to" the newly named folder 
  • Return to it at any time, share it, print-read from it, etc.
  • Folders can be put inside other folders–organize long/large projects 
  • Export what you want to use for writing to your chosen citation manager