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Operations Research & Supply Chain

Resources for aspects of operations research and management, supply chain, logistics, decisions in business management.

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Reminder: Online Access

  • Library resources require going through CWRU Single Sign-On.
  • The best method is to follow links from the library website.
  • When logged in and a browser window is not closed, access should continue from resource to resource.
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Chronicle of Higher Education

Primary source of news,  trends in education.  Includes jobs for higher education administrators and faculty.

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Related Databases...

Engineering and scientific databases are also useful and are easily linked to via the full Research Database list, or various Engineering  lists, etc. from the All Subjects drop-down menu. 

TIP:  To connect to databases and the full-text content, your computer must on the network. See VPN memo on this guide's home page tab.

Research Databases = Articles & More!

Research Databases  cover a wide range of  subjects, including management, accounting, marketing, economics, and more. Articles are available  in scholarly journals, trade journals, magazines, country economic reports, company and industry profiles, interviews, reviews, and more.  

News databases also offer both company/industry information and related news. Both articles and news are important to a wide-angle search strategy.

  • Select the  Management list of Research Databases, from the "All Subjects" drop-down menu on the KSL  Research Databases
  • Or, select the News List of Research Databases, where you'll find other Case-licensed sources like the Chronicle of Higher Education, Ethnic News Watch, and Cleveland newspapers, including specialized historical titles.

Below is a list of selected news databases:

CWRU Libraries Discovery

Suggested Search Terms

Search results are improved & targeted when using 'standarized' or 'controlled' language terms vs. keywords. Some suggestions:

business forecasting

business logistics

decision-making

decision science

lean manufacturing

logistics

management science

operations management

operations research

process optimization

production management

project management

quality assurance

quality standards

supply chain logistics

supply chain management


In a database like Business Source Complete

  • Start with one or two keyword searches at the top of the screen 
  • Click open the 2 "Subject" icons [left sidebar menu]
  • Refine: click-match your words to those new database words
  • Add/subtract with the new database words

The [new] words the database suggests on the left sidebar menu helps you to quickly refine large results to targeted, manageable results & offers you narrower topics for further exploration.

Company names and industry words & codes will also appear in the left sidebar menu, offering new information to follow.

TIP: When you discover a good article, mark/save it temporarily. Then look for the article's hyperlinked Subject Terms and use them for your next search, combining new words in different combinations.

  • Examples: an article may have a Subject hyperlink for things like ASQ, Six Sigma, value chain, etc.
  • Try a new search with those terms, or add them into the current search to further narrow a large topic.