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General Business 360 Research Guide

Scanning Tables of Contents

Looking through the tables of contents of multiple issues is a good way to understand what kinds of topics a publication covers. If you're looking at a trade publication, it's also a good way to learn about topics under discussion in that industry

Minority Business Entrepreneur (trade publication)

  1. Perform a journal search for your publication and find the Publication Page for your journal within the database
  2. Look on the Publication Page for a list of available Issues by date.
    Minority Business Entrepreneur journal info page with year, volume, and issue outlined in orange
  3. Choose the issue you are interested in by clicking on it.
  4. Scan the list of articles for that issue (the table of contents) to get an idea of the content contained in that journal

HR Magazine (trade publication)

  1. Perform a journal search for your publication and find the Publication Page for your journal within the database
  2. Look on the Publication Page for a list of available Issues by date
    HR Magazine info page in an EbscoHost database, with year, volume and issue outlined in orange
  3. Choose the issue you are interested in by clicking on it.
  4. Scan the list of articles for that issue (the table of contents) to get an idea of the content contained in that journal