Answered Questions

A great place to start your search would be with one of our Business LibGuides.  The libguide for Entrepreneurship would be great for the topic of opening an international business.

In the Entrepreneurship LibGuide, go to the Articles tab.  There you will see several databases listed.  The best ones for your general topic will be ABI/INFORM, Business Source Complete, or Sage Journals.  Log in with your Brenau username and password.

In the search box at the top, type your search terms: international business structure, or you can use business structure AND international.  The AND is a Boolean search term, which tells the database that you want to find only articles that include BOTH of these terms in them.

Alternatively, if you want to search for a subject as a phrase, you could type "business structure" in the search box. The quotation marks tell the database that you want to find only articles that include that whole specific phrase, with the words in that particular order.  Add AND international to the search box. When you have entered your search terms, click the Search button.

You may see an overwhelming number of results when you start, but you can narrow them down using the options on the side of the results page. Here's some of the best options you might choose to refine your search results:

• Full Text - This gives you only articles that you may read immediately, usually a PDF or webpage.
• Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals - This gives you only articles from academic journals that have undergone rigorous scholarly review before publication. No newspapers or People Magazine here!
• Publication Date - This is how you can choose the date range for articles in the results.
• Subject: Thesaurus Term - This option gives you a list of the most-used terms in the wide range of results you've found. You can check the terms that most closely apply to what you are looking for to narrow down your subtopics.

Depending on your topic, you may find other limiters like Geography or Industry to be helpful. Try different ones to see what kinds of articles you get!

After you have finished searching in one database, try to run the same search in different databases. Each database is a different collection, and the same search can find you different results in each collection.

Please let us know if we can be of any further help!