InfoGuides: BUS 303: Develop Professional Skills 2: Know your discipline

Know your discipline

Visit the department website at Mason. Find bios of scholars who are interested in the same field as you. What are they publishing, and where are they publishing it?
Look at the Business School website at another university for faculty bios. What are they publishing, and where are they publishing it?
Check out the Journal Citation Reports. What are the most frequently cited journals in the field? Highest impact journals? Largest journals? Also be sure to see UlrichsWeb Global Serials Directory for a comprehensive list of periodicals published around the world.
View the Mason Libraries Database Portal. Find a subject that matches your interests. What is listed here?
Study the InfoGuides for your subject. What resources have librarians curated here? In what order do the resources appear?
Visit the library's home page of another university with a respectable program in your field. Check out their subject guides for comparison.
Research electronic resources, publishers, and journals in Library Literature and Information Science Index and Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts.
Have any reviewers at Choice Reviews Online discussed this resource?
Locate relevant professional associations in Associations Unlimited, (you can also Find Journals with Associations Unlimited) and also Yearbook of International Organizations Online, for coverage of international nonprofit organizations, both governmental & non-governmental.