This research guide is designed to help you get familiar with the library's resources and a few online sources that can assist in the writing and citing process. However, as business students, you have access to help that's specific to your needs.

• Walton Business Communication Lab located in Business Building 343 is available to help students write for a business audience, revise their work, proofread papers, organize content, polish speeches, and edit presentations. They also have resources for independent learning
• The Business Writing Toolkit is a library research guide with additional resources on writing and citing in business disciplines.

The following tutorials guide you through the research process, analyzing, and using data.  

• Business Research: Understanding Your Topic - provides guidance on selecting a topic and developing of your background knowledge.
• Business Research: Gathering Data - provides example searches on library databases and helps you identify search terms.
• Business Research: Analyzing and Utilizing Your Research - provides guidance on the writing and citing process. 

Need help with creating literature reviews, discovering related research, and visualizing content? Check out the resources below. 

• Research Rabbit - Literature search, alerts, and more
• Litmaps - Joining the dots between scientific papers.

When you're ready to publish, the Office of Scholarly Communications at the University Libraries is available to answer your questions regarding Writing and Publishing. The team supports contributions from units across campus, and open access publishing.

Your professor may ask you to complete this scavenger hunt, Visiting Your Library 24/7. The hunt is broken down into two parts of five questions each. The first five are clues that drive you around our website, and the second five require you to physically explore the library. Although you will not be timed out, be sure to decide how you’ll be collecting answers prior to starting. Print the survey to jot down answers or complete it on your phone; it’s all up to you. Just don't let these 10 little questions fool you! Some questions might be a riddle, some might puzzle you, and others might just make you use some good old common sense. 

In addition to library resources, students, staff, and faculty members of Walton College of Business have access to databases maintained by Walton College.

See all library research guides here or browse some getting started business library research guides below.