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Use subject headings and keywords to search for hardcopy and eBooks in the OneSearch and other databases.
Here are a few examples of effective keywords and phrases related to Sales:
Professional Sales
Selling
Sales negotiation
Strategic selling
Financial services
Sales management
Consumer behavior
Books and journal articles are the most common way to access scholarly research in your field, but each has advantages and disadvantages. Books take longer to research, write, and publish, so the information is not as current as in journal articles, which are shorter and slightly faster to publish. However, because they are longer and took more time to produce, books offer more thorough coverage of a topic, draw on a wider range of preexisting scholarship, and often excel in placing an argument in broader thematic and disciplinary context.
Consider a scholarly book in your own research, and look for the following:
Books on professional sales can be found in the H section on the second floor of the library. Many of the books the library owns are now accessible as ebooks, so make sure to check our online catalog in addition to the shelves.
From the library's homepage, you can choose to search "Everything" in Libraries Worldwide or you can limit your results to resources in one of the other five format groupings.To limit your results to books and ebooks on a topic select the Books icon and change the Libraries Worldwide drop-down to Stetson. Changing the drop-down to Stetson will limit the results to the books, ebooks, government documents and videos available in the library's collection.
Examples of full-text books available from the library:
Another option is to select the Advanced Search screen.