BUS 280 - Prof. Lekakis

This section contains links to five major news sources. Each of these sources has a section dedicated to business news. Several of the sources require a subscription in order to read the articles. The NOVA Libraries subscribe to academic databases that include articles from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. See the following section of this Guide for more information. 

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This section contains links to library databases that contain business news and information. 

• To access NOVA Libraries' subscription to Factiva, click on this link: Factiva.

• For information about the database, visit the Factiva page of the vendor's website.

• The homepage of Factiva displays links to the stories on the front pages of several major news sources, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. There are drop-down menus that let you select other sections and dates of each source. 

• To access NOVA Libraries' subscription to Mergent Online, click on this link: Mergent Online.

• For information about the database, visit the Mergent page of the vendor's website. 

• For help with using the database, click on the Help button in the top right corner of the database website. 

• To access NOVA Libraries' subscription to AtoZ World Business, click on this link: AtoZ World Business.

• A description of the database is available on the AtoZ World Business page of the vendor's website.

If you want to find out if NOVA Libraries subscribes to a particular periodical, e.g. newspaper, magazine, academic journal, you can use the Find Journal by Title page on the Libraries website. Enter the title of the periodical for which you are searching into the search field. 

Ad Fontes Media produces the Media Bias Chart, which plots news sources according to their political bias and overall reliability. I think that the Chart is very helpful. If you're curious about how they rate sources, take a look at the Methodology page. 

Business people use graphs often. It's important to know how to identify misleading graphs so that you don't get misled. 

The video is only four minutes long. The two academic journal articles discuss one of the most common problems with the graphs that I've seen: a truncated y-axis. 

Correll, M. et al. (2020) "Truncating the Y-Axis: Threat or Menace?", Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2020, Pages 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376222

Yang, B.W. et al. (2021) "Truncating Bar Graphs Persistently Misleads Viewers", Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(2), pp. 298–311. doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.10.002

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