Get help Starting Your Research in this workshop designed to help you refine your search strategies, determine which databases to use, and learn more about access to library resources.

This workshop will discuss the basics of citation practices and how to use Zotero, the free citation management tool for managing your research and capturing book, article, webpage citations and more.  Zotero can help you organize, tag, and add notes to citations/resources as you search; then integrates with Word to facilitate the creation of footnotes and bibliographies in your selected style. 

Get help Starting Your Research in this workshop designed to help you refine your search strategies, determine which databases to use, and learn more about access to library resources.

Suffering from the endless back and forth to craft a workable AI tool prompt?  Frustrated at having to slog through your AI responses and sources cited to determine what is hallucinated or real?  Are you discouraged by the results when using web search engines like Google or Bing as well?  Then come to this workshop to take control of your search of the internet!  Learn how to use Google Advanced Commands to do efficient, focused searches to get directly to quality r

This session will review how to use the Pitchbook database for locating information on private and public companies, new industry sectors, entrepreneurial finance as well as firms and deals in the impact investment space.  It will also highlight other sources available at Tufts for PE/VC finance information. 

Want to learn more about using Bloomberg, a financial services resource with real time business data?  This session will review finding equity and industry data on Bloomberg and how this resource complements other databases Fletcher has for financial information.  It will also cover locating bonds, indices, currencies, where to find deal and VC/PE investment related information, ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) information, how to access it and answer any other questions you might have about Bloomberg.

Want to learn more about using Bloomberg, a financial services resource with real time business data?  This session will review finding equity and industry data on Bloomberg and how this resource complements other databases Fletcher has for financial information.  It will also cover locating bonds, indices, currencies, where to find deal and VC/PE investment related information, ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) information, how to access it and answer any other questions you might have about Bloomberg.

This session will include a review of statistical data features in Euromonitor Passport, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), IHS Connect, PRS CountryData.com, World Development Indicators as well as other resources available from Ginn Library’s website.  Types of data reviewed for countries and worldwide include: socio-economic and political risk indicators, forecasts, digital and traditional socio-economic indicators, sector and demographic statistics, company/brand market share, etc.

Suffering from the endless back and forth to craft a workable AI tool prompt?  Frustrated at having to slog through your AI responses and sources cited to determine what is hallucinated or real?  Are you discouraged by the results when using web search engines like Google or Bing as well?  Then come to this workshop to take control of your search of the internet!  Learn how to use Google Advanced Commands to do efficient, focused searches to get directly to quality reports and information that you don’t

This session will review the advanced search commands and analysis features available in Dow Jones Factiva. Data gathered can be used to examine global political, economic and business content from over 14,000 newspapers, magazines and other major journals like Foreign Affairs available in this database.