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Research Insight is a subscription database that is available to users at Ohio University.  For information about how to access the database, please visit this page in InfoTree.  If you are not a member of the Ohio University community, you may want to check with a local library about access.

For more helpful videos, take a look at the Business Database Screencasts page in the Biz Wiki.

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Jennifer Boettcher, from Georgetown University, has put together a really nice tutorial that covers the basics of Research Insight.  Research Insight is an admittedly intimidating database to use, but it is also very powerful. Jennifer does a great job at explaining how to use some of the basic features of the database.

Ohio University researchers can find access to Research Insight here.

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If you’re researching telecommuting, here’s some information that may help you along your way. The first is a video showing how to find articles about telecommuting in the BNA Human Resources Library.

For additional information on the topic, you may want to look for articles in Business Source Complete, or look for electronic books in ebrary.  In addition to searching for “telecommuting” as a keyword, you might also search for “telework”.  And rather than searching about the pros and cons of telecommuting, try to thing in terms of advantages, morale, productivity, cost savings, accountability, technology limitations, performance, etc. There is also a fantastic article about “telework” in the International Encyclopedia of Business and Management.  WebWorkerDaily has a nice collection of blog posts about telecommuting.  Finally, you might want to look for the topic of telecommuting on sites like GreenBiz.com.

Other suggested terms for searching the topic include: virtual team, telework, virtual work, telecommuting, virtual office, flextime working, virtual organizations, virtual workplace, alternative workplaces, remote work.

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