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Foster Business Library
Databases:
A search in Forrester Research for RFID produced over fifty reports.
See User–Centered Mobile Computing, in the 2005 Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking.
A search for RFID in this database produced over two hundred research reports, available on the library account.
A company search for RFID produced a list of over 140 companies with RFID in the company name or company description, including over 120 U.S. companies, over forty public companies, and eight companies with over 100 employees.
A keyword search for RFID produced over 190 reports.
A search in this database, for all quarters beginning with 2004, for
RFID, retrieved over 100 tables, including over twenty tables in 2006 and 2007.
See volume seven, pages 14259 to 14261, for many companies under Identification Systems, Radio Frequency (RFID), including one Washington state company, Microscan Systems, in Renton.
Foster Business Library
Books:
To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library.
Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.
If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.
The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end) to Z (at the far west end).
A keyword search for RFID retrieved just twenty records in the UW Libraries, including five
records are in the Foster Business Libraries' collections, including:
A subject search for Radio Frequency Identification Systems produced just 24 records in the UW Libraries, including three records in the Foster Business Library (all in the list above).
Foster Business Library Articles:
Library access to most ProQuest databases will terminate at the end of
spring quarter 2008, except for ProQuest NewsStand, ProQuest Dissertations
and Theses, Historical New York Times, and the Historical Wall Street
Journal. For more about this change, see UW Libraries Providing New
Databases. After this change, comprehensive article searches should be performed in EBSCO
Business Source Premier, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest
NewsStand. Also, after this change, links to the articles below will be broken.
This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full
text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals,
magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a
very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by
word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search
for your topic in the Topic Guide.
Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article.
A basic search for the phrase "RFID Technology" produced over 3,300 articles, including over ninety articles in scholarly journals, over ninety magazine articles, over a thousand articles in trade publications, and over 400 newspaper articles (as well as ten reports and sixteen dissertations).
A broader, subject search for
SUB(Radio Frequency Identification) produced over 4,000 articles, including over 200 articles in scholarly journals, over 370 magazine articles, over 3,000 articles in trade publications, and over 200 newspaper articles (as well as thirteen reports and one dissertation).
This search can be narrowed by combining it with other subjects, such as:
Examples of articles, from the searches above, include:
The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the
List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases
from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources
may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more
information on Foster business databases, click Databases,
A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index.
For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access.
For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.
Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever
you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.
Foster Business Library Reference Collection:
The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.
This almanac offers information about major industry trends, industry
statistics, industry information, major companies in the industry, with
indexes by state, country, region, etc. The major part of each almanac
provides one-page profiles of companies in the industry, with directory
information, growth plans and special features, contacts, brief
financials, brief salary and benefits data, and women officer-director and
advancement information.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HA42 .I56. 2003.
This large green annual multi-volume set covers the universe of manufacturing
products and services in the United States and Canada, in three
sections: products and services, arranged alphabetically
by product or service (with an index to products and to trademarks); profiles of
the manufacturing companies, arranged alphabetically by company
name; and product catalogs from many of the companies in the register.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: T12 .T62. 2006.
(Also available Online)
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on
all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.
Articles in academic journals, magazines, trade periodicals, and
newspapers are one of the best sources for any kind of research. While the
Foster Business Library offers a large periodicals print collection,
comprising over 800 titles, articles are most easily accessed online,
24/7, in such fulltext article databases as EBSCO
Business Source Premier, Factiva,
LexisNexis Academic, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest
Databases. These article databases are available in the library or
from off-campus, and provide access to over 10,000 periodicals and
millions of articles.
See also the Foster Business Library's Business & Economics FAQ, with answers to over nine hundred frequently-asked questions.
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.