A cornerstone of the Penn State University (PSU) Schreyer Business Library's relationship with the Smeal College of Business is the library's robust collaboration with a faculty member to introduce students to core business information literacy skills. Management 301 (MGMT 301), Basic Management Concepts, is one of the foundational classes required for students seeking acceptance to Smeal. In this course, each student is individually assigned a Fortune 500 company and completes an assignment in which they are asked to research the company and the industry in which it operates. Students are required to meet in small groups with one of the library's "research consultants," a group that consists of business librarians, staff, and part-time student peer educators (Reiter & Cole, 2019).
Routledge Historical Resources: History of Economic Thought (HET) is an online platform of curated Taylor & Francis‐owned content. The journal articles, thematic essays, and primary and secondary source documents cover economic thought in the period from 1700 through 1914.
HET covers major economic schools of thought, including classical political economy, the Enlightenment, and socialism. These currents of thought are used along with notable figures, time periods, and topics—including money and banking, public economics, poverty, and economic crises—to
categorize documents. The browsing functionality in HET is user-friendly and makes use of faceted searching. HET’s most glaring flaw is the lack of a machine-readable text alternative for some primary source documents that are rendered as PDF facsimiles of the original documents; these
PDFs impede not only researchers using assistive technology but also users attempting to search the full text of those documents.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.