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SAM 504: Industrial Ecology and the Circular Economy

A course guide for SAM 504: Industrial Ecology and Circular Economy, taught by Weslynne Ashton in Fall 2023

Article Search

Case Studies

Harvard Business Review, or HBR, publishes case studies both online and in print. Depending on where an article is originally published, it will appear in one or both of the journals listed below.

To search through both of these at once, follow the steps below but replace JN "Harvard Business Review" with (JN "Harvard Business Review" OR JN "Harvard Business Review Digital Articles") in your final search string.

Harvard Business Review

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Access Harvard Business Review using the link above

Scroll down to find publication details for Harvard Business Review

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Use the publication-specific search bar to search within Harvard Business Review specifically

You can use this to search for a specific article or case using citation details like title or author, or search using keywords.
If you are looking for case studies in general, try "case study" or "case studies".

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If you just want to browse, you can look at specific issues individually as well

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After an initial search, review results

Try different keywords or use the filters under the search bar to adjust your results.
Note: JN "Harvard Business Review" is the search string that designates the publication you are searching in. If you remove it, you will not longer be searching within Harvard Business Review; similarly, if you accidentally change the spelling of this, it may no longer return any results.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a popular way to search for scholarly articles, reports, books, and more. Make sure to connect your Google Scholar account directly to your library account to streamline your access to articles.

Search directly below, or click the link to search in the Google Scholar interface.

Google Scholar Search
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Open the sidebar menu by clicking on the three lines in the upper left corner

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Click on "Settings" from the right sidebar menu

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Navigate to your "Library Links" page

Select "Library Links" from the right sidebar menu, and search "Illinois Institute of Technology" in the search bar in the middle of the page.

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Add Illinois Tech's library links

Check the boxes next to "Illinois Institute of Technology - Find Full Text -> IIT" and "ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - MAIN CAMPUS - ProQuest Fulltext" and hit "Save"

Search for articles

Now when you search for articles, you should see "Find Full Text -> IIT" to the right of some of your results. Click on it to be redirected to the Illinois Tech catalog to access the article.