When writing academic paper, you have to take time reading many articles. you will use some databases, such as EBSCOhost, ProQuest, Springer, and so on,  to search relative paper and see what others have done.

However, you encount the situation aht you can’t find the full article of the paper,  you only find the summary in the database, so, what to do?

Taking the following articles for example.

Title: Accounting for performance variation – how important are intangible resources
Author: Jeremy Galbreath, etc.

1. Try another database; EBSCOhost, not found; ProQuest, limited; Springer,not found;

2. http://scholar.google.com, limit the entire words, yes. see here : http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Accounting+for+performance+variation%22&hl=en&lr=   click the URL and you can get the paper you want. Wola! I get it.

Well, it’s really a tough task for me to write graduate thesis.

Some useful websites for refer:

www.lib.shufe.edu.cn, school library is always the most important web for academic research.

http://en.wikipedia.org, I can know many new terms from it.

http://scholar.google.com/ , it’s easy to find some articles without login in any academic database.

https://portal.acm.org, with limited but free account, some articles can be download from it.

http://www.ssrn.com/

www.repec.org/