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Negotiation Resources



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Foster Business Library Databases:

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.

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, listed under List of All Business Databases.   The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research; go to Business for three major business sources:   the Encyclopedia of American Industries (4th ed., 2005), the Encyclopedia of Business and Finance (2001), and the Encyclopedia of Small Business (2nd ed., 2002).

    See Negotiation in the Encyclopedia of Business and Finance; see also Negotiation in the Encyclopedia of Small Business.

  • JSTOR:   This database may be found under List of All Business Databases. JSTOR is a subject searchable index of 360 journals, with full-text backfiles of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's. Among the collections of scholarly journals on this site are ones for Business and for Economics, encompassing over seventy journals.

    A search in this database for Negotiation in Business produced over 23,600 references.

  • Social Sciences Citation Index:   Under Databases, on the Foster Business Library homepage. This database "is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. It "provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward."

    A search for Negotiation in Business produced just seven references.

    Web Resources:

    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.

  • Wikipedia:   This free online user-created and maintained encyclopedia, Wikipedia, can be a good starting point for an orientation to a topic, often with a definition of the term, a history of its practice, its effects, and links to related information. See Negotiation

  • Improve Your Negotiation Skills:   This multi-part site covers many aspects of negotiating, including how to become a better negotiator, using conflict to advantage, conflict resolution styles, and a structured approach to negotiating. This site is from Industry Canada's Strategis Department, helping Canadians "build a growing competitive, knowledge-based economy."

  • Improving Negotiation Skills:   This extensive article, from the FindLaw Library site, offers "rules for master negotiators," from a Seattle attorney. 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.

  • The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of organizational behavior.
    This one-volume offers 500 essays, from 500 to 1,000 words in length, from 180 authorities on current knowledge and thinking about the key concepts of organizational behavior.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD30.15 .B455 1995 v. 6.

    See Negotiation on pages 342 to 345.

  • The AMA management handbook.
    This thick one-volume handbook comprises 16 sections on important areas of management, written by expert practitioners. See Managing ethics in the corporation, section one, pages 1-32 to 1-35.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD31 .A418 1994.

    See section two, pages 32 to 33, for Negotiation.

  • Business: the ultimate resource.
    This 2,200-page single volume is "designed to offer a wide range of insights, information, and practical guidance on every aspect of management" via 2.5 million words of text from 200 contributors, with 700 illustrations and 150 maps, in seven major sections including best practice, a management library, business thinkers and management giants, a business dictionary, a world business almanac, and a guide to business sources.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD38.15 .B878 2002.

    See Salary Negotiation on pages 772 to 773.

  • The international encyclopedia of business and management.
    This seven-volume set (plus an index volume) consists of 750 essays on a wide variety of topics, arranged alphabetically, from Accounting to Zimbabwe, Management In.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF1001 .I53 2002.

    See International Business Negotiations in volume four, on pages 3297 to 3312, and Negotiation Skills in volume five, on pages 4644 to 4647.

  • Encyclopedia of business ethics and society.
    This five-volume reference work includes 900 essays by scholars, arranged alphabetically by topic, on all aspects of business ethics.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5387 .E53 2008.

    See Negotiation in volume three, pages 1493 to 1496.

    Foster Business Library Books:

    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.

    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, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

    A subject search for Negotiation in Business, limited to the Foster Business Library, produced a list of over one hundred records. Recent titles include:

    A keyword search for Negotiation, limited to the Foster Business Library, produced over 180 records, including books not listed above, since a keyword search includes note fields, chapter headings, etc.

    See also books in the Foster Business Library on related subjects such as:

    Foster Business Library Articles:

    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.

    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.

    ProQuest Databases:

    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 publication search for Negotiat* produced a list of two periodicals in this database with full text: Group Decision and Negotiation and Negotiation Journal (both with full text back to 1999 but with a one-year embargo on current full text).

    A subject search for SUB(Negotiations) produced over 129,000 articles, including over 7,000 articles in scholarly journals, over 11,000 magazine articles, over 20,000 articles in trade and industry periodicals, and over 89,000 newspaper articles.

    Combining subject searches provides more focused searches. A search for SUB(Negotiations) and SUB(Acquisitions & Mergers) produced over 3,600 articles; for SUB(Negotiations) and SUB(Studies), over 830 articles; for SUB(Negotiations) and SUB(Constracts), over 770 articles; and for SUB(Negotiations) and SUB(International Trade), over 700 articles. A search for SUB(Negotiations) and Business produced over 12,300 articles.

    A sampling of articles from some of the searches above:

    Help:
    28 December 2005; updated 29 May 2008.   Peter Stevens, Business Librarian, stevens@u.washington.edu