Text mining in business libraries

ABSTRACT

This article considers the increase in business research that involves text-mining techniques. The authors provide a brief survey of possible text-mining applications in business school research, the steps and life cycle of text-mining projects, and a text-mining case study from Vanderbilt University Library and the Owen Graduate School of Management. The authors give suggestions on how libraries and librarians can increase skills and services to partner with researchers and support this form of research.

KEYWORDS:

• LexisNexis
• research data
• TDM
• text mining

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge and thank the Vanderbilt faculty, Catherine Lee, Michael Stuart, and Richard Willis, who involved us in their research project and collegially provided the substance for the case study presented.