Where to Start Your Search
Begin with an initial background search to learn more about your topic and identify potential stakeholders. A general web search, like on Google, is a good starting place. Next, perform a search in OneSearch using keywords you identified in your preliminary search and filter your results to your resource needs (e.g., by date, by source type, etc). Following OneSearch, try searching one of the recommended databases below using keywords, filtering, and boolean operators.
Strategies and Tips for finding stakeholders and stakeholder interviews:
- Initial background searching will be key in identifying stakeholders on your topic. If we search for plastic pollution on Google, we may learn the names of production companies making plastic, communities affected by plastic pollution, etc via news articles, websites, or even wikipedia. Once you have more context on your topic and identified some stakeholder names, you can try searching to see if there are interviews available. Tip: if you hit paywalls on articles you find via Google, try a search with the title in OneSearch.
- Tip: When searching in OneSearch or a database, put Stakeholder names in quotations "name" for a more precise search.
- In Academic Search Premier and Proquest Global Newsstream, you can limit your search results to just interviews and by type (e.g., scholarly journals, newspapers, podcasts, magazines, trade journals, etc).
- Some publicly traded companies have activist stakeholders in the company who work to change the company "from the inside". For example, there is a group of Chevron stakeholders (activist shareholders) advocating for reduced carbon emissions (Article: Climate Activist Shareholders to Target US Oil Giant Chevron)
