the Library - Strathclyde Business School

the Library - Strathclyde Business School

Business Research
2015 - 2016
Welcome to the Library
YOUR
LIBRARY
YOUR
LEARNING...
Library resources and services
for postgraduate researchers
Introduction to the Library
Services and facilities
Overview of resources
SUPrimo
Databases
Referencing
Where to find the Library
• In person
• Online
www.strath.ac.uk/library
Access to electronic information
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DS username and password for everything:
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Library databases
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Ebooks and ejournals
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SUPrimo Articles + databases (login if off campus)
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Shibboleth / Institutional login / Sign in
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UK Access Management Federation
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Select University of Strathclyde
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DS login
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What have we got?
Books &
Ebooks
Study
facilities
Journals &
Ejournals
Referencing
Tools
Eresources
&
Databases
Help
SUPrimo search service
• Online library search engine, enables you to find:
– Books and journals held in print, including details on location and
borrowing
– All electronic resources: books, journals, databases, and full text
articles, with direct links to resources
– Past exam papers and theses
– Reading list items
Books & ebooks
Ebook
(Dawsonera)
Read online: copy and
print options restrictions set by the
publisher.
Download for 1 day
Options and display
varies depending on
the publisher and
supplier.
Ebook help
Ebook help http://guides.lib.strath.ac.uk/ebooks
Borrowing books
SUPrimo journal search
Search for a specific
journal
Print version: view
location and dates of
collection via Library
Holdings
Connect to and browse
electronic holdings
SFX Linking Service
Dates of
electronic
holdings.
Select relevant
supplier link holdings
information
varies.
Additional
information about
access.
Ejournal
SUPrimo article search
Better searching, 1
• Identify keywords and phrases
• Broader and narrower terms
• Alternative words, abbreviations (EU / European Union)
• Indexing – look at the database indexing terms for each record
• Publication dates
• Simple / Advanced options
• Boolean operators to link concepts (OR, NOT, AND)
Boolean Operators
Gin AND Tonic
(2,020,000)
Gin NOT Tonic
(66)
Tonic NOT Gin
(1509)
Gin OR Tonic
(152,000,000)
Better searching, 2
• Terminology and spelling (behavio*r)
• Phrases – use quotes (“Regional policy”)
• Truncation / wildcard (use symbols - * / ?) (comput*)
• Fields to search (Title, abstract, keywords, anywhere)
• Format – news, statistics, theses
• Think carefully about the database you choose to search
• Be flexible and patient: change database, modify your key words
and concepts
• Construct a search strategy
Databases
• Scholarly/Best Practice: ABI/Inform Complete, Business Source
Complete, Emerald, ScienceDirect
• Business Intelligence, including company and market
information: Business Insights: Global, Hoovers, Nexis UK, Key
Note, Mintel, WARC, Passport
• Numerical and Financial: Fame (UK), Osiris (worldwide), Nexis
UK Data Service UK, OECD i-library, Key Note
• General Background : Omnifile, ASSIA, PAIS
Articles + databases: kick start
your research
Business dataset: ABI/INFORM Complete; Business Insights: Global; Omnifile Full-Text Select; British
Humanities Index; Social Sciences Citation Index; ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts;
PAIS; Mintel Reports; SCOPUS; Business Source Complete;
ABI/INFORM Complete
• International business and management database – information
on best practice, theory, company or industry activities
• Includes Emerald Publishing Group
• Approximately 6,900 journals (80% full text)
• Some sources back to 1923
• U.S. doctoral and masters theses and dissertations (29,000)
• Annual reports (North America)
• Company profiles
• Printing, downloading or emailing results
• Alert and RSS functions
ABI/INFORM advanced search
Use advanced search option for
greater precision
Link search terns using OR and AND
Quotation marks for phrases
Truncation *
Peer review for scholarly articles
Choose fields to search
Dates
Spelling and terminology important
More search options
• company name
• industry code
• dissertation
• location
• conference paper
• newspaper
ABI/INFORM search results
To read article select Full
text, Full text – PDF or
Modify search to return to
search screen
Default sort is Relevance
(change to date)
Suggested subjects for
related searching
References
Cited by
Cite creates your reference
in chosen style (Harvard)
Create alert for new articles
Email, print or save results
ABI/INFORM: no search limits
ABI/INFORM browse
Find content by browsing rather than searching - Browse option on main search
screen - Editorially defined topics - More focused results - Good option if you are
looking for ideas
Business Source
• All aspects of business: management, economics, finance, accounting,
international business, and more
• 3,000 fulltext scholarly publications (1000 peer reviewed)
• Indexing and abstracting for 3,000 journals
• Includes the world's top management and marketing journals e.g.
Harvard Business Review
• Country information
• Datamonitor: Company profiles for world’s 10,000 largest companies
• Datamonitor: Industry profiles for various industries
Track ideas
Track development of ideas
Identify current areas of
research
Track Authors
Find new authors
Find related articles
ABI/INFORM - cited by
Web of Knowledge - times
cited
Business Source – times
cited in this database
Google Scholar – cited by
(includes books)
Business Intelligence
“Information that may be useful to a business when it is planning its strategy.”
Dictionary of Business. A&C Black, 2006
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Found in different type of source:
Move away from scholarly journals
Find trade journals, market reports, newspapers, trade reports, press releases
Facts and figures on business activity
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Use:
Business Insights: Global
Nexis UK – news, business, company and financial (20 year archive).
Worldwide coverage.
FAME: financial analysis made easy (10 year archive); OSIRIS (worldwide)
Hoovers
Key Note - market reports, company and financial information (UK & Ireland).
Mintel consumer market reports: Drink, E-commerce,Leisure, Retail,
Technology, Travel
Passport GMID
WARC: marketing and advertising research and case studies
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Key Note
UK Market research
Company information (UK
and Ireland)
Daily updates
Up to 10 years of
company financials
Companies House
documents
Director, shareholder and
company secretary search
Examine current issues,
market trends, marketing
activity
SWOT analysis
PEST analysis
List builder
Key Note Company
Knowledge & Information Portal
• On MyPlace
• Direct: http://www.sbs.strath.ac.uk/intranet/kip/
Social & Political Context
• Look outside normal information comfort zone
• Politics – constitution, regimes, stability
• Culture – language, religion, customs
• Geography – climate, terrain, distribution
• Socio-economic – demographics, education, public policy
Social & Political Context
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EBSCO platform
British Education Index
Omnifile Full Text Select - multidisciplinary database
PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES world’s literature in psychology; strong on
marketing and consumer behaviour
ProQuest platform
ABI /INFORM Complete
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index) – political and social policy which drives
public initiatives
British Humanities Index - current affairs
PAIS (Public Administration and Policy)
Social Services Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
Cross search databases in each platform with a single search
Country information
• ABI/INFORM Complete
From the home page select Browse and scroll down to ‘Country
Reports’
• Economist Intelligence Unit
Country Reports (30 reports) and Executive Briefings (on campus
only)
• OECDiLibrary
Contains OECD books, papers, serials and statistics including
economic indicators and surveys.
Browse by Country or browse by Theme & Country
• Passport GMID
To find a country, use the search box and enter the country – for
example ‘Portugal country profile
Other Libraries
http://www.strath.ac.uk/library/eresources/librarycatalogues
COPAC: search UK academic and
national libraries
http://http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/
SALSER: Scottish academic and
research library holdings
http://edina.ac.uk/salser/
SUNCAT: Uk serials search
http://suncat.edina.ac.uk/
Library of Congress: US
publications
http://catalog.loc.gov/
Business @ The Mitchell
http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Busi
ness/BusinessMitchell/
National Library of Scotland
(SCOTBIS)
http://scotbis.nls.uk/
Worldcat
http://www.worldcat.org/
Theses
http://www.strath.ac.uk/library/usingthelibrary/stock/theses/
• Theses collection - Library webpage
• Strathclyde theses – search SUPrimo
– Print available for borrowing for 6 weeks (make request)
– Electronic submissions
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland from 1716
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– Available via SUPrimo
Inter library loan
• Ethos – digital theses via the British Library
• DART-Europe http://www.dart-europe.eu/
• ABI/INFORM - U.S. dissertations and theses
Strathprints: Strathclyde research
http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/
Conference papers
http://www.strath.ac.uk/library/eresources/conferencepapers
• Web of Science: select Conference Proceedings Citation IndexSocial Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) --1990-present
• Zetoc: indexes conference proceedings in all subject areas.
Produced by the British Library. Also use Zetoc for journal
articles.
• ABI/Inform Complete
• You can search for individual papers within a conference using
the Articles + databases tab. Choose Primo Central (fast
search).
Company reports
• Best collection of original reports in the UK
• All listed on SUPrimo
• Searchable by Registered name
• Searchable by FT industry sector
• Collection officially starts 1975 but many companies go back further
– early 1900s
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Government eresources
http://www.strath.ac.uk/library/eresources/govinfo/
• Includes multinational
organisations – OECD, IMF, World
Bank
• Legislation – UK, Scotland,
Northern Ireland, Wales
• Cans Advice Notes
• Parliamentary Publications
• Hansard
• Directgov
• Guide to Official Publications
• Croner-i Human Resources
Newspapers
Nexis UK:
• Full-text coverage (20
years archive)
• Company information
and financials
FACTIVA:
World wide newspapers
ABI/INFORM:
• Financial Times 1996 (30 day embargo on
current news on all
platforms)
• Wall Street Journal
1984Business Insights:
Global
Company and Industry
Intelligence, including
business news.
http://www.strath.ac.uk/library/usingthelibrary/stock/newspapers
Google news
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The urge to Google & Google
Scholar
Google
• No quality control
• Check incomplete
bibliographical citations
• Find non-scholarly
information
• Not everything is freely
available
Google Scholar
• Advance indexes
academic content
• Fewer search options
• Simple searching only –
less useful for more
complex subjects
• Not everything is freely
available
Use SUPrimo Articles +
databases for a quick
search
Google Scholar results
How to link up Google Scholar
and SUPrimo
Google Scholar works with the Library system and lets you obtain
the full text of papers where these are available through our
subscriptions.
To enable this feature on Google Scholar, you need to go through
the following steps from the Google Scholar:
http://scholar.google.co.uk/
• Choose Settings (top right)
• Choose Library Links (left column)
• Off-campus search for University of Strathclyde. On-campus it
will appear automatically
• Check the box next to University of Strathclyde – Full Text @
Strathclyde
• Save
• On the search results screen you will see a Full Text @
Strathclyde link next to any items where we have an electronic
copy or a Find it @ Strathclyde link if we have a print copy.
Non-traditional publishers
British Library Management & Business
Studies Portal
http://www.mbsportal.bl.uk/
Research reports
Briefings
Case studies
Working papers
Conference papers
Research institutes
Think tanks
Professional and
government bodies
Commissioned
articles
Search British Library
collections
Register to use
Alerts
Journal articles not full
text - search SUPrimo
BL: search results
Printed reference sources
• Back runs of print journals – level 1
• Company reports
• Government publications – level 1
• Stock Exchange Yearbook. 1934 –
• International Directory of Company Histories
• And more!
All in Reference section on Level 4
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Options if unavailable at Strathclyde
Use other university libraries
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Glasgow University Library
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SCONUL Access
http://www.strath.ac.uk/library/usingthelibrary/usinglibraryservi
ces/sconulaccess/
Inter-Library Loan
http://www.strath.ac.uk/library/usingthelibrary/usinglibraryservices/
ils/
Bibliographical referencing
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Why is referencing important?
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To avoid plagiarism - this is when you use someone's ideas or work without acknowledgment
To show the authority on which you base your arguments
To show how widely you have read
To enable others to find your sources
Reference list: items you have consulted, used and referred to directly in the text
Bibliography: list of items consulted and used, including those you do not refer to
directly in your text.
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Creating references for business: Harvard Style (pdf)
http://www.strath.ac.uk/media/ps/isd/libraryinformationresources/Creating_references
_for_business_2015_August.pdf
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Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2013) Cite them right: the essential referencing guide. 9th
edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (D 820-4(09) PEA).
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EndNote Basic (web). Go to Web of Science database to create an account.
Referencing guide
Harvard referencing
How to find resources
Search for specific
databases
Browse list
Subject specific resources
Strategy and Organisation
Libguide
Research support
http://guides.lib.strath.ac.uk/research_support
And finally …..
Ask library staff for help if you need it:
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Linda Emery
Tel: 0141 548 4469
Email: l.r.emery@strath.ac.uk
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Visit: Level 4 Enquiry Desk
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Library and IT enquiries help@strath.ac.uk
Telephone number 0141 548 4444
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Libguide: http://guides.lib.strath.ac.uk/
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Library webpages
http://www.strath.ac.uk/library
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Library and Business faqs http://www.strath.ac.uk/library/gettinghelp/frequentlyaskedquestions/
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