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Business School Resource Guides

Research Librarian - Bernadine Hardin

Accounting || Information Systems || Finance || Management || Marketing || Law / legal

Library Skills Tutorial || Statistics || Referencing || Plagiarism || Beyond basics || Past exams || Business School

Research -  basic steps:-

1.  Define keywords using dictionaries / encyclopedias
2.  Get theory & background from books: Library catalogue  
          
  [print or electronic] direct link to the catalogue
3.  Find online & print info in these Course Guides
     see the list of guides in the left hand frame.
4. Find journal articles conferences, newspapers etc.  in databases

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Course Guides

See the links in the left hand frame of this web page. These guides include both Internet resources and materials purchased by the Library (print and electronic). All Internet pages selected for these guides offer some free research information.

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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

When you need to define your topic and/or get some back-ground reading try consulting a subject specific dictionary or encyclopedia (eg: law, finance, marketing, computing, business etc). Coverage can vary from just short entries to in-depth essays with recommendations for further reading.

A selection of ebook dictionaries and encyclopedias available via the Library Catalogue..

The free dictionary by Farlex [free internet] Copyright © 2008Farlex, Inc.
A number of dictionaries and an encyclopedia. Includes English, acronyms, computing, finance etc.

Online Reference Materials -[free internet] Copyright 1997-2008, Authenticity Consulting, LLC.
American commercial site - includes links to dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias, acronyms, language translators, news, quotations, thesaurus. Note: the Library does not endorse any commercial sites that my be included on these pages.

Your dictionary.com [free internet] ©1996-2008, yourDictionary.com Inc.
Links to a vast range of online free specialty dictionaries and glossaries:- accounting, e-commerce, finance, marketing, business, labour relations, trade, etc
Also acronyms, synonyms, thesauri, translation dictionaries and an encyclopaedia.

Dictionary of business and management. 4th ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Barr Smith Reference collection (not for loan)
650.03  P168d.4

Botto, Francis. Dictionary of e-business [electronic resource] : a definitive guide to technology and business terms / Francis Botto. Chichester, England ; New York : Wiley & Sons, c2000.  [ONLINE via NetLibrary]

Blackwell encyclopedia of management / encyclopedia editor, Cary L Cooper ; advisory editors, Chris Argyris, and William H. Starbuck. 2nd ed. Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2005. [12 volumes]
v. 1. Accounting -- v. 2. Strategic management -- v. 3. Management information systems -- v. 4. Marketing --v. 5. Managerial economics -- v. 6. Organizational behavior -- v. 7. International management -- v. 8. Finance -- v. 9. Human resource management -- v. 10. Operations management -- v. 11. Business ethics --Index.
Barr Smith Library Reference collection 658.003  C776b.2

Dictionary of Australian investment terms [electronic resource] / edited by Roger Goldsmith, Peter Hodgson and Peter Osborne.

Dictionary of finance and banking.3rd ed. / editors, John Smullen, Nicholas Hand. Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2005. Barr Smith Reference collection (not for loan)
332.03 B985d.3

Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information systems / edited by Gordon B. Davis. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Business, c1999, c1997.

Oxford English Dictionary  (subscription)
This web page lists a number of online English dictionaries and a thesaurus

Oxford Reference Online  (subscription)
Has over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works. For example: "Economics & Business" link unders Subject Reference or the Visual Dictionary under English language dictionaries.

The Business who’s who of Australia: a biographical dictionary and register of prominent people within business and industry in Australia.  Sydney, R.G. Riddell Pty. Ltd., . 2 volumes 
Barr Smith Reference collection (not for loan) 
338.405
B979

Library list of Reference resources  - sort by: Date(latest first). 

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Ethics

See this Professional Ethics Library Resource guide ( by Alan Keig) for an excellent list of Business Ethics resourses as well as links to books and dictionaries.

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Past Exam Papers

The School of Business has embargoed (blocked) access to the librarys collection of  all exam papers (Commerce, Business, AGSB).  Students should ask their lecturer about exam preparation. 

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Books, Journals, Newspapers etc

All resources purchased by the Library either print, electronic/ internet, DVD, microfilm etc can be found by searching the Library Catalogue.  For demonstrations on how to search the Catalogue click here.

To locate a known journal / newspaper articles (print or electronic) search the Catalogue for the journal / newspaper title NOT the article title. More info ...

See the Books & Journals section of the specific course guide with linked searches to get you started.

Note University of Adelaide staff & students can use the Reciprocal Borrowing service for borrowing items from Flinders & UniSA Libraries.

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Beyond basics

For post graduate by research students & academic staff

Resources supporting research
Includes the items below as well as information such as journal alerts , how to set up an RSS feeds and searching other Library catalogues (eg: Worldcat).

View this Journal Alert demonstration for the Business Source Complete (EbscoHost) database (5 mins)  NOTE: the navigation bar top right hand corner and "Next" buttons.
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The EbscoHost databases index thousands of journals from a wide range of publishers making it possible to manage many alerts in one system.
-   You can also set up topic and author alerts.
-   If the Library has a subscription to full text there will be a Catalogue record, for the journal title, with a link to the supplier.

Conference Alerts: Academic conferences worldwide
Search for a conference by topic or place. Add a local conference.   get email updates on conferences. Also see:

All Conferences
Tradeshow week (USA)
Expoworld - international
Confabb conferences - international

Endnote software for storing & managing references and produce your bibliography.

Interlibrary Requests (Document Delivery)
When you need items not found in our Library Catalogue make an Interlibrary Request.  There is an up front charge for this service by either entering an account code obtained from admin staff in the School or by paying cash at the Library Services Desk and entering receipt number and date on the electronic request form. Most articles are supplied in less than a week direct to your email.

Theses : how to find them

Essay and thesis writing style guides
see also: Cryer, Pat. (2006, 3rd ed) The research student's guide to success. McGraww-Hill Education, Berkshire UK.
        BSL Main Collection  378.170281 C957r.3

Harvard referencing style

 

Research Methods

A selection of ebooks available via the Library Catalogue..

A selection of all books available via the Library Catalogue, check for more titles by clicking on a Subject Heading.

 

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Research Librarian

These web guides are intended as starting points.  Staff and students are encouraged to contact  Bernadine Hardin for research assistance beyond the basics resources listed here. 

To make an appointment to see me:

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Updated: 17th November 2009 by Bernadine Hardin