Business School Resource Guides
Research Librarian - Bernadine
Hardin
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).
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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.
- 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.
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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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