Library Information Skills Part 2:

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Library Information SkillsPart 2

• Electronic Resources

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This Class will look at

• 3 - 4 major Business Management Databases
• Searching techniques, retrieval and downloading
  results.
• Locating E-Journals by title.
• Internet Guides for Business Management
• Evaluation and Citation of sources.

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You should

• Be able to access electronic resources on or off
  campus.
• Have the search skills necessary to use the
  subject databases
• Be able to use internet subject portals to
  retrieve quality web sources.
• Be able to evaluate and cite your sources
  appropriately
• Know who to contact for more help.

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Access to Databases

• Almost all are available on or off campus
• Athens authentication required for most databases
  off-campus
• Separate passwords required for the rest
• Not to be confused with Single Sign-on login

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Full-text Journal Services

• BUSINESS
• ABI/Inform (Proquest)
• European Business ASAP
• Emerald Fulltext
• Lexis-Nexis
• MULTIDISCIPLINARY
• SwetsWise
• ScienceDirect

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Company Information and Market Research

• Company Financial Information
• - Europe Intelligence Wire on Lexis-Nexis
• - FAMEanalysis
• - Market Direct
• Market Research
• - Mintel Reports
• - Keynote Reports
• - Lexis-Nexis

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Newspapers

• Proquest Newspaper LibraryFinancial Times, The
  Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Independent on
  Sunday, Guardian and Belfast Telegraph.
• Lexis-Nexis Newspaper and Business sources
  11,000 sources, incl. 70 UK regional and
  national newspapers, foreign newspapers in
  English and original languages.

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Search Strategies

• Think of synonyms (alternative words) for your
  topic heading
• Use AND, OR, NOT and ( ) connectors to link
  multiple keywords
• Each database uses truncation and wildcards
• Each database has similarities but each has
  particular strengths or weaknesses

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ABI/Inform

• Largest full-text database for business
  information
• 1,185 active titles - 750 are full-text
• Academic professional/trade journals
• Has a strong American bias

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European Business ASAP

• Over 130 full text titles - some overlap with ABI
• Mixture of academic and trade journals
• Complements ABIs American bias - good for
  UK/Irish company information

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Emerald Fulltext

• 120 titles from the publisher MCB (90 academic)
• Particularly good for management information
• Useful assistance grading or rating articles
• Can be broken down by article type e.g.
  survey, comparative, literature review etc.

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Locating Full Text Electronic Journals by Title

• 6,000 full text journals from 100 databases
  rearranged into alphabetical order.
• Accessed through the Library Homepage
  http//www.ulster.ac.uk/library

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Two search options

• Titles beginning with
• allows you to search by either the first word(s)
  or full title of the journal.
• No abbreviations may be used

• Titles Containing
• Useful, if not sure of the correct title.
• Helps identify other journals on the same subject
• BUT! Relevant journals without the keyword will
  not be displayed.

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Online Subject Guides

• Internet Guides available for a range of business
  topic areas see http//www.ulst.ac.uk/library/bu
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• Campus Specific guides also available
• Checklist of resources.

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Why evaluate sources?

• Quality sources help produce good quality work
  ( higher grades).
• Search engines produce good and bad hits.
• See handout for more details

• AUTHORITY
• ACCURACY
• OBJECTIVITY
• CURRENCY
• COVERAGE

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Why worry about Citation?

• Poor citation skills lose marks
• Incomplete/wrong citations prevent further
  research.
• See the Library Information Skills Training
  page at http//www.ulst.ac.uk/library
• See also Research Methods books in the Library at
  H62 and HD30.4

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Contact Information

• See Library Homepage
• My Details are on checklist
• Phone, email or visit in personSubject queries,
  password information, login problems, Athens
  inquiries.

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Handouts

• You should all have the following
• Password sheet
• Handout on Evaluation of Sources
• Previous Class
• Business Management Checklist
• Handout on prefixes

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Hands-On Sessions - LRC

• Part-time Students
• 6.15pm 7.05pm tonight.
• Full time students
• Monday 13th October
• 2.15pm, 3.15pm or 4.15pm
• Please attend assigned session only.

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Any Questions?