Amber Lannon Christina Sylka

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Amber LannonChristina Sylka
IMBA 2006Resources for the Major Group Project
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You will learn

• How to use the David Lam Library collection to
  find material for the major group project
• How to get research assistance from Business
  Information Experts
• Citing Sources and avoiding plagiarism

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David Lam Library Website

• Your gateway to accessing quality information
  resources for assignments, cases, group
  projects
• http//www.library.ubc.ca/lam/

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Library Licensed Databases

• 50 licensed databases
• Articles, news, data, company information,
  industry analysis, investor reports, market
  research, and more
• Available via wireless network library
• Virtual Private Network http//www.library.ubc.ca/
  home/proxyinfo/

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Our Example
Hotels Motels Industry
Fairmont Hotels Resorts
Shenzhen Century Plaza
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Business Databases
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articles about companies, industries, and news
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ABI/Inform, CDN Newsstand, CBCA

• Good starting point for background information
• Full text of 1000 business journals
• Wall Street Journal updated daily
• National Post, Vancouver Sun, Canadian Business
  Magazine, BC Business
• Indexes Harvard Business Review, Economist
• http//toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?
  id4

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Lexis Nexis Academic

• Fulltext news, government, legal, finance and
  business information services
• http//toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?
  id660

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Also try

• Business Source Premierhttp//toby.library.ubc.ca
  /resources/infopage.cfm?id912
• Business Industryhttp//toby.library.ubc.ca/res
  ources/infopage.cfm?id515
• Factivahttp//toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infop
  age.cfm?id970

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Market research data
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Global Market Information

• business intelligence on country economies
• demographics, consumers, lifestyles, companies
  and industries
• http//toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?
  id1004

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Also try

• Print Measurement Bureau
• Canadian market data
• http//toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?
  id1110

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Analyst reports
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Investext

• Investment, company and industry reports from
  over 500 brokers in North America, Europe,
  Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the
  Middle East
• All company and industry reports are provided in
  full page PDF image
• http//toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?
  id316

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Websites
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Strategis
http//strategis.ic.gc.ca/
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financial statements company profiles
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Mergent

• U.S. International
• public company data
• enhanced features
• http//toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?
  id855

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Also try

• FP Advisorhttp//toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/in
  fopage.cfm?id676
• Hoovers Company Profileshttp//toby.library.ubc.
  ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id778

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Filings
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SEDAR
http//www.sedar.com/
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Research Guides
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Group Rooms Laptops

• Room 220 large table, chalk board, Internet
  access for laptops, and electrical outlets
  accommodates up to 10 people located on the
  north side of the library's first floor
• Room 335 computer, whiteboard, board table and
  comfortable chairs accommodates up to 6 people
• Rooms 221, 222, 223, 224 private/small group
  study rooms for up to 2 or 3 equipped with
  laptop ports, chalk boards, table and chairs
  located on the north side of the library's first
  floor.
• For Group Study Rooms and Laptops visit the
  Circulation Desk, just inside the main doors.

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Research Assistance

• Open 10-4 Monday to Friday
• Staffed by 3 friendly and helpful Librarians
  Amber, Christina, Jan
• 604-822-9399 (Reference Desk)

Email MSN amber.lannon_at_ubc.ca
604-827-5238Email MSN christina.sylka_at_ubc.ca
604-822-9390Email MSN jan.wallace_at_ubc.ca
604-822-9392
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What is Plagiarism?

• Examples
• Copying someone elses work
• Using someone elses statistics, ideas material
  without acknowledging them
• Taking phrases, sentences, paragraphs and piecing
  them together into a paragraph or essay
• Sloppy references or incomplete information

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When should I give credit?

• When you use or refer to someone elses work or
  ideas from a journal, book, magazine, newspaper,
  song, movie, Web page, letter, or any other
  medium
• Information gained through interviewing a person
• Exact words or a unique phrase
• When you reprint diagrams, illustrations, charts,
  pictures
• Using ideas that are not your own
• OWL Avoiding Plagiarism, accessed August 11
  2004. Purdue University. http//owl.english.purdue
  .edu/handhours/print/research/r_plagiar.html

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What dont I have to document?

• Your own experiences, observations, insights,
  thoughts, conclusions
• Common knowledge, common sense observations,
  shared information within your field of study
• Generally accepted facts
• When you are writing up your own experimental
  results
• OWL Avoiding Plagiarism, accessed August 11
  2004. Purdue University. http//owl.english.purdue
  .edu/handhours/print/research/r_plagiar.html

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Strategies

• Avoid panic situations, keep track of deadlines
• Make sure you understand the instructors
  expectations
• Start research early
• Read articles, take notes in point form,
  carefully document
• Create an outline
• Write by consulting your own notes
• Baca, Paola. Plagiarism avoided taking
  responsibility for your work. Vancouver, U.B.C.
  Faculty of Arts, 1999.

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Citing Correctly

• APA American Psychological Association Styleis
  most often used in the Social Sciences Getting
  Started with APA
• NoodleTools http//www.noodletools.com/
• Choose "NoodleBib Express" for a free tool that
  creates basic APA style citations for you
• Business Citation Guides
• http//toby.library.ubc.ca/webpage/webpage.cfm?id
  553
• http//toby.library.ubc.ca/webpage/webpage.cfm?id
  564

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How do I pick out the elements?

• From ABI Inform
• Author, Date, Article Title, Journal Title,
  Volume/Issue, Pages

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Incorporating quotes original Paragraph

• Hugh Dow, president of M2 Universal in Toronto,
  says there's been a consistent decline in hours
  tuned among listeners 12 to 24, especially
  teenagers. Using BBM fall book numbers for the
  last five years, Dow says the time teens spent
  listening to radio fell to 8.5 hours a week from
  10.5. For listeners ages 18 to 24, the number of
  hours tuned fell from 18.1 to 15.6. This falling
  away, says Dow, is not a short-term issue or
  challenge. One of reasons for this falling
  away, one that is repeated again and again, is
  the assertion that kids haven't given up on
  radio radio has given up on kids. Consultant Liz
  Janik, of Liz Janik Associates in Toronto, admits
  to getting exercised on the subject. She says the
  medium abandoned young listeners rather than the
  other way around, and well before the new
  technologies came along to fragment their
  listening habits
• Chilton, D (2005). Is radio done? Marketing
  Magazine, 110(19), 15-17. Retrieved August 20,
  2005 from Business Source Premier database

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Correctly Paraphrasing

• When paraphrasing, you must refer to the original
  source.
• E.g.,
• The youth audience for radio has been steadily
  declining. (Chilton, 2005)
• Or
• Chilton acknowledges that the youth audience for
  radio has been steadily declining. (2005)

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Direct quotes

• Include a page number if you are quoting
• Chilton (2005) confirms the declining audience
  for radio, pointing out that in the past 5 years,
  the time teens spent listening to radio fell to
  8.5 hours a week from 10.5. For listeners ages 18
  to 24, the number of hours tuned fell from 18.1
  to 15.6. (p.15)

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More on Avoiding Plagiarism

• Plagiarism guide in the David Lam LibraryBaca,
  Paola. Plagiarism avoided taking responsibility
  for your work. Vancouver, U.B.C. Faculty of Arts,
  1999. PN167 .B32 1999 (for reference), Also for
  sale at the Bookstore
• Free online version
• http//www.arts.ubc.ca/Plagiarism_Avoided.373.0.ht
  ml

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Citing Sources