Locating Business Studies Resources

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Locating Business Studies Resources

• Lingnan University Library
• Sep 2007

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Outline

• Handouts
• OPAC vs Electronic Databases
• How to construct a search?
• EBSCOhost
• PQD
• Emerald Fulltext
• JSTOR
• Internet Resources
• Statistical Resources

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OPAC vs Electronic Database

• OPAC Online Public Access Catalogue
• Allows you to search for all kinds of library
  materials such as books, journals, AV materials,
  etc.
• Electronic Databases
• Bibliographic Databases - contains descriptive
  information (citation and subject headings) for
  publications, such as books, periodical articles,
  government documents, etc.
• Full-text Databases - contains the partial or
  complete text of works, such as articles, books,
  poems, and essays.

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How to construct a search (1)

• Four steps to construct a search
• 1. Identify main concepts
• E-commerce in Hong Kong
• Main concepts e-commerce, Hong Kong

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How to construct a search(2)

• 2. Choice of search words
• Related key terms/synonyms
• E-commerce, electronic commerce, e-business,
  electronic business
• Hong Kong hongkong, hk

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How to construct a search (3)

• 3. Search command (1)
• AND searches records that mention both search
  terms, this narrows the search
• e.g. e-commerce and hong kong
• OR finds records in which one or both search
  terms appear, this broadens the search
• e.g. e-commerce or electronic commerce

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How to construct a search (4)

• 3. Search command (2)
• Truncation retrieves all variant endings of that
  word
• EBSCOhost
• ProQuest
• LexisNexis Academic !
• OPAC
• e.g. bank -- retrieves all words that start
  with bank such as bank, banks, banker, banking,
  etc.
• ( )Parentheses gives priority and order in the
  search statement
• e.g. (e-commerce or electronic commerce) and hong
  kong

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How to construct a search (5)

• 4. Search Statement
• Construct a search statement with terms you
  want to search on and use the appropriate search
  command(s)
• e.g. (e-commerce or electronic commerce or
  e-business or electronic business) and hong kong

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• The Effects to the Hong Kong and Chinese
  Economies after China Entering the WTO
• Main concepts
• Hong Kong, China, WTO, Economies

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Databases

• EBSCOhost
• ProQuest
• Emerald Fulltext
• JSTOR
• Access http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/eresources/

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Internet Resources

• Business Studies
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/links/pages/Business_
  Studies/
• Hong Kong Information Business and Trade
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/links/pages/Hong_Kong
  _Information/Business_and_Trade/

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Statistical Resources

• Local statistical information
• Hong Kong Annual Digest of Statistics (REF
  HA1950.H6 A2)
• Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics   (SER
  HA4651 .H66)
• Hong Kong Statistics (http//www.censtatd.gov.hk/h
  ong_kong_statistics/)
• Highlights of Statistical Resources
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/usrguide/subguide/sta
  t.html

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• Ask A Librarian
• http//www.library.ln.edu.hk/eref/
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• refstaff_at_ln.edu.hk
• 2616-8571

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