ACCT 6007 Contemporary Issues in Auditing summer school 2006 finding online newspaper and journal ar

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ACCT 6007 - Contemporary Issues in
Auditingsummer school 2006
finding online newspaper and journal articles
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Factiva for newspapers

• News and general interest periodicals sometimes
  cite authors but often do not cite their sources.
  
• Report facts and dates but
• Articles may be written by a member of the
  editorial staff, a scholar or a even a free lance
  writer
• The language of these publications is geared to
  any audience. There is no specialty assumed, only
  interest
• The main purpose of periodicals in this category
  is to provide information, in a general manner to
  a wide audience

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Find additional references using

• ELECTRONIC DATABASES
• Electronic databases search journals.
• Many will link directly to the journal article.
• USYD databases can be searched remotely if you
  are a student or staff member.

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journal articles

• Scholarly journals (or peer reviewed) have
  serious approach.
• They may contain many graphs and charts but few
  pictures or photographs.
• Scholarly journals always cite their sources in
  the form of footnotes or bibliographies.
• Articles are written by a scholar in the field or
  by someone who is recognised in the area.
• The language of scholarly journals is that of the
  discipline covered.
• They assume the reader has some scholarly
  background on the topic discussed.
• Scholarly journals report on original research
  (or experimentation) in order to make such
  information available to the rest of the
  scholarly world
• You can find these in databases e.g ABI or
  Business Source Premier

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Getting Started

• Identify key terms and concepts
• Find the keywords
• Break your essay question into concepts
• Find the relevant keywords for each concept

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Narrowing your search AND
Combine using AND
insolvent and westpoint
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Broadening your search OR
New Zealand
Combine using OR
Australia

• .

An OR search will locate documents with both
terms or with either Australia or New Zealand
Australia
New Zealand
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REMEMBER!

• AND narrows, refines search
• australia and new zealand
• both terms must be in articles or books
• OR broadens your search and will allow you
  search for material containing related terms or
  synonyms or if Going concern or solvency
• both or either term will be in items retrieved in
  a search

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Using Truncation Wildcards

• Put an asterisk at the end of a word stem
• to search for all possible endings to that word.
• Example account
• ? account, accounts, accounting, accountancy,
  accountant, accountants accountableetc.

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Use the library catalogue to find journals that
are not linked to the databases
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select the journal option and enter the title
(ignore the if its the first word)
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understanding what that journal citation means
and how to find it.

• Jeffrey. C., 1993, Ethical development of
  accounting students, non-accounting business
  students and liberal arts students, Issues in
  Accounting Education,
• 8 (1), 86-96.
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  journal title

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remember the USYD library web pagewww.library.usy
d.edu.au
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access

• access the databases (including Factiva) via
  database/databases
• by subject
• or
• Accounting Subject Guide

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a help sheet is available for Acct 3012..
http//www.library.usyd.edu.au/subjects/economics/
accounting.html
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• Sue Thomas
• Economics and Business Liaison Librarian
• s.thomas_at_library.usyd.edu.au

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Good Luck !!