ACCT 6007 finding online newspaper and journal articles for your assignment

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ACCT 6007finding online newspaper and journal
articles for your assignment
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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  cite authors but often do not cite their sources.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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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 Business
  Source Premier or Proquest 5000

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How do you find newspaper journal articles????
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www.library.usyd.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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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
audit
Combine using OR
fraud detection

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An OR search will locate documents with both
terms or with either fraud detection or audit
audit
fraud detection
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REMEMBER!

• AND narrows, refines search
• australia and new zealand
• both terms must be in articles
• 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 audit
• ? audit, auditing, auditor, auditors etc

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understanding what that journal citation means
and how to find it if there is no direct link
from the database.

• 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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Use the library catalogue to find journals that
are not linked to the databases or appear on
reading list
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select the journal option and enter the title of
the journal
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• Sue Thomas
• Economics and Business Liaison Librarian for
  accounting
• s.thomas_at_library.usyd.edu.au