BACHELOR OF ACCOUNTING

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T A N S R I L O Y H E A N H E O N G L I B R
A R Y II
INFORMATION LITERACY
BACHELOR OF ACCOUNTING FINANCE YEAR 1
PRESENTED BY NUR AZURA TAJUDIN
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TOPIC COVERED

• SEARCH STRATEGIES
• SEARCH ENGINES
• GOOGLE SCHOLAR
• UWE DATABASES
• UWE WEB LINK
• UWE BUSINESS TOPICS
• TAYLORS LIBRARY RESOURCES
• FINANCIAL PORTAL, IT PORTAL MANAGEMENT PORTAL

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SEARCHING STRATEGIES

• Choose good keywords and phrases
• Brainstorming your ideas
• List all keywords and phrases
• Be Specific
• Create target searches by using quotation marks
  
• Try different searches
• Try more than 1 search engine
• Use advanced search techniques
• Use advanced search in search engines e.g .
  Boolean Operator
• Browse a subject list
• Choose a search engine and database according to
  your subject needs

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Choose good keywords and phrases

• Exercises
• What are the benefits and barriers associated
  with the achievement of a work-life balance for
  employees and employers
• Question List all the main ideas
• Answer benefit, barrier, achievement, work-life
  balance- employees, employers

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2) Be Specific

• Quotation Mark
• Enclosing your search terms in quotation marks
  yields results in which the words appear in the
  specified order adjacent to one another. This may
  be helpful for keyword and full text (entire
  document) searches, especially when you are
  searching for an exact phrase.
• Eg work-life balance

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3) Search Engines

• Crawler-based
• www.google.com
• www.altavista.com
• www.exalead.com/search
• Directories
• www.yahoo.com
• www.lycos.com
• Meta
• www.dogpile.com
• www.polymeta.com
• www.jux2.com

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GOOGLE SCHOLAR www.google.com.my
- To find scholarly article (written by the
professional)
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4) Use advanced search techniques
(Boolean Operators)

• OR, AND NOT, are often described as
  connectors, Boolean operators or logical
  operators.

Use AND to make your search more specific and to
combine different concepts. Use NOT to find
items containing one of your keywords but not the
other. Use OR to make your search broader and to
combine words with similar meanings
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5) Browse a subject list by choosing a search
engine and database according to your subject
needs
UWE LIBRARY SERVICES www.uwe.ac.uk/library/tayl
ors
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LIBRARY CATALOGUE (ONLINE JOURNAL)
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LIBRARY CATALOGUE (ONLINE JOURNAL)
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LIBRARY CATALOGUE (ONLINE JOURNAL)
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LIBRARY CATALOGUE (ONLINE JOURNAL)
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LIBRARY CATALOGUE (ONLINE JOURNAL)
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UWE LOG IN
First time you connect to a resource which uses
an Athens username and password, you will see
this screen click 'I am from the University of
the West of England...'.
You should select 'I am not from the University
of the West of England', and
then enter your Athens username and
password as usual.
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LIBRARY CATALOGUE (ONLINE JOURNAL)
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BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT DATABASES
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BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT DATABASES

• Business Insights with Access Asia..
• Business Source Premier.
• CAB Abstracts.
• EBSCO Host Electronic Journals Service (EJS).
• Econlit.
• Emerald.
• IMID (Institute of Management International
  Database).
• IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social
  Sciences).
• Marketline.

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WEB LINK
Find useful Web pages, Internet gateways and
organizations.
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BUSINESS TOPIC
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TAYLORS LIBRARY RESOURCES http//library.taylors
.edu.my/
TAYLORS LIBRARY---- LIBRARY RESOURCES----ONLINE
DATABASES/ E-JOURNALS/ E-NEWSPAPER
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TAYLORS LIBRARY RESOURCES
TAYLORS LIBRARY ---- LIBRARY RESOURCES----ONLINE
DATABASES
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TAYLORS LIBRARY RESOURCES
TAYLORS LIBRARY---- LIBRARY RESOURCES----E-JOURNA
LS
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TAYLORS LIBRARY RESOURCES
TAYLORS LIBRARY ---- LIBRARY RESOURCES----
ONLINE NEWSPAPER
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TAYLORS LIBRARY RESOURCES
TAYLORS LIBRARY ---- LIBRARY RESOURCES----RESOURC
ES BY SUBJECT
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ebrary
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FINANCIAL PORTALS www.finweb.com
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IT INDUSTRY PORTAL http//www.earthweb.com/
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ECONOMIC BUSINESS PORTAL http//www.questia.com
/library/economics-and-business/
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INFOMINE http//infomine.ucr.edu/
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Exercise

• Q1 List 5 Searching Strategies?
• Q2 Indicate step on how to access Taylor's
  Libraries Online Databases?
• Q3 List the 6 categories in Taylor's Library
  website?
• Q4 Please indicate the URL Address for the UWE
  website?
• Q5 Choose 4 databases that are available for
  Business Management topics?
• Q6 List 3 types of search engines?
• Q7 Give 3 URL addresses for META search engines?
• Q8 You are looking for hardware information (eg.
  Motherboard specification), Which website will
  you use?
• Q9 What type of information will you get from
  the financial portal?
• Q10 By using the UWE catalogue, the user can
  access the online journal? True OR False

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THANK YOU....