International Business Strategy IBUS 2101

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International Business StrategyIBUS 2101
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access

• access the databases (via database/databases
• by subject
• or
• International Business
• Subject Guide

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Finding a company and company information

• Print (book)
• The Business Whos of Australia - (located in
  Fisher Librarys reference section behind the
  information desk at 338.0994 /15 ) for use in the
  library only. Information includes (if
  applicable) Internet address, line of business,
  importing information, exporting information,
  industry classification and ASX code if it is a
  public company
• Kompass (Electronic)
• Globally, Kompass offers access to
  information on 1.8 million companies, 750,000
  trade brand names, 3.6 million executive names.
  In Australia the database contains 32,685
  companies

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Company Annual Reports

• Listed or Public Company on the ASX
• Connect 4 Annual Report Collection Full-text
  database of the annual reports of the top 500
  publicly listed
• Fin Analysis (Aspect Huntley)A 12-year history
  of detailed financial information for all
  companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange
  
• Private company
• See the companys internet site - available in
  Business Whos Who of Australia or Kompass

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Business Source Premier(Select new interface)

• To find background information select
• Company Profiles (for large companies)
• Country reports (trial)
• Industry Profiles (trial)

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Finding information on a foreign country

• GMID Global Market Information Database
  Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an
  online business information system providing key
  business intelligence on countries, markets and
  companies. It provides users with historical
  statistics and forecasts, analysis of consumers'
  lifestyles, company profiles and information
  sources, plus full-text market analysis

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GMIDIndustries Countries Consumers Geographies
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How to cite GMID in your bibliography

• Global market information database (GMID)  
  Euromonitor London, U.K.  annual updating

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AustradeClick on Market Information tab at the
top to access a range of over 450 industry,
country, and 'industry within country' profiles
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AustradeMarket Information
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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
Global market and china
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Broadening your search OR
New zealand
Combine using OR
Australia

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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 import
• ? import, imports, importing etc.

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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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Business Source Premier has a direct link for
each entry Check University of Sydney Library
catalogue . If there is a link locate the article
using the year, volume and page numbers.
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remember the USYD library web pagewww.library.usy
d.edu.au

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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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a help sheet is available from the International
Business Subject Guide
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• Sue Thomas
• Economics and Business Liaison Librarian
• s.thomas_at_library.usyd.edu.au