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Title: Library Resources for Economics Money


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Library Resources for Economics(Money
Banking)2005
  • Tracy Robertson

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Overview
  • Using the Library web site
  • Understanding how library material is catalogued
  • Searching techniques
  • Resources for economics
  • Web-sites
  • Citation databases
  • Full-text databases
  • Searching hints

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Catalogue
  • Contains details of author, title and subjects
    for
  • Books
  • Journals
  • Videos
  • CDs
  • Maps
  • Does NOT contain details of authors and titles
    for
  • Articles published in journals
  • Papers presented at conferences
  • Chapters in books

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Catalogue Record
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Boolean Logic
  • Boolean Operators
  • AND, OR, NOT
  • Concepts are joined using AND
  • Synonyms for concepts are joined using
    OR.Source WebEzy Tutorial

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Searching Hints
  • Phrase balance of payments
  • Keyword macroeconomics
  • Operators fiscal and monetary fiscal or
    monetary fiscal and not monetary

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Searching Hints
  • Truncation financ institution mone poli
    ( unlimited letters)
  • Proximity market near money interest within 3
    bank

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Catalogue reference list
Makin, A.J. (2003) Global finance and the
macroeconomy. New York Palgrave Macmillan.
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Library Home Page
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Subject Guides
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The Internet
  • Authority Reputation
  • Accuracy
  • Currency Maintenance
  • Purpose
  • Dont forget to check the address .com .edu
    .gov .org .net

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Library database v Internet
  • Both are delivered via the Net
  • Library databases are not accessible to the
    general public authorisation is required
  • Content of library databases have been screened
    for relevance to a subject area, for reliability
    and quality

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Journal (aka periodical, serial or magazine)
  • Journals
  • published at regular intervals
  • retain same title
  • set number of issues per year eg. quarterly,
    monthly, weekly
  • expectation of unlimited duration

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Database types
  • Citation DatabasesInformation given is
    sufficient to identify where to locate the item
    within another source. Sometimes has link to our
    catalogue giving call-number
  • Full-text DatabasesCitation information is
    given, plus a link to the full-text article.
  • some databases are a combination of both

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Databases
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Useful databases
  • ABI Inform
  • Austats
  • CSI (Consumer Science Index)
  • Emerald
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
  • Factiva (newspapers)
  • GMID (Global Marketing Info. Database)
  • Informit
  • Proquest 5000
  • Web of Science

These are all available to access from home,
but you will need to use your library PIN to log
in.
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Example of citation
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Sample search (Emerald)
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Summary of results
  • TOPIC Beer and Australia
  • Australia
  • ?consumer markets
  • ?alcoholic drinks
  • ?beer
  • results
  • market share
  • Market report
  • world related rankings

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Link to the full-text (PFD format)
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Factiva (news business info.)
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Result summary
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Results
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Research Tips
  • Work from the general to the specific
  • Record what you find and where you found it
  • Translate your topic into the subject language of
    the indexes and catalogues you use
  • Save regularly, and email as back-up
  • Dont trust the printers!
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