Research method and academic writing D How do I find scientific articles?

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Research method and academic writing DHow do I
find scientific articles?

• Magnus Olsson, Umeå university libarary
• magnus.olsson_at_ub.umu.se
• Tel [phone]
• Web page http//www.ub.umu.se/tjanste/maol/

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Agenda

• Evaluation of information sources
• Search strategies and search tools in databases
• Business Source Premier
• Some quality internet sources for business
• Workshop

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Evaluation of information sources a few
guidelines

• Author and Publisher
• Tendency
• Purpose and audience
• Recency
• Edition
• References

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How do I get hold of this specific scholarly
article?

• Buchanan, D. Dawson, P. (2007) Discourse and
  Audience Organizational Change as Multi-Story
  Process, Journal of Management Studies 44(5) 669
  686.

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During Research method and academic writing you
should find and use two scholarly (scientific)
articles not included on the reading list.How
do I find scholarly articles?For example in of
our databases Business Source Premier
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Search strategies in databases

• What words should I use when searching?
• How do I expand my search?
• How do I limit my search?
• How do I search using keywords?

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Keywords

• Thesaurus, Descriptors, subject words, A-Z, Index
  etc.
• Tags

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Business source premier

• Business Source Premier is a full text business
  database, covering management, economics,
  finance, accounting, international business.
• Peer-review
• Thesaurus

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Thesaurus
Peer-review
Fulltext
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Off-Campus Access to Umea University Library's
databases, e-books and e-journals

• http//www.ub.umu.se/eng_infosok/eng_hemifr.htm

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Other information sources

• Encyclopedias and dictionaries
• Encyclopedia Britanica, New Palgrave dictionary
  of economics
• Books
• Album

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Quality Internet sources, some examples

• http//www.europages.com/ (directory of
  companies/products)
• http//www.euromonitor.com/ (business
  intelligence on industries, countries and
  consumers)
• http//ec.europa.eu/enterprise/index_en.htm (EU
  DG Enterprise and Industry's website),
  statistics, news
• http//www.scb.se/default____2154.aspx (swedish
  business statistics)
• http//epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/porta
  l/eurostat/home/ (EU and candidate countries)

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For internet sources in your reference list
include the following information

• Name of author, organization, corporation or
  authority
• Year when information was updated (if available)
• Name of web page or document
• Title of web site
• Complete URL (http//.), and
• Date when you retrieved the information
• Example IMF (2010), Statement by an IMF Mission
  to Nicaragua,
• http//www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2010/pr1084.
  htm (2010-03-12)

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How do I write references?

• http//libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm
  ?harvard_id_remove88 (Harvard)

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Subject librarians

• magnus.olsson_at_ub.umu.se
• stefan.fleig_at_ub.umu.se