Business
Starting point contains definitions, facts, figures and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information
than a dictionary
- Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts
Use the catalogue
to search for more dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
You can search the Library Catalogue to find books, DVDs, journals and other materials
If you know the exact title in the New catalogue
- At the search screen select a Title search
- Type in the exact title. You can use double quotes around phrases, for example, “room with a view”
- Link to online material or take note of the collection, call number and status to find items in the Library
If you are searching for a topic in the New catalogue
- Type in keywords from your topic to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
For example,
+business +ethic
- Use + before a word to indicate that the word must be included
- Another way of doing this is to combine keywords with AND (the AND must be in upper case)
- If a keyword search gives you too many results, you could add another keyword with +
For example, +business +ethic +communication
Truncation is generally not needed as entering any version of a word will retrieve many variations.
More information
- For more information select the catalogue Help button
Databases and journal articles for Business
Use databases to search for journal articles, book chapters, conference papers or
research reports
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Databases |
Notes |
Help |
| APAFT Australian public affairs full text | Provides indexing and selected full text access to Australian literature in business, health, social sciences and humanities | Help and tips are available online from the APAFT search screen |
| Business source complete | Provides information covering all areas of business including accounting and finance; banking; finance and insurance; construction; computer science; economics and more. Includes country economic reports as well as detailed company profiles | An online video is available from the Library home page - Online Training. Help and tips are available online from the Business Source Complete search screen |
| Emerald management xtra | A full text database including reviews from the world's leading management journals, case studies, literature reviews, book reviews, conference information, interviews, profiles and 'How to...' guides | An online video is available from the Library home page - Online Training. Help and tips are available online from the Emerald Management Xtra search screen. |
| ScienceDirect | Contains the full text of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals. Subject coverage includes the life, medical, technical, social and physical sciences | An online video is available from the Library home page - Online Training. Help and tips are available online from the Science Direct search screen |
Complete list of Business databases. Also check the multidisciplinary databases as they cover a wide range of academic topics. You can select other subjects from the database subject list
Full text not available?
When the full text is not available, search for the journal title in the Library
catalogue to discover if print or online copies are available
Database search tips
- Define your topic and identify the main concepts involved
For example corporate culture and team*
- Make a list of keywords for each concept
For example
corporate culture, company culture, organisational culture
team, teams, teamwork, team work, teambuilding, groups, collaboration
- Think about how you can combine these keywords in your search using OR, AND or
NOT
Keywords on the same concept combine with an OR
Combine different concepts with an AND
For example
corporate culture or company culture or organisational culture
and
team* or groups or collaboration
- Appropriate truncation symbols can be used in databases to find variations of
a word, for example team* finds team, teams, teamwork, teambuilding and so on
For help with searching databases see Connecting and Combining Search Terms or Truncation/Wildcards/Phrase searching: Basic or Online training or Ask the Library
It is important to critically evaluate all information you find particularly
information found on the web.
This is a starting list of internet sites. You may want to do your own searches
using
search engines
- Business SA: the hive of industry Includes a variety of resources, and outlines available business services and training from South Australia's leading business organisation
- South Australia.biz Provides articles on South Australian business news, and statistically advocates SA's business capabilities in a range of sectors
- Bschool Links to undergraduate, graduate, and executive education business program websites and lists published rankings
- Business writers free library Provides resources on basic composition and writing skills, samples of written forms and reference materials from the Free Management Libary
For further information about any of these resources please contact the
Ask the Library service or ask at the library desk
Coordinated by: BUE Academic Library Services Team