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Endnote Referencing Software

Quick guide to Endnote X4

Speed Reading DVD
There is a speed reading video streamed on the Business School Online Lecture & Presentation page
Select class/group BUSADMIN 7XX. Note this is a large file and may be best viewed on a campus pc. The video cannot be downloaded.

Academic writing assistance
paraphrasing, APA referencing, plagiarism

APA referencing guide

Key business databases

Guides to evaluating, analysing & reading academic articles

Literature review guides

Link to Library PP on How to ascertain the research impact of an academic article


Library assistance 

Business Librarians are available 9 - 4.30pm weekdays in the
Business Information Centre, Level 2, Owen G Glenn Building,
and look forward to assisting you

Group project links

Any problems with page links, please contact
Lynne Mitchell, GSE Library Coordinator.
Room 362, OGGB Bldg.

 

 



Endnote

Quick Guide to Endnote for for GSE students

Endnote - University of Auckland Library

 

Key business databases & Database tutorials

  • Business Source Premier
    BSP provides full text for nearly 7,800 business journals both popular and academic content. Includes the Harvard Business Review & Mc Kinsey Quarterly. Some crossover with ABI/Inform but often advisable to search both databases.
  • ABI/Inform
    Includes both popular and academic journals with some different content and smaller number of journals than BSP. Same North American focus .
  • Emerald (U.K management database)
    All journals in Emerald are academic, smaller coverage but high quality research journals
  • ScienceDirect
    A source of full text highly academic articles for business and management , search in the Business & Management field.

See full listing of Business databases

Business database tutorials & guides
Business Information Skills Online - an online, interactive tutorial

 

Links to reading, analysing,evaluating academic articles
How to analyze a scholarly article. University of South Carolina, History Dept.
How to read a scientific paper. Purdue University Library
Critique of an academic article, Massey University
How to read an academic article, Becky Rosenberg, Ph.D. University of Washington

Literature review guides
Some tips on literature reviews

Literature Review Guide, Massey University
Literature Reviews - Student Learning Centre, University of Auckland
How To Do A Literature Review? - North Carolina A & T State University
The Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting It - University of Toronoto
Writing a Literature Review - University of Canberra

To see the rankings of particular academic journals, you can use the Journal Citiation Reports Database
Select the Social Science category and select to search in Business journals

Academic writing

Library module on academic writing, paraphrasing & citing

University of Auckland Student Learning Centre - paraphrasing & quoting

Academic Writing Guide, Massey University

Avoiding Plagiarism:Achieving Academic writing
University of Adelaide Tutorial with excellent content

UTS Guide to writing business assignments

Essay Writing , Massey University

Group & team projects resources
Successful Group Projects, University of Leicester
Successful Group Projects University of East Angelia
Hot groups. ; Leavitt, Harold J.; Lipman-Blumen, Jean., Harvard Business Review,  Jul/Aug 95, Vol, 73, Issue 4.
How to be a team player--and make sure your team gets results; Robert R Picard; Cost Management Update, Montvale; Sep 1998, Iss. 90; pg. 1, 2 pgs.
Being a better team player
; Jay T. Knippen; Journal of Workplace Learning, Bradford; 1999; Vol. 11, Iss. 4; pg. 146

 

Exam techniques

Sitting postgraduate exams, University of Auckland Student Learning Centre
Study skills, University of Greenwich
Academic tip sheets, Edith Cowan University

 


Comments and suggestions to: Lynne Mitchell
 Last updated: 10 February, 2012
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