Economics C & D

How to find scholarlyinformation to your thesis!

Magnus Olsson, Umeå University librarymagnus.olsson@ub.umu.se

http://www.ub.umu.se/tjanste/maol/

Today´s agenda

• Evaluation of information sources• Google scholar• Scholarly articles and journals• Search strategies and search tecniques in databases• Libris• Econlitt• Business Source Premier

Evaluation of information sources – a few guidelines• Author and Publisher• Tendency• Purpose and audience• Recency• Edition• References

Further reading…

• http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm

Scholarly articles often have this structure…• Introduction• Methods och materials• Results

A• Discussion

Further information…

• http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/3890-primary-and-secondary-sources

• http://hj-lxstream.hj.se/doplay/module2publ (film 16 min, english subtitles)

Google scholar

• Introduced november 2004• Specialises in academic material on the internet• Everything in GS is not scholarly• Advanced search• Use english terms when you are searching

Information sourcesEncyclopedias

Encyclopedia BritannicaNationalencyclopedin

Specialized encyclopedias/Term dictionaries

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics International encyclopedia of the behavioural and social sciences

BooksAlbumLibris

Articles (databases)EconlittBusiness Source Premier (database depending on your subject)

StatisticsSCBEurostatSourceoecd

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?

Album

• Contains references to book from Umeå university library

Libris

• Contains references to books and journals from all Swedish university libraries

Libris

• Contains references to books and journals from all Swedish university libraries

Econlitt

• “comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more. EconLit records include abstracts of books, journal articles, and working papers published by the Cambridge University Press. These sources bring the total records available on the database to more than 825,000. Premier Package customers will have instant access to full text for nearly 250 journals indexed in EconLit”

• 4 SIMULTANEOUS users!

Business Source Premier

• is a full text business database, covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.

• Peer-review function• Thesaurus

Access to databases, e-books and e-journals off-campus

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

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 (International Monetary Fund) (2010), Statement by

an IMF Mission to Nicaragua,http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2010/pr1084.htm (2010-03-12)

References….

• http://www.deakin.edu.au/current-students/study-support/study-skills/handouts/oxford-docnote.php (oxford)

• http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicagogd.php (harvard)