Bs searching skills, plagiarism and referencing in your fyp oct 16
- 1. Searching Skills, Plagiarism and Referencing in your Final Year Project Catie Tuttle Subject Librarian (Business Undergraduates) Catie.Tuttle.1@city.ac.uk
- 2. What I’m going to cover: 1. What sort of information you might need to find 2. Which databases and resources you’ll use to find information 3. How to search the databases effectively 4. Referencing and avoiding plagiarism 5. How to get help when you’re stuck!
- 3. Refresher: what will you need to find and read? ■ Journal articles ■ Market research ■ News articles ■ Books ■ Company reports ■ Financial data … and anything else that you and your supervisor/tutors identify: government documents, corporate websites, conference proceedings, etc.
- 4. Where can you find it all? ■ Books: in the library – University Library at Northampton Square and the specialist Learning Resource Centre at Bunhill Row. ■ Online, via the Library homepage: we’ve got access to millions of articles, reports, e-books, market research, newspapers, etc. through our extensive library subscriptions. ■ Financial Resources Suite: Bloomberg, Morningstar, Eikon and Datastream available on the 5th Floor of the University Library and in the Financial Resources Zone at Bunhill Row.
- 5. Databases: where the good stuff is ■ Databases contain journal articles, reports, case studies, company information, country information, financial data, market research and more. ■ It’s good quality, authoritative information that you can only find through these subscription resources. ■ Using these databases to find information will help you get great marks. ■ You need to log into the databases to find this information: it’s not available for free just on the internet. ■ Use your subject guide to work out which database is best for what you’re looking for: http://libguides.city.ac.uk/businessstudies
- 6. General Starting Point: CityLibrary Search ■ Use the search box on the Library website: look for subject words or company names ■ CityLibrary Search will search across our books, articles and reports. ■ Use the facets on the left-hand side to narrow your search: ‘Full Text Online’ gives you just things you can read over the internet
- 7. Subject Guide • E-resources to use by topic • Referencing and Citation • Book an appointment
- 8. Key Academic Databases Business Source Complete Use for articles, market research, company, industry and country profiles, case studies, trade magazines, peer reviewed research, Harvard Business Review, images. Science Direct Huge database focused on academic, peer-reviewed articles. Also contains actual science, but huge amount of business and management information as well. ProQuest New database: peer-reviewed articles, newspapers, data, reports, trade journals... All sorts of stuff, not just business-specific. Wide-ranging and useful. Financial Times – FT.com Everyone can have a subscription to the excellent FT.com website, phone and tablet apps. The sign-up link is on the Cass Library Services Moodle page – use your city.ac.uk email to sign up.
- 9. Tips for accessing databases ■ Log in using your IT username and password. ■ Use the subject guide or the library catalogue for the right link. ■ In rare cases, you might need a special username and password… check the catalogue for details. ■ Most databases can be used from anywhere with an internet connection. ■ A few need special computers in the library, e.g. Bloomberg – see the subject guide for more information.
- 10. Science Direct • Searches across subjects, so be sure to narrow down to Business • Use Advanced Search option to search more complex terms
- 11. ProQuest Business Collection • Searches across newspaper articles, company reports, country reports and more • Select ‘Browse’ to get reports • Loads of filters help you find exactly what you’re looking for
- 12. Business Source Complete ■ Search term more than one word? Use “quotes” to search exact phrase ■ Link search terms: ■AND to get fewer results ■OR to get more results
- 13. Tips for searching databases • Think about a search strategy before you begin. • Consider making a “map” of your ideas to help • Helps you see connections between ideas to make search terms: Example • Books/website on this by Tony Buzan, available in our libraries • Make a list of the terms you try out as you search. • Stops the frustration of searching the same phrase repeatedly! • You can use the list to search the next database more quickly • Writing a list allows you to make new connections between concepts • Helps identify synonyms, alternative words/phrases
- 14. Refining your search ■Use the categories on the dropdown list of the database to search only a given field. ■Add ‘wildcards’ to search across different formations or spellings of the same root word. ■Using a * searches alternative endings (‘manag*’ will retrieve management, managers, managing, etc.) ■Using a ? Searches alternative spellings (‘organi?ation’ retrieves both ‘organization’ and ‘organisation’
- 15. Smart searching: where to look • Look in the reference list of your article for further research. • Use Business Source Complete, Web of Science or Google Scholar to find who has cited your article since it was published
- 16. Plagiarism: what is it? University Definition: ■ “Plagiarism is passing off the ideas or words of someone else as though they were your own. It applies equally to the work of other students as to published sources.” ■ “Submitting, as one's own, an assignment that another person has completed. ■ Downloading information, text, artwork, graphics or other material from the internet and presenting it as one's own without acknowledgment. ■ Quoting or paraphrasing material from a source without acknowledgment.” ■ Using other people’s ideas without acknowledgement. City University London (2012) ‘City University Assessment and Feedback Policy’ Available at: http://www.city.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/68921/assessment_and_feedback_policy.pdf (Accessed 22 September 2016).
- 17. Avoiding Plagiarism : Resources ■ Cass Student Intranet ■ Watch our Library Shorts Film: Basics of Referencing ■ Studywell: Online guidance, quizzes and case studies to help you learn ■ If in doubt, reference it! Use Cite Them Right Online ■ You can also check with your lecturer or ask a librarian if you’re unsure what to do.
- 18. Why put citations and references in your work? ■ We cite all ideas, quotes, data, opinions, etc. that are not our own by telling the reader where it came from. ■ Careful referencing protects you from accidental plagiarism ■ Reference as you go along in your notes and your work so you can always trace ideas back ■ Good referencing makes your work more scholarly: ■ Shows your wide range of reading & sources ■ Shows good awareness of academic norms & standards ■ Helps back up your arguments with work of other scholars ■ Can show how hard you worked!
- 19. What does it look like? Example: Journal articles You can see good referencing habits whenever you look at a journal article. Example of a Harvard Style reference: In-text citation: According to Ready, certain qualities can be identified early in the recruitment process (2010, p. 53). Reference list: Ready, D. et al (2010) ‘The anatomy of a high potential’, Business Strategy Review, 21(3), pp. 52-55.
- 20. Referencing and Citation Help ■ Cite Them Right Online Brilliant guide to Harvard Referencing, best place to find layouts, help, advice. ■ Books in the library: • Neville, C. (2010) Complete Guide to Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism, 2nd ed. Maidenhead: Open University Press. • Pear, R., Shields, G. (2013) Cite Them Right: the Essential Referencing Guide, 9th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ■ Subject Guide Citing and Referencing Tab: • http://libguides.city.ac.uk/business/referencing ■ Tools to help: • Citation software: RefWorks, Mendeley. More complex but helpful for storing/reusing references. Contact the library for the RefWorks code. Mendeley is free. • Word has built-in functions as well.
- 21. Any Questions? Please come and ask! Help In Person: Library desks on the 2nd and 5th Floor, and at Cass Contact Catie: catie.tuttle.1@city.ac.uk or 020 7040 4151 General enquiries email for Cass: CassLibrary@city.ac.uk Enquiries phone number: +44 (0) 207 040 8191 Help Online: Library Website: www.city.ac.uk/library Subject Guides: http://libguides.city.ac.uk/business
- 22. City, University of London Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB United Kingdom T: +44 (0)20 7040 4151 E: catie.tuttle.1@city.ac.uk http://www.city.ac.uk/library
Editor's Notes
- #16: If you have one or more academic articles that's useful to your work, search the references at the end of the text to get related materials. This helps you see what was written previously to the article. Web of Science or Google Scholar show you which articles have cited your article since it was published. These materials may not always be available on the platform, so if you don't see 'Full Text' Click on 'is it @ CityLibrary?'
- #20: Briefly, more next week.