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with information
literacy materials.
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e-books
Our e-books are provided by
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for quick facts and background
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e-journals
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e-journals
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Using EBSCO
EBSCO advanced
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Using EBSCO
You can search for titles, authors, subjects,
images etc. Look through the publication
lists and search citations (not eBook
Collection) dig down on company info
(BSC+ only) and more.
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Operators
Always CAPITALISE when using in a search.
AND
NOT
OR
Boolean Operators
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Always CAPITALISE when using in a search
© Hans Hillewaert / CC-BY-SA-3.0
Simon and Garfunkel AND
Tracy Chapman
AND
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When searching, lower case ‘and’, ‘or’ ‘not’ are ignored
by databases, so in this case, Simon and Garfunkel are
taken as a single item.
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AND, OR
“corporate responsibility”
“social
responsibility”
OR
OR
AND
NOT
These are the building blocks
of effective searching
The AND operator is best
used when both the words or
phrases must appear in your
hits
OR is a very broad search.
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AND, OR, NOT
“corporate responsibility”
“social
responsibility”
OR
OR
AND
NOT
NOT narrows down your
search.
It is best used to get rid of
irrelevant hits, or rogue terms.
This can be a really powerful
way of narrowing your search.
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Quotation marks / phrase searching
“bankingtechnology”
“Financial Conduct
Authority”
. . . won't find technology in banking – take
care in what you search for banking AND
technology gives you both banking technology
and technology in banking
use for specific phrases only
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Refine your searches
In this case, by
narrowing the
date range,
looking at
Academic
journals only at
that apply to GB,
you can go from
137,000+ to 84 in
3 clicks.Click for journal
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The e-journal
Click to download
Print or email
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Using EBSCO
More info on how
to use and search
EBSCO can be
found here
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Credo
Credo has a
straightforward
search function to
find articles and
definitions
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Soft skills
Click for videos
Click for articles and self-assessments
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Company data
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Click for complex bank financials
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Sources
Bibliography = All sources read during
your research for the assignment
References = Sources
specifically cited within your
assignment
Note: the ifs only
requires References
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Why is referencing important?
weight to your argument
understood the topic
authority and integrity
spent time researching
formed your own ideas
read widely
check the evidence
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The rules of our version of Harvard
There are lots of rules
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More help?
This tool gives you
the format and an
example of many
types of source
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Plagiarism is . . .
“the action or practice of taking someone else’s work, idea, etc.,
and passing it off as one’s own” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2012).
. . . Cheating!
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Plagiarism is, then . . .
A deliberate attempt
to mislead or cheat
A misunderstanding of
or not being familiar
with the rules.
Carelessness, especially when
forgetting quotations and references.
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Hinweis der Redaktion Boolean comes from George Boole (1815–1864), a self-educated English mathematician. He introduced the algebraic system initially in a small pamphlet, The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, published in 1847 A good example would be Halifax NOT Yorkshire (if you were looking for the bank rather than ‘holiday destinations’). In other words?Image from istock Glossary and a quiz too
