Training for Management, Business and Economics
Semester 2 2010
Business databases
Literature searching for dissertation students
Endnote training
The Wheatley Subject Team offer a number of taught courses to help you to to use information resources. Sessions take place in the Training Room (across the bridge in the new extension), Wheatley Library. Please book either by e-mailing: businesslibrarians@brookes.ac.uk or phoning 01865 485869 (ext 5869). Please give your student number. We shall run more sessions if demand is high.
Business students need a huge variety of information for their coursework, much of which is available electronically these days both on and off campus. This session helps you to sort out what to use and when. It covers how to get the best from the huge journals databases to which we have access; using Factiva to find company, industry, and market news; how to find company, market and industry analysis in stockbroker reports in Investext; company accounts and analysis and share prices using Fame, Orbis Thomson One Banker; market research reports in Mintel and Euromonitor.
If you have completed the Brookes Virtual Learning course "A guide to business and economics databases" or "Sourcing information" which is the version used for new undergraduates, you should not need do this session. Also, most postgraduates have had the same taught session timetabled into their courses. However, if you have not had an opportunity to discover business databases and if you feel that you would like everything wrapped up in one taught session with some practical hands-on exercises, or if you just want a refresher, this is for you. The first half of this session will deal with the journals databases. Feel free to book for just the first half if you wish.
If you cannot attend this session you can self-register to join the Brookes Virtual learning Course "A guide to business and economics databases".
Monday 8 February 13.00-16.00
Wednesday 10 February 13.00-16.00
Friday 12 February 13.00-16.00
Literature searching for dissertation students
This is our regular session for undergraduates and postgraduates starting a dissertation. First year undergraduates will probably not find this session helpful. We cover the process of undertaking a thorough academic literature search to identify all the key writing and research in a specific management or business subject area. We do not cover company news, financial, market or other commercial information. We look at the journals databases again briefly as a refresher, look at more specialist sources and the use of other Libraries, such as the Bodleian.
Wednesday 17 February 14.00-15.30
Friday 19 February 14.00-15.30
Endnote bibliographic software stores references and citations that can be downloaded directly from databases or entered manually. When writing a paper using Word it is possible to enter references in the text and produce your reference list at the end automatically in hundreds of different referencing styles, including Brookes Harvard. This is a useful resource for anyone in the academic world, from the undergraduate producing a dissertation onwards. This session is a one hour lunchtime hands-on session covering key features only, designed to get you started.
Check the Endnote page for details of training at Headington. For Wheatley the dates are:
Tuesday 23 February 12.00-13.00
Thursday 25 February 12.00-13.00
Friday 26 February 14.00-15.00