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UA library offers...
• books, journals, internet• catalogue
- UA catalogue, e-info catalogue• databases
- e.g. EconLit, Business Source premier, Web of Science
• ejournals- e.g. Elsevier Science Direct, SwetsWise,
SpringerLink
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Library website: http://lib.ua.ac.be
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How do I start?
• What do you want to know?- Find existing literature?- Find the location of a document?
• How to transform your subject into the right search terms?
• How to evaluate the information?- What is the scientific value?
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Find existing literature
• Databases- Business Source Premier- Web of Science
• Internet- Tinbergen Institute - Google Scholar
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Databases
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Business Source Premier
• Business Source Premier provides references to articles in over 2,300 scholarly business journals, of which nearly 1,100 are peer-reviewed.
• Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.
• A substantial part of the articles are available full text
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Web of Science
• Bibliographic database containing multidisciplinary, high quality research information from the world’s leading science, social sciences and arts and humanities journals.
• Identifies and indexes the top journals• Cited Reference searching
- track an idea, comments, additional research, ...- evaluation: the more citations, the more important
the article
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• Impact Factor = average number of times the articles of a journal have been cited, in the last 2 years
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Searching the internet
• All sorts and all levels of information • Informative websites ≠ scientific information• You have to evaluate the quality of the
information yourself
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Internet: evaluating information• Exact & credible?
- Based on facts? Published in scientific article? Similar data in scientific article?
• Author?- Who is the author? Has the author published scientific articles? Which
expertise? Is he connected to a scientific institution? Own opinion or as representative of scientific institution?
• Sources?- Are there references to the sources that have been used?
• Objective?- Who is responsible for the site? Is there a sponsor? Is the information
provided by an organisation with a specific purpose?• Relevant?
- Is it useful? Level of the information: basic or advanced?• Up to date?
- When put online first? When was last update?• Publication & web design
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Internet: evaluating information
• What does the URL tell you?- personal website/institution- deep link/homepage- .edu, .be, .gov
• Use the correct sources- Scientific institution e.g. Tinbergen Instituut- Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com
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Internet: Tinbergen Institute
• http://www.tinbergen.nl/research/ranking2.html• In this ranking journals have been classified as:
- AA: generally accepted top-level journals- A: very good journals covering economics in general
and the top journals in each field- B: good journals for all research fields within the
Tinbergen Institute• fields covered: economics, econometrics, operations
research and accounting.
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Internet: Google Scholar
• http://scholar.google.com• scholarly literature: peer-reviewed papers,
theses, books, abstracts and articles• academic publishers, professional societies,
preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• Not a substitute for controled searching in databases!
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Full text only available if
- free journal
- UA library had an e-subscription
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Finding a document:UA catalogue
• UA catalogue- books- journals, e-journals
• No articles!If you are looking for an article you will have to look up the journal title
- databases
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Journals
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Books
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Services
• Loan- With student card- 10 volumes / 3 weeks
• Library at home- https://vpn.ua.ac.be- Log in with your student account
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• Borrower data- Personal details- Documents on loan (overview)- Documents on hold (overview)- Renew- Document requests (overview)- Alerting
Services
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Library at you service
• All information can be found on the library’s website: http://lib.ua.ac.be
