FYP Literature Review: Effective search skills, proper referencing and avoiding plagiarismCatie TuttleSubject Librarian (Business Undergraduates)Catie.Tuttle.1@city.ac.uk

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!

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.

Where can you find it?■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.

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/banking

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

Banking & International Finance Subject Guide

• E-resources to use by topic

• Referencing and Citation

• Book an appointment

Key Academic DatabasesBusiness Source CompleteUse for articles, market research, company, industry and country profiles, case studies, trade magazines, peer reviewed research, Harvard Business Review, images.

Web of ScienceHuge database focused on academic, peer-reviewed articles. Also contains actual science, but huge amount of business and management information as well. See which articles have more influence.

ProQuest Business CollectionNew database: peer-reviewed articles, newspapers, data, reports, trade journals... All sorts of stuff, not just business-specific. Wide-ranging and useful.

SSRN.com(Social Science Research Network) scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers with loads of full-text (downloadable) papers. What experts are thinking about right now. Find login details from Cass Library Services Moodle Module.

Newspapers Online■ Nexis – includes company and industry information as well as articles■ Factiva – international newspapers, trade magazines■ The Economist – full access to website, current online edition and archive, thanks to a

generous donation from The Worshipful Company of International Bankers.

■ 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 Library Services Moodle page – use your university email to sign up.

Accessing databases■ Log in using your IT username and password.

■ Use the subject guide or the library catalogue for the right link.

■ Some specialist business data resources need a special username and password… check the catalogue for details: find these in Moodle.

■ 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.

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

Tips for Searching■Write down your research question and underline key ideas. These are the

words you’re going to enter into the search box.

■Use the categories on the dropdown list of the database to search only a given field.

■Use AND to retrieve results that use both search terms■Use OR to find results that use either of the search terms.

Business Source Complete■ Put search terms with two or more

words into “double quotes” to search for the term as a complete phrase (not individual words)

■ 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’

Looking for a particular article?■ If you’re struggling to find an article, take

note of the Journal title and search for it in the Journals A-Z list.

■ If there is more than one provider click on the provider with the year range your article falls into.

■ Login to the database with your IT username and password. Select the year the article was published, then the issue information, and then finally find the article on the list.

If all else fails, contact Catie: catie.tuttle.1@city.ac.uk

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

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).

Avoiding Plagiarism: use your references!• Use proper referencing for all ideas, quotes, data, opinions, etc.

that are not your own.

• 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!

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.

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/banking/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.

Further training• Two optional workshops available with Catie:

o Intro to Bloomberg o Finding Financial Information – great for FYP students: hands on and goes into finding information in ThomsonOne.

Book from the library website: http://libcal.city.ac.uk/calendar/workshops

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

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