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BUSI2037

Developing your Topic & Searching the Literature

Maggie Wong | Business Liaison Librarian

12 January 2021

Getting

Started

Warm up

Where do you go look for information for your assignment?

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Recognize the resources available on the UN website

and to identify topics on global issues.

Today's Focus

Locate scholarly materials on a chosen topic using

Library-subscribed e-resources.

What is the United Nations?

Founded in 1945

  • Take action on the issues confronting humanity in the 21st century

E.g. peace and security, climate change, sustainable development, human rights, disarmament, terrorism, humanitarian and health emergencies, gender equality, governance, food production, and more.

Guiding purposes

  • 193 Member States
  • Maintain international peace & security
  • Develop friendly relations among nation
  • Achieve international co-operation
  • Be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations
  • Six main organs

Information available on the United Nations website

  • UN Documents (Letters, meeting records, press release etc.)
  • Statistical Data
  • Yearbook, Reports
  • Speeches, Voting Records
  • Charter
  • News
  • Issues / Campaigns

How can the Library help?

Your learning hub

HKBU Library

A source of credible information

E.g. Scholarly academic journals

A place to get help and support

Level 4 Collaborative Computer Lab

PCs are installed with SPSS, NVivo etc.

Information Services Librarians

Knowledge Check

Let's see if you get the basics down from this part of the workshop!

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The

United Nations website

The UN Website

The UN Website (un.org)

Unite Search

(Site Search + Document Search)

What information does the UN provide?

Search for almost EVERYTHING

Go to the Footer and you will find the following sections:

  • About UN
  • Resources / Services
  • Issues / Campaigns
  • Key Documents
  • New and Media
  • Searches across the Official Document System (ODS), the League of Nations archive and more than 100 un.org websites

www.un.org

The UN Website - List of Global Issues

UN Website

What global issues are we facing now?

  • About UN
  • Resources / Services
  • Issues / Campaigns
  • Key Documents
  • New and Media
  • Currently, there are 22 broad issues
  • An overview of the issues
  • Links to other related resources

https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/global-issues-overview/

The UN Databases

UN created a lot of databases

  • Official Documents and Bibliographic Databases
  • Treaties, Declarations and Legislative Sources
  • Statistical Data
  • etc.
  • Multimedia

Find UN documents & statistical data

  • UN documents, reports, speeches, voting records

UN Digital Library

Search for UN Documents & Publications

UNdata

Browser statistical data by topic or source

  • Topics e.g. crime, communication, education, energy, environment, finance, gender, health, labour market, manufacturing, population and migration, science and technology, tourism...

http://data.un.org/

https://digitallibrary.un.org/

  • Turn on full-text search
  • After searching, use the refinement area to narrow down results
  • Use Datamarts and browse data by datasets, sources, or topics.

Where to locate the UN databases?

In the UN website footer, click Databases.

Decision making

Topic

Sustainability management

Expanded

Strategy management

Related

Innovation

Big data

Business analytics

Business intelligence software

Data mining

Refined

Consumers

Financial performance

Economic competition

Business students

Revenue management

Sociomateriality

Keyword

UN Library Research Guide

An excellent place to learn about UN resources & how to search the Digital Library

United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library

  • A physical Library in New York

https://library.un.org/

  • For UN Staff, not open to the public

(Permanent Missions of the Member States & UN Secretariat staff)

  • Public cannot access their subscribed journals and e-books

But you can make use of the Research Guides & FAQ page

  • Subject Guides - Find further UN information related to a topic
  • Research Guides - Overview of UN Documents, How to Find UN Documents

UN Library Research Guide

In the UN website footer, click Library.

Knowledge Check

Let's test your knowledge of this part of the workshop!

www.menti.com

HKBU Library

Resources

Navigating the world of information is challenging...

  • Which search tool should I use?
  • Is the information I have found authoritative?
  • How can I search more efficiently?
  • What is the best way to organize what I have found?

How does Google work?

Google's algorithm takes into account many different factors, including popularity...

We look for sites that many users seem to value for similar queries [emphasis added]

Source: https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/algorithms/

Misinformation is sometimes believed by millions of people. Is popularity the best way to measure authority, especially in a scholarly context?

  • A Google-like experience designed for scholarly research
  • Imperfect quality control: Content is added automatically
  • Enhance your experience by enabling library links

What does the Library have for you?

Databases

Science

  • Tailored to business subjects
  • Precise search options (e.g. company profiles)

Politics

Databases

A good starting point

A general and exploratory search

Business

BEYOND HKBU

PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

Journalism

Databases

Social Sciences

8 2 1 2 3 4 5 J C 1 7

Knowledge Check

Let's quiz you on what we have covered so far...

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Using Library subscribed databases

Get started with a Subject Guide

How to start?

Which database to use?

How to cite?

Besides Subject Guides, Topic Guides may be useful: Citing Sources, Database Search Help

More Library Research Guides

General how-to guides

Useful for all subjects

Topic: Using Big Data to Stop Poverty

1. Introduce the topic and define the topics / key terms

  • What is Big Data?
  • What is Poverty?

2. Find scholarly research articles for the literature review.

  • Academic / Scholarly journal articles
  • Trade publication articles
  • Magazine articles

3. Look for statistics to supplement your content.

Reference Databases -

Find Definition & Background information

Credo Reference

  • Encyclopedias
  • Dictionaries
  • Topics
  • Do not cite Wikipedia

E.g. What is Big Data? What is Poverty?

ABI/INFORM Collection

Business Source Ultimate

  • Academic journals (e.g. Harvard Business Review)
  • Trade publications
  • Company information
  • Company profiles (e.g. SWOT analysis)

Business Databases - Find Journal Articles

To write the literature review

  • Scholarly journals
  • Trade journals
  • Key business magazines (e.g. The Economist)
  • Standards & practice guidelines

Statista

  • Statistics & Figures
  • Dossiers (A report on a topic)
  • Infographics

Statistical Database - Find statistics

Websites - Find raw datasets

  • Pew Research Centre

https://www.pewresearch.org/

  • U.S. Public opinions and trends
  • Provides surveys raw data in .sav format
  • Require account registration to download datasets
  • Google Dataset Search

https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/

  • Search across the web
  • Limiting options to see only Free dataset

To do data analysis

Business analytics

Decision making

Topic

Business intelligence software

Business students

Keyword

Sustainability management

Strategy management

Expanded

Related

Innovation

Big data

Data mining

Consumers

Refined

Financial performance

Economic competition

Revenue management

Sociomateriality

Make Use of Built-in Functions

Find Company Information

Find statistics and figures on markets

Find Case Studies

Thesaurus

Citation Generator

find narrower, broader, and related term of your topic

Knowledge Check

Let's quiz you on what we have covered so far...

www.menti.com

Wrapping up

Wrapping up

The UN

  • The UN website lists out major global issues.
  • The UN created many databases for the public to find official documents, publications, and data.
  • Use the UN Library Research Guide to learn about resources for a topic or how to find information.

HKBU Library

  • Find scholarly literature using the Library subscribed databases.
  • Start your research with a Subject Guide to find suitable databases and other resources to use.

Too much information, too little time

Contact the Library to :

  • Sharpen information searching skills
  • Learn a tool e.g. Mendeley
  • Get help with citations & references
  • Locate a book, an article, or any other resources
  • ... anything related to the Library

Contact

& Feedback

How was this workshop?

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