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Master Thesis in Business Administration
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Jonas Larsson (joslan@hig.se)
University of Gävle,
The Library
The Task
The Task
e.g. a thesis
Why?
Why?
Purpose and problem
Information searching
Information literacy
The ability to find and use relevant information
Information literacy
Data -> information -> knowledge
How do I determine the scientificity?
Who is the author? Where is it published?
Peer review
IMRAD
Introduction, method, results and discussion
How do I determine the scientificity?
What?
What?
What kind of material?
Where?
Where?
The subject guide (Business and Economics) on the library's website - both a starting and returning point
How?
Search question
How?
Search terms
database functions
Search technique
Search terms
Free text search
Search terms
Subject terms search
AND, OR, NOT
Source: https://kib.ki.se/en/search-evaluate/searching-information/combining-search-words
What?
What
Searching for sholarly journal articles in academic databases
Searching for sholarly journal articles in academ...
Where?
The difference between...
Google scholar
Discovery
The difference between...
Business Source Premier
Academic Search Elite
Scopus
Search example
The effect of corporate social responsibility on consumers buying decisions: An empirical study of a Swedish grocery retailer
Search example
Keyword [en]
CSR, customer value, buying decision, ecological products, food and grocery retailer
Academic writing
References
Cite-function in databases
References
Reference management with Mendeley
Guides to reference styles
Summary...
Ask the questions why, what, where and how
Turn to the subject guide at the library's website
Formulate a search question and pick out the key terms
Summary...
Limit or broaden the result by using search technique and the functions of the database
How to get the references correct? Look in the reference-guide and listen to your teacher. The cite function and Mendeley can also be helpful.
Further help at the library's website...