Is searching electronic databases for articles supposed to be THIS hard?

[costargh]

I've read through all the information for effectively obtaining good search results from Business Source Premier but I keep getting crap.

My assignment is “The impact of changing technology (digitisation) on a manager’s job.”

At the moment I'm searching

manager or management or executive
AND
technology or digitization or digitisation (differnt spelling between USA and Australia???)


And nothing I'm getting seems relevant :S

Am I doing this right?

[brendan]

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurestudies.co.uk%2Fpdfs%2FThe%2520Future%2520Impact%2520of%2520Technology%2520on%2520management.pdf&ei=cq7ESf7gKI2ZkQX60-3DDA&usg=AFQjCNEEmjNEW0v-QqfJAa7TBpogTeLt8w&sig2=nGIDpfxa7BOxAq91Wh9ArA

[costargh]

omg. how did you find that! How do u do that? Thanks so much!

What sort of reference is this?

Like, I'm not sure how this all works with uni and everything. What sort of reference does this come under. It's not an academic reference from a journal is it?

[brendan]

No, it is not a journal article.

[ninwa]

costargh, it looks like a speech to me ...

[costargh]

Excuse my ignorance of University style essays but I can use that as a reference right?

[ninwa]

You could probably use anything except Wikipedia as a reference

It looks like a respectable reference to me.

[costargh]

Oh awesome. But I should definitely endevour to have more than one (ie. 2 or more) articles from journals right?

(The essay instructions say we should have a minimum of 5-7 references)

[ninwa]

Yep, as well as published books. Newspaper articles can also be relevant sometimes.

[costargh]

Oh, about published books which you speak of. How do you go about finding the relevant book that you're looking for?

I only know about how you search for articles on the electronic database or whatever.

[ninwa]

Do you mean on the Monash library catalogue?

[costargh]

I'm not sure? LMAO

I've been here 3 weeks!


How do I search that?

[brendan]

I normally use google to find relevant journal articles and books. To actually access the specific books and journal articles i use a combination of the UoM physical library, Google books, google scholar, and Online journal databases accessible to UoM students.

Do not underestimate the power of google and being able to use it efficiently

[costargh]

Ohhh wow! thats cool. I didnt realise that. But how do you actually try find an article from a journal on google?

Something like google scholar or something?

[ninwa]

Google scholar is fantastic

also try Google books - useful for when you cbf going to the library although sometimes they only have extracts of books, copyright reasons or whatev

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com.au/schhp?hl=en&tab=ws
Google Books: http://books.google.com.au/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp

give it a go

Also Monash library catalogue:
http://library.monash.edu.au/