ace your term paper_economics students

8/8/2019 Ace Your Term Paper_Economics Students

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Presented by Liu Yan

Social Science Librarian (Economics)

Ace Your Term Paper



Library Introduction

Scholarly Research

Economics Databases

Outlines:



Library

Introduction



Lee Wee Nam Library BlkNS3 Level3 (above Canteen A)

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What do we have?



Our collection

Books

694,059 Journals

16,898

AVs

29,170

DR-NTU

30,000

E-Books149,398

E-Journals 34,000

Databases196



Borrowing privileges (for undergrads)



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Library card = your matriculation card

Library card number = matriculation card number

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Default PIN = last 4 alphanumeric characters of your NRIC number

Example:

NRIC No.: S9152345G

Default PIN: 345G



Item reservation



Scholarly

Research



Scholarly Resources

Plagiarism & Citation



Scholarly Journals

VSPopular Magazines



What’s the difference? Popular Magazines Scholar Journals

Who reads these? General public Professionals in a field,

Scholars,

“Experts”

Who writes these? Reporters,Journalists,

Almost anyone

Professionals in a field,Scholars,

“Experts”

What’s in them? News,Non-technical language,

Entertainment and general interest

articles,No bibliographies,May be slanted to elicit emotional

response

In-depth research,Technical language,

Original research studies,

Bibliographies and references,Typically more objective

What do they look like?

Consumer advertising,

Glossy photos,Attractive layout

Dense text,

Much fewer, more specialized ads

Adapted from Research 101, University of Washington Libraries, United States, 2001-2004.

http://nl.sitestat.com/elsevier/elsevier-com/s?ScienceDirect&ns_type=clickout&ns_url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01676296



Search the following information sourcesLibrary Catalogue (titles of books, e-books, journals, reports, etc.)

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/opac/

Subscribed E-journalshttp://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/Pages/EJournals.aspx

Subscribed E-bookshttp://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/Pages/ebooks.aspx

Subscribed Databaseshttps://venus.wis.ntu.edu.sg/lib_databases/

ezSearchhttp://ezsearch.ntu.edu.sg/

DR-NTU (includes FYP/Thesis)http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/Pages/DRNTU.aspx

Web Resources(full text @ NTU)http://www.ntu.edu.sg/lib/search/tools.htm; http://scholar.google.com/


http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/Pages/EJournals.aspx


http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/Pages/ebooks.aspx

https://venus.wis.ntu.edu.sg/lib_databases/


http://ezsearch.ntu.edu.sg/


http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/Pages/DRNTU.aspx



http://www.ntu.edu.sg/lib/search/tools.htm

http://scholar.google.com/


http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/e-journals/





http://www.ntu.edu.sg/lib/search/tools.htm







http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/collections/Pages/ebooks.aspx





Library Catalogue




E-Journals

• A to Z list, Search by Subjects





Note:Links andEmbargo



Databases

Articles:

EconLit with Full Text EIU.com (Economist Intelligence Unit)

Data: CEIC WebCDM

SourceOECD News:

Factiva

LexisNexis Academic





"The challenge of using the Internet effectively is not in finding information.The challenge is in finding information that you are interested in whileavoiding the rest.”

- Gregory Newby

• Most information on the Web does not go through a review process.

• Some information on the Web is not free.

• Information on the Web is not organized.

• Most information on the Web is not comprehensive.

• Most information on the Web is not permanent.

Web Resources



Web Resources: FullText @NTU Library




Click Toolbar




Does this magic work all time?



• Order copies of documents not found in our

collection -- journal articles, conference papers, theses

etc.

• Fee based.

• Fill up a request form and Email:

[email protected]


mailto:[email protected]




NTU Honour Code & Honour Pledge on Plagiarism:

“To use or pass off as one’s own, the writings or ideas

of another, without acknowledging or crediting thesource from which the ideas are taken.”

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sao/Pages/default.aspx



Why must I cite reference sources?

Give credit whenever you use any:

idea, theory, illustration, statistics, graphs, drawings, images or

opinion of others

quotation of actual spoken or written words of others ;

paraphrase of spoken or written words of others

SafeAssignment™ / Turnitin® : A tool to detect plagiarism in

NTU



Any work that has inf luenced the writing of research papers, thesis anddissertations must be cited and any cited work must be properly referenced. Complete referencing means, to include

An in-text citation (e.g. surname of the author and year of publication)

An entry of the citation in the reference list with complete detail

In-Text CitationIn addition many other emerging economies have adopted de facto fixed exchange rateregimes, although officially they are floating ones (Calvo & Reinhart, 2001; Calvo &Reinhart, 2002).

ReferenceCalvo, G. A. & Reinhart, C. M. (2001) Fixing for your life, in: S. M. Collins & D. Rodrik (eds)Brookings Trade Forum 2000 (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution).Calvo, G. A. & Reinhart, C. M. (2002) Fear of floating, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117(May),pp. 379–408.



Organize your notes / articles / information and record your sourcesaccurately Use the proper citation styles when referencing articles/titles Learn about Endnote , a bibliographic management tool available

in NTU.

Finally, review the information you have collected and determine if additional resources are needed

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/Lip/endnote/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/Lip/endnote/Pages/default.aspx



Database

Demonstration



Research topic:

Do a literature review of the revaluation of

Yuan.



Revaluation Yuan

AND a.k.a Narrowing the Search

Renminbi Yuan

OR a.k.a Broadening the Search

(include synonyms)

Singapore dollarsRevaluation

NOT

Phrase Search e.g. “Yuan Revaluation”

(contrast this with Yuan AND Revaluation)



Find Articles: EconLit EconLit



Keyword (Search Terms)

Boolean Operator

Limit Search



Fi d D t CEIC W bCDM



Find Data: CEIC WebCDM



Find News: Factiva



•Liu YanHumanities & Social Sciences Librarian (Economics)

Tel: 6592-1877

Email: [email protected]

• Research Assistance Desk

– : 6790-6312– : [email protected]




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