Graduate Business and Economics Advanced Short Courses :The Graduate Business and Economics Library is conducting Advanced Short Courses. Face to face training sessions in a training room facilitated by Liaison Librarians.
(Note: Booking is not required for these courses).
Face to face training sessions give you the opportunity to further explore discipline specific content and resources.
Australian Company Information
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Search and retrieve company information from Connect 4 and Aspect Huntley databases
- Use the Library as a gateway to identify websites that provide company information
Business and Economics Databases
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Identify databases relevant to Business and Economics
- Locate databases on the Library website
- Construct effective search strategies using Boolean operators and Truncation
- Limit search results
- Link to full text articles
- Identify where to go for further help
Citation Databases
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Access the Web of Knowledge portal via the Library
- Identify what a citation database is
- Effectively conduct general and cited reference searches
- Analyse results
- Link to full text articles via the UQ Library
- Export records
International Company Information
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Identify relevant databases for international company information
- Search and retrieve company information from Mergent and Osiris databases
- Search and retrieve company news from Factiva
Market Research Reports
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Use Global Market Information Database (GMID) and Business Source Premier to locate market research reports
- Identify the most likely of these databases to contain a particular report based on an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each database
Newspaper Databases
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Locate and access newspapers using Library gateways
- Search and retrieve articles on companies and business topics from Factiva
Statistics and Data
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Identify various library guides and gateways to statistical resources
- Search and browse the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website to find Australian statistics
- Construct a basic search for international data on several international databases
- Identify the appropriate library contacts for further help with statistical data in their area
RSS Feeds
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Identify what RSS technology is and how to use it through a web-based reader
- Set up citation, search and table-of-contents alerts for a range of different journal platforms
- Access feeds for various specialised information sources
- Identify further avenues for finding RSS feeds for research topics
