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Welcome  This session will update you on :  resources on the UTS Library website  business and leisure databases  electronic journals and journal articles.

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1 Welcome  This session will update you on :  resources on the UTS Library website  business and leisure databases  electronic journals and journal articles  help with Harvard(UTS)

2 Getting access to resources  you have 24 hour access to the Library’s electronic resources  you can log in at home, work, the Library, Business Faculty labs, UTS computer labs  how? You need to activate your UTS webmail username and password https://email.itd.uts.edu.au/email/ https://email.itd.uts.edu.au/email/  then use the username and password to access the Library

3 E-readings  lecture notes and selected resources for your subject like journal articles and book chapters can be found under: Subject Resources  search by subject name or number 27717

4 E-Readings Subject number

5 Selected items for 27717

6 Using the new Library catalogue

7 City campus items can be requested to be picked up at KC

8 Finding books  use Title in the Library catalogue to find known items. E.g. type “StadiamAtlas”  use Keyword to find items on a topic. E.g. type “short break holiday” in the keyword search  you can request a city copy to be sent to Kuring-gai for pick up

9 StadiamAtlas: technical recommendations for grandstands in modern stadia. Nixdorf, S

10 My Library My Library has many functions:  renew items  keep your Library reading history  export records

11 New feature – your reading history in My Library

12 Other resources  items can be requested and borrowed from other NSW and interstate Universities  pick them up from the desk at each campus Library  delivery in 2-4 working days  go to the Bonus icon or via the catalogue

13 Accessing books from other Universities – use BONUS

14 Electronic journal – Managing Leisure: an international journal

15 Available online from many databases Online sources for Managing Leisure Ingenta ConnectIngenta Connect January 1995 - Business Source PremierBusiness Source Premier January 1998 - Informaworld Journals January 1997 - Informaworld Journals Available in print Kuring-Gai Campus 790.06905 mana

16 Full text article available PDF full text

17 Finding articles in different leisure and business databases Leisure & business databases  ABI/Inform (Global)  Business Source Premier  Expanded Academic Index  Newsbank or Factiva (newspapers)  Science Direct  Sociological abstracts

18 Humanities databases Arts databases  Project Muse  Social Science citation index  Art Abstracts  Academic Research Library

19 Find databases: Subject – Business – Leisure, Sport and Tourism

20 Connecting to databases (2) Scroll down to the database you want and then click on the database name

21 ABI/INFORM -Global

22 Full text available

23 Using  many databases do not hold the full text of an article  use the link to find it on another UTS subscription database  it will take you to the article if UTS has a subscription

24 Link via

25 Tips on research topic searches  break your topic up into keywords to find articles, reports and information  use synonyms i.e. event or budget travel or hostels  limit your research to recent articles

26 What are refereed journals?  refereed journals have an editorial board to approve publication, a reference list and up to date contact details  they are also known as peer reviewed articles

27 Database search techniques  use the connecting words and/or  the truncation symbol * enables a word to be searched by its stem, eg. manag* searches for manage, manager, management, etc.  the wildcard symbol ? ensures different spellings are searched, eg. Globali?ation searches for globalisation (AUS) or globalization (USA)

28 Other leisure, sport and arts resources – study guides

29 Online Reference books Use the Find database tool to find electronic reference books and resources  Australian Bureau of Statistics  Britannica Online  Oxford Reference Online

30 Australian Bureau of Statistics

31 Tourism statistics  Australian Bureau of Statistics  TRA – Tourism Research Australia  Study guide – leisure, sport and tourism http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/students/my-subject- resources/study-guides/leisure/leisure-studies/statistics

32 Tourism Research Australia

33 Britannica Online

34 Oxford Reference Online: Qualitative research

35 Library training sessions – Harvard (UTS) Library training sessions can be booked online for help with referencing software  Endnote – download from website  Refworks – log on via Library catalogue

36 Endnote via the Library web page

37 Accessing Refworks via the Library catalogue

38 Contact a UTS librarian

39 Instant messenger - chat  Library Chat service is operating between 1pm to 6pm, Mondays to Thursdays and 1pm to 5pm Fridays  The Library is now on Facebook and Twitter for more updates

40 Your contacts  Primary Contact: Jackie.Edwards@uts.edu.au Tel: 9514 5359  Other members of the Business and Law team are available to assist you: Sophie.McDonald@uts.edu.au Tel: 9514 5574 Cathy.Anderson@uts.edu.au Tel: 9514 3288 Steven.Byrnes@uts.edu.au Tel: 9514 3316 Barbara.Goldsmith@uts.edu.au Tel: 9514 3722


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