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Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg State University Efficient usage of library resources. The process of writing the Master’s dissertation. Planning the project Choosing a topic Writing a critical literature review Researching and analyzing Interpreting the research material
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Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg State University Efficient usage of library resources
The process of writing the Master’s dissertation • Planning the project • Choosing a topic • Writing a critical literature review • Researching and analyzing • Interpreting the research material • Framing arguments and writing up
Choosing (formulating) a topic • Linguistic approach • Metacognitive approach (concept maps) • Epistemological approach (Vee diagrams)
Writing a critical literature review: prerequisites • Library holds more than 60.000 books and 20.000 periodicals. • GSOM Library OPAC • Library e-subscription contains more than 40 full text and reference databases (29 international and 12 Russian)
Writing a critical literature review: prerequisites Database licensing terms. • the user is not able to use the database for any commercial use if the agreement is for educational use only (this can include students who go on industrial placements and still have access to their university/ college electronic resources) • not allowing publication of passwords to a third party use by a set number of concurrent users. When this limit is exceeded, other users cannot access the resource • not using downloading software
Writing a critical literature review: sources Monographs Articles Dissertations Reference Databases Ebrary Elsevier Books Springer Books ABI Inform (i) EBSCO (i) JSTOR (i) InfoTrac (i) Integrum (i) Elsevier (p) Emerald (p) Oxford UP (p) et al. ProQuest Dissertations (internat.) Digital Dissertation library (rus) Scopus Web of Knowledge
Aggregators ABI Inform Global EBSCO InfoTrac JSTOR Integrum (rus) Publishers Elsevier Emerald Wiley Oxford Univ. Press Camb. Univ. Press Sage Grebennikoff (rus) Et al. Writing a critical literature review: Articles & Journals
Writing a critical literature review: Articles searching engines • A-Z Journal Finder Sample • Reference databases SCOPUS Sample Web of Science
Individual research basics: sources Company Information & Financials Country Information & Statistics Market & Research reports Industry Information & Statistics LexisNexis (int) Company Profiles (EBSCO) (int) SKRIN (rus) SPARK(rus) Source OECD World Bank GMID Country Profiles (EBSCO) GMID Mintel Reports ProQuest Snapshot Series GMID Industry Profiles (EBSCO)
?Questions? Contact details: Julia N. Lutsik GSOM Library E-mail: lutsik@gsom.pu.ru