Professional Documents
Culture Documents
for
Economics & Business Research
Let’s have a refresher on Boolean search operators and how they work.
Wildcards (Question mark ?) Are used for alternative spellings Organi?ation = organisation or
by substituting a symbol for a organization
single letter (character) of a word Wom?n = woman or women
Phrase searching (Quotation Allows you to search for words “civil rights”
Marks “ “) as exact phrases in the exact
order specified within the
“quotation marks”
Constitutional
Constitutional
recognition
recognition
of Gayofrights,
Gay rights,
and treatment
and treatment
in Courts.
in Courts.
OR OR OR
gay Gay right*
OR OR OR
lesbian Privacy right*
• ABI/Inform Global
• Business Source Complete
• PubMed - useful database for Health Economics topics
• JSTOR - a good source of full-text academic Economics journals, but does not
include current issues
• PROQUEST - Covers all academic disciplines. Search can be refined to business
resources only. Includes journals, newspapers, industry reports, dissertations and
company profiles.
https://guides.library.uq.edu.au/economics/working-papers
https://guides.library.uq.edu.au/how-to-find/company-industry-information
• When formulating a search topic check to see if a data set exists to support your research
http://guides.library.uq.edu.au/how-to-find/statistics
Government Documents
http://www.australia.gov.au/publications
Hansard/Parliamentary debates
Google search for international
Legal Documents
Law library’s Legal Research Guide online
IGO Documents
World Bank e-Library
IMF e-Library publications
OECD iLibrary
CRICOS code 00025B
ECON7950
Brief EndNote Introduction
https://web.library.uq.edu.au/research-tools-
techniques/referencing/referencing-software/endnote
Brief Endnote Introduction – Why use referencing software?
https://youtu.be/4uPceTMnops
https://youtu.be/C_1K_7JDSiI
• You must keep both the .enl & .data files for EndNote to work. When saving a back up, it is best to save
a compressed file (.enlx) to ensure both files are kept together.
• Before sending a copy of your Word document for review, convert to plain text