Strategic foresight and innovation
How do I find appropriate and relevant
material for my assignment?
Magnus Olsson, Umeå University library
magnus.olsson@ub.umu.se
Tel: 786 91 81
Web page:
http://www.ub.umu.se/om/personal/tjanstesidor/magnus-olsson
Agenda
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Evaluation of information sources
Search strategies and search tools in databases
Business Source Premier
Some quality internet sources for business
Workshop
Evaluation of information sources – a
few guidelines
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Author and Publisher
Tendency
Purpose and audience
Recency
Edition
References
How do I get hold of this specific
scholarly article?
• Sandberg, B. (2007) Enthusiasm in the development of
Radical Innovations, Creativity and Innovation
Management, 16(3), 265-273.
Journals dealing in strategic
foresight, futures research methods
and innovation (examples)
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Long Range Planning
Harvard Business Review
Sloan management review
Organization studies
Futures
During strategic foresight and innovation you
should find material to your group assignment
Megastrends
Where can I find that material?
For example in of our databases: Acacemic search
elite
For other assignments: Check out Business
databases, e.i. Business Source premier
Search strategies in databases
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What words should I use when searching?
How do I expand my search?
How do I limit my search?
How do I search using keywords?
Keywords
• Thesaurus, Descriptors, subject words, A-Z, Index etc.
• ”Tags”
Academic search elite
• Academic Search Elite, an EBSCO database, is a general
academic index that indexes almost 3,000 magazines and
journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text
of more than 1,200
• Peer-review
• Thesaurus
Off-Campus Access to Umea University Library's
databases, e-books and e-journals
• http://www.ub.umu.se/en/search/off-campus-access
Other information sources
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Encyclopedia Britanica, New Palgrave dictionary of
economics etc.
• Books
Album
Quality Internet sources, some
examples:
• http://www.europages.com/ (directory of companies/products)
• http://www.euromonitor.com/ (business intelligence on
industries, countries and consumers)
• http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/index_en.htm (EU DG Enterprise
and Industry's website), statistics, news
• http://www.scb.se/default____2154.aspx (swedish business
statistics)
• http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/ho
me/ (EU and candidate countries)
References?
• USBE uses the Harvard system (author-date)
• the author’s surname, year of publication and if appropriate page
number(s) are cited in the text (In text referencing). A
reference list (of these citations) is included at the end of the
report/paper, in alphabetical order by authorship with date. This
reference list will also include the full details of the document.
• http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm
How to reference a book
In text referencing
This is to be expected (Jobber 2009, p. 136).
Reference list
Jobber, David (2009). Foundations of marketing. 3. ed.
London : McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
How do you avoid cheating and
plagiarism?
• Follow the teacher’s instructions!
• Others´texts. It must be clear as to what are your own ideas
and wording and what you have taken from other places.
http://www8.umu.se/umu/eng/current/umustdt/cheating_and_plagiarism.pdf
Subject librarians
• magnus.olsson@ub.umu.se
• stefan.fleig@ub.umu.se