BUS 410: Financial Institutions Spring 2012 Jenna Walsh Business Librarian, SFU Surrey

Agenda 1) Library resources to find information about financial institutions 2) Plagiarism 3) How to get research help

Who might publish the information you want?

Research Guide: BUS 410 Research Guide  News sources / Press releases  Company Profiles / Financial data guides/business/bus410

News / Press Releases Canadian Newsstand  Fulltext articles and transcripts from Canadian newspapers and news shows  From the late 1985 to a day or two ago LexisNexis  News (general and business/industry) from around the world  Access to Hoover’s Company Reports Business Source Complete  industry and general business news publications  detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies

Research Guide: BUS 410 Research Guide  News sources / Press releases  Company Profiles / Financial data guides/business/bus410

Company Profiles / Financial Data MINT Global  50,000 publicly-traded companies  5 million private companies  Detailed financials, as well as links to Financial Times news stories Hoover’s Company ReportsHoover’s Company Reports (via LexisNexis)  Profiles of thousands of companies  Key financial details, lists of top officers, and main competitors Datamonitor 360  Company reports, including SWOT analyses for about 10% of the companies

Agenda 1) Library resources to find information about financial institutions 2) Plagiarism 3) How to get research help

Write your paper & cite your sources

APA guides and plagiarism tutorial APA guides Plagiarism tutorial

Writing and avoiding plagiarism  If you don’t know how to correctly cite a document, feel free to ask a librarian for help.  If you want help with writing/structuring your paper or quoting/paraphrasing documents, see the Student Learning Commons. Student Learning Commons Workshops One-to-one appointments Drop-in consultations

Is this plagiarism? Direct quotation: “When a significant violation of public trust has occurred, lying is a common corollary because the wrongdoing invites concealment” (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008, p. 838). Student A’s paper: If a serious violation of public trust occurs, lying is often the result because this action invites concealment (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008).

Is this plagiarism? Direct quotation: “When a significant violation of public trust has occurred, lying is a common corollary because the wrongdoing invites concealment” (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008, p. 838). Student A’s paper: If a serious violation of public trust occurs, lying is often the result because this action invites concealment (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008).

Is this plagiarism? Direct quotation: “When a significant violation of public trust has occurred, lying is a common corollary because the wrongdoing invites concealment” (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008, p. 838). Student B’s paper: Organizations often feel compelled to lie about their actions when they are discovered to have taken advantage of the public (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008).

Avoiding plagiarism  If you include any ideas or sentences in your paper that come from elsewhere (e.g., articles, books, websites), you need to acknowledge those sources.  Citing a document incorrectly is always better than not citing it.  Leave yourself time to cite your sources.

Agenda 1) Library resources to find information about financial institutions 2) Plagiarism 3) How to get research help

Getting help

Getting Help  Ask anyone at the reference desk in any of the three campus libraries  Use our Ask a Librarian services (via the Library home page) to contact a librarian (by phone, IM, or ).Ask a Librarian  Contact : Jenna Walsh Class? Due Date? Where have you searched? How have you searched? Found anything close to what you need?