1. Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg State University Efficient usage of library resources

2. 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

3. Choosing (formulating) a topic Linguistic approach Metacognitive approach (concept maps) Epistemological approach (Vee diagrams)

4. Choosing a topic: Linguistic approach Main title ‘The news media is more concerned with sensationalism than balanced reporting” Concept 1 News media Concept 2 Sensationalism Concept 3 Balanced reporting Topic 1 Charact. of publications Topic 2 Types of news media Topic 3 People involved Topic 1 Define sensationali sm Topic 2 Attitudes towards sensation Topic 3 The law Topic 1 Define balanced reporting Topic 2 Commercial interest Topic 3 Impartiality Reporting styles Newspaper s ReportersDictionary definition Attitudes of the populace Privacy laws, etc. Dictionary definition Vested interests Use of language TVEditorsDefinition used in investigation Readership figures Use of imagesRadioNewspaper owners Readership profiles Readers Subject areas covered

5. Choosing a topic: Metacognitive approach

6. Choosing a topic: Epistemological approach

7. Writing a critical literature review: prerequisites Library holds more than 60.000 books and 20.000 periodicals. GSOM Library OPACOPAC Library e-subscription contains more than 40 full text and reference databases (29 international and 12 Russian) Library e-subscription

8. 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

9. 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

10. Writing a critical literature review: Articles & Journals Aggregators ABI Inform Global EBSCO InfoTrac JSTOR Integrum (rus) Integrum Publishers Elsevier Emerald Wiley Oxford Univ. Press Camb. Univ. Press Sage GrebennikoffGrebennikoff (rus) Et al.

11. Writing a critical literature review: Articles searching engines A-Z Journal Finder SampleSample Reference databases SCOPUS SampleSample Web of Science

12. Individual research basics: sources Company Information & Financials Country Information & Statistics Market & Research reports Industry Information & Statistics LexisNexisLexisNexis (int) Company Profiles (EBSCO) (EBSCO) (int) SKRINSKRIN (rus) SPARKSPARK(rus) Source OECD World Bank GMID Country Profiles (EBSCO) GMID Mintel Reports ProQuest Snapshot Series GMID Industry Profiles (EBSCO)

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