Here you’ll find links to financial, legal, statistical, and market data resources. The Library can help you with searching for literature. Through the library, you have access to research and academic resources that are useful for students and researchers at UiS Business School.
Master or PhD student or a researcher at UiS? Borrow a librarian for guidance and help with a literature search.
Suggest literature or subscriptions that the library should have in our collection, and we will consider buying it.
Current books
If you have any questions about the library resources for the UiS Business school, please contact me and I will help you.
Databases and academic sources
The library has academic resources and information relevant for business school studies, which gives you access to economic data, statistics, legal sources, and market analysis.
Remember to use Remote Access to gain access to our online resources even if you are not on campus.
Writing assignments
The library offers several services to help you get started and take care of important elements in the writing process.
The UiS Business school usually use the citation style APA 7th.The Citation Compass (Kildekompasset) gives examples and explanations on how to quote/cite any type of source, both in-text and in the reference list. The Citation Compass covers both APA 6th and APA 7th
You can get help with your writing assignments from student mentors in the Study Lab. They also offer writing groups for master's students. In UiS Brage you can find previous student assignments, both at bachelor's and master's level. You can use these as inspiration, but be aware that the grades can be from A to E.
Academic Writing Library classes References and source evaluation
Research and publish
If you are starting a research project the library can help you with literature search, data mangment, useful software for reference mangment and more.
If you are starting a research project and need help getting started with the literature search you can ask for a guidance session. Employees, PhD-students and master students at UiS can book individual guidance in searching and systematic searching.
We reccomend using reference management tools, and other software to help you during your researching process. The library offers workshops and support in: Endnote: reference manager that helps you save time formatting citations. Zotero: free and user-friendly reference managment tool. NVivo: lets you process qualitative data. Rayyan: screen your references for systematic reviews and more.
Systematics searching
A systematic search for literature is a comprehensive and well-planned search relevant sources. The use of search terms and keyword synonyms are important. The goal is to find as much literature as possible within a chosen area or topic. The searches should be documented and replicable.
Employees, PhD-students and master students at UiS can book individual guidance in searching and systematic searching. Contact for any inquiries. To get the most of a session it is important that you arrive prepared.
Before searching:
- Define the key words for your search strategy
- Choose relevant databases
- Find relevant search terms: Subject terms, keywords
- Choose exclusion criteria’s
More about searching:
- PhD on Track
- Søk og Skriv: Systematic searching
- Cochrane handbook: Designing search strategies
- Norwegian Institute of public health: Systematic Reviews
- Helsebiblioteket: Kunnskapsbasert praksis (NO)
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