School of Accountancy: Accounting Hons 2024

Use the "Search strategy builder" to help you create a search string, using Boolean logic. You can cut and paste the results into most databases’ search boxes.

Google Scholar

Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is the act of taking others' work and presenting it as your own. It can be deliberate or unintentional. To avoid plagiarism, it is important to reference the sources that you are using for your assignments. Read more on Plagiarism.

Referencing:
Use the Stellenbosch Harvard Style to ensure you are referencing correctly. 

A few referencing tips:

• Know the Referencing Style that you are using, Mendeley does not replace knowledge
• Make sure what you are referencing, different material types are displayed differently in the bibliography
• Makes sure that your in-text citations match your bibliography
• Most important, be CONSISTENT

AND – returns results with both keywords. AND usually limits the search results
OR – returns results with one or the other keyword.It broadens your results by connecting two or more synonyms.
NOT – returns results excluding specific keywords

Use the Boolean Machine for visualizing the effects of Boolean operators .

More tips:

Quotation Marks “ ” – keep keywords together, for exact phrase searching
Brackets ( ) – keep concepts together, used for synonyms

Example:

("green energy" OR "sustainable energy" OR "renewable energy") AND (logistics OR "supply chain")

Databases:
ProQuest One Business 
Emerald
Google Scholar
Science Direct
Scopus
Sabinet African Journals 
Gartner - reports
Fitch Connect - reports
MarektLine Advantage - reports 
SAGE Research Methods Online - research assistance
IRESS - Financial & company data
IRESS Expert - Financial & Company data