Please direct enquiries to

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Research Methods

• Please direct enquiries to
• david.litting_at_uts.edu.au
• 95143390

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What Well Cover Today

• The library website and its features
• Referencing and Writing
• Finding information- Books, Journals,
  Newspapers, Property related information
• Evaluating information
• How to contact the library for assistance

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The Library Websitewww.lib.uts.edu.au
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New Things at the LibraryFind Databases Page
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Info Skills Bank Found on the study
guide pageYou can find todays powerpoint
presentation here
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Referencing and WritingGuide is available via
students/discover your library
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Referencing Guide Harvard (UTS)
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RefWorks

• Refworks is a piece of software that will help
  build a bibliography for you and also reference
  in the text when you write assignments
• Its available through the library catalogue
  type Refworks in the title field
• Create an account to use the software
• Enter details of information you are using into
  Refworks or, if possible import the information

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Referencing Software Refworks
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Endnote

• Endnote is another piece of software that will
  help you make a bibliography and reference in the
  text
• Endnote is a downloadable piece of software
  available for free from the library website
• You will need to download the Harvard (UTS) style
  into Endnote from the library website also.

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Referencing Software Endnote
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Training in Refworks and Endnotebook on the
library website
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• BELL Writing Guide

• Guide To Writing Assignments

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Searching the Catalogue

• The catalogue is a searchable database of all the
  things that the library owns or subscribes to
• Its useful for finding books, dvds and specific
  journal articles you might be asked to read.
• Use the keyword search for topic searches
• Services like BONUS will give you access to more
  books.

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Real Estate Investment
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Book record
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Request and BONUS

• Requesting items at UTS
• Press the Request item button
• Use your name and student card barcode number

• Requesting items with BONUS

• Use this when the UTS items are being borrowed or
  if UTS does not own the book you need
• Press the green Bonus icon
• Enter your details as per a UTS request

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Limiting to electronic booksuse the drop down
tab in the catalogue
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Journal Articles

• Journal Articles tend to be of a more limited
  scope than books (ie they are shorter in
  length), however there are more of them and they
  come out more frequently than books.
• Journal articles can be located in databases
• Lists of databases good for Property studies are
  included in the Property Economics study guide

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Databases on the study guide
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Sample database Business Source Premier

• Business Source Premier is a large database that
  provides information across the entire spectrum
  of business topics
• It provides a nice easy to use interface
• It also provides some full text full text
  means that you can read what you find right away
• If there is no full text use the sfx function

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Business Source Premier
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SFX finding full text
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Informit Australian ContentAPA-FT

• Informit Complete is a list of databases with an
  Australian focus
• It covers many areas, but one database that may
  be of interest to you is Australian Public
  Affairs full text.
• This database contains information relavant to
  property students

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Sample database Australian Public Affairs
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Newspaper Databases

• Newsbank and Factiva are both good databases to
  search for newspaper articles, both Australian
  and overseas.
• You can access them by placing their names in the
  title field of the catalogue
• Everything you find you can read right away

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Example NewsbankSearch Property Market
(Australia)
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Property Specific Information

• Rent Reports
• BIS Shrapnel Reports
• ABS information census and housing reports
• MintGlobal company information

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Property Economics Study Guide groups many of
the resources youll needstudy guides/built
environment/property economics/statistics
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Ausstats (ABS)- Housing statistics(themes/people/
housing)
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Rent and SalesReports

• Are available from the NSW Government Department
  of Housing website www.housing.nsw.gov.au
• Its also a link from the Property Economics
  Study Guide
• Choose rent and sales report from quick links
• The reports chart the change in land costs

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Stats are Available By State and Capital City
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And also by postcode
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Residential Property Prospects

• This is a hardcopy service, available in the
  Closed Reserve Section of UTS library call
  number 333.3370994 RESI. Its published by BIS
  Shrapnel.
• This is a wonderful resource, containing
  information such as
• residential property cycle graph,
• demand for housing,
• key economic indicators including consumption,
  private investment in dewellings, gross national
  expenditure, inflation and wages /cpi, etc.,
• approvals, home loans, migration interstate,
  vacancy rates AND MORE!

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Other Similar Publications(from BIS Shrapnel)

• These are also hardcopy, and available from
  Closed Reserve
• Building Industry Prospects - 338.4769 buil This
  contains forecast of dwelling commencements
• Building in Australia (2008-2023) - 338.47624/3
  (ed.28)This contains projections for the next 15
  years for things like
• property values by captial city
• demand for dwellings
• propects for building dwellings,
• building activity by state

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Company Information MintGlobal

• Information about Australian construction
  companies (and other companies here and overseas)
  is available through the library catalogue via
  the MintGlobal service

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Example Meriton (MintGlobal)
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Evaluating Information

• Below is a list of criteria you can use to help
  you evaluate the quality of information you find.
  It can be used for books, journal articles and
  websites.
• Authority who is the author? Are occupation,
  experience, credentials, education listed?
• Affiliation what institution (company,
  government body, university etc.)
• Validity how true and accurate is the
  information? Is evidence provided?
• Purpose and Objectivity is it to inform? To
  explain? To persuade?
• Audience who is the intended audience? Expert
  or novice? Student or practitioner? Consumer or
  researcher?
• Currency when was the information created or
  last updated?
• Scope depth of information? How broad is the
  subject area?
• Uniqueness what does this work offer compared
  to other works including print resources?

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Need Help? Ask a librarian!Or contact me
directly david.litting_at_uts.edu.au / 95143390