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BUSS 5139: Project Management for Business

1. What you need to know

This page will assist you to find scholarly information to support your assessments.

Please refer to your course outline and course learnonline site for full assessment details.

2. Plan your search

Planning your search is a critical step in helping you locate relevant information.

  • Identify the key concepts, including the aspects of the project management process you want to analyse, and any synonyms you could use
  • Remove task words from your assignment question eg. how, describe, analyse
  • Think about what types of information you need - which parts of your argument need references as supporting evidence?
  • Check the assignment requirements - do you need to use recent information?
  • Watch the video (2 min 26 sec) below to learn more about how to plan your search

3. Finding news media

You may want to search news sources to find information on your project. You can search for newspaper articles in the Library Collection and in a range of News databases.

Finding a newspaper article using the library collection:

After you have entered your search use the filters on the right hand side of the screen to find newspaper articles. Under Resource Type select Newspapers search

Newspaper search filter option

 

Finding a newspaper article using a database:

Alternatively you can search in News databases. The databases listed below contain both Australian and international content:

 

4. Finding information

To do a search, try using:

  • double quotes for phrases
  • truncation* to find the plural and other forms of a word
  • connect using ANDOR and NOT

sample search in Library collection: "project management" business

At the results list you can:

  • Limit to articles from Peer Reviewed publications 
  • Limit by Date e.g. 2019 to 2024
  • See the full text for many items by selecting the title, then look for the Online link

You can search databases to find quality journal articles on your topic. To find which databases are best suited to your subject area, go to the Database subject list, and select the > next to the Business and Management heading. For this course choose the Finance databases.

Most databases have a limiting feature which will allow you to retrieve items published within a particular year or year range e.g. 2019-2024.

Content covers the areas of finance, accounting, economics, international business, management, marketing and tourism. It's also a good source for company information.

Just enter your keywords into the search box to start searching.

Business Source Ultimate search example

You can limit your search to retrieve only peer-reviewed articles by ticking the scholarly/peer reviewed option. You can also limit your search by date range.

By accessing Google Scholar from the library website, you can see articles that the library has access to by clicking on the Full-text at UniSA link.

Click on the Google Scholar tab and enter your search terms into the search box.

On the results page, you can filter your results from the left-hand menu.

Watch the following to find out more:

5. Write your Assignment

You also need to understand the requirements of your assignment. The Student Engagement Unit has created a suite of resources called Study Help that can help you understand different assignment types.

Have a look at following:

6. Referencing Support

Managing your references

What do you do with all those references you have found? Use a bibliographic management software to store, organise and cite your references.

There are many free systems available. The Library supports the bibliographic management tool EndNote. For more information see the EndNote guide.