LibGuides: Accounting Sciences: Home

Getting started

Welcome to the subject guide for the School of Accounting Sciences. This LibGuide will help you to find relevant academic information on your topic. If you struggle to find information you're welcome to contact your Faculty Librarian for assistance.

Follow these steps to start searching:

1. Identify your search terms

2. Find synonyms or alternative words to search

3. Choose your database to search in under the Articles/Journals tab

4. Find books, e-books, theses/dissertations under the Books tab

5. Find subject-related data under the Subject Databases tab

6. For research related info like EndNote, Accredited journals, Interlibrary Loans etc. go to the Research Support tab

7. Training videos and links are available under the Training tab

Library Services

Referella

Click here for the Harvard, APA and Law Reference Guides.

Training Calendar

Economic and Management Sciences Training

Complete list of training events.

Training Evaluation Form

Training evaluation form

Academic Department

For information on your course contact your school.

Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

Help

Register for an ORCID
Many funders, including the NRF require an ORCID iD when submitting funded research outputs. The NRF repository will use this unique identifier to link to publications and datasets in the future.
Guide on how to register for your ORCID

NWU Referencing guide 2020
Guidelines for bibliography and bibliographic references. This document includes the NWU Harvard style, the APA style and the NWU Law House style.

Endnote
EndNote is used to search online bibliographic databases, organize references and to create bibliographies instantly.
Referella explains referencing
Explore referencing in a fun way
Manual: Higher Degrees Studies
General Academic Rules
A-Rules
MS Word Postgraduate Template
Research Tools (Atlas ti,SPSS)
Research tools like ATLAS ti. are used for data analysis and enables researchers to make better decisions with data.
Writing Lab
The Writing Laboratory offers a service to all students to assist them in the writing of assignments. By means of practical training by trained consultants students master writing skills quickly and effectively.
Passwords for databases and eJournals
NWU Style guide

Databases

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) This link opens in a new window
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EBSCO Discovery Service provides users with an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of an institution's information resources through a single search. This video shows you how to search on EDS.
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African Journals This link opens in a new window
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EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
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Emerald Insight Journals This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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PressReader This link opens in a new window
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Accounting Sciences: Home