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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.

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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

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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.

EndNote: Step by step guide

Referella explains referencing
Explore referencing in a fun way

Accredited journals
Articles in Accredited Journals are recognised research outputs which meet specified criteria and, therefore, qualify for subsidisation by the Department of Higher Education and Training(DHET). This database is compiled from the seven lists (2024) on the DHET web page.

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
Writefull word plug-in
Download the plug-in for Word to get language feedback, automatically paraphrase text, and auto-generate your title.

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Databases

WorldCat Discovery
WorldCat Local lets you find everything you need with one simple search interface. Its a way for you to locate books, articles, journals, videos, and other items of interest in your library or other libraries. You can search the WorldCat database and, if your library makes them available, other specialised databases.
Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles from academic publishers, professional societies preprint, repositories, universities, and other scholarly organisations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
African Journals This service allows you to discover articles about African content covering various topics. Our collection of journal subjects includes:Open Access African Journal ArchiveBusiness and FinanceEducationLabourLawMedicine and HealthScience, Technology and AgricultureReligionSocial Sciences and HumanitiesJuta's Law Collection
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EBSCOhost EBSCOhost databases are the most-used premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide representing millions of end-users. 
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Emerald Insight Journals Contains over 180 titles in the fields of management information science and engineering.
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JSTOR JSTOR offers a high-quality interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over 1 000 leading academic journals across the humanities social sciences and sciences as well as selected monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
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ScienceDirect ScienceDirect is a leading full text scientific database offering articles/chapters from more than 2 500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11 000 books. There are currently more than 9,5 million articles/chapters in a content base that is growing at a rate of almost 0,5 million additions per year.
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PressReader
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