Past assignments - tricky questions answered

1. Economics assignments on Outsourcing
Start with the database Business Source Premier, which has some good articles.
The best search term to start with is: contracting out (change Select a Field (Optional) to SU Subject Term when entering the search on the database)

2. ACEF851 assignment
The article 'Building Innovation: Learning with technologies' by Kathryn Moyle is available at:http://www.acer.edu.au/research/publications/aer . It can also be located on Multisearch (enter author and title) or through a Google Scholar search.

3. ECH130/229 assignment 'grey' literature
Information in 'grey' literature can be found at the following locations:
http://www.une.edu.au/library/eskillsplus/research/grey.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Literature_Network_Service
http://www.alpn.edu.au/node/61
http://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/content.php?pid=13242&sid=89840http://www.greynet.org/
http://libguides.library.uwa.edu.au/content.php?pid=180393&sid=1517495
As well as the PsychEXTRA database.

4. MAS104 - film analysis of Baz Luhrmann's Billabong Campaign
To watch the ads, do a Google search under: baz luhrmann billabong campaign - give Utube and other sources. NB: Also boab campaign.
Newspaper articles can be found on Factiva or Proquest ANZ Newsstand databases.
Books such as David Bordwell: Film Art (PN1995. B617 2004) give a good introduction on how to analyse a film, or Graeme Turner and Stuart Cunningham: The Media and Communications in Australia (P92.A8. M413 2010).
The Gruen Transfer - 18 March 2009 - How do you sell... Australia looks at tourism campaigns including Baz Luhrmann's ads, the 'Where the bloody hell are you?' campaign, and Paul Hogan's ad from 1994. This segment also discusses similarities between tourism ads for different countries. Not academic but an example of textual analysis.

5. Law assignments - second reading of a legislation
To find the second reading of a legislation you need to:
1. Find the Corporations Act 2001 which is located in print at KTA 382.
2. Locate the date of the Second reading in the Act (somewhere at the beginning of the Act).
3. Go to the Hansard at J905.H25 or http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/hanssen.htm to locate the Second reading.

6. Top 100 Brandz
The following PDF document lists the top 100 global brands for 2011. This may be useful for queries and assignments relating to brands, sectors or marketing: http://brandz.ogilvyeditions.com/top100/2011/BrandZ_Top100.pdf

7. Australia's Climate Change Review and Carbon Pricing
A report on Australia's Climate Change Review is available at: http://www.garnautreview.org.au/
A 2011 update of the report focusses on Australia's Carbon Pricing Scheme: http://www.garnautreview.org.au/update-2011/garnaut-review-2011.html
This information may be useful for assignments and research

8. Book on the history of Macquarie University:

Try: Mansfield, Bruce: Liberality of Opportunity a history of Macquarie University 1964-1989

LG712.M35 .M37

9. Biology assignment - identifying/describing acacia plants:

Recommended print reference sources for this assignment include:

Flora of New South Wales

Flora of Australia:Volume11A Acacia Part 1

Native Plants of the Sydney District/Fairley and Moore

10. Picture books on children with disabilities:

Try: disab? and "picture book" or disab? and "juvenile fiction" on the Catalogue
Try: "More notes from a different drummer : a guide to juvenile fiction portraying the disabled " - ARC Curriculum Z1037.9. B36 1984
Try: The University of Illinois resource that lists over 100 picture books about disabilities: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/esslchildlit/archives/2006/01/picture_books_a.html