PECULIARITIES OF SELECTING RELEVANT FOREIGN LANGUAGE SOURCES FOR PREPARING ACADEMIC REVIEWS IN RESEARCH ON FINANCE AND CREDIT

The article is aimed at developing methodological foundations for the search of relevant sources in a foreign language, as well as at designing a screening algorithm for scientific publications for  completing  literature  reviews  by  postgraduate and PhD students specialising in Finance and Credit. The article stresses the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to be applied in order to work towards a solution for the lack of foreign literature use in Russian students’ research work.

The authors argue that literature review generally implies generalisation, critical analysis and synthesis of arguments and ideas put forward by other scientists and substantiate the idea that relevant sources in a foreign language play an important role in the framework of Finance and Credit area of study.

The algorithm suggested in the paper was elaborated to justify the relevance of research and guide postgraduate and PhD students in their literature review endavours.The proposed algorithm comprises six stages that are explicitly described in the study.

The paper also justifies the principle of sequential study of sources, from general (encyclopedias, monographs, textbooks) to specific (publications in periodicals, literature reviews on similar topics), and provides a list of the most credible foreign publishing houses specialising in Finance and Credit, as well as a  list  of  electronic  databases  containing  articles  in foreign languages.

The authors conclude  that the solution to the problem of insufficient use of foreign literature calls for a multidisciplinary approach. Cooperation of field-specific and foreign language departments  can  evolve  in several  ways, such  as  translation counseling, inclusion of professionally oriented texts in foreign language textbooks, etc.