Accessing electronic resources for business and management information

This guide lists the major resources for business and management. You can access them all via Library Search, the Universitys library search engine. Library Search provides a range of quality resources that would not normally be freely accessible. The majority of these resources can be accessed when you are off-campus. All the necessary username and password information is available within Library Search. When you Click on the link to the particular e-resource the login details for an individual database or journal will be displayed. Use Eresources subject listings to see the complete collection of electronic resources available to you.

Name of Resource

Brief Description

Biz/ed Premier

A collection of core business textbooks, research, articles and exercises.

Bloomberg

Global multimedia based information service providing realtime pricing, historical, analytical financial data. Dedicated online terminal at Marylebone Campus Library. No off-campus access.

Datamonitor 360

Published by Business Insights a series of management reports providing an overview of industry sectors such as financial services, consumer markets, e-commerce, technology, energy and health care.

Business Source Complete

Full-text journals in all aspects of business. This database includes access to Harvard Business Review and the Economist.

Creative Club

Over 1.5 million advertisements. Search by company brand or sector. Includes Adsnaps facility to generate product reports in Powerpoint or PDF formats.

Datastream

Worldwide economics, securities and company data. Numeric database containing share prices, commodities and bonds. Also economic indicators and company accounts. Updated daily. Dedicated online terminal Marylebone Campus Library. No off-campus access.

DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

Over 2,800 free e-journals covering many subjects including business and management

EconLit (EBSCO)

Index of journal articles, books and working papers in all areas of economics, such as accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, produced by the American Economic Association. Daily business intelligence on 203 countries, including updates on important economic, political, business and market developments.

EIU Viewswire Economist Intelligence Unit

Emerald Management eJournals

150 full text e-journals published by MCB Press, 1994 onwards, about management topics including human resource management, marketing and information management.

Emerging Markets

News, company and financial data from 80 emerging markets. Asia, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Latin America. Content includes industry reports, macroeconomic statistics, legal and political information from over 4,000 publications including local language publications.

Factiva

Global news and business information from over 9,000 authoritative sources, including newspapers from around the world

Passport GMID

Statistical data on 207 countries, consumer markets, forecasts, companies, brands, and over 4,000 reports on major market profiles and analysis.

iGAAP (LexisLibrary)

Full text of Deloitte iGAAP : IFRS reporting for the UK .

INSEAD Knowledge

Publications of INSEAD business school. Includes abstracts of case studies and full text working papers.

JSTOR

Archive of over 1000 e-journals for the humanities, social sciences and the sciences, not including the most recent issues from the past 3-5 years.

Lexis Library

A full-text legal database including Halsburys Laws, Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents, All England Law Reports and more. Coverage includes English, Irish, Scottish, Commonwealth, European Community, United States and International law. Particularly useful for locating unreported cases and as a source of United States Federal and State law.

Mad.co.uk

Including information on marketing, media, new media, advertising and design including access to Marketing Week.

MediaTel

Largest single-source of UK media intelligence. Includes daily news as well as an in-depth data archive from major research sources.

Mintel

Full text market research reports and digests for the UK. Latest reports covering Consumer Goods Markets, the Retail Sector, the Leisure Industry and the Personal Finance Sector. Also includes monthly digests on the following sectors: Finance and Economy, Retail, Food and Drink, Consumer Products, Transport and Travel, Communications, and Public and Professional Services

netLibrary

Full text of over 700 books in business, computer science and media, and over 3000 out-of-copyright titles in a range of subjects. Selected full-text articles of 2000 journals currently published by Elsevier dating from 1995. Whilst the primary focus is science, the database covers other disciplines such as business and management.

ScienceDirect

SpringerLink

Full text access to 1100 e-journals including computer science, and business & economics, plus table of contents of books and monograph series.

SwetsWise

Full text of over 2000 journals, and contents pages of 16,000+ journals from numerous publishers. Full text access is limited to those titles the Library subscribes to.

ukGAAP(LexisLibrary)

Full text of Deloitte ukGAAP: financial reporting for UK unlisted entities. Full text articles from marketing journals. 1000+ marketing case studies, worldwide advertising statistics and news. The database is searchable by agency, brand, author or publication.

WARC World Advertising Research Center

Web of Knowledge

Indexes of journal articles and more, including Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index), ISI Proceedings, MEDLINE and Journal Citation Reports.

World Development Indicators

Key macroeconomic dataset produced by the World Bank Group. Contains statistical data on over 550 development indicators e.g. social, economic, financial, natural resource and environmental indicators. Annual time series data from 1960-2003 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups.

July 2011