Business Studies

Business Source Premier [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Provides full-text for approximately 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and marketing. Includes Dun & Bradstreet company information.

Economist.com [electronic resource].
Full text of the UK edition of The Economist from 1997 onwards.

Emerald [electronic resource].
Access to management research journals from MCB University Press. The service provides access to over 20,000 management articles, with a full text archive going back to 1994.

Financial Times [electronic resource].
Full text of the Financial Times (London edition) from June 1996 onwards. Updated daily. Coverage is text only, and does not include the Companies & Markets section - for historic share prices please see the Thomson One Banker e-resource.

Amadeus [electronic resource].
AMADEUS is a comprehensive, pan-European database containing financial information on over 10 million public and private companies in 38 European countries. Includes the top 250,000 companies.

Fame - Financial Analysis Made Easy [electronic resource].
Financial analysis of the UK's leading companies. Results of the top 1.7 million UK and Irish companies for the last ten years showing balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and other useful information. Updated weekly.

Thomson One Banker [electronic resource].
Real-time global financial data, including historical share prices, mergers and acquisitions details, company filings and news. Covers both public and private companies Data up to a maximum of 40 years back in some cases. Mergers and acquisitions data 1985 - Analysis and forecasts also provided. Downloading to Excel permitted.

Zephyr [electronic resource].
ZEPHYR is an information solution containing M&A, IPO and venture capital deals with links to detailed financial company information.

MarketLine Business Information Centre [electronic resource].
Provides concise industry, company and country information, with profiles linked to latest newswires. Brief market reports contain information on main products and services, key employees, subsidiaries,a SWOT analysis and list of top competitors. Over 50 countries are covered.

Key Note [electronic resource].
Full text of Key Note market research reports covering over 240 titles in 26 UK market sectors. Market reports focus on a specific market segment, e.g. snack foods ; market reviews look across an entire market sector, e.g.UK food market.

Mintel [electronic resource].
Full text of several hundred UK market research reports from Mintel marketing intelligence. Covers Market, Finance, Retail and Leisure Intelligence market report journals, plus a selection of Library Special reports, market news and some other product databases.

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Via Gale Cengage Learning. Provides full text and abstracts access to articles from journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.

BANKSCOPE [electronic resource].
Bankscope gives detailed financial information on over 11,000 public and private banks worldwide.

British Rates and Advertising Data (BRAD) [electronic resource].
Online version of BRAD (British Rates and Advertising Data), the daily guide to advertising media.

Business Insights / Datamonitor 360 [electronic resource].
Business Insights / Datamonitor 360 market reports cover seven main industry sectors; E-commerce/technology, financial services, healthcare, consumer goods, human resources, energy and telecommunications.

CIPD: Case Studies Club [electronic resource].
Case studies in Human Resources, covering core personnel and development, core management, employee development, employee relations, employee resourcing, employee reward and specialist electives.

Creative Club [electronic resource].
Creative Club provides an archive of over 1.5 million UK adverts across all media. Users can search by company, brand or sector for TV, press, direct mail, outdoor, cinema and radio ads. The archive is updated in real time, and ads can be downloaded for inclusion in coursework; the database can also be used for information on campaign costs.

EIU Country Data [electronic resource].
Annual, quarterly and monthly economic indicators and forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Covers 117 countries, with 270 series starting from 1980 and forecasting to 2006.

Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) [electronic resource].
ESDS resource supplying access to international data.

Global Market Information Database, Euromonitor [electronic resource].
Contains statistical and full text analysis findings under eight headings: Country Data, Consumer Lifestyles, Retail Market Sizes, Forecasts, Brands and Companies, Information Sources, Major Market Profiles and Euromonitor Market Reports.

GreenFILE [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost, Greenfile is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. It is comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

RefWorks [electronic resource].
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

Sage Journals Online (Sage Premier) [electronic resource].
SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

SpringerLink [electronic resource].
Provides online, full-text access to Springer's journal titles as well as journals from other publishers. Subjects include: life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics. Some titles are in abstracts only.

WARC: World Advertising Research Center [electronic resource].
WARC provides the largest single source of intelligence for the marketing, advertising, media and research communities worldwide, drawn from more than 40 international sources.

XpertHR [electronic resource].
XpertHR draws together a range of HR information from specialist journals published by Reed Elsevier and employment law resources from LexisNexis Butterworths. It includes access to IRS Employment Review and other IRS journals, plus case reports, case studies, news, analysis and commentary, policy documents and statistical surveys.

Biz/Ed Premier [electronic resource].
Provides access to 25 business and economics core textbooks and 14 accounting core textbooks. It also includes critical viewpoints, matched to specific chapter/topic content and based upon specially selected articles from popular business and economics journals and activities developed by Biz/ed's editorial team.

MyiLibrary [electronic resource].
MyiLibrary provides a faster and easier way to access collections of books, reports, journals, bulletins and other documents published by inter-governmental organisations such as the World Bank, United Nations and International Labour Organisation.

Oxford Handbooks: Business and Management collection [electronic resource].
Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management bring together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in business and management. Containing specially commissioned essays with extensive referencing to further reading, the handbooks offer both thorough introductions to topics in the discipline, and a useful reference resource for scholars, advanced students, and practitioners.

BUBL - Business Links
Bulletin Board for Libraries based at the University of Strathclyde, giving quality subject sources for business

BRINT
Searchable directory/knowledge map of contemporary business, management and infprmation technology issues. Links to many full text journal articles, case studies and other resources in various topical areas of business, including knowledge management, e-commerce and virtual corporations.

Global Edge: Resource Desk
International business resources directory, founded by Michegan State University Centre for International Business Education and Research.

British Chambers of Commerce
The British Chambers of Commerce home page includes recent news, publications information, a directory of Chambers searchable by region, an Export Zone, the latest Quarterly Economic Survey and a useful links page.

Business Link
The UK government's online resource for businesses gives support for start-ups, with guidance on regulations and how to access government services. It contains online tools, calculators and best practice case studies, as well as detailing funding options.

Business, Management, Accountancy & Finance Subject Centre
The Higher Education Academy BMAF Subject Centre. This government-funded initiative aims to support lecturers in business, management, accountancy & finance, as well as promoting good practice in learning & teaching.

Confederation of British Industry
The CBI's web site, with links to latest UK business news and many useful publications and organisations. Some publications, such as business surveys are subscription only.

Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Formerly the DTI, the Government's BIS web site offers a range of business information including pages on business support, consumers, employment relations, regulations, trade and investment.

World Trade Organisation
Useful site for information on all aspects of world trade. The WTO site has 3 main areas: WTO general information, trade topics, and resources including publications information and links to other sites.

European Case Clearing House
Access to over 14,000 case studies from leading management schools worldwide e.g. Harvard Business School, INSEAD, IMD-Lausanne, LBS, Cranfield... The Catalogue is searchable by author and/or subject and can be limited by date or length of case study.