Business and Economics
Help and news
Journals
E-books
Subject guides and information
Internet sources
Country information and Statistics
Dissertations
Guides to databases for Management, Business and Economics
Information skills including referencing
Help and news
- The Subject Team based at Wheatley Library provides help and support in these areas. E-mail: businesslibrarians@brookes.ac.uk
- Neil Vaughan (01865 485851 ext.5851) for Strategy, Marketing, Retailing, Operations Management, Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour.
- David Bell (01865 485640 ext. 5640) for Accounting, Governance, Information Management.
- Debbie Lenihan (01865 485640 ext. 5640 for Economics.
- Jane Knight (01865 485847 ext. 5847) Library Assistant (Subject Support).
- Brookes Business Librarian's course noticeboard blog
- Subject news
- New books in the Library
- Training sessions
- The Brookes Virtual Learning course "A guide to business and economics databases"
A complete online training session on using most of the databases listed further below.
- Wheatley
Library podcast
Audio and text guides to Wheatley Library and advice on using the Library.
Journals
E-books
- Link to details of the Safari database, books on Business Source Complete and more.
- MyiLibrary
Contains nearly 250 electronic book titles from Business School reading lists.
Subject guides and information
- Company information
- Finding information on Accountancy
- Market information
- Literature searching for dissertations in Economics
- Literature searching for dissertations in Management and Business Studies
- UK business libraries
Internet sources
- Introduction and internet tutorial
- Gateways to economics and business sources
- Company information, annual reports and share prices
- Databases
- Working papers
- A guide to citing and referencing for Business students and other citation guides
Country information and Statistics
- World economies: sources of analysis
- Statistical sources for the World, UK, and every other country
- UK statistics
Dissertations
- Business School (with the exception of Tourism and Hotel and Restaurant Management) dissertations are held at Wheatley Library. A guide to help you find them on the Catalogue is available at: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/guides/businessd2005.doc
Guides to databases for management, business and economics
- Business Source Complete and EconLit
on EBSCOhost
Hundreds of full text journals and abstracts in Management, Business and Economics and company, industry and country reports too. Also available to Staff and Students off campus using ATHENS authentication - instructions in this guide. - EconLit on EBSCOhost
Full text and abstracts of economics journals, and abstracts of many other sources for economics. Available off campus as above. - Emerald
Full text and abstracts of 120 journals published by MCB University Press. Also available to Staff and Students off campus using ATHENS authentication - instructions in this guide. - Euromonitor GMID
Market research reports, consumer lifestyle reports, company profiles, statistics and a guide to sources of data for 52 of the largest world economies and 28 emerging markets. Also available to staff and students off campus using ATHENS authentication - instructions in this guide . - Factiva
International news database providing an archive of 10000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages. Leading national newspapers, local newspapers, trade and professional journals, the BBC Monitoring Service (transcripts of world radio broadcasts) and company's financial details are all included. Also available to Staff and Students off campus - instructions in this guide. - Fame and Orbis
Fame contains the accounts and details of 117,000+ UK companies with a turnover over £700,000, or profits over £40,000 etc., and software to analyse them. Orbis contains the accounts of 900,000 world companies. Also available to staff and students off campus using ATHENS authentication - instructions in this guide. - Financial Times and Economist
Previously on CD ROM are now available on Factiva above. - Investext
See Thomson ONE Banker Analytics below. - Mintel
UK market research reports on consumer goods, leisure, retailing, and on strategic marketing issues. Also available to Staff and Students off campus using ATHENS authentication - instructions in this guide. - Orbis
See Fame and Orbis above. - Thomson ONE Banker Analytics
The Worldscope database on the Thomson One Banker Analytics platform provides 28,500+ world Public Limited Company's accounts and share prices. Data that can be analysed and manipulated. Exchange rates are also included. The Investext databases providing analysts reports on companies, industries and markets is now available from this platform. Also available to staff and students off campus, check your PIP page, or ask the Subject Team above, for the passwords. - WARC
Journals, news, case studies and data on advertising and marketing from the World Advertising Research Center. Also available to staff and students off campus, check your PIP page, or ask the Subject Team above, for the passwords.
- An introduction to Zetoc
Subject searching for citations in 20,000 journals held by the British Library, and an alert service providing contents pages of new issues. Also available to Staff and Students off campus using ATHENS authentication - instructions in this guide.