Training for Management, Business and Economics

Semester 2 2012

The Wheatley Subject Team offer a number of taught courses to help you to use information resources. Sessions take place in the Training Room (across the bridge in the new extension), Wheatley Library. Please book either by e-mailing: businesslibrarians@brookes.ac.uk or phoning 01865 485869 (ext 5869). Please give your student number. We shall run more sessions if demand is high.

Business databases

Business students need a huge variety of information for their coursework, much of which is available electronically these days both on and off campus. This session helps you to sort out what to use and when. It covers how to get the best from the huge journals databases to which we have access; using Factiva to find company, industry, and market news; how to find company, market and industry analysis in stockbroker reports in Investext; company accounts and analysis and share prices using Fame, Orbis Thomson One Banker; market research reports in Mintel and Euromonitor.

If you have completed the Brookes Virtual Learning course "A guide to business and economics databases" or "Sourcing information" which is the version used for new undergraduates, you should not need do this session. Also, most postgraduates have had the same taught session timetabled into their courses. However, if you have not had an opportunity to discover business databases and if you feel that you would like everything wrapped up in one taught session with some practical hands-on exercises, or if you just want a refresher, this is for you. The first half of this session will deal with the journals databases. Feel free to book for just the first half if you wish.

If you cannot attend this session you can self-register to join the Brookes Virtual learning Course "A guide to business and economics databases".

Monday 6 February 13.00-16.00
Tuesday 7 February 13.00-16.00
Wednesday 8 February 13.00-16.00
Thursday 9 February 13.00-16.00 (limited spaces)
Friday 10 February 13.00-16.00
Thursday 16 February 13.00-16.00

Endnote training

If you are fed up of painstakingly typing out references at the end of your assignments, or if you are about to embark on a dissertation which will involve producing a large bibliography, you need to discover EndNote.

EndNote is database software that enables you to store bibliographic references and enter them automatically into any Word document and produce the bibliography at the end. All your problems about accurate referencing are solved instantly!

Citations can be downloaded directly from databases or entered manually. References entered into your text and your reference list at the end can be entered automatically in hundreds of different referencing styles, but most usefully in Brookes Harvard style. This is a useful resource for anyone in the academic world, from the undergraduate writing an assignment onwards. We are offering one hour, lunchtime, hands-on training sessions covering key features, designed to get you started.

Endnote training week:

Monday 6 February 12.00-13.00
Tuesday 7 February 12.00-13.00
Wednesday 8 February 12.00-13.00
Thursday 9 February 12.00-13.00
Friday 10 February 12.00-13.00