Business and Management
Some useful resources for Business and Management are listed below.
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ABI/INFORM Complete
| Access information: | Available on campus. Off campus access available using the VPN. |
| Description: | Approximately 5,000 full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key newspapers, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. It is one of the most comprehensive business databases offering nearly 3,900 full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. |
| Coverage: | 1950s onwards. |
Business Insights
Business Insights has been relaunched as Datamonitor 360. Please see the entry for Datamonitor 360.
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Business Source Complete
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | The world’s largest full text business database, Business Source Complete provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications. This database provides full text for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals. Updated daily. |
| Coverage: | 1922-present. |
Datamonitor 360
| Access information | Access on campus. |
| Description | Business Insights has been relaunced as Datamonitor 360 and now incorporates Marketline. The service continues to work in association with leading industry experts, to produce a range of reports providing incisive market analysis in various industry sectors covering topical issues and key market drivers. Examples of companies include Reuters Health, IMS Healthcare, TNS and ComputerWire IT Industry intelligence. |
Dissertations & Theses A&I: Business
| Access information: | on and off campus |
| Description: | Business sub-section of the full databases which indexes doctoral dissertations and master's theses from more than 500 North American and worldwide institutions. 24 page previews of many dissertations are provided. |
| Note: Edinburgh University does not subscribe to the full text content of this database. You will have to pay to retrieve complete electronic copies of dissertations from Dissertations and Theses. However, items may be available through the Inter-Library Loan service. |
| Coverage: | From 1861 to date. Abstracts included from 1980 onwards. |
Additional information
Inter-Library Loan service:
Econlit
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | The database version of Journal of Economic Literature and Index of Economic Articles indexing international literature in the field of economics. Abstracts are included. |
| Coverage: | From 1969 to date. |
Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
Users are required to register with ESDS to use this service.
| Access information: | Available on and off-campus from ESDS. Choose Login via UK federation. Also requires separate registration with ESDS. |
| Description: | ESDS provides access and support for extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, including: ESDS Government, ESDS International, ESDS Longitudinal and ESDS Qualidata. Guides are available. |
Additional information
Please refer to the Data Library for more information on statistics and data.
The Economist
| Access information: | Available from Business Source Premier: click on publications tab and search for ‘Economist’ and select to add to search. Also available via Factiva: click on ‘Source’ and select Economist from A-Z list. |
| Description: | Full text of the weekly publication which covers international politics and business news and opinion. |
| Coverage: | Business Source Premier: Bibliographic Records: 30th June 1990 to present; Full Text: 7th July 1990 to present. |
| Factiva: Full text from 4th January 1981 to present. |
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Emerald Intelligence
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Access to over 130 MCB University Press journals. Full text available for many journals. Option to search subscribed content only. |
| The journals cover general management, human resource management, information management, library & information services, marketing, operations, production & economics, property, quality, training and education and engineering & material science. |
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Factiva
| Access information: | Available on campus. Also available via the VPN. Cookies must be enabled on your browser. |
| Description: | Provides business news and information together with Reuters Fundamentals and D&B company profiles. It contains more than 10,000 authoritative sources including The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires. Also includes most world press including UK national and regional press and trade magazines. Content by freelance writers, some features and supplements may not be available. |
| Coverage: | Click on the info icon next to each publication for coverage information and update schedules. |
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FAME
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. Off-campus access - choose University of Edinburgh from list then click Select button. |
| Description: | Detailed financial information of all UK and Irish companies updated monthly with up to 10 years of data. |
| FAME allows you to search by any combination of over 300 criteria including: geographic location, SIC code or activity description, number of employees, statement items, ratios, credit score/rating, legal form, year of incorporation, holding company/subsidiary. |
| Company comparisons can be achieved using the Peer Analysis option whilst the Statistical Analysis option allows you to produce market sector reports. |
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Passport GMID (Global Market Information Database)
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Euromonitor International's Global Market Information Database provides online access to business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources. with breadth and depth of international coverage. It is especially useful for studying entry into new country markets, the launch of new products and services targeted to new consumer market segments, benchmarking companies against competitors or investigating the growth potential of specific industry sectors. Complete reports can be generated. |
| Coverage: | 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52. |
Hemscott Company Guru Academic
Hemscott Company Guru Academic has been rebranded as Morningstar Company Intelligence. Please see the entry for Morningstar Company Intelligence for access to the service.
Henry Stewart Talks - Marketing and Management
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Marketing and Management Collection. |
IBSS (International Bibliography of Social Science) Online
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Produced by the British Library of Political and Economic Science. One of the largest and most comprehensive social sciences databases in the world, indexing 2600 journals and 6000 books per annum, in the core disciplines of economics, sociology, politics and anthropology. |
| Coverage: | From 1951 to date. |
Additional information
Further help using IBSS is available.
IDEAS - Research Papers in Economics
| Access Information: | Freely available |
| Description: | Access to RePEc's (Research Papers in Economics) collection of about 1.2 million on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software from 75 countries. Freely available full-text download for many. |
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JSTOR
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Full-text journal archive service providing access to complete back runs of all the scholarly journals currently available in JSTOR. Recent volumes are excluded, usually the last 3-5 years, but each year a further year is added to the archive. |
| Each title is listed in the Library catalogue. |
| The collections currently available are: Arts & Sciences 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8; Biological Sciences; Health & General Sciences; Ireland. The 19th Century British Pamphlets Collections is also available via JSTOR. |
Keynote Market Research
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. Choose University of Edinburgh from drop down list to login. |
| Description: | Market intelligence information. Key Note Ltd is a long-established market research publisher providing business information to corporate and academic customers throughout the UK. |
MarketLine Business Information Centre
Marketline has been incorporated into the Datamonitor 360 service. Follow this link to access the service:
Mintel
| Access information: | Available on and off campus from Mintel. Choose UK Federation log in. |
| Description: | Consumer market research reports, but note that access is to the free resource without enhanced data. |
Morningstar Company Intelligence (Formerly Hemscott Company Guru)
| Access information: | Access on campus or via the VPN. |
| Description: | Detailed information on the UK's business leaders and their companies. Full biographies are available for many quoted company directors, detailing careers, directorships, ages and recreations. |
| Get the latest AFX and regulatory news, stock performance information, share prices and graphs and details of companies' corporate advisers. Download detailed reports for quick reviews of company activities. Updated daily. |
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Osiris
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Provides financial information on 55,000 listed and major unlisted/delisted companies worldwide (43,000 are non-US companies). The information includes: standardised and "as reported" financials (including restated reports), SEC filings, detailed earnings estimates including recommendations, ownership, stock data, news and ratings. |
Oxford Scholarship Online
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Oxford Scholarship Online contains the complete text of over 2000 scholarly books published by Oxford University Press in the social sciences and humanities. At least 200 new titles will be added each year. |
| The Library does not licence the complete collection, but subject modules are available in Religion and Theology, Political Science, and Economics and Finance. Business & Management. Additional collections in the following subject areas have also been acquired - Classical Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy and Psychology. |
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ProQuest Business Package
| Access information. | Access on and off campus. |
| Description. | Based on ABI/INFORM Complete, this database has speciality business subject resources for accounting / tax, public finance, investment/financial management, banking, compliance / governance, enterprise / innovation, economics and Asian business. |
PsycINFO
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | American Psychological Association produced with citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. |
| Coverage: | Journal coverage, from 1806 to the present, includes international material selected from more than 2,400 journals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material from 1987 to the present. |
Additional information
NHS Staff and other authorised users:
ReportLinker
| Access information: | Access on campus. |
| Description: | ReportLinker is a professional search engine which gives you access to an exclusive database of 1.2 million market reports. Find and download unlimited official industry reports, company profiles and market statistics. |
Social Sciences Citation Index
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. Try clearing your cookies if you have access problems or use alternative login |
| Description: | Provided by Web of Knowledge. Indexes 2,100 core journals in all areas of the social sciences, plus relevant items from 3,500 scientific and technical journals. Contains over 2.3 million reference, over half with abstracts. |
| Coverage: | From 1956 to date. |
WARC - World Advertising Research Center
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Services provide intelligence from more than 30 international sources including Admap and the Advertising Association. In all areas of marketing communications the service has over 25,000 articles, case studies, research reports and summaries, best practice papers, practical guides, daily news and more. |
Key Resource
Web of Knowledge
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
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| Description: | Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Web of Science section has the ISI Citation Indexes and Cited Reference Search. Email alerts available. |
| Journal impact factors from Journal Citation report section. |
| Coverage (see separate entries for details): | Arts and Humanities Citation Index - 2,300 journals; 1975 onwards. |
| BIOSIS Previews - 3,700 journals, 2,000 meetings; 1926 onwards. |
| Science Citation Index - 8,300 journals; 1900 onwards. |
| Social Sciences Citation Index - 2,700 journals; 1900 onwards. |
| Conference Proceedings Citation Index - 1990 onwards. |
| Journal Citation Reports |
Additional information
A number of sources of help are available with Web of Knowledge:
Finding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'):
Journal Citation Reports:
This article was published on May 8, 2013
