Business, Management & Marketing: a brief guide to library and information resources

Business, Management & Marketing
: a brief
g
uide to library
and information resources


This is a brief guide to a selection of sources of the high quality information
you will need for your academic studies at the University of Southampton.



Section One. This lists resources which are freely available. You will be
able to access these befor
e you arrive here and have registered for your
course
,

so you can begin researching your subject while still at home.



Section Two. This lists some of the resources in your subject area which
the University subscribes to. You will not be able to access th
ese until
you have registered and been given a University password but once you
have done that they will be available to you throughout your studies.
Most can be accessed from off campus but a few are restricted to ‘on
-
campus’ use only.

More information an
d links can be found on the Library webpages for your
subject at:

www.soton.ac.uk/library/subjects/index.html



We also have a number of training tools to help you with searching for
information


www.soton.ac.uk/library/infoskills/tutorials.html



Section One:
Freely available resources


Organisations

Companies House

The UK’s official company registration
agent. Free information
is available on limited companies and free guidance booklets
can be ordered or downloaded.

http://www.companies
-
house.gov.uk/


Advertising Association (UK)

Access to full text
position papers.

http://www.adassoc.org.uk/

Advertising Standards Agency

Includes the advertising code, adjudications and statistics.

http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/









Organi
sations

The
Prince’s Trust

Offers practical solutions to help young people get their lives
working.

http://www.princes
-
trust.org.uk/

Federation of Small Businesses

Lobbying and benefits group for small
business.

http://www.fsb.org.uk/


Business Bureau UK

Small business information.

http://www.bureauuk.co.uk/






Innovation Process Management

Marketing, market research and business plans.

http://www.ipm
-
marketing.co.uk/

The UK International Property Office

The UK body responsible for copyright, designs patents and
trademarks.

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/


Full text sources

biz/ed

Learning materials for economics and business studies.

http://www.bized.co.uk/

Abyznewslinks

Gives direct access to media print and internet news
sources
from all around the world.

http://abyznewslinks.com/











Catalogues

WebCat

The cat
alogue of the Hartley Library. Use t
o discover which
books you can refer to in our library.

www
-
lib.soton.ac.uk


TDNet

The University’s main journal catalogue. You will be able to see
what journals we subscribe to but not access the full text until
you have registered for your course.

http://www10.tdnet.com/frames.asp


Southampton City Libraries

You can link to the catalogue of the city libraries from this
page and see what additional resources will be available to you
when you are living here.

www.southampton.gov.uk/s
-
leisure/libraries



Section Two:


Resources
you will be able to access once you
have registered for your course



Databases

Web of Science

References and, in many cases,
abstracts for journal articles in the
social sciences, sciences, arts and humanities.


A small number of
full
-
text links are available.

http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/


Econlit

References, and in some cases abstracts, to
economic literature
from around the world, including journal articles, books, book
chapters and working papers.

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?autht
ype=ip,shib&profil
e=ehost&defaultdb=ecn


PsycINFO

Contains
references

and
abstracts of

scholarly journal articles, book
chapters, books, and dissertations, in all psychology and related
disciplines
.

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,shib&profil
e=hlthdbases&defaultdb=psyh


FAME

Information on UK and Irish companies.

(Institutional login required)

https://fame2.bvdep.com/ukfederation.aspx


KeyNote

UK market research reports.

http://www.keynote.co.uk/academics/index









Full text
sources

Emerald

Full
-
text journal articles in the areas of business, management and
economics.

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/index.htm


JSTOR

Enables you to search for and
access full
-
text journal articles.

http://www.jstor.org/

PsycARTICLES

Full
-
text, peer
-
reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in
psychology.



http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,shib&profil
e=hlthdbases&defaultdb=pdh

Nexis UK

Full
-
text access to newspaper articles and other news sources.

http://w
ww.lexisnexis.com/uk/business




Reference
works

Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Uni
versity Press dictionaries and
other reference books.

http://www.oxfordreference.com/


Sage eReference

Encyclopaedias
from

Sage.

http://www.sage
-
ereference.com/


Data sets

Datastream

Access to a wide selection of
company, financial

and
economic
data.

Only available in the Hartley Library

Training
tools


Virtual
Library


www.soton.ac.uk/library/infoskills/virtuallibrary



WebCat


www.soton.ac.uk/librar
y/infoskills/webcat


Finding
electronic
journals



http://www.southampton.ac.uk/library/infoskills/findingjournal
s/index.htm