Worcester Business School

Worcester Business School

The Academic Liaison Librarian for this Institute is Stephanie Allen.
Email: s.allen@worc.ac.uk
Telephone: 01905 542053

Resources for Business & Management

  • The Business & Management Netvibes page is a great place to start your search for information related to your subject. Here you will find a collection of key websites and resources, organised into ‘tabs’, with lots of tips and information on how to make the best use of those resources. It is regularly updated and maintained by your Academic Liaison Librarian. http://www.netvibes.com/business_resources
  • Some key resources for Business and Management include Business Search Premier, Academic Search Complete, Emerald Management Xtra and Science Direct (for journal articles), Mintel Market Intelligence Reports, Infotrac (newspapers), MyiLibrary (e-books) and the World Advertising Research Center. These are all available through the e-resources section of the Library Catalogue.

Resources for Computing

  • Some key resources for Computing include ACM Digital Library, Business Search Premier, Academic Search Premier and Emerald Management Xtra (for journal articles) and MyiLibrary for e-books. All are available from the e-resources section of Resources Online.

Tutorials
The following tutorials can help you to search key databases in Business and Computing, as well as use networking tools on the Web to help keep you up-to-date.

How to search Mintel Market Reports: Mintel provides full text access to UK Mintel and UK Horizons reports. Also includes marketing news.

Academic Search Complete Tutorial (Updated June 2009): This video, presented by Library Systems Manager Darren Taylor, will show you how to search one of our most popular full text databases, Academic Search Premier.

Use of Business Management databases: A video demonstrating the use of databases to find information on Business and Management.

How to set up RSS feeds for searches in PubMed and EBSCO databases: This tutorial shows you how to create RSS feeds for searches in Pubmed and EBSCO databases, such as Business Search Complete. You can do a search, then set up a feed for your Google Reader account (see above) or other RSS reader, which will send you new references related to that search regularly. IMPORTANT: at Step 3 of the tutorial, you should print the instructions before logging in. You will leave the Inform tutorial, and you should follow the print instructions from Step 3 while using the database.

Referencing
RefWorks Guide: how to create a RefWorks account, and start managing your references.

Citing & Referencing Guide - Harvard Style: how to reference using the Harvard referencing system