Support for Business

You can find information about how to contact us at Support from UWS Library.

Contact us if you would like advice on:

  • finding information for your assignments
  • choosing keywords and setting limits
  • choosing resources to search
  • assessing credibility of sources
  • compiling a search strategy for a literature review using systematic principles
  • using the bibliographic databases (e.g. Emerald)
  • keeping notes of your sources (e.g. using reference management tools) and referencing your sources

Resources

Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases - presents real-world cases on challenges facing the business of fashion, tackling important issues such as sustainability, technology, ethics, and leadership

British, European and International Standards: A database of all current British, European and International Standards.

Emerald: Full text articles covering management, business, education, library studies, health care and engineering.

GALE OneFile News - full-text newspaper resource that provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. 

Henry Stewart Journals - Marketing, Finance, Real Estate and Management titles: a database of over 5,000 case studies, vocational articles and applied research studies.

Mintel Market Research Reports: On a range of subjects including finance, media and leisure

SAGE Journals Online: Full text covering social sciences, business, health, life science, materials and engineering.

ScienceDirect: Full text journals and e-books on a range of subjects. Access if free but registration may be required.

Springerlink: Full text science, technology and medical journals and e-books - On-campus access.

Statista - a wide variety of statistics, industry data and analysis from the UK, Europe and around the world. Enhance your presentations with the downloadable tables, charts and infographics.

Taylor & Francis Journals: Full text journals covering social sciences, education and humanities

UK Data Service - UK survey data including census data between 1971-2011.

Web of Science: Journal article and e-book citation indexing service that also provides full text links to other databases

Westlaw UK: Full text Scots and UK legislation and law related e-books and journals (registration required)

Wiley Online Library: Ebooks and journals covering science, social science and humanities subjects

Last updated: 18/11/2020