Business and Management

Library Search: Advanced Search
To search the University's e-journal collections effectively, use 'Advanced Search'. From here you can construct impactful keyword searches and filter your results to make them more manageable and more relevant. For advice and training on how to search effectively, please contact your school's Librarian. 

Academic Search complete - EBSCO
Academic Search Complete includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. EBSCO Video tutorials

Business Source Complete - EBSCO
Many business and management titles are included in this collection, which has over 2,000 full text journals. EBSCO Video tutorials

EconLit with full text - EBSCO
Useful database for references to economic literature. EBSCO Video tutorials

Emerald Insight
Emerald contains over 100 journals on marketing, general management, human resources and other related areas.

FT.com (Financial Times)
Provides in depth coverage of UK and international business, finance, economic and political news. It also contains comment and analysis from leading journalists and insight into management trends and new developments. The first time you use FT.com you will need to register using your Keele email address. For access, select 'Sign in', enter your Keele email address and then select the 'SSO sign in' option. If you are not automatically logged in, please login with your Keele username and password. Find more tips for getting started at ft.com/guide.

FT mobile app (Financial Times) Enjoy FT journalism anytime, anywhere. The first time you use FT.com you will need to register using your Keele email address. For access, select 'Sign in', enter your Keele email address and then select the 'SSO sign in' option. If you are not automatically logged in, please login with your Keele username and password. Find more tips for getting started at ft.com/guide.

International GAAP 2023
GAAP access guide.

Mintel
One of the largest Market Research companies. Keele's subscription provides access to the following categories: UK Brands: big picture report, UK lifestyle reports, UK media reports, UK retail: overview reports and UK travel reports. For access, select 'Need federated login? Login here', search for 'Keele University'. Log in with your Keele username and password.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
The definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists and regularly updated with new content from leading economists.

ProQuest
Cross-search a variety of databases including the Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA), the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) and Sociological Abstracts.

Web of Science - Clarivate
Is a useful database for doing wider research around a topic. It includes the Social Sciences Citation Index, Conference Proceedings, access to Journal Citation Reports and Book Citation Index. For access, if you're not automatically logged in select 'Institutional sign in', search for 'UK Federation' and 'Go to institution'. Search for 'Keele University' and log in with your Keele username and password. Registration for a Web of Science profile may be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email addresses will be removed. Web of Science Support Page

Historical Data UK
A free-to-access online repository of historical UK economic statistics datasets and publications from the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence. The repository’s focus is on macroeconomic and financial market data, but it includes a range of economic data disaggregated at a sector, industry and regional level. An introductory video explaining the content is available here.

Office for National Statistics (ONS)
The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK. The ONS publishes statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels.

UK Data Archive
Provides several thousand datasets relating to society, both historical and contemporary acquired from the academic, public, and commercial sectors. You will need to register with your Keele username and password before using this database.

UK Data Service
Provides a unified point of access to an extensive range of high quality social and economic data, including Census data, government funded surveys, longitudinal studies, international macrodata, qualitative data and business microdata. You will need to register with your Keele username and password before using this database.

European Newsstream - ProQuest
Provides the searchable full-text of articles published in around 30 UK newspapers including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and The Independent.

Nexis
A news and business service which includes around 12,000 publications, including worldwide, national and local newspapers.Nexis help page

The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2013
Search the complete digital edition of The Times from 1785-2011. The entire newspaper is captured with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) National is a TV and radio recording service and is freely available to all staff and students at Keele. Record and catch-up on programmes from 60+ TV and radio channels that have been broadcast in the last 30 days. You will need your Keele username and password to sign-in.

Google Scholar
The most famous web search engine can search for academic journals and literature too. In Google Scholar’s settings you can also customise your results to quickly see which of them you have full-text access to through Keele Library. To get this working, before you perform your search click on Settings and type 'keele' into the Library Links search box. Tick the Keele University – view online @Keele box, click on Save Preferences and you're ready to go. When you've typed in your search, any results with ‘view-online@Keele' link next to the title provide a direct link through to the article.

Kanopy
An on-demand streaming video platform for public and academic libraries that offers films, TV shows and documentaries. For access, log in with your Keele username and password. Kanopy help page. Kanopy's Accounting Collection. Kanopy's Business Collection. Kanopy's Economics Collection. Kanopy's Finance Collection. Kanopy's Marketing Collection. 

Library Hub Discover
Library Hub Discover replaces Copac and SUNCAT. This catalogue gives you access to details of materials held in many UK national, academic and specialist libraries.

Mckinsey is a good example of a management consultancy firm website. Go to 'Featured Insights' for recent thinking and analysis on business and management topics including operations, business & technology, risk management and sustainability.

Reference Management Tools (RefWorks and Cite Them Right)
Access quality reference management tools provided by the Library. RefWorks allows you to save and manage all the references you use for your assignments, whether these are from books, journals, web pages or other sources, and create bibliographies. Cite Them Right helps you to reference correctly in a variety of styles, not just for standard resources such as books and journal articles, but also for resources such as statutes, patents and social networking sites. Visit our Reference management page for useful guides and help using these resources.

EThOS
The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.

Keele Research Repository
A digital archive of research and enterprise output produced by Keele University staff.

NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations)
Details of theses and dissertations from universities in the United States and worldwide.

If you need help using any Library Resources, or have questions you’d like to ask you can always contact us: library.help@keele.ac.uk, or start live chat.

The Liaison Librarian for Business is Jane Shaw. If you’d like more in-depth help on using resources, want advice on how to search effectively, or want to further develop your information or digital literacy skills you can contact Jane and ask for an appointment: j.shaw2@keele.ac.uk

You can also come along to our ‘…In a Nutshell’ training sessions. These workshops introduce key academic skills in bitesize, 45 minute, practical sessions.

There’s also guides and tutorials linked below that should help you get started:

• Try our new online tutorial and learn how to use Library Search effectively.
• If you’re just getting started using the Library you can view our Library tour video and Welcome to your Library.

If you’re a PhD student or researcher at Keele you can access help and support from our Research Support Librarians. Find out more on the Research Support webpage.