Key Electronic Resources for Business
The key electronic resources for business provide access to financial data, full-text journal articles, market research reports and news articles.
A listing of all business databases can be found on the Library Catalogue. These databases have been sub-divided into shorter lists relating to content coverage:
Company and financial databases
Sources include:
- Amadeus – for financial data on over 500,000 public and private companies throughout Europe.
- Fame – for financial data on over 7 million public and private companies in the UK and Ireland.
- Thomson One Banker – for financial data on public and private companies worldwide. Includes Worldscope data and M&A analysis.
E-journal databases
Sources include:
- ABI/Inform Global – full-text articles from academic and trade publications.
- Business Source Premier – full-text articles from academic and trade journals. Access to Datamonitor company, industry and country reports.
- Emerald Insight – full-text journal articles covering business and management topics
- XpertHR – full-text articles from IRS journals and leading HR practitioners.
Market research databases
Sources include:
- Datamonitor 360 – market reports and news on companies, industries and countries.
- Factiva – full-text articles from global newspapers, news wires and websites.
- Global Market Information Database – statistics and reports on industries, countries and consumers.
- Mintel Oxygen – consumer focused reports for UK industrial, leisure and retail sectors.
You are also recommended to browse the resources for other subjects, depending on the nature of your course or module: Economics, Law and Manufacturing.
All of the Library’s research databases are listed on the Databases page of the Library Catalogue where you can quickly access a database if you know the title or browse lists of databases by subject or type.
