Business & Computing
Online Resources
We provide a wide range of electronic resources to support your research and studies. They are available 24/7 and this information will guide you to appropriate resources.
To help you get started and access the most relevant information for your research you will find:
- key collections of essential journals for your subject, many available in full text
- specialist sources of subject-specific data and information
- wider research resources, useful if you need to search across a number of disciplines
We also have access to full text newspapers and on-line dictionaries and for wider reading we have an extensive collection of e-books; please use our General Resources pages for more information and access. For more help with e-resources please see our frequently asked questions.
The Library Catalogue will give you access to all resources - print, e-resources and your module reading list.
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool that allows you to create a database of references. References can be added manually or imported from electronic journal collections and Google Scholar. For more information take a look at the RefWorks Guide.
Key Collections
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is a large business research database containing citations, full text and peer reviewed journal articles. This resource is useful for full text coverage on Marketing, Management, MIS, POM, Accounting, Finance and Economics.
Computer Source
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This resource offers full text, indexing and abstracts on topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
Emerald
Emerald is a long established publisher in the fields of management, information science and engineering covering all major management disciplines from marketing, human resources management, library and information management and quality to operations management.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
IEEE Xplore is a digital library providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, electronics, and related disciplines.
Specialist Sources
Fame
Fame is a database of UK and Irish company information and intelligence, containing data on over seven million companies dating back up to 10 years. Fame allows you to search for, analyse and export company information. This enables you to assess a company’s financial strength, compare it with its peers, and compile a detailed picture of its background, history and organisational structure.
Passport GMID
The Global Market Information Database (Passport GMID) is an essential resource for students of marketing. It is a one-stop source to find statistics, market reports, company profiles and information for country, market, consumer and lifestyle profiling, with future forecasting to 2015. Passport GMID’s data analysis functions allow you to customise your data for specific purposes.
Wider Research
Meta Press Journals
Metapress Journals are provided by SpringerLink which is an integrated full-text multidisciplinary database for journals and books published by Springer. This resource is of particular use to Business and Social Science related disciplines.
Swetswise Journals
Swetswise Journals are a large collection of multidisciplinary Journals from a variety of publishers. This resource is useful for researchers from a number of disciplines including Business, Sport, Social & Physiological Sciences and Natural, Geographical & Applied Sciences.
Taylor & Francis Journals
Taylor & Francis Journals are a collection of multidisciplinary journals covering subjects from Arts, Humanities, Computer Sciences, Social Sciences, Geography, Sports and many more.
Web of Science
Web of Science is an abstract and indexing resource providing scholarly literature in subject areas science, social sciences, arts and humanities. It does not contain full text.
Meet the Learning Services Business Team
Our aim, in collaboration with academic colleagues, is to support students studying Business.
We are based in the top floor office of the University Library at Ormskirk.
We provide inductions, information literacy workshops, and 1-to-1 support. We help you to get the most from the resources and services we provide. We work in partnership with academic colleagues to develop group sessions to help you maximise the resources available to support your studies.
If you have a subject related enaquiry please contact us.
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Academic Liaison Manager
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Learner Support Advisor
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Study Skills Coordinator
Peter Beaumont
Learning Technology Development Officer
Carol Chatten
Learning Technology Development Officer
Support for Specific Learning Difficulties
The Inclusive Services Team, based on the first floor of the University Library provides information, advice, resources and services for students and staff with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD).
Academic Staff
If you're a member of staff looking for advice and support, have a look at the Learning Services wiki.
