Management Resources

ACM Digital Library

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The ACM digital library is a collection of citations and full text from the Association of Computing Machinery journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. It currently contains 54000 online articles from 30 journals and 900 proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery.

ACM digital library information guide

Search Tips - too few results

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When searching if you are getting only a few results remember to

Check your search strategy - have you thought of all possible spellings, alternative words etc
Broaden your search by omitting a search term
Search further years back
Select another database

If you find a relevant article remember this can help you locate others by checking the references at the end for other related works.

Search Tips - Search strategy

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Once you have identified the resources you think may be appropriate you should then analyse your topic and note down any keywords you can use in your search.

Consider synonyms/realted terms - eg shoes, footwear
Consider acronyms and abbreviations - eg EU/ European Union
Conside different spellings - eg globalisation/globalization

When entering your search term improve your chances of finding useful and relevant information by

Combining search term using AND/OR/NOT
Using truncation to find all forms of that word, for example manag* will retrieve results for all forms of the word such as manager,managment, managing etc
Replacing one or more letters of a word with a wildcard (symbol) in order to retrieve all versions of that word, for example wom*n would find woman/women - this is useful for when american spellings

Search Tips - Locating different types of information

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Once you have identified what type of information you are looking for you can select the appropiate database to search, some examples are

Journal articles – Business Source Complete
Market Reports – Mintel
Company data – Mergent Online
Newspapers – Proquest Newspapers (includes FT)

All these resources are available via MetaLib

Search Tips - Identifying different types of information

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To begin with, when doing research you may want to start with discovering the key resources in your topic and there is a large number of information sources to search from out there. I have broken them down into three main types. The Primary and secondary resources have increased level of detail and you can be led to these sources from the tertiary sources.

Primary sources consist of original information, written or produced by people directly involved in the research or events being presented or described. Examples include company reports, newspapers, letters, government documents, photographs and speeches. This type of material is important so that you can formulate your own opinions of events by examining first-hand material.

Secondary sources are a good place to start your research into a new topic and provide a useful source of suggestions for further reading on the topic. Examples include textbooks, journal articles, dictionaries, glossaries and reviews. This type of material is important so that you are aware of critical research that has been carried out on a topic already.

Tertiary sources allow you to do broad searches from which you can narrow down and pinpoint the key primary sources. For example you can use an Abstract index database to find articles written about a topic to give you an idea of key authors and then access the articles or books themselves.

So when starting a piece of work, its worth considering the type of information you want, i.e do you need statistical information from company reports, are you interested in the topical angle so you may want to look for newspaper articles etc. If you are not sure where to start you may want to first check the library catalogue to see what books are on that topic, or even your reading list.

Search Tips - Finding a journal

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Using the Library Catalogue to find journals

Select the Journal Search option and enter the journal title, which will bring back a list of search results. E-journals will appear in this list in upper case.

Click on location for details of the print journal

Click the SFX button for accessing an ejournals. This will provide you with information as to which volumes are available and will give a link to the online journal.

Search Tips - Finding a book

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Library Catalogue - this is where you will be able to search for all our printed books, as well as our journals, e-books and e-journals.

Use the Quicksearch option on the library catalogue to find a book. Simply type in the authors surname and one or two words from the title

For books you can click on the location link to find the classmark, and for electronic material you can use the SFX link.

You can also use the library catalogue to renew your books and place holds on books which are currently out on loan. You will need to log in with your college card barcode and PIN to do this.

Online guide

Search Tips - Using Bedford Library

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Bedford Library is the key library for your subject, Management.
Level 1 - is where you will find your management textbooks, generally from 338.75 onwards. (its best to check the library catalogue)
Level 2 - is a collaborative work area, for group work etc called tlc@beford
Level 3 - is where are the print journals are located

Aside from the physical building, we also have a large online resources collection which you will be using and which you can access on and off campus, via MetaLib. The online resources include

Journals
E-books
Market reports
Company data

We also have 2 other libraries on campus, founders and music, founders is where the arts, languages, literature and AV collection is housed so you may find yourself using that library too.

Box of Broadcasts

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Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is a web-based television and radio archiving service which allows you to watch, record and archive TV and radio programmes from selected free-view channels (including BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, ITV, Channel4, Five, BBC Radio3, BBC Radio4 and others).

You can use BoB to stream archived TV and radio programmes. The archive contains a mix of classic and contemporary films, television series, documentaries, news and radio programmes. You can view archived programmes, make clips from them and create personal or shared playlists.

You can also make your own additions to the BoB archive. Upcoming TV and radio programmes can be scheduled to be archived up to seven days before they are broadcast. Programmes from selected channels can also be archived up to seven days after they have been broadcast. Please note that you can request up to three programmes to be added to the archive each day.

To register for a BoB account,go to the BoB website: http://www.bobnational.net/. Select "Register ?" under the login boxes and fill in the form. Use your RHUL email address to register your username. You will receive an activation email on your RHUL email address, this email contains a link that you must click on to activate your account.

Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003

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The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 ('EHA') is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide.
It covers 8,000 issues and more than 600,0000 pages. EHA also contains full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables.

Scopus

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Scopus is the world’s biggest abstract database covering 25 million abstracts from over 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, Scopus also offers powerful and innovative searching and browsing tools. Nearly 3000 titles in social sciences which includes Business, Management and Accounting.

Scopus information guide

MarketLine

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This provides a mix of market intelligence, insightful analysis and forecasting based on primary quantitative and qualitative research. 50 - 300 pages long each, a single report will provide the full picture on a particular market, issue or trend.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), including its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), has established itself as a medium for the publication of new developments in computer science and information technology research and teaching - quickly, informally, and at a high level.

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library

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Includes full text of some IEEE Computer Society journals with extensive archives, plus over 2000 IEEE conference publications from 1995.

Computer
Computing in Science & Engineering
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
IEEE Concurrency
IEEE Design & Test of Computers
IEEE Distributed Systems Online
IEEE Intelligent Systems

IEEE Internet Computing
IEEE Micro
IEEE MultiMedia
IEEE Pervasive Computing
IEEE Security & Privacy
IEEE Software
IT Professional

Proquest Newspapers

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Full-text articles from the following newspapers are available from ProQuest:

The Times 1995 onwards
Sunday Times 1996 onwards
The Guardian 1995 onwards
The Observer 1995 onwards
The Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph 1997 onwards
The Independent 1995 onwards
The Financial Times 1996 onwards

Mergent

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Mergent Online is an online database allowing access to information on over 30,000 U.S. and non-U.S. publicly traded companies. The database provides corporate financial data and useful additional information on subjects such as directors trading, institutional shareholdings, annual reports etc. You can access information on, U.S. & International Company Data, U.S. & International Company Archives, U.S. & International Annual Reports, Factsheets Plus & Express, Institutional Holdings, Insider Trades, Expanded Long-Term Debt and Equity Portraits.

Nexis Global News & Business Service

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Provides access to the most comprehensive and authoritative online business and news information from a single aggregator. LexisNexis is a leading provider of business, news, legal, government and tax information to the UK academic market

Mintel Reports

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Mintel produce market research and analysis reports on products and services.
Out subscription covers reports on a range of markets in the UK, Europe and the United States.

Market categories include:

Consumer Lifestyles
Food and Foodservice
Drink and Tobacco
Holidays and Travel
Leisure Time

To see a list of all the reports we provide access to, select My Reports, then 'Show all reports in my subscription'. You can add sections of the report to your basket, dowload tables, create graphs, for a list of all the source data remember to select the appendice.

For the latest industry news select the 'News' tab, for advertising/brand information select the 'media homepage'.

Business Source Complete

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Business Source Complete is a comprehensive, business periodical database that includes academic journals and business periodicals covering topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.

It contains content from full text sources ranging from general business periodicals such as Business Week, The Economist, Forbes, Newsweek, etc. to academic journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Review, Review of Economics & Statistics, etc.

This database also includes Country Monitor and Industry Yearbook Reports from WEFA, and 35 country reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Information guide for Business Source Complete