Business Foundation: Subject Guide
Welcome to the Business Foundation Subject Guide
Use the tabs below to access useful databases, journals and websites. Using these resources will help to ensure you are accessing good quality information and research!
When using databases: Each database covers a specific subject area or areas, this means you may get less results from your search but the articles will be more relevant to your area of study.
If you are unsure which database would be the best to use, read the description of the databases below to help you to decide.
Alphabetical List of Resources
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ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new windowThe database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete (ASC), designed specifically for academic institutions, is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. -
Asian & European Business Collection This link opens in a new windowThis database provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines.
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Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new windowThis database contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Complete (BSC) is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. This in addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.
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Emerald Insight This link opens in a new windowJournals, books and case studies - a library of real world research at your fingertips
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Sage Premier This link opens in a new windowSAGE is the world's 5th largest journals publisher. Our portfolio includes more than 1000 journals spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine, and more than 400 are published on behalf of learned societies and institutions.
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SCOPUS This link opens in a new windowScopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database containing all relevant literature.
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The Times 100 Business Case Studies (web)Case studies available via the web.
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The Times 100 Business Case Studies (Proquest)Case stuides accessed via Proquest. these can be viewed annd downloaded as PDF documents.
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IBISWorld This link opens in a new window IBISWorld contains market research reports and industry ratings from UK and China. It also has industry Brexit Impact statements. This database covers a wide variety of industry sectors including, construction, energy, manufacturing, finance, wholesale and retail.
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Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
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Mintel This link opens in a new window
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Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window
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Statista This link opens in a new window
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Passport Euromonitor (GMID) This link opens in a new window
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IBISWorld This link opens in a new window IBISWorld contains market research reports and industry ratings from UK and China. It also has industry Brexit Impact statements. This database covers a wide variety of industry sectors including, construction, energy, manufacturing, finance, wholesale and retail.
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StatistaStatista contains statistics and company information.
Select this guide to see how to login on and off campus and how to search Statista. -
MintelMintel is a database of market research and company reports.
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Hoovers Company RecordsGuide to accessing Hoovers Company Records via the Business Market Research Collection Database.
Business Statistics
- Passport Euromonitor (GMID)
As well as market research reports, Passport Euromonitor contains economic indicators such as GDP, inflation rates, balance of payments, interest rates etc.
- Statista
Statista contains statistics and data relating to market research on consumer products worldwide. It also contains data relating to social media.
Wider context statistics
- Eurostat
Contains official statistics from EU countries including those relating to economy and finance, population, industry and trade and regions.
- IMF Data
The IMF publishes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators. Manuals, guides, and other material on statistical practices at the IMF, in member countries, and of the statistical community at large are also available.
- OECD iLibrary
Contains country information including economic, finance and investment
- Office for National Statistics
The official site for UK statistics. It covers the economy, business and trade, employment and population.
- UK Data Service
Brings together a wide variety of statistical data from trusted sources.
- United Nations Data Sets
Statistics produced by the United Nations.
- World Bank - World Development Indicators
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.
Links
Locate can be used to access ebooks and find print books in the Library.
Access core textbooks and search through hundreds of e-books on BibliU.
Referencing help and support.
Reading lists- view essential and recommended reading for each module on your course.
Database Video Tutorials
Database Video Tutorials
Every database and information source has it's own quirks and ways of doing things, and it can be tricky when using something for the first time to know what works and what won't. There is a growing collection of video guides to some of Coventry University's subscriptions available - check to see if there's advice about how to get the best out of the site you were going to use today!
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