Useful resources for finding academic literature for Business. HTML Bloomberg Terminal Access information: Bloomberg is subscribed to by the Business School. 10 Bloomberg terminals are located in the Business School Finance Lab and available to Business School Year 3 and Year 4 undergraduate students and Business School postgraduate students only. An alternative source for company and financial information is S&P Capital IQ. If you require further information on Bloomberg, email the Business School: hub@business-school.ed.ac.uk. Description: Bloomberg is a global financial markets database providing news, analytics, real time pricing for over 5 million securities world-wide plus extensive historical pricing and stock charts. Coverage: 1965- present (varies) Business Source Complete is a key resource HTML Business Source Complete Access information: Access on and off-campus. Description: The world’s largest full text business database, Business Source Complete provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications. This database provides full text for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals. Updated daily. Coverage: 1922-present. HTML Capital IQ (S&P) Access information: Access on and off-campus. Self-registration required. To register, click on "New User?", enter your University email address and follow the instructions to complete registration. Description: Capital IQ is widely used in industry and combines deep global company information, credit ratings and research and market research with tools for risk assessments. It provides access to both real-time and historical information and: • Global Company Data: financials, fixed income, estimates and ownership • Qualitative Data: key developments, transactions, profiles, people, relationships, private equity • Macroeconomic and commodity data Note: If you encounter login issues, try accessing via https://www.capitaliq.com on campus, and if off campus, via the VPN. HTML Capital IQ Pro (S&P) Access information: Access on and off-campus. Self-registration required. Click on “New User Sign Up” and select “S&P Capital IQ Pro New User Sign Up.” Enter your University email address and follow the instructions to complete registration. Description: S&P Capital IQ Pro (formerly Market Intelligence) is a global financial database, providing corporate, financial, and market data plus news and analytics for banks and insurance companies. It covers 50,000+ listed, non-listed and subsidiary banks (30,000+ active) in the Americas, AsiaPacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. It provides financial data, news, company documents, market data and country profiles. S&P Capital IQ Pro also provides access to the universe of companies from S&P Capital IQ with additional coverage of small companies. Further information: Product reference materials, technical guides, on-demand videos and training webinars are available in the Support section at https://spglobal.force.com/. You need to be registered and signed in to your S&P account to view these pages. Note: If you encounter login issues, try accessing via https://capitaliq.spglobal.com/ on campus, and if off campus, via the VPN. HTML Dissertations & Theses A&I: Business Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Business sub-section of the full-text database of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from more than 500 North American and worldwide institutions. Coverage: From 1861 to date. HTML Econlit Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: The database version of Journal of Economic Literature and Index of Economic Articles indexing international literature in the field of economics. Abstracts are included. Coverage: From 1886 to date. HTML The Economist The Economist Historical Archive Access information: Access on and off campus. Access to The Economist on Economist.com is via username and password - this is self-created via self-registration on the economist.com platform using your University of Edinburgh email address and an own-choice password. Click here to register. Description: Full text of the weekly publication which covers international politics and business news and opinion. Coverage: Economist.com: July 19 1997 to the present. Economist Historical Archive: 1843 until 2020. Access to the 2016-2020 supplement is on a trial basis until 28th July 2024. Additional Information: The Library's subscription to the Economist includes the option to use the Economist app. Emerald is a key resource HTML Emerald Insight Access information: Access on and off-campus. Description: Access to over 120 journals. The journals cover general management, human resource management, information management, library & information services, marketing, operations, production & economics, property, quality, training and education and engineering & material science. HTML EMIS Access Access on and off campus. Click on "Client log in" in the top right corner of the homepage. Description Over 9000 publications available in the database containing company (Financials, company news, M&A Deals/ Rumours, analytical tools), country (Forecasts, reports,..etc) and industry data (Global industry reports, news, competition and market info) . Leading aggregator with top sources such as BMI, Global Data, Dun & Bradstreet, Allied Research, Buddecom, Grandview as well as data sourced locally in each emerging market. Unlimited access remote and campus wide. 3.5m company profiles and financials in hard to get locations. Access to local content (research reports, news,.. etc) in emerging markets. 540,000 research reports published every year. Factiva is a key resource HTML FactivaAccess information:Access on and off campus. Cookies must be enabled on your browser.Description:Provides business news and information together with Reuters Fundamentals and D&B company profiles. It contains more than 35,000 authoritative sources including The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires. Also includes most world press including UK national and regional press and trade magazines. Content by freelance writers, some features and supplements may not be available.Coverage:Click on the info icon next to each publication for coverage information and update schedules. The oldest article is from 1944 (Le Monde).Additional Information:Please note that whilst Factiva can be used for academic research, bulk downloading and/or analytics of the content is restricted by the database provider. Permitted users are limited to download what can be reasonably read in one day. Excessive downloading may result in your access and the access of other University users being restricted. For more information see the Factiva User Guide.User Guide FAME is a key resource HTML FameAccess information:Access on and off-campus. Choose University of Edinburgh from list then click Select button.Description:Detailed financial information of all UK and Irish companies updated monthly with up to 10 years of data.FAME allows you to search by any combination of over 300 criteria including: geographic location, SIC code or activity description, number of employees, statement items, ratios, credit score/rating, legal form, year of incorporation, holding company/subsidiary.Company comparisons can be achieved using the Peer Analysis option whilst the Statistical Analysis option allows you to produce market sector reports. HTML Henry Stewart Talks - Business and Management Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Business and Management Collection. The collection contains over 900 specially prepared, animated, online, audio-visual lectures and case studies by leading experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia. All lectures and case studies are suitable for inclusion in courses and as additional learning material including in blended learning and flipped classroom programmes, and may be included in Moodle, Blackboard and other Online Learning Environments. HTML D&B Hoovers Access information: Access on and off campus - for off campus access please use the University VPN - Click here for Access to the University network via the VPN. Description: D&B Hoovers provides access to extensive company and contact intelligence via Dun & Bradstreet’s database of more than 140 million business records from 30,000 sources in 190 countries. HTML IBISWorld Access information: Access on and off campus Description: IBISWorld is an online industry intelligence solution. Each of its industry reports provides the most detailed performance data and analysis on the market; supply chain information; forecasts; risk scores; operating strengths and weaknesses; analysis of external drivers; major player market strategies; and industry profit and costs benchmarks. Reports are updated 1-4 times per year depending on how fast moving the industry is ensuring the most up to date research possible. In addition to coursework/assignments, these reports would be of use to students researching industries for placements, future careers (including start up research) and interview preparation. A user guide can be downloaded here. Coverage: Covering over 400 UK industries at SIC L5, over 700 US industries at NAICS L5 and over 400 UK Brexit Imact Statement reports. HTML IBSS (International Bibliography of Social Science) Online Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Produced by the British Library of Political and Economic Science, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research focusing on the four core social science subjects of anthropology, economics, politics, and sociology. IBSS includes over 2.5 million bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 book and chapter records are included each year. Abstracts are provided for around 80% of all current journal articles and users can link to the full text of articles in journals subscribed to by the University of Edinburgh. Userguide: http://proquest.libguides.com/IBSS HTML IDEAS - Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) Access Information: Freely available Description: Access to RePEc's (Research Papers in Economics) collection of about 1.2 million on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software from 75 countries. Freely available full-text download for many. HTML investorstatelawguide.com Access information: Access on and off campus - for off campus access please use the University VPN - Click here for Access to the University network via the VPN. Description: A comprehensive research tool for international trade and investment law. It includes decisions and awards for investment-treaty claims cases, arbitration rules, and investment and trade treaties and agreements. Through its research tools, including article, jurisprudence and publication citators, ISLG has mapped the world of investment treaty law by capturing the relationships between treaties, arbitral rules, cases and other key materials. JSTOR is a key resource HTML JSTOR Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Full-text journal archive service providing access to complete back runs of all the scholarly journals currently available in JSTOR. Recent volumes are excluded, usually the last 3-5 years, but each year a further year is added to the archive. Each title is listed in DiscoverEd. About 4-5% of Artstor images migrated into Jstor are not accessible outside the United States. Coverage: The collections currently available are: Arts & Sciences 1-15 Biological Sciences Business I-IV Collection Business & Economics Ecology & Botany II Global Plants Health & General Sciences Hebrew Journals Ireland Jewish Studies Collection JSTOR Essential Collection Language & Literature Lives of Literature Life Sciences Mathematics & Statistics Music Religion and Theology Security Studies Sustainability World Heritage Sites: Africa The 19th Century British Pamphlets Collections is also available via JSTOR. Userguides to the various collections can be found at https://guides.jstor.org HTML Marketline Advantage Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Marketline Advantage, now owned by Informa, aims to sort through data and deliver accurate, up-to-date information on companies, industries and countries across the world. with great breadth of coverage. It claims to cut the data padding and present information in easy to digest formats, so users can absorb key facts in minutes rather than hours. 34,000+ companies, updated annually, 5,000+ Industry Profiles, updated annually 110 Country Profiles, updated annually, Country Statistics Database covering 205 countries and 46 political and geographic groupings 50,000+ financial deals published annually relating to companies and industries tracked by MarketLine 60,000+ news articles published annually relating to companies and industries tracked by MarketLine 75+ company-focused Case Studies added annually. HTML Mintel Academic. Reports and Trends Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Mintel Reports provides market research reports on a range of UK consumer and industrial products and services. Coverage: Reports on Beauty and Personal Care; Drink; Food; Leisure; Retail Overview; Technology Report sections can be printed or downloaded, but it is not possible to print or download entire reports. Mintel Trends provides reports on shifts in consumer behaviour by industry, demographic, theme and region. HTML Mintel Market Sizes Access information: Access on and off campus. Select Log In, Federated Log In and University of Edinburgh, you may be prompted for your University Login. Description: Mintel Market Sizes containing global data on market size, market share and forecast data for thousands of consumer goods categories worldwide. HTML Nexis UKAccess information:On and off campus.Description:Access to over 23,000 UK and international news and business sources, financial and market reports, biographical data and thousands of legal and regulatory services. Includes Company Dossier which delivers company information on 100 million international companies and executives.Notes:Authorised Users do not include:(a) any employee of the Academic Institution’s internal legal department or any employee who performs an in-house legal function for the Academic Institution; (b) any employee or student who works or studies primarily at an institution or organisation which is not the Academic Institution. HTML Nikkei Telecom Access information: 2 concurrent users. Access on and off campus. Description: Nikkei Telecom is an essential resource for various kinds of studies such as economics, politics, sociology and Japanese language. It gives access to a great number of Nikkei newspaper articles from 1975 to the present. Full newspaper images of Nihon Keizai Shimbun from the first issue in 1876 to issues published in 1974 are also available. The database also contains hundreds of daily news articles in English published by Nikkei Inc. and Dow Jones & Company Inc. An English Archive Search is available for Nikkei Asian Review and major Nikkei newspaper articles. In addition to news articles, Nikkei Telecom offers various aspects of business information related to Japanese economy, such as profile information of major Japanese companies, personnel information of executives, Nikkei's survey data, macroeconomic statistics, etc. Coverage: 1876 to the present Userguides: Nikkei Telecom English User guide (PDF) HTML Orbis - Very Large Access Information: Access on and off campus Description: Orbis is an umbrella product that incorporates data held on Fame, Amadeus, Zephyr. Orbis contains comprehensive information on companies worldwide, with an emphasis on private company information. Use it to research individual companies, search for companies by profile, analyse companies. Orbis contains information on both listed and unlisted companies. Coverage: The University subscription for Orbis is limited to information for companies in the category 'Very large company' that have operating revenue >= $130 million US, total assets >= $260 million US, employees >= 1000 HTML Oxford Scholarship Online Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Complete text of scholarly books published by Oxford University Press in the subject areas below. Coverage: Archaeology, Biology, Business & Management, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Computer and Information Science, Earth Sciences and Geography, Economics and Finance, Education, Environmental Science, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Palliative Care, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology, Religion, Social Work and Sociology. We have access to over 20,700 e-books. Passport (Euromonitor International) is a key resource HTML Passport (Euromonitor International) Access information: Access on and off campus. Select "Shibboleth" option at sign in. Description: Provides online access to business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources, with breadth and depth of international coverage. It is especially useful for studying entry into new country markets, the launch of new products and services targeted to new consumer market segments, benchmarking companies against competitors or investigating the growth potential of specific industry sectors. Complete reports can be generated. Previously known as Passport GMID. Coverage: 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52. Note: First time users will be asked to register. HTML Pitchbook Access information: Access on and off campus. All currently enrolled students, faculty, or staff members are now able to open an account with Pitchbook using their University UNN and this link. Just input your University credentials in the following format: UUN@ed.ac.uk and hit login. You will be re-directed to a standard UoE login page, which will then take you through to PitchBook. Please note users signing up will be asked to read and agree to Pitchbook’s terms and conditions. These include agreeing that you will not share your account details and will only use the site for academic, educational, and scholarly use. Description: Pitchbook is a financial database platform covering private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity and M&A activity. It provides insight on deals, investors, venture backed companies and general technology trends. Access has been funded by the Data Driven Entrepreneurship Beacon Programme and delivered by Edinburgh Innovations. Interested in commercialising your research or idea? Please visit the websites of EI and the DDI and get in touch to see how we can help. Coverage: 2021-2022 Help: Pitchbook have a Help Centre available to all users of Pitchbook (authentication required), here you can find videos and tutorials to help with getting started on the platform as well as advanced navigations, our methodology and data information and popular articles. You will also find additional videos on the Pitchbook Youtube channel: Online training materials Note: PitchBook can be used as a research tool at the company/investor level and can also be used to identify wider market trends and statistics via use of the charting and pivot table functionality found in the advanced search result page. Please note however that PitchBook cannot be used for bulk downloads of raw data as individual student download limits do not allow this. HTML Project Syndicate Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Project Syndicate provides commentaries by distinguished economists and policymakers. Sections include Economics, Politics, Development, Sustainability, Culture, and Innovation. Includes archive of past articles, including in-depth thematic coverage via ‘Big Picture’ ProQuest Business Package is a key resource HTML ProQuest One Business Access information. Access on and off campus. Description. Content from: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection; Asian and European Business Collection; Business Market Research Collection; Entrepreneurship Database. With global coverage in business and economics content includes, full-text journals, ebooks, dissertations, working papers, trade publications, company, industry, market and country reports, and key periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Economist. Additional information: https://proquest.libguides.com/pq1business HTML PsycINFO - Ovid interface [PsycINFO via APA PsycNET] Access information: Access on and off-campus. On Ovid interface - Accept cookies. Cookies (Ovid) Some functions, including use of the Search History, will be disabled if cookies are rejected or no selection is made. Description: American Psychological Association produced with citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Detailed information about PsycINFO Coverage: Journal coverage, from 1806 to the present, includes international material selected from more than 2,400 journals written in over 29 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material from 1806 to the present. NHS Staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network HTML LSEG Workspace Access Information: Workspace is subscribed to by the Business School. Access is available to Business School Year 3 and Year 4 undergraduate students and Business School postgraduate students. To request access to Workspace, please complete the application from: https://edin.ac/4aUEi9o. An alternative source is S&P Capital IQ. Description: Workspace provides Reuters News, global pricing data, company fundamentals, real-time research, commodities data and research, I/B/E/S estimates, deals & league tables, Datastream and analytics + features. Coverage: 1965 – present (varies). HTML TradeLawGuide Access information: Access on and off campus Description: TradeLawGuide provides comprehensive research tools that facilitate methodical research of international trade law, including WTO law and regional trade agreements (RTAs). Its primary document collection consists of the WTO agreements and instruments, jurisprudence, dispute settlement procedural documents, negotiating history and the agreements and codes from the pre-WTO GATT regime. A suite of citators provides comprehensive substantive jurisprudence references to WTO, pre-WTO and Vienna Convention provisions as well as cross-references within the jurisprudence. Researchers can quickly pinpoint the most recent developments for a provision or research its complete jurisprudential and negotiating history. Additional resources, such as the Annotated Agreements, Treaty Interpretation, Terms & Phrases, Subject Navigator, and Dispute Settlement Body Minutes (for policy issues arising in jurisprudence) provide value-added content to facilitate dynamic and thorough research. In addition, TradeLawGuide provides a fully searchable database of regional trade agreements (RTAs), providing researchers with ready access to the texts of bilateral and plurilateral agreements currently in force throughout the world. Researchers have one-click access to the full legal text of agreements as well as shortcuts to the key sections, such as the rules of origin, tariff elimination schedules, market access commitments, reservations (non-conforming measures), and side instruments. A comparison tool for selecting and reviewing the text in two or more agreements at the same time allows researchers to efficiently assess similarities and differences between RTAs. HTML UK Data Service Register with UK Data Service Access information: Available on and off-campus. Choose Login via UK federation. Also requires separate registration with UK Data Service Description: The UK Data Service is a comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC and delivered by the UK Data Service to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data. The UK Data Service provides access to over 7,000 digital data collections for research and teaching purposes covering an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, and spanning many disciplines and themes. Key data in our collection: UK surveys, Cross-national surveys, Longitudinal studies, Census data, International macrodata, Business microdata. Coverage: 1971 - present Additional information: Please refer to the Research Data Service for more information on statistics and data. HTML WARC - World Advertising Research Center Access information:Access on and off campus. Description:Services provide intelligence from more than 50 international sources including Admap, Advertising Association, IPA, Account Planning Group, Effie Worldwide, ESOMAR, Euromonitor and Futures Company/Yankelovic. In all areas of marketing communications the service has over 25,000 articles, case studies, research reports and summaries, best practice papers, practical guides, daily news and more. Web of Science is a key resource HTML Web of Science Core Collection Access information:Access on and off campus. Russian Science Citation Index is not presently included in the Web of Science.Description:Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Cited reference searching, Impact Factors, h-indexes and email alerts available.Coverage:Arts & Humanities (1975 onwards), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (both 1900 onwards), Conference Proceedings in Science and Social Science & Humanities (both 1990 onwards).Also: Book Citation Indexes in Science and Social Sciences & Humanities (both 2005 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1986 onwards), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1985 onwards), Index Chemicus (1993 onwards).Change "Search in:" to use: BIOSIS Citation Index (1926 onwards), Current Contents Connect (1998 onwards), Data Citation Index (1990 onwards), Derwent Innovations Index (1966 onwards), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980 onwards), Medline (1950 onwards), PrePrint Citation Index (1991 onwards), ProQuest Dissertatoins & Theses Citation Index (1637 onwards), SciELO Citation Index (2002 onwards), Zoological Record (1864 onwards).Help:Publisher userguideFinding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'):Cited Reference Searching (pdf) Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Journal Impact Factors and other measures on JCR (pdf) Related Links Subject guide: Business This article was published on 2024-08-21
HTML Bloomberg Terminal Access information: Bloomberg is subscribed to by the Business School. 10 Bloomberg terminals are located in the Business School Finance Lab and available to Business School Year 3 and Year 4 undergraduate students and Business School postgraduate students only. An alternative source for company and financial information is S&P Capital IQ. If you require further information on Bloomberg, email the Business School: hub@business-school.ed.ac.uk. Description: Bloomberg is a global financial markets database providing news, analytics, real time pricing for over 5 million securities world-wide plus extensive historical pricing and stock charts. Coverage: 1965- present (varies)
HTML Business Source Complete Access information: Access on and off-campus. Description: The world’s largest full text business database, Business Source Complete provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications. This database provides full text for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals. Updated daily. Coverage: 1922-present.
HTML Capital IQ (S&P) Access information: Access on and off-campus. Self-registration required. To register, click on "New User?", enter your University email address and follow the instructions to complete registration. Description: Capital IQ is widely used in industry and combines deep global company information, credit ratings and research and market research with tools for risk assessments. It provides access to both real-time and historical information and: • Global Company Data: financials, fixed income, estimates and ownership • Qualitative Data: key developments, transactions, profiles, people, relationships, private equity • Macroeconomic and commodity data Note: If you encounter login issues, try accessing via https://www.capitaliq.com on campus, and if off campus, via the VPN.
HTML Capital IQ Pro (S&P) Access information: Access on and off-campus. Self-registration required. Click on “New User Sign Up” and select “S&P Capital IQ Pro New User Sign Up.” Enter your University email address and follow the instructions to complete registration. Description: S&P Capital IQ Pro (formerly Market Intelligence) is a global financial database, providing corporate, financial, and market data plus news and analytics for banks and insurance companies. It covers 50,000+ listed, non-listed and subsidiary banks (30,000+ active) in the Americas, AsiaPacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. It provides financial data, news, company documents, market data and country profiles. S&P Capital IQ Pro also provides access to the universe of companies from S&P Capital IQ with additional coverage of small companies. Further information: Product reference materials, technical guides, on-demand videos and training webinars are available in the Support section at https://spglobal.force.com/. You need to be registered and signed in to your S&P account to view these pages. Note: If you encounter login issues, try accessing via https://capitaliq.spglobal.com/ on campus, and if off campus, via the VPN.
HTML Dissertations & Theses A&I: Business Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Business sub-section of the full-text database of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from more than 500 North American and worldwide institutions. Coverage: From 1861 to date.
HTML Econlit Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: The database version of Journal of Economic Literature and Index of Economic Articles indexing international literature in the field of economics. Abstracts are included. Coverage: From 1886 to date.
HTML The Economist The Economist Historical Archive Access information: Access on and off campus. Access to The Economist on Economist.com is via username and password - this is self-created via self-registration on the economist.com platform using your University of Edinburgh email address and an own-choice password. Click here to register. Description: Full text of the weekly publication which covers international politics and business news and opinion. Coverage: Economist.com: July 19 1997 to the present. Economist Historical Archive: 1843 until 2020. Access to the 2016-2020 supplement is on a trial basis until 28th July 2024. Additional Information: The Library's subscription to the Economist includes the option to use the Economist app.
HTML Emerald Insight Access information: Access on and off-campus. Description: Access to over 120 journals. The journals cover general management, human resource management, information management, library & information services, marketing, operations, production & economics, property, quality, training and education and engineering & material science.
HTML EMIS Access Access on and off campus. Click on "Client log in" in the top right corner of the homepage. Description Over 9000 publications available in the database containing company (Financials, company news, M&A Deals/ Rumours, analytical tools), country (Forecasts, reports,..etc) and industry data (Global industry reports, news, competition and market info) . Leading aggregator with top sources such as BMI, Global Data, Dun & Bradstreet, Allied Research, Buddecom, Grandview as well as data sourced locally in each emerging market. Unlimited access remote and campus wide. 3.5m company profiles and financials in hard to get locations. Access to local content (research reports, news,.. etc) in emerging markets. 540,000 research reports published every year.
HTML FactivaAccess information:Access on and off campus. Cookies must be enabled on your browser.Description:Provides business news and information together with Reuters Fundamentals and D&B company profiles. It contains more than 35,000 authoritative sources including The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires. Also includes most world press including UK national and regional press and trade magazines. Content by freelance writers, some features and supplements may not be available.Coverage:Click on the info icon next to each publication for coverage information and update schedules. The oldest article is from 1944 (Le Monde).Additional Information:Please note that whilst Factiva can be used for academic research, bulk downloading and/or analytics of the content is restricted by the database provider. Permitted users are limited to download what can be reasonably read in one day. Excessive downloading may result in your access and the access of other University users being restricted. For more information see the Factiva User Guide.User Guide
HTML FameAccess information:Access on and off-campus. Choose University of Edinburgh from list then click Select button.Description:Detailed financial information of all UK and Irish companies updated monthly with up to 10 years of data.FAME allows you to search by any combination of over 300 criteria including: geographic location, SIC code or activity description, number of employees, statement items, ratios, credit score/rating, legal form, year of incorporation, holding company/subsidiary.Company comparisons can be achieved using the Peer Analysis option whilst the Statistical Analysis option allows you to produce market sector reports.
HTML Henry Stewart Talks - Business and Management Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Business and Management Collection. The collection contains over 900 specially prepared, animated, online, audio-visual lectures and case studies by leading experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia. All lectures and case studies are suitable for inclusion in courses and as additional learning material including in blended learning and flipped classroom programmes, and may be included in Moodle, Blackboard and other Online Learning Environments.
HTML D&B Hoovers Access information: Access on and off campus - for off campus access please use the University VPN - Click here for Access to the University network via the VPN. Description: D&B Hoovers provides access to extensive company and contact intelligence via Dun & Bradstreet’s database of more than 140 million business records from 30,000 sources in 190 countries.
HTML IBISWorld Access information: Access on and off campus Description: IBISWorld is an online industry intelligence solution. Each of its industry reports provides the most detailed performance data and analysis on the market; supply chain information; forecasts; risk scores; operating strengths and weaknesses; analysis of external drivers; major player market strategies; and industry profit and costs benchmarks. Reports are updated 1-4 times per year depending on how fast moving the industry is ensuring the most up to date research possible. In addition to coursework/assignments, these reports would be of use to students researching industries for placements, future careers (including start up research) and interview preparation. A user guide can be downloaded here. Coverage: Covering over 400 UK industries at SIC L5, over 700 US industries at NAICS L5 and over 400 UK Brexit Imact Statement reports.
HTML IBSS (International Bibliography of Social Science) Online Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Produced by the British Library of Political and Economic Science, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research focusing on the four core social science subjects of anthropology, economics, politics, and sociology. IBSS includes over 2.5 million bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 book and chapter records are included each year. Abstracts are provided for around 80% of all current journal articles and users can link to the full text of articles in journals subscribed to by the University of Edinburgh. Userguide: http://proquest.libguides.com/IBSS
HTML IDEAS - Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) Access Information: Freely available Description: Access to RePEc's (Research Papers in Economics) collection of about 1.2 million on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software from 75 countries. Freely available full-text download for many.
HTML investorstatelawguide.com Access information: Access on and off campus - for off campus access please use the University VPN - Click here for Access to the University network via the VPN. Description: A comprehensive research tool for international trade and investment law. It includes decisions and awards for investment-treaty claims cases, arbitration rules, and investment and trade treaties and agreements. Through its research tools, including article, jurisprudence and publication citators, ISLG has mapped the world of investment treaty law by capturing the relationships between treaties, arbitral rules, cases and other key materials.
HTML JSTOR Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Full-text journal archive service providing access to complete back runs of all the scholarly journals currently available in JSTOR. Recent volumes are excluded, usually the last 3-5 years, but each year a further year is added to the archive. Each title is listed in DiscoverEd. About 4-5% of Artstor images migrated into Jstor are not accessible outside the United States. Coverage: The collections currently available are: Arts & Sciences 1-15 Biological Sciences Business I-IV Collection Business & Economics Ecology & Botany II Global Plants Health & General Sciences Hebrew Journals Ireland Jewish Studies Collection JSTOR Essential Collection Language & Literature Lives of Literature Life Sciences Mathematics & Statistics Music Religion and Theology Security Studies Sustainability World Heritage Sites: Africa The 19th Century British Pamphlets Collections is also available via JSTOR. Userguides to the various collections can be found at https://guides.jstor.org
HTML Marketline Advantage Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Marketline Advantage, now owned by Informa, aims to sort through data and deliver accurate, up-to-date information on companies, industries and countries across the world. with great breadth of coverage. It claims to cut the data padding and present information in easy to digest formats, so users can absorb key facts in minutes rather than hours. 34,000+ companies, updated annually, 5,000+ Industry Profiles, updated annually 110 Country Profiles, updated annually, Country Statistics Database covering 205 countries and 46 political and geographic groupings 50,000+ financial deals published annually relating to companies and industries tracked by MarketLine 60,000+ news articles published annually relating to companies and industries tracked by MarketLine 75+ company-focused Case Studies added annually.
HTML Mintel Academic. Reports and Trends Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Mintel Reports provides market research reports on a range of UK consumer and industrial products and services. Coverage: Reports on Beauty and Personal Care; Drink; Food; Leisure; Retail Overview; Technology Report sections can be printed or downloaded, but it is not possible to print or download entire reports. Mintel Trends provides reports on shifts in consumer behaviour by industry, demographic, theme and region.
HTML Mintel Market Sizes Access information: Access on and off campus. Select Log In, Federated Log In and University of Edinburgh, you may be prompted for your University Login. Description: Mintel Market Sizes containing global data on market size, market share and forecast data for thousands of consumer goods categories worldwide.
HTML Nexis UKAccess information:On and off campus.Description:Access to over 23,000 UK and international news and business sources, financial and market reports, biographical data and thousands of legal and regulatory services. Includes Company Dossier which delivers company information on 100 million international companies and executives.Notes:Authorised Users do not include:(a) any employee of the Academic Institution’s internal legal department or any employee who performs an in-house legal function for the Academic Institution; (b) any employee or student who works or studies primarily at an institution or organisation which is not the Academic Institution.
HTML Nikkei Telecom Access information: 2 concurrent users. Access on and off campus. Description: Nikkei Telecom is an essential resource for various kinds of studies such as economics, politics, sociology and Japanese language. It gives access to a great number of Nikkei newspaper articles from 1975 to the present. Full newspaper images of Nihon Keizai Shimbun from the first issue in 1876 to issues published in 1974 are also available. The database also contains hundreds of daily news articles in English published by Nikkei Inc. and Dow Jones & Company Inc. An English Archive Search is available for Nikkei Asian Review and major Nikkei newspaper articles. In addition to news articles, Nikkei Telecom offers various aspects of business information related to Japanese economy, such as profile information of major Japanese companies, personnel information of executives, Nikkei's survey data, macroeconomic statistics, etc. Coverage: 1876 to the present Userguides: Nikkei Telecom English User guide (PDF)
HTML Orbis - Very Large Access Information: Access on and off campus Description: Orbis is an umbrella product that incorporates data held on Fame, Amadeus, Zephyr. Orbis contains comprehensive information on companies worldwide, with an emphasis on private company information. Use it to research individual companies, search for companies by profile, analyse companies. Orbis contains information on both listed and unlisted companies. Coverage: The University subscription for Orbis is limited to information for companies in the category 'Very large company' that have operating revenue >= $130 million US, total assets >= $260 million US, employees >= 1000
HTML Oxford Scholarship Online Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Complete text of scholarly books published by Oxford University Press in the subject areas below. Coverage: Archaeology, Biology, Business & Management, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Computer and Information Science, Earth Sciences and Geography, Economics and Finance, Education, Environmental Science, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Palliative Care, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology, Religion, Social Work and Sociology. We have access to over 20,700 e-books.
HTML Passport (Euromonitor International) Access information: Access on and off campus. Select "Shibboleth" option at sign in. Description: Provides online access to business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources, with breadth and depth of international coverage. It is especially useful for studying entry into new country markets, the launch of new products and services targeted to new consumer market segments, benchmarking companies against competitors or investigating the growth potential of specific industry sectors. Complete reports can be generated. Previously known as Passport GMID. Coverage: 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52. Note: First time users will be asked to register.
HTML Pitchbook Access information: Access on and off campus. All currently enrolled students, faculty, or staff members are now able to open an account with Pitchbook using their University UNN and this link. Just input your University credentials in the following format: UUN@ed.ac.uk and hit login. You will be re-directed to a standard UoE login page, which will then take you through to PitchBook. Please note users signing up will be asked to read and agree to Pitchbook’s terms and conditions. These include agreeing that you will not share your account details and will only use the site for academic, educational, and scholarly use. Description: Pitchbook is a financial database platform covering private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity and M&A activity. It provides insight on deals, investors, venture backed companies and general technology trends. Access has been funded by the Data Driven Entrepreneurship Beacon Programme and delivered by Edinburgh Innovations. Interested in commercialising your research or idea? Please visit the websites of EI and the DDI and get in touch to see how we can help. Coverage: 2021-2022 Help: Pitchbook have a Help Centre available to all users of Pitchbook (authentication required), here you can find videos and tutorials to help with getting started on the platform as well as advanced navigations, our methodology and data information and popular articles. You will also find additional videos on the Pitchbook Youtube channel: Online training materials Note: PitchBook can be used as a research tool at the company/investor level and can also be used to identify wider market trends and statistics via use of the charting and pivot table functionality found in the advanced search result page. Please note however that PitchBook cannot be used for bulk downloads of raw data as individual student download limits do not allow this.
HTML Project Syndicate Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Project Syndicate provides commentaries by distinguished economists and policymakers. Sections include Economics, Politics, Development, Sustainability, Culture, and Innovation. Includes archive of past articles, including in-depth thematic coverage via ‘Big Picture’
HTML ProQuest One Business Access information. Access on and off campus. Description. Content from: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection; Asian and European Business Collection; Business Market Research Collection; Entrepreneurship Database. With global coverage in business and economics content includes, full-text journals, ebooks, dissertations, working papers, trade publications, company, industry, market and country reports, and key periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Economist. Additional information: https://proquest.libguides.com/pq1business
HTML PsycINFO - Ovid interface [PsycINFO via APA PsycNET] Access information: Access on and off-campus. On Ovid interface - Accept cookies. Cookies (Ovid) Some functions, including use of the Search History, will be disabled if cookies are rejected or no selection is made. Description: American Psychological Association produced with citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Detailed information about PsycINFO Coverage: Journal coverage, from 1806 to the present, includes international material selected from more than 2,400 journals written in over 29 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material from 1806 to the present. NHS Staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network
HTML LSEG Workspace Access Information: Workspace is subscribed to by the Business School. Access is available to Business School Year 3 and Year 4 undergraduate students and Business School postgraduate students. To request access to Workspace, please complete the application from: https://edin.ac/4aUEi9o. An alternative source is S&P Capital IQ. Description: Workspace provides Reuters News, global pricing data, company fundamentals, real-time research, commodities data and research, I/B/E/S estimates, deals & league tables, Datastream and analytics + features. Coverage: 1965 – present (varies).
HTML TradeLawGuide Access information: Access on and off campus Description: TradeLawGuide provides comprehensive research tools that facilitate methodical research of international trade law, including WTO law and regional trade agreements (RTAs). Its primary document collection consists of the WTO agreements and instruments, jurisprudence, dispute settlement procedural documents, negotiating history and the agreements and codes from the pre-WTO GATT regime. A suite of citators provides comprehensive substantive jurisprudence references to WTO, pre-WTO and Vienna Convention provisions as well as cross-references within the jurisprudence. Researchers can quickly pinpoint the most recent developments for a provision or research its complete jurisprudential and negotiating history. Additional resources, such as the Annotated Agreements, Treaty Interpretation, Terms & Phrases, Subject Navigator, and Dispute Settlement Body Minutes (for policy issues arising in jurisprudence) provide value-added content to facilitate dynamic and thorough research. In addition, TradeLawGuide provides a fully searchable database of regional trade agreements (RTAs), providing researchers with ready access to the texts of bilateral and plurilateral agreements currently in force throughout the world. Researchers have one-click access to the full legal text of agreements as well as shortcuts to the key sections, such as the rules of origin, tariff elimination schedules, market access commitments, reservations (non-conforming measures), and side instruments. A comparison tool for selecting and reviewing the text in two or more agreements at the same time allows researchers to efficiently assess similarities and differences between RTAs.
HTML UK Data Service Register with UK Data Service Access information: Available on and off-campus. Choose Login via UK federation. Also requires separate registration with UK Data Service Description: The UK Data Service is a comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC and delivered by the UK Data Service to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data. The UK Data Service provides access to over 7,000 digital data collections for research and teaching purposes covering an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, and spanning many disciplines and themes. Key data in our collection: UK surveys, Cross-national surveys, Longitudinal studies, Census data, International macrodata, Business microdata. Coverage: 1971 - present Additional information: Please refer to the Research Data Service for more information on statistics and data.
HTML WARC - World Advertising Research Center Access information:Access on and off campus. Description:Services provide intelligence from more than 50 international sources including Admap, Advertising Association, IPA, Account Planning Group, Effie Worldwide, ESOMAR, Euromonitor and Futures Company/Yankelovic. In all areas of marketing communications the service has over 25,000 articles, case studies, research reports and summaries, best practice papers, practical guides, daily news and more.
HTML Web of Science Core Collection Access information:Access on and off campus. Russian Science Citation Index is not presently included in the Web of Science.Description:Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Cited reference searching, Impact Factors, h-indexes and email alerts available.Coverage:Arts & Humanities (1975 onwards), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (both 1900 onwards), Conference Proceedings in Science and Social Science & Humanities (both 1990 onwards).Also: Book Citation Indexes in Science and Social Sciences & Humanities (both 2005 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1986 onwards), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1985 onwards), Index Chemicus (1993 onwards).Change "Search in:" to use: BIOSIS Citation Index (1926 onwards), Current Contents Connect (1998 onwards), Data Citation Index (1990 onwards), Derwent Innovations Index (1966 onwards), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980 onwards), Medline (1950 onwards), PrePrint Citation Index (1991 onwards), ProQuest Dissertatoins & Theses Citation Index (1637 onwards), SciELO Citation Index (2002 onwards), Zoological Record (1864 onwards).Help:Publisher userguideFinding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'):Cited Reference Searching (pdf) Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Journal Impact Factors and other measures on JCR (pdf)
