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BankFocus

>> Go to BankFocus

  • Subject coverage: detailed financial information, ratings, and ownership information
  • Size/scope: information for over 42,000 banks worldwide
  • Type of content: financial reports
  • Data range: Up to 5 years of information for listed banks and 3 years for unlisted.

Bloomsbury Professional Platinum & Online Tax Service

>> Go to Bloomsbury Professional Platinum

  • Subjext coverage: taxation
  • Size/Scope: UK tax, financial reporting and law, plus Irish tax and law
  • Type of content: e-books on personal and business tax issues, HMRC manuals, a range of tax precedents and forms
  • Level of access: full text access.

Business Source Ultimate

>> Go to Business Source Ultimate

  • Subject coverage: business and management
  • Size/scope: over 45,000 sources
  • Type of content: academic journal articles and business trade titles
  • Level of access: Some full text available.

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Capital IQ

>> Go to Capital IQ

Note: A one off registration process is required in which you are required to provide your University e-mail address

  • Subject coverage: financial information
  • Size/scope: financial news, market insights and company performance data. It provides intelligence on more than 62,000 public companies and 4.4 million private firms. It covers financials for 88,000 publicly-listed companies
  • Type of content: company information
  • Level of access: full text.

Disclaimer: Reproduction of any information, data or material, including ratings (“Content”) in any form is prohibited except with the prior written permission of the relevant party.  Such party, its affiliates and suppliers (“Content Providers”) do not guarantee the accuracy, adequacy, completeness, timeliness or availability of any Content and are not responsible for any errors or omissions (negligent or otherwise), regardless of the cause, or for the results obtained from the use of such Content.  In no event shall Content Providers be liable for any damages, costs, expenses, legal fees, or losses (including lost income or lost profit and opportunity costs) in connection with any use of the Content.  A reference to a particular investment or security, a rating or any observation concerning an investment that is part of the Content is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold such investment or security, does not address the suitability of an investment or security and should not be relied on as investment advice.  Credit ratings are statements of opinions and are not statements of fact.

EBSCO Host Databases

>> Go to EBSCO Host Databases

This is the hyperlink to the EBSCO database set configured to search in every database we have access to.

Fame

>> Go to Fame

  • Subject coverage: financial accounts and management details on UK companies For financial accounts of bank and financial institutions, use BankFocus
  • Size/scope: 2 million plus companies
  • Type of content: accounts and company information
  • Data range: last 10 years
  • Level of access: full text.

Note: To identify yourself type Bournemouth University in the search box or select Bournemouth University from the drop down list

FT.com

>> Go to FT.com

  • Subject coverage: news
  • Size/scope: the Financial Times is an international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. In addition to the content appearing in the printed newspaper the online version gives access to personalised news alerts, specialist blogs and videos
  • Type of content: newspaper articles
  • Date range: 2006 to date
  • Level of access: full text available.

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Note: A one off registration process is required in which you are required to provide your University e-mail address. For continued access whilst a student or member of staff at Bournemouth University you are required to log in to FT.com using the link above once every 90 days

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Emerald Insight

>> Go to Emerald Insight

  • Subject coverage: management, marketing and accounting journals (plus multidisciplinary topics such as law, hospitality and tourism, quality etc.)
  • Size/scope: abstracts from 500 journals including full text of articles from 240 management journals
  • Type of content: academic journal article
  • Level of access: some full text available.

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Gartner

>> Go to Gartner

  • Subject coverage: information technology related research and advice
  • Size/ scope: reports and news service compiled by research analysts and consultants in 85 countries
  • Type of content: reports
  • Level of access: some full text is available.

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Henry Stewart Talks: The Business & Management Collection

>> Go to Henry Stewart Talks

  • Subject coverage: finance, management, global business and marketing management
  • Size/scope: 700+ talks
  • Type of content: online audio-visual talks.

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Lawtel

The content of Lawtel is now available within Westlaw. On the Westlaw homepage, look in the 'More resources' box on the right of the screen and click on 'Lawtel'.

Lexis+

>> Go to Lexis+

  • Subject coverage: law and tax
  • Type of content: Contains UK lcgislation currently in force, many law report series, some full text law journals, and full text works of legal commentary, such as Halsbury's Laws. Includes practical guidance materials, such as step-by-step guides, practice notes, checklists, forms, and precedents.
  • Level of access: some full text available.

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>> Lexis+ help guides

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Mintel

>> Go to Mintel

  • Subject coverage: For a full list of sectors, themes and demographics covered, click on the 'Category Overview' option when you access Mintel. Here's a shortlist of categories: Automotive; Beauty and Personal Care; Business to Business; Drinks; Financial Services; Food; Foodservice; Health & Nutrition; Household; Marketing & Communications; Pet; Retail & Apparel; Technology & Media; Travel, Leisure & Entertainment
  • Size/scope: covering domestic consumer products and services, plus marketing news and reports from UK trade press
  • Level of access: full text available.

Note: Use of Mintel is restricted to academic use only

>> Online Help

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Mintel Market Sizes

>> Go to Mintel Market Sizes

  • Subject coverage: Industries covered : Alcoholic Drinks; Beauty, Personal Goods & Toiletries; Food; Household / Home; Non-Alcoholic Drinks; Pharmaceuticals
  • Size/scope: Quantitative Database providing market sizes, segmentation, market share and socio economic data for 34 countries
  • Level of access: Market size data.

Note: Use of Mintel Market Sizes is restricted to academic use only and permits the  download or print of no more than fifty-five (55) Datasets per Session. It also permits an authorised user to include in any dissertation or thesis a combination of no more than five (5) each of the following: (a) up to twenty-five percent (25%) of a single Snapshots report and (b) a Dataset

O'Reilly

>> Go to O'Reilly

  • Subject coverage: digital library of e-books and videos covering subjects such as business, computing, programming, design and engineering
  • Level of access: full-text.

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Orbis Europe

>> Go to Orbis Europe​

  • Subject coverage: annual accounts and management details of the top public and private companies actively trading in 41 European countries
  • Size/ scope: covers 330,000 companies
  • Type of content: statistics, full financial reports, financial and management data
  • Date range: annual accounts for up to 10 years
  • Level of access: full text.

Web of Science

>> Go to Web of Science - Select UK Federation from Institutional Sign In and search for Bournemouth University

  • Subject coverage: arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences
  • Size/scope: citation databases that allow searching for a specific article by subject, author, journal or author address. It is also possible to search for articles that cite a known author or work
    Web of Science consists of:
    Science Citation Index 1899-present
    Social Sciences Citation Index 1898-present
    Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present
    Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science 1990-present
    Biosis Previews Archive 1969-2008
    Medline 1950-present
    Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators
  • Type of content: academic journal article
  • Date range: 1945-
  • Level of access: some links to full text.

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