Academic Search Ultimate
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- Subject coverage: Science; social science; education; psychology; language and linguistics; arts and literature
- Size/scope: over 17,000 titles
- Type of content: journal articles, book reviews, conference proceedings
- Level of access: Full text of over 10,000 titles.
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BoB
- Subject coverage: access TV and radio programmes from over 65 'free-to-air' channels using a programme guide and a search option. Option to schedule recordings up to seven days in advance and request programmes broadcast over the previous 30 days. Search BoB to access other users' recorded programmes. Permanent archive of all broadcast content from nine channels: BBC1 London / BBC2 / BBC4 / ITV London / Channel 4 / More4 / Channel 5 / BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 4 Extra. Content plays in your web browser with access available both on and off campus.
- Type of content: TV and radio programmes
- Date range: 2007 to present
- Level of access: BU staff/student login required; registration required on first use. Available off-campus, but not outside the UK.
Business Source Ultimate
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- 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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Ebook Central Academic Complete
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- Subject coverage: multidisciplinary database of ebooks
- Size/scope: 146,000 e-books covering all academic subjects including: business and economics; computers, engineering and applied science; education; humanities; science, medicine and allied health; social sciences
- Type of content: academic books
- Level of access: full text.
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EBSCO Host Databases
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Emerald Insight
- Subject coverage: management, marketing, and accounting journals (plus multidisciplinary topics such as law, hospitality and tourism, quality etc.)
- Size/scope: Encompassing all 310 publications from the eJournals Premier Collection - the flagship collection from Emerald Publishing.
- Type of content: academic journal articles and open access eBooks
- Level of access: some full text available.
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Henry Stewart Talks: The Business & Management Collection
- Subject coverage: finance, management, global business and marketing management
- Size/scope: 700+ talks
- Type of content: online audio-visual talks.
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Hospitality and Tourism Complete
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- Subject coverage: hospitality and tourism
- Size/scope: 500,000 records
- Type of content: academic journal articles
- Date range: 1965 onwards
- Level of access: some full text available.
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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.
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The Purple Guide
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- Subject coverage: guide to health, safety and welfare at music and other events created by the Events Industry Forum in consultation with the UK events industry. Aims to help those who organise music or similar events so that they can run safely. This publication is designed to replace 'The Event Safety Guide' ("Purple Guide" HSG195) originally published by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) in consultation with the industry.
- Size/scope: multiple chapters (content updated regularly)
- Type of content: event health and safety recommended standards, information and guidance
- Level of access: full text.
Sage Journals Online
- Subject coverage: arts and humanities and social sciences including topics in communications, health, management, media, politics and psychology
- Size/scope: 390 full text academic journals
- Type of content: academic journals
- Level of access: full text available.
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Scopus
- Subject coverage: Sciences and social sciences
- Size/scope:Citation database indexing 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers, open access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series, patent records and scientific web pages. It contains over 33 million records
- Type of content: Citation data
- Date range: 1841-present
- Level of access: Some links to full text available.
SportBusiness Professional
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- Subject coverage: sports, events, sectors and organisations
- Type of content: growing collection of industry reports, magazine articles, news articles and videos
- Date range: intelligence reports from the past decade. SportBusiness International issues since Jan 2013 to present. Industry news material dating back the past 10 years to present
- Level of access: full text available.
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UNWTO Elibrary
- Subject coverage: tourism
- Size/scope: offers a vast number of UNWTO publications including books, journals, reports and statistics. E-books are provided in English, French, Spanish, Russian or Arabic. The latest statistical information and data on inbound and outbound tourism are presented within the 'UNWTO Tourism Factbook' section
- Type of content: various
- Date range: 1992-present
- Level of access: full text available.
World Advertising Research Centre (WARC)
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- Subject coverage: Advertising
- Size/scope: Information supplied by key professional organisations in the area of advertising including the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), Admap, European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR), Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA)
- Type of content: case studies, statistics, conference papers and full text of selected journals including the Journal of Advertising Research and ADMAP
- Level of access: some full text available.