Library

Electronic Journal Collections

Use the following to find an electronic journal title or paper. You can search for an e-journal by typing in the title in the A-Z, and then use the links to connect to the journal's website; or search each e-journal library (EBSCO, Emerald, Swets etc.) individually.

Search Keele's E-Journal A-Z
Use this website to search across all of our e-journal services for a journal title. A selection of marketing e-journals can be viewed here.

Business Source Premier and Academic Search Premier - EBSCO
Many business and management titles are included in this collection, which has over 2,000 full text journals. Click here for help on getting started with this database.
You will need your Keele login to access the EBSCO databases from off-campus.
View the Quick Guide to Using EBSCO to help you get started. 

Emerald Management Xtra
95 full-text management journals.
You will need your Keele login to access Emerald Management Xtra from off-campus. View the Quick Guide to using Emerald.

Sage Premier
A collection of over 600 full-text international peer-reviewed journals titles, dating back to 1999. You will need your Keele username and password for off-campus access to Sage Premier.

SwetsWise
A collection of electronic journals with full-text access to over 3000 journals.
You will need your Keele login to access SwetsWise from off-campus. Quick Guide to using Swetswise.

Global Market Information Database
GMID provides information on countries, consumers and industries. Country data includes economic indicators and statistics (GDP, average incomes, growth etc.). Use this service to look up reports and statistics on companies, product markets and consumer behaviour. 

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.

Nexis UK
Read the "broadsheet" UK press and some regional newspapers on this website. Business pages are included in the service. More online newspapers and other online services are available from our newspapers page.

Global Market And Country Data Sources

Global Market Information Database

GMID provides information on countries, consumers and industries. Country data includes economic indicators and statistics (GDP, average incomes, growth etc.). Use this service to look up reports and statistics on companies, product markets and consumer behaviour. 

Business Source Premier and Academic Search Premier - EBSCO
Many business and management titles are included in this collection, which has over 2,000 full text journals. Click here for help on getting started with this database.
You will need your ATHENS password to access the EBSCO databases from off-campus

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.

Nexis UK
Read the "broadsheet" UK press and some regional newspapers on this website. Business pages are included in the service. More online newspapers and other online services are available from our newspapers page.

E-Book Collections

Use the services below to search and read the Library's current collection of e-books. They are also available from the Library Catalogue. Select "Electronic Resources" in your search criteria to limit it to e-books.

Dawsonera
An expanding collection of ebooks purchased by the Library which includes some titles relating to business and management.
You will need your Keele login for all access.

netLibrary
Collection includes titles on management, strategy, marketing, globalisation and many more.
You will need your Keele login for off-campus access.

MyiLibrary
Includes many business related titles, including ones on human resource management, industrial relations, strategy, marketing and business law.
You will need your Keele login for off-campus access.

Find A Reference In Marketing

There are more journals available in addition to those we have electronically. Reference databases (sometimes also called "citation" or "abstract" databases) can help you find these if you want to search more widely for papers, especially if you're doing a literature review for a dissertation.

The full text will not be available from the citation database, however clicking on the @Keele logo will search our e-journals and provide a link to the whole paper if available, or direct you to where a paper copy may be found in the Library's print journal collection. Our main citation databases are;

ProQuest provides a large number of bibliographic databases, including several major ones, including British Humanities Index, and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences.

• Access

• Access from off campus with Keele log-in

• Information for off-campus access

Web of Knowledge

The ISI Web of Knowledge service provides access to the ISI Web of Science, which comprises a number of citation indexes:

• *Science Citation Index Expanded (1970 onwards)
• *Social Sciences Citation Index (1970 onwards)
• *Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975 onwards)
• *Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (1990 onwards)
• *Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Sciences & Humanities (1990 onwards)
• Book Citation Index (Science & Social Sciences & Humanities editions) (2005 onwards)
• Chinese Citation Index (citations from the Chinese Academy of Sciences) (1989 onwards)

Databases to which Keele has access are denoted by a * to the left.

• Access

• Access off-campus with a Keele log-in

• Information for off-campus access

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences - EBSCO
Details of articles, letters, and reviews from more than 2,600 journals and 7,000 books in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
You will need your ATHENS password to access EBSCO Databases from off-campus

EconLit - EBSCO
References to economic literature.
You will need your ATHENS password to access EBSCO Databases from off-campus

Theses

Theses

Use the advanced keyword search on the Library Catalogue and set the material type to 'thesis' to search for Keele theses held in the Library.

ETHOS
The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.

Index to Theses
A searchable listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. You can only access the Index to Theses from computers on the Keele network.

NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
Details of theses and dissertations from universities in the United States and worldwide.

PhDData
An index of doctoral dissertations in progress around the world.

Help For Marketing Students

The following are the Library's quick guides to using the following e-journal libraries:

Using EBSCO Academic Search Elite/Business Source Premier

Using Emerald E-Journal Library

Using Swetswise E-Journal Library

Refworks
This is an online reference management software which can be used to import, manage and save references from your research, enabling easy creation of bibliographies. Find out more on our Refworks information pages.

Business And Management Links

Students may find some of the sites below useful or interesting. Links to other social science websites which may be of potential use can be found here

BBC Business
Business news from the BBC, but includes latest financial markets data, economic and company news.

Biz/ed
Service for students, teachers and lecturers of business, economics, accounting, leisure and recreation, and travel and tourism.

Brint
Renowned information site for business, with up to date links and digests to key business sites.

Confederation Of British Industry
The UK's top business lobbying organisation.

CAROL - Company Annual Reports Online
Links to online company annual reports from various countries, and other investor information.

Competition Commission

CorporateInformation
Worldwide corporate information. Can be searched by company name, industry.

Consumer And Retail Price Indexes

Department For Business Enterprise And Regulatory Reform (UK)

Development InfoKiosk The World Bank
World Bank statistics and documents on development.

European Business Ethics Network
Website which debates issues on business ethics and corporate social responsibility.

Genamics JournalSeek
Large categorized database of freely available journals.

Health And Safety Executive
The body responsible for the regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare, and for research into occupational risks in England, Wales and Scotland.

HeinOnline
Archive of legal articles and other legal materials.
If you are off campus look for the "institutional log-in" or "Shibboleth" links, then select the UK Federation followed by Keele University from a drop-down list to get to the log-in page. When prompted type in your Keele login to access the service.

ILOLEX
The International Labour Organization's online database of International Labour Standards.

Kellysearch
An index of over 2 million companies and over 10 million products worldwide.

Kompass
Information on companies, product and services, executive names, trade and brand names.

LaborDoc
Another International Labour Organization site, contains references to a wide range of print and electronic publications.

Market Research Portal
Online resources and research related articles on market research.

Northcote
Find company information and links to published information such as financial reports, press releases and webcasts.

Office Of Fair Trading (UK)

RBA - Business Information On The Internet
Often updated, well-structured site directing you to websites on different business topics.

SCoRE
A national catalogue of company reports in UK libraries.

World Trade Organization