Business and Management

Library Search: Advanced Search
To search the University's e-journal collections effectively, use 'Advanced Search'. From here you can construct impactful keyword searches and filter your results to make them more manageable and more relevant. For advice and training on how to search effectively, please contact your school's Librarian. 

EBSCO Business & Economics Databases
Cross-search a variety of databases including Regional Business News, Business Source Complete, EconLit and Academic Search Complete. Or search each database on its own. EBSCO Video tutorials

Mintel
One of the largest Market Research companies. Keele's subscription provides access to the following categories: UK lifestyle reports, UK media reports, UK retail: overview reports, UK travel reports and Global Outlook on Sustainability. For access, select 'Need federated login? Login here', search for 'Keele University'. Log in with your Keele username and password.

Here are some short, helpful videos on how to use Mintel: Navigation of Mintel Platform, How to best navigate a Mintel Report, How to best navigate Mintel Consumer Data and How to use Mintel Leap AI. 

Emerald Insight
Over 100 journals on marketing, general management, human resources and other related areas.

International GAAP 2025 (PDF download)
Generally Accepted Accounting Practice under International Financial Reporting Standards. International GAAP 2023 (e-access) GAAP 2023 access guide.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
The definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists and regularly updated with new content from leading economists.

ProQuest
Cross-search a variety of databases including European Newsstream, Social Science Premium Collection and the Humanities Index. For access, please login with your Keele username and password. ProQuest help page.

Web of Science - Clarivate
Is a useful database for doing wider research around a topic. It includes the Social Sciences Citation Index, Conference Proceedings, access to Journal Citation Reports and Book Citation Index. For access, if you're not automatically logged in select 'Institutional sign in', search for 'UK Federation' and 'Go to institution'. Search for 'Keele University' and log in with your Keele username and password. Registration for a Web of Science profile may be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email addresses will be removed. Web of Science Support Page

European Newsstream - ProQuest
Provides the searchable full-text of articles published in around 30 UK newspapers including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and The Independent.

FT.com (Financial Times)
Provides in depth coverage of UK and international business, finance, economic and political news. It also contains comment and analysis from leading journalists and insight into management trends and new developments. The first time you use FT.com you will need to register using your Keele email address. For access, select 'Sign in', enter your Keele email address and then select the 'SSO sign in' option. If you are not automatically logged in, please login with your Keele username and password. Find more tips for getting started at ft.com/guide.

FT mobile app (Financial Times)
Enjoy FT journalism anytime, anywhere. The first time you use FT.com you will need to register using your Keele email address. For access, select 'Sign in', enter your Keele email address and then select the 'SSO sign in' option. If you are not automatically logged in, please login with your Keele username and password. Find more tips for getting started at ft.com/guide.

Nexis
A news and business service which includes around 12,000 publications, including worldwide, national and local newspapers. Nexis help page

The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2013
Search the complete digital edition of The Times from 1785-2011. The entire newspaper is captured with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

Historical Data UK 
A free-to-access online repository of historical UK economic statistics datasets and publications from the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence. The repository’s focus is on macroeconomic and financial market data, but it includes a range of economic data disaggregated at a sector, industry and regional level. An introductory video explaining the content is available here.

Office for National Statistics (ONS)
The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK. The ONS publishes statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels.

UK Data Archive
Provides several thousand datasets relating to society, both historical and contemporary acquired from the academic, public, and commercial sectors. You will need to register with your Keele username and password before using this database.

UK Data Service
Provides a unified point of access to an extensive range of high quality social and economic data, including Census data, government funded surveys, longitudinal studies, international macrodata, qualitative data and business microdata. You will need to register with your Keele username and password before using this database.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) National is a TV and radio recording service and is freely available to all staff and students at Keele. Record and catch-up on programmes from 60+ TV and radio channels that have been broadcast in the last 30 days. You will need your Keele username and password to sign-in.

Google Scholar
The most famous web search engine can search for academic journals and literature too. In Google Scholar’s settings you can also customise your results to quickly see which of them you have full-text access to through Keele Library. To get this working, before you perform your search click on Settings and type 'keele' into the Library Links search box. Tick the Keele University – view online @Keele box, click on Save Preferences and you're ready to go. When you've typed in your search, any results with ‘view-online@Keele' link next to the title provide a direct link through to the article.

Kanopy
An on-demand streaming video platform for public and academic libraries that offers films, TV shows and documentaries. For access, log in with your Keele username and password. Kanopy help page. Kanopy's Accounting Collection. Kanopy's Business Collection. Kanopy's Economics Collection. Kanopy's Finance Collection. Kanopy's Marketing Collection. 

Library Hub Discover
Library Hub Discover replaces Copac and SUNCAT. This catalogue gives you access to details of materials held in many UK national, academic and specialist libraries.

Mckinsey is a good example of a management consultancy firm website. Go to 'Featured Insights' for recent thinking and analysis on business and management topics including operations, business & technology, risk management and sustainability.

Reference Management Tools (RefWorks and Cite Them Right)
Access quality reference management tools provided by the Library. RefWorks allows you to save and manage all the references you use for your assignments, whether these are from books, journals, web pages or other sources, and create bibliographies. Cite Them Right helps you to reference correctly in a variety of styles, not just for standard resources such as books and journal articles, but also for resources such as statutes, patents and social networking sites. Visit our Reference management page for useful guides and help using these resources.

Dissertations on Library Search
Enter keywords, select 'Search Everything' then filter 'Resource Type' to 'Dissertations'.

Keele Research Repository
The Keele Research Repository is intended to be an open access (OA) showcase for the published research output of the university. Whenever possible, refereed documents accepted for publication, or finished artistic compositions presented in public, will be made available here in full digital format.

Keele Data Repository
Keele Data Repository is a digital archive of research datasets produced by Keele University staff.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1997 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1606. For access, please login with your Keele username and password. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global help page. ProQuest status page.

EBSCO Open Dissertations
Databases with records for more than 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations from around the world. For access please login with your Keele username and password.

EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)
(Due to a cyber attack on the British Library, EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) is currently unavailable. They are working to restore the service). The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.

NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations)
Details of theses and dissertations from universities worldwide.

See our A-Z of online resources for an A-Z list of Keele's online resources, with login and support information. If you are having difficulties accessing a resource, please contact us. Start Live Chat or email: library.help@keele.ac.uk.

Browse activities, academic and study skills workshops, and events designed to develop your study skills and help you to complete your assessments.

The Liaison Librarian for Business and Management is Julie Beard. If you’d like more in-depth help on using resources, want advice on how to search effectively, or want to further develop your information or digital literacy skills, you can contact Julie and ask for an appointment: j.l.beard@keele.ac.uk.

If you’re a PhD student or researcher at Keele you can access help and support from our Research Support Librarians. Find out more on the Research Support webpage.