Friday 29 March 2019

New Business Case Studies collection - Henry Stewart Talks


Finding case studies for use in assignments and classes can be tricky task to negotiate.  In order to help support students research and development, the University of Bedfordshire Business School and LRSE have organized a full subscription to the Henry Stewart Talks Business and Management Collection.  It is the perfect place to start looking for case studies and material for assignments, class discussion and teaching support.  The collection has over 1100 resources written by Academic and Industry experts, including:

  • Specially commissioned multimedia lectures
  • Case studies
  • Industry insights

The collection also contains an additional 20 business and management journals including:

  • Applied Marketing Analytics
  • Journal of Airport Management
  • Journal of Brand Strategy
  • Journal of Digital Banking
  • Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Procurement
  • Management in Healthcare  


All the content is fully searchable via DISCOVER, the Library Catalogue and via https://hstalks.com/business/. Please speak to a Librarian for further information.

Friday 22 March 2019

ProQuest Ebook Central downtime Saturday 20th April 5pm-7pm

We've been warned of downtime for the ProQuest Ebook Central platform on Saturday 20th April 5pm-7pm.

This only affects ebooks from ProQuest with aq UR beginning with http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/


Tuesday 5 March 2019

Newsbank Special Reports March 2019


NewsBank’s Special Reports are news articles, images, maps and other useful content grouped for convenience under specific topics and themes. They enable users to quickly locate information while helping them gain better insight into current global issues and events.

Following is a listing of ones that may be of particular interest at this time.

March Topics
Women's History Month
World Health - National Nutrition Month
World Politics and Government
World Economics
World Environment

Additional featured Reports covering current issues and events
Film and TV Awards
Education Around the World
Mental Health
Natural Disasters
Science and Health in the News

Each Special Report features current and retrospective coverage with new articles added daily. They constitute a unique value to your users and are included with your NewsBank subscription. There are over 60 Reports to be sure the information you need is always available.

Special Reports are easily accessible from the left side bar on your online resource menu page, on search screens and the Other NewsBank Products link in full-text newspaper products.

This video shows you how to find Special Reports, what they are and how they can be used. 

https://www.newsbank.com/videos/learning-center/how-find-use-special-reports


Top DISCOVER searches from February

We've had a big surge in DISCOVER searches about knife crime this month