Management and business Information

Introduction

This quick is intended as an introduction to books, journals, quick reference and electronic sources on information systems. The Library has many other guides to its collections and services. Please see the Library home page or the guide stands near the Help Desk on the 1st floor.

The Library Catalogue

The Library online catalogue can be accessed from the Library home page. It is available via the Internet. It includes catalogue records for printed and electronic books and journals held by the Library. Search by author, titles, subject, series or keyword, or by journal title. Use "Advanced search" for additional keyword options, such as searching by author and title, or setting limits by date or material type such as theses. For help on using the Library catalogue there is an online tutorial on the Library home page.

Some specialist materials are not included in the main Library catalogue. These include some government documents such as parliamentary papers, legislation, internet sites and working papers. Ask at the Help Desk if you require help with finding these. 

Finding Books

The best strategy is to check the catalogue for books that you require. Every book has a classmark which represents its subject. The catalogue will also indicate on which floor a book is shelved and if it is on loan.

Useful classmarks on your subject include:

Business and management material beginning with the classmark H is located mainly on the 2nd floor. For locations of other classmarks use the Library floor plan

There is also a separate Course Collection of key texts on the Ground floor, accessible by turnstile for LSE Staff and Students only.

Government publications are located on the 1st floor of the Library (recent UK publications, intergovernmental material and current statistics) or the lower ground floor (older UK publications, historical statistics and government publications from other countries world-wide)

Some material such as pamphlets are kept in closed access and are fetched by request from the Service Counter.

There is also an Archives Department on the Lower Ground Floor of the Library

Finding Journals

To find printed and electronic journals choose "Find Results in :Journal Title Browse" on the Library catalogue "Quick Search" screen. For the print version the catalogue will display the classmark, holdings of the journal and latest issues received. The electronic version will give you a link through to the full text of the journal. Note that there may be more than one link and that dates of coverage are variable. Electronic coverage tends to be from recent years but sometimes full text is not available online up to the current date. For LSE staff and students most electronic titles can be accessed remotely using your LSE LOGIN . For many journal titles the Library holds both print and electronic formats.

Electronic journals can also be found from the E-Journals page. Browse the alphabetical list or search by title to go to a specific journal or host.

Key titles (a very select list includes the following)

Finding quick reference materials

The REFERENCE COLLECTION is on the 1st floor. This contains dictionaries, directories, and encyclopaedia and some printed indexes. Useful resources for business information  include:

See also the Reference resources webpage.

Finding journal articles

Articles are not generally indexed on the online Library Catalogue, so look for the journal in which the article was published. Printed indexes and electronic databases index journal articles. Both of these are listed on the Library's catalogue. See also "Finding electronic  information resources" below.

Finding electronic information resources

The Electronic Resources page contains information on all of the electronic resources to which  the Library has access.

The Library provides a searching service for LSE staff and students called Cross Searcher that searches the content of a number of selected databases and resources. This can be used to find journal articles, and where available, links through to the full text, using the LSE article finder orange button:

• All databases, including those in Cross Searcher and many more, are listed on the Library Catalogue. Click here to see databases relevant to Business and management.
• There are also many web resources that are listed here using the Library's Delicious account.
• A full list of Ejournals available from LSE is available on the Ejournals page
• LSE Staff and students will need to use their LSE username and password to access these

The most useful indexes for business information include -

EBSCO BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER - a database covering several thousand business, management and economics journals. Many of these articles are full text.

EMERALD MANAGMENT EXTRA40  is a database of references to articles taken from around 450 top management and business journals. The coverage is international but with a UK bias. The database covers the years from 1989 onwards and it updated monthly.
Subjects covered include Accounting & Finance, Management, Information Management, Marketing and Hospitality.

ECONLIT  (1969-)
Indexes economics journals and includes abstracts.

If full text is not available from the database use the Article Finder Icon to link to the electronic version of the journal if the Library subscribes, or to the Library catalogue or catalogues of other libraries.

Working papers

Many university departments now publish their research online in the form of working papers. They can  be found from the university web sites. Working papers can also be found using Google Scholar or Advanced Google searching. Try limiting the domain address to "ac.uk". This will limit subject searches to the web sites for UK academic institutions. Many university libraries also have links to institutional repositories containing some full text research - for example  -

LSE RESEARCH ONLINE, which can be searched by Department, subject or author.

The Library subscribes to the NBER working papers online , REPEC  and the Economics Research Network (SSRN) contain  many collections of online working papers

Internet sites

ASLIB Guide to Free Business Information - this is a gateway to free business and company information on the internet. It contains links to sites which provide company information such as CAROL  and HEMSCOTT (for company reports) and Companies House, regional information for trade directories, government resources for country information and portals for business information. Please note that some of these sites require user registration and some (such as Hoovers) are not all freely available.

INTUTE -  http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/business/ Business resources (formerly Social Sciences Information Gateway)

BIZ/ED -  http://www.bized.co.uk/ an internet information service for students of business and economics

SCORE - a catalogue of company reports

Best of Biz - a site run by the London Business School

Data

The Library holds a large collection of data of interest to economists. Some of this is in print in the CURRENT statistics collection on the First Floor of the Library. It is published by governments and IGOS. All publications are on the Library catalogue. In addition the Data Library available to LSE staff and students has a selection of resources for economics. Some of the most important are  publications from the Economist Intelligence Unit -  EIU Country Data , EIU Country reports and EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts.

Data from intergovernmental organisations such as the International Monetary Fund  include the IMF country reports, IMF balance of payment statistics and IMF Direction of Trade Statistics. These resources are available for LSE staff and students and require registration with the Economic and Social Data Library Service (login via the UK Federation). SOURCEOECD contains online publications and statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.  For reports and statistics from other IGOs search on the Library catalogue under the name of the organisation.

Company financial data is available from databases such as  FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy) for UK companies,  AMADEUS for European Companies, ICARUS and MERGENT ONLINE for US Companies (only available on campus) and OSIRIS for company information worldwide.

GMID (Global  Market Information Database) for market research information worldwide.

DATASTREAM - Online service offering financial and economic data, including exchange rates, bond data, stock market indices, interest rates and economic indices worldwide. Includes historical data.

BLOOMBERG - a source of financial information

BOARDEX - for tracing biographic information of business personal

These services are available to LSE staff and students at the PCs on the first floor of the Library.

Online reference material

This includes electronic versions of encyclopedias and dictionaries. Index to theses and Dissertations Abstracts are also available online. See separate guide to Reference Resources.

NEXIS (LSE staff and students only)
Full text of a wide range of UK and some non-UK newspapers (mostly from 1980s onwards) as well as a number of business related databases.

For historical news coverage there is the TIMES DIGITAL ARCHIVE 1785-1985. Older runs of the Financial Times are on microfilm and fetched on request. The index is in the Reference Collection at ZHG34

Other electronic resources

LSE exam papers - past exam papers are available online to LSE staff and students from the Library web site

Using other libraries

Further information on many other libraries can be found at Using other libraries on the Library's web page. Such information will include who is eligible to visit, access to catalogues and opening hours etc. Please always check before you visit any other libraries.

Locations for journals in other London University libraries can be found on the Union List of Serials. For books search each London University library catalogue. Use COPAC to search the catalogues of the main research libraries in the UK including the British Library.

We have a separate guide for Business Libraries in London

Help

Check the Library home page.

Check for Library training sessions including Endnote (managing your references), citing and referencing, "More to life than Google -using the internet", Datastream and the Data Library and much more. Individual and group sessions  for finding business information can be arranged with Barbara Humphries (Liaison librarian for  the Department of Management - e-mail b.humphries@lse.ac.uk )

For any further assistance, please ask at the Help Desk on the 1st Floor of the Library.

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