Welcome!

Hello, my name's Stephanie Allen and I'm the Academic Liaison Librarian for the Worcester Business School.

This site contains links to relevant Library resources for business, management and computing, a selected collection of useful web resources, guides from ILS, FAQs, news, and more. Select a tab on the menu bar above to find out more. Please send any comments about the site to me: s.allen@worc.ac.uk.

Don't forget to also check out the 'ILS One Stop' folder in the Blackboard Business School folder. It contains presentations, handouts, links to videos and more.

If you have an enquiry about Library resources, please email me (please note that I work part time - my normal work days are Wed afternoon, all day Thur and Fri). To ensure a quick response outside of these times, please email the general Academic Liaison Team enquiry service: askalibrarian@worc.ac.uk. For Blackboard enquiries email: eos@worc.ac.uk. For IT enquiries email: helpdesk@worc.ac.uk

Hope you find the site useful :-)

Best wishes, Stephanie Allen (s.allen@worc.ac.uk)

This is me - hello!

Section 1

Access Library Resources

Summon

http://summon.worc.ac.uk/

Go direct to Summon to cross-search lots of Library databases in one search.

UW - Student login page

http://students.worc.ac.uk/

University of Worcester - Student login page. Login here to access Library Catalogue, journals, databases, Blackboard etc.

UW - Staff login page

https://secure.worc.ac.uk/staff/index.html

University of Worcester - Staff Portal

Library Catalogue

http://prism.talis.com/worcester-ac/home

Direct link to Library Catalogue from University of Worcester. Search for printed books & ebooks here.

A-Z journal titles

http://mt6qm6wx6p.search.serialssolutions.com/

Use this link to search for and access journal titles. Find out if the University subscribes to the journal you want and what volumes & years we have available.

Reading Lists

http://193.62.51.157:8080/talislist/index.jsp

Find reading lists added to the UW Library catalogue

Section 2

ILS News - keep up to date!

Facebook Wall de ILS at University of Worcester

Twitter / WorcesterBS

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ILS Matters: ILS news

Section 3

Main Library Databases for WBS

Library Databases for WBS

Listed below is a reminder of some of the key Library e-resources for business, management and computing that you need for your research.

NEW!!University of Worcester Library users can also now search across approximately 97% of our resources at once, using ‘Summon’ http://summon.worc.ac.uk/. You'll also see the link to this from the Library Catalogue.

To access the Library Catalogue, login using your network ID and password at http://login.worc.ac.uk/ then select the 6th option 'Library Catalogue', then 'E-resources', then 'Business & Management' or 'IT/Computing'. 

If you're a member of staff login to the Staff homepage at https://secure.worc.ac.uk/staff/index.html and select 'Library Catalogue', then 'E-resources', then 'Business & Management' or 'IT/Computing'.

You can also use the direct links listed below.

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Academic Search Complete (covers lots of subjects, but includes business, computing and management - good for journal articles)
Direct link: http://atlas.worc.ac.uk/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph

Video on how to search ASC: http://www.youtube.com/worcesteralt#p/u/4/k_l7bKXaEfs

ACM Digital Library (for computing journal articles only)
Direct link: http://atlas.worc.ac.uk/login?url=http://portal.acm.org

Business Source Premier (for journal articles, country reports, company reports etc. - business & management; also some computing) 
Direct link: http://atlas.worc.ac.uk/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com

Video on how to use BSP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCUSgL-GWOo

Emerald Management Ejournals (for journal articles - business & management; also some computing)
Direct link: http://atlas.worc.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.emeraldinsight.com

Video on how to search Emerald Management Ejournals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLpyT62i-Co

PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES (for journal articles) & PsycBOOKS (for book chapters)
Direct link: http://atlas.worc.ac.uk/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph

Science Direct: Business, Management & Accounting Collection (for journal articles)
Direct link: http://atlas.worc.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/

Video on how to search Science Direct: http://www.youtube.com/worcesteralt#p/u/6/5T-nmUoxEV8

Mintel Market Reports (UK market research reports)
Direct link: http://atlas.worc.ac.uk/login?url=http://academic.mintel.com

Video on how to use Mintel: http://www.youtube.com/worcesteralt#p/u/19/qguMnieLVq0

Infotrac Newspapers (for UK daily papers)
Direct link: http://atlas.worc.ac.uk/login?url=http://find.galegroup.com/menu/commonmenu.do?userGroupName=ucwor

MyiLibrary e-books (covers all subject areas, including business & management & computing)
Direct link: https://auth.athensams.net/?ath_action=shaauth&id=https://idp.worc.ac.uk/oala/metadata&ath_dspid=ATHENS&ath_returl=http://auth.athensams.net/trl/1.0/-/MYILIBRARY

WARC (World Advertising Research Center)
Direct link: http://atlas.worc.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.warc.com/intranet/AutoLogin.asp

Video on how to use WARC:
http://www.youtube.com/user/worcesteralt#p/u/0/Z3-zegjZF7A


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