BU Electronic Resources: Business, Economics, Finance & Management

This section will highlight just some of the key database for business, economics and finance. BU has access to a very broad range of databases in these subject area, and at the bottom of this box is a link to the full range available to us.

Factiva is a very useful 'catch-all' database. This provides worldwide full text coverage from news sources, trade publications, business-centric websites, investment analysis and much more. Please click into the image below to access:

Business Source Complete offers full text content covering market research reports, company profiles and SWOTS, industry reports and country reports provided by the Economist. Please click into the image below to access:

 Business Source Complete 

ABI Inform provides full text articles from business publications, scholarly journals, and trade publications including the Wall Street Journal. Please click into the image below to access: 

From the main landing page for databases, you can search resources using your own terms, the A-Z list, or use the pre-set subjects and database type options as shown below. To access the page, please click into the image. 

Similar to e-journals, the university has access to a broad range of platforms and suppliers for electronic books.

Proquest Ebook Central encompasses a wide variety of subjects and titles, and is a very nicely designed user-friendly platform. Click into the logo to access:

We have a very useful subject guide to e-books, which you can access from the link below. This gathers together all of the university's e-book platforms along with reliable third-party open access collections: E-Books Research Guide

The university subscribes to a number of excellent multidisciplinary video and audio platforms. It is advisable to consult these first for any content you wish to use in your teaching, since use of content from third party sources can be fraught with licencing/ownership and copyright issues. However, this box includes external sources for video content you may consider using, but please consult the terms of use, which are included here.

TED Talks are of course a great source of content for a broad range of subjects and topics. However, TED has previously considered the education sector as 'for profit', as a university 'sells courses' to students, which would usually require content to be purchased. This is largely disputed, and the majority of TED content (unless otherwise stated) is released under the Creative Commons (CC) licence CC BY–NC–ND 4.0 meaning that it can be used in teaching, provided the terms of the licence are followed.

Please consult the licence here and ensure this is adhered to if you are using TED content: CC Licence for TED

Please see this link for for the full TED Terms of Use

To access TED please click the image below:

The university has an extensive repository for materials produced under open access, OpenBU. Click into the image below to find the landing page - from here you can access subject specific collections and the main page for articles, all of which are searchable:

The university subscribes to a broad range of titles relating to economics, finance and management. To search for and access individual titles, use the BU Libraries Search function. 

To select journal titles, choose the journals option from the drop-down menu as shown in the screenshot below. To access journals search please click here

There is a very useful, and brief, video tutorial on using the Search function which can be viewed by clicking on the icon below:

Suggested titles - see the link below for journal search results. The results are from a very broad search but you can refine these by using the various filters. 

• Titles for Management
• Titles for Economics
• Titles for Finance

Box of Broadcasts - or BoB for short - is a unique resource. This is a UK-based television/radio archive and streaming service, which covers all UK terrestrial channels. It's records go back to the early 1990s, so the breadth of content is vast, and it is constantly updated each day as programmes are broadcast. 

The first time you use the service you will need to register using your BU.edu email, and this is a very quick process. 

The benefits of this service are:

• Programmes can be booked in advance of being aired, and are then emailed to you when ready to view.
• Create personalized playlists of broadcasts. 
• Edit broadcasts into clips and create playlists of these. 
• Easily share and/or embed broadcasts and playlists.  

To access BoB:

• Visit Learning on Screen
• When prompted type Boston University into the box (this will appear as you type)
• Sign in from here using your bu.edu credentials (email and password)

Please click into the image below to access a full set of instructions for using the service. 

Below are a series of brief how-to videos, made by Learning on Screen who provide us with BoB, covering all essential elements of using the service. Click into the image below to access these:

The Copyright Guide has links through to an extensive list of image sources, plus guidance on using these materials in line with UK rules. Please click into the image below to access the guide:

Please contact the library for all and any copyright related questions.

We have a useful and detailed guide dedicated to current news and news sources. Click into the image below to access:

An interesting site for news content is Pressreader - this offers digital versions of global newspapers and magazines covering a broad range of subjects. Click into the logo to access: