Business
Overview
A warm welcome to the University of Edinburgh Library. This guide will introduce you to library resources, services, and facilities for your subject. Use the menu on the left to explore and navigate the different sections of the guide.
Finding Library Resources
Use DiscoverEd to find books, ebooks, journals, ejournals and more. Sign into your Library account using your University Login to manage your loans and requests.
Resource Lists
Resource Lists are online reading lists that can signpost you to key reading materials. Some of your courses may have a Resource List embedded in the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) but you can also access them directly. Full details are available on the Resource Lists: Information for Students webpage.
Free access to leading global publications
Register for free access to the Financial Times, the leading global business publication. You can access its news, analysis and comment from the FT.com or the FT mobile app.
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Full text of the weekly publication which covers international politics and business news and opinion.
This subscription also provides access to the Economist app.
Visit: Link to The Economist on DiscoverEd (Select 'Miscellaneous Ejournals)
Select Click here to register
Create your account using your university email and create a password.
You will be sent a verification email- follow the instructions to verify your account.
Once complete and your account has been set up, download the Economist app on your phone and use the username and password you created to login into the app.
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Harvard Business Review (HBR) is management magazine. Its website advises it "aims to provide professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to help lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.
Harvard Business Review (via EBSCO Business Source Ultimate)
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Provides business and financial information, news and insight around the world
- Link to Bloomberg Businessweek on DiscoverEd (Select EBSCOhost Business Source Complete)
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Environmental Finance is an online news and analysis service reporting on sustainable investment, green finance and the people and companies active in environmental markets
The New York Times is considered the official U.S. newspaper because it publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches and presidential press conferences. The paper's reporters have won scores of Pulitzer Prizes throughout the publication's 150-year history. Access is via ProQuest and covers the period 1st June 1980 to date. Full text articles from New York Times can also be accessed via Factiva or Nexis UK from the 1980s onwards. See the entry for Historical New York Times for access to the archive pre-1980
Link to access The New York Times through ProQuest

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Develop your skills
You can develop your skills in using digital library resources with LibSmart and then progress to the Business Information module in Libsmart 2 to learn how to access and search company, financial and market research databases.
Subject guides from other disciplines
Subject guides from other disciplines can be useful sources of ideas and information. Some focus on topics such as newspapers, while others are more subject-specific, e.g., economics, law, etc. A full list of subject guides is available on the library website.
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