Business, Management, and Finance
SAGE Catalyst is a collection of over 700 social science eBooks. Included within the collection are 180 business, management and economics titles and over 150 books covering research methods and evaluation, plus over 60 study skills titles.
It is hosted by Vital Source. Explore the video below by Vital Source to make the most of Sage Catalyst resources.
Kogan Page Complete eBook collection
This platform contains every title published by Kogan Page, covering business and management, human resources, marketing, logistics, risk, finance and accounting and more...
In this section, you will find essential resources available for the subject areas of Business and Management, Project Management, and Accounting and Finance. You can locate print books and have access to electronic books, journal articles, and databases. In order to access electronic books, journals, and databases you will need to use your institutional login.
We subscribe to various resources for your wider reading and research. Most important ones for your subject areas are listed here, but many more are also available in Library Search.
BOB is an academically-focused database of television and radio programmes which allows you to watch programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels; you can also access its archive containing over 3 million broadcasts.
Access to bibliographic, citation and full text of over 60,000 British, adopted European and International standards.
EBSCO Business Source Ultimate is a database that provides access to a variety of resources for business and management research, including:
• Access to over 3,500 full-text journals, including Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, and MIS Quarterly.
• Company profiles, histories, executive biographies, and interviews
• Market research reports and industry reports
• Case studies and SWOT analyses
• Over 66,000 business and economics videos, plus 75,000 Associated Press videos
• Over 1,000 active global open access journals
Cite them right: the essential referencing guide
Cite Them Right is an online platform designed to advise students on how to do Harvard referencing correctly. Based on the best-selling book by Richard Pears and Graham Shields, this programme is trusted by institutions globally, and accessed by thousands of students daily.
The Economist (direct subscription, not in Library Search)
Weekly magazine focusing on current affairs, international business, politics, and technology. Please register using your university email and contact us if you are having issues with access.
This collection of journals covers a range of subjects related to business and finance from Accounting to Women in Management. Coverage generally begins with 1994.
Euromonitor Passport (Euromonitor International Market Research Monitor)
Global market analysis software platform, which analyses key industries in countries around the world. This online market research tool also monitors industry trends and provides strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for key industries and sectors in over 220 countries.
Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full- text format
IBISWorld provides industry intelligence that analyses the environment of over 400 UK industries using the five-digit level of the UK Standard Industrial Classification (UKSIC). Each industry report provides detailed performance data and analysis on the market, supply chain, operating strengths and weaknesses, external drivers, major player market strategies, industry profit and cost structure benchmarks.
IDEAS: Research Papers in Economics
IDEAS indexes working papers on Economics and related areas. It is based on RePEc (Research Papers in Economics). There is some full text but for some work in the database, you will need to place an interlibrary loan.
Lexis+ UK includes annotated legislation, cases, forms, precedents and commentary. It includes Halsburys Laws, ICLR Law Reports, UK Acts, Statutory Instruments, the Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents, definitions of legal terms, over 80 leading journals.
International company profiles are provided by Marketline.
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Sage Business Cases is a collection of more than 5,500 business cases from over 120 countries. Sage curates interdisciplinary cases on in-demand subjects such as entrepreneurship, accounting, healthcare management, leadership, social enterprise, and more.
Westlaw UK is an online legal information service. It has comprehensive case law, legislation and journal archives and an exclusive collection of news and business information.
As a member of the University, you can use other university libraries and their resources when applicable. If you are interested in doing this, explore our section External and Open Access Resources.
Open Access means, anyone from anywhere in the world can read something without paying, even if they are not a university member. Consequently, even after you graduate, you can use these resources. Below are some resources related to Business and Management, Project Management, and Accounting and Finance.
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
The global body for professional accountants. Provides information, advice and resources including syllabuses, study guides, past exam papers and more.
Association for Project Management (APM)
This is the only chartered membership organisation for the project profession in the world. Their activities raise the profile of the project profession, challenge the status quo where it matters and set the highest standards.
British Library - Business Hub
This online portal from the British Library will help you find and use high quality management research publications quickly and easily. These include full text research reports, summaries, working papers, videos and exclusive articles by leading researchers and consultants. You will also find details of books, journal articles, reports, websites, datasets, sound recordings, videos and other resources from the British Library's collections that are relevant to your search.
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
The world’s leading and largest professional body of management accountants helping individuals and businesses to succeed by harnessing the full power of management accounting and accounting for business.
Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
The Chartered Institute of Marketing supports, develops and represents marketers, teams, leaders and the marketing profession as a whole. As the largest professional marketing body in the world, CIM offer membership and career development, professional marketing qualifications, training courses and helps businesses grow with tailored support to enhance marketing capability.
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
The professional body for experts in people at work, championing better work and working lives by setting professional standards for HR and people development, as well as driving positive change in the world of work. They also got factsheets on how to carry out SWOT and PESTLE analyses.
Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
Offers practical, proven solutions for individual managers, employers and education providers alike creating better led and managed organisations.
This is a government agency providing free company information including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual returns, officers, charges, business activity, and more.
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
The government department that brings together responsibilities for business, industrial strategy, science, innovation, energy, and climate change.
This online library provides free, easy-to-access, online articles to develop yourself, other individuals, groups and organisations; it offers one of the world's largest well-organised collections of articles and resources on Business and Management.
The Government's HM Treasury releases a large range of statistics including forecasts for the UK economy, weekly economic indicators, statistics on public spending and finance, gross domestic product deflators.
Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM)
Creates leaders and develops managers through qualifications, training and cutting edge research giving them the skills to make a real difference in their organisation and beyond
London Stock Exchange is one of the world’s oldest stock exchanges and can trace its history back more than 300 years. London Stock Exchange Group was created in October 2007 when London Stock Exchange merged with Milan Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana.
Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics is the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and is responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels.
Please note, as the resources above are not provided or subscribed to by the University, we are not able to guarantee continuity of access. Please contact us if a resource is not accessible anymore and we will remove the link.
Nursing, Health, and Social Care
In this section, you will find essential books available for the subject areas of Nursing, Public Health, and Health and Social Care. You can locate print books in our library and access to electronic books online. In order to access electronic books, you will need to use your institutional login.
All eBooks within these collections below can be found using Library Search, or you can access each platform and search directly.
ClinicalKey Student
ClinicalKey Student is an excellent resource of high-quality health related eBooks, images and videos. You can search the full text of all the titles at once, add images to PowerPoint slides, create flashcards, and read the book in various fonts and colours once you Launch the Bookshelf. You can also have the book read to you using the audio button in Bookshelf function. You can download the ClinicalKey Student Bookshelf app where you can read offline on-the-go.
The University Library Services subscribes to four ClinicalKey collections: Nursing, Midwifery, Physiotherapy and Medical Education:
- ClinicalKey Student Medical
- ClinicalKey Student Midwifery
- ClinicalKey Student Nursing
- ClinicalKey Student Physiotherapy
LWW Health Library
LWW Health Library is an interactive resource providing access to reference and textbooks, videos, images, case-studies and quizzes. Our subscription includes access to the Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Pharmacy, and Medical Education collections.
- LWW Health Library Occupational Therapy
- LWW Health Library Physical Therapy
- LWW Health Library Medical Education
- LWW Health Library Pharmacy
The video below has instructions for making a personal account within LWW Health Library and guidance on how to use the collection.
Sage Catalyst
Sage Catalyst provides unlimited access to over 900 ebook titles covering a range of topics, including many essential texts for Nursing, Research Methods and Study Skills. You will also find ebooks from Sage Catalyst through Library Search. To view the latest titles available within your subject area, choose a topic from the Sage Catalyst homepage and by default these titles will be sorted by publication date. You can also filter by subdiscipline if necessary.
Wiley Nursing Collection
Wiley All in Nursing eBook Collection provides access to over 150 essential textbooks for Nursing.
The collection includes:
Fast Facts
A collection of more than 100 eBooks covering multiple topics across the field of medicine. Examples include: oncology, gynaecology, endocrinology, chemotherapy and psychiatry. The collection also includes Infographic Summary Sheets for patients and healthcare professionals. To read a title, just click on PDF and it will be downloaded onto your device.
In this section, you will find latest resources available for the subject areas of Nursing, Public Health, and Health and Social Care. You can locate and access electronic journals, articles, and databases. In order to access electronic journals, articles, and databases you will need to use your institutional login.
We subscribe to various resources for your wider reading and research. Most important ones for your subject areas are listed here, but many more are also available in Library Search.
BOB is an academically-focused database of television and radio programmes which allows you to watch programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels; you can also access its archive containing over 3 million broadcasts.
A comprehensive source for full-text articles from nursing and allied health journals.
Cite them right: the essential referencing guide
Cite Them Right is an online platform designed to advise students on how to do Harvard referencing correctly. Based on the best-selling book by Richard Pears and Graham Shields, this programme is trusted by institutions globally, and accessed by thousands of students daily.
Community Care Inform Children
Community Care Inform is an online resource that enables professionals working with people make and evidence their decisions.
Complete Anatomy is the world's most advanced 3D anatomy platform available as an app for macOS, Windows 10, iPad, iPhone, and Android.
A biomedical and pharmaceutical database containing references from a wide range of international journals on pharmacology, rehabilitation, medicine, mental health and a number of other areas.
Health Research Premium Collection
A huge database of health-related journals, books, evidence-based resources, videos and audio and dissertations.
Global Index Medicus (GIM) provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries. The main objective is to increase the visibility and usability of this important set of resources. The material is collated and aggregated by WHO Regional Office Libraries on a central search platform allowing retrieval of bibliographical and full text information. Use Library Search to check for full text if not available.
Lexis+ UK includes annotated legislation, cases, forms, precedents and commentary. It includes Halsburys Laws, ICLR Law Reports, UK Acts, Statutory Instruments, the Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents, definitions of legal terms, over 80 leading journals.
MEDLINE is a key bibliographic database for medical literature. 25 million plus references to journal articles in life sciences with a focus on biomedicine.
A good range of psychology-related journals where you can search for psychology-related articles.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Large full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals and covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, counselling, and observational and experimental methods.
Key for medical, biomedical and other life-sciences related journal articles. Includes citations from MEDLINE. Publicly available database. Links to full text may not check Library subscriptions – use Library Search to check for full text access.
A full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters covering physical sciences, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
Full-text database covering sports and sports medicine journals and providing full text for hundreds of journals indexed in SPORTDiscus.
Web of Science Primary (SCIE, SSCI & AHCI)
Very large citation database covering a wide range of science subjects and is particularly good for interdisciplinary searches. Offers citation searching. You can also register for EndNote Online via Web of Science.
Westlaw UK is an online legal information service. It has comprehensive case law, legislation and journal archives and an exclusive collection of news and business information.
As a member of the University, you can use other university libraries and their resources when applicable. If you are interested in doing this, explore our section External and Open Access Resources.
Open Access means, anyone from anywhere in the world can read something without paying, even if they are not a university member. Consequently, even after you graduate, you can use these resources. Below are some resources related to Nursing, Public Health, and Health and Social Care.
The independent regulator of health and adult social care in England that makes sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, and high-quality care, encouraging care services to improve.
The UK’s leading authority on mental health research, the Centre for Mental Health works with government, policy makers, service providers and commissioners to create social change.
Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP)
Offers critical appraisal skills training, workshops, and tools that will help you read and check health research for trustworthiness, results, and relevance so that you can decide if they are believable and useful.
Department of Health & Social Care
The government department that helps people to live better for longer; leading, shaping and funding health and care in England, making sure people have the support, care and treatment they need, with the compassion, respect and dignity they deserve.
EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which enables access to the UK’s doctoral research theses. There are approximately 380,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository.
The UK's Faculty of Public Health (FPH) is the standard setting body for specialists in public health in the United Kingdom. FPH is a joint faculty of the three Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (London, Edinburgh and Glasgow) and also a member of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.
Health and Care Professions Council
The Health and Care Professions Council regulate the following professions: biomedical scientists, clinical scientists, dietitians, occupational therapists, operating department practitioners, paramedics, radiographers and social workers in England.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)
This is a British social policy research and development charity that funds UK-wide research and development programs seeking to understand the root causes of social problems, and how social needs can be met in practice. The charity produces informative and topical research reports on cities towns and neighborhoods, housing, income and benefits, people, society and work.
The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve health and care in England. Their vision is that the best possible health and care is available to all.
The London Datastore is a free and open data-sharing portal where anyone can access statistics and data relating to the capital and its individual boroughs. The site provides over 700 datasets to help one understand the city and its problems.
MentalHelp.net provides comprehensive mental health and mental illness information on depression, bipolar suicide, anxiety, addiction, schizophrenia, and more.
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency regulates medicines, medical devices and blood components for transfusion in the UK.
The National Health Service in England.
NHS England publishes statistics on a range of health and care subjects. These statistics are used to inform debate, decision-making and research both within government and by the wider community.
NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence aims to improve health and social care through evidence based practice with guidance, advice, quality standards and information services for health, public health and social care with additional resources to help maximise the use of evidence and guidance.
Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics is the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and is responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels.
PubMed Central (PMC) is a service of the US National Library of Medicine that includes over 25 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles and includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
The Royal College of Nursing is the world’s largest nursing union and professional body. They represent more than 435,000 nurses, student nurses, midwives and health care assistants in the UK and internationally, promoting excellence in practice and shaping health policies.
Social Care Online is produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence. It is the UK’s largest database of information and research on all aspects of social care and social work
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health; it leads partners in global health responses. WHO contains country reports and statistics.
Please note, as the resources above are not provided or subscribed to by the University, we are not able to guarantee continuity of access. Please contact us if a resource is not accessible anymore and we will remove the link.
Tourism, Hospitality, and Events
SAGE Catalyst is a collection of over 700 social science eBooks. Included within the collection are tourism, hospitality and events books and over 150 books covering research methods and evaluation, plus over 60 study skills titles.
It is hosted by Vital Source. Explore the video below by Vital Source to make the most of Sage Catalyst resources.
Kogan Page Complete eBook collection
This platform contains every title published by Kogan Page, also covering tourism, hospitality, events, human resources, marketing, and more...
In this section, you will find essential resources available for the subject areas of Tourism and Hospitality and Events Management. You can locate print books and have access to electronic books, journal articles, and databases. In order to access electronic books, journals, and databases you will need to use your institutional login.
We subscribe to various resources for your wider reading and research. Most important ones for your subject areas are listed here, but many more are also available in Library Search.
BOB is an academically-focused database of television and radio programmes which allows you to watch programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels; you can also access its archive containing over 3 million broadcasts.
Cite them right: the essential referencing guide
Cite Them Right is an online platform designed to advise students on how to do Harvard referencing correctly. Based on the best-selling book by Richard Pears and Graham Shields, this programme is trusted by institutions globally, and accessed by thousands of students daily.
The Economist (direct subscription, not in Library Search)
Weekly magazine focusing on current affairs, international business, politics, and technology. Please register using your university email and contact us if you are having issues with access.
Euromonitor Passport (Euromonitor International Market Research Monitor)
Global market analysis software platform, which analyses key industries in countries around the world. This online market research tool also monitors industry trends and provides strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for key industries and sectors in over 220 countries.
IBISWorld provides industry intelligence that analyses the environment of over 400 UK industries using the five-digit level of the UK Standard Industrial Classification (UKSIC). Each industry report provides detailed performance data and analysis on the market, supply chain, operating strengths and weaknesses, external drivers, major player market strategies, industry profit and cost structure benchmarks.
Institute of Hospitality (direct access, not in Library Search)
The Institute of Hospitality is the professional body for managers and aspiring managers working and studying in the hospitality, leisure and tourism industry. Please contact us for the institutional username and password which will allow you to log in and register.
Lexis+ UK includes annotated legislation, cases, forms, precedents and commentary. It includes Halsburys Laws, ICLR Law Reports, UK Acts, Statutory Instruments, the Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents, definitions of legal terms, over 80 leading journals.
International company profiles are provided by Marketline.
WGSN is the global authority on change, using expert trend forecasting combined with data science to help you get ahead of the right trends (personal account setup required using your @sunderland.ac.uk email address).
As a member of the University, you can use other university libraries and their resources when applicable. If you are interested in doing this, explore our section External and Open Access Resources.
Open Access means, anyone from anywhere in the world can read something without paying, even if they are not a university member. Consequently, even after you graduate, you can use these resources. Below are some resources related to Tourism, Hospitality, and Events Management.
Association of Events Organisers
AEO is the trade body representing companies which conceive, create, develop or manage trade and consumer events. AEO has two sister associations, AEV and ESSA, whose members come from the event venue and supplier communities. AEO works in partnership with its sister associations on a number of initiatives including research, cross association working groups and lobbying.
Conference of the Parties (COP)
Annual summit attended by the countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Information on the European Commission policies and actions on challenges facing tourism in the European Union. Sections include: support to tourism businesses, promoting Europe as a destination, international cooperation, the Tourism Business Portal, and the EDEN (European Destinations of Excellence) project.
Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world and a template for all the festivals that have come after it.
The London Datastore is a free and open data-sharing portal where anyone can access statistics and data relating to the capital and its individual boroughs. The site provides over 700 datasets to help one understand the city and its problems.
The London Fashion Week digital platform is freely accessible to everyone, showcasing digital content from the designers, enabling collaboration and bringing together fashion, culture and technology.
Milan Fashion Week is organised by The National Chamber for Italian Fashion, which coordinates and promotes the development of Italian fashion.
The official website for New York Fashion Week, including exclusive designer content and seasonal schedules.
The Committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development analyses and monitors policies and structural changes affecting the development of domestic and international tourism, providing policy-makers with concrete analysis of key challenges and policy responses that will shape tourism in the future.
Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics is the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and is responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional and local levels.
This is the official website of the Olympic Games. Find all past and future Olympics, Youth Olympics, sports, athletes, medals, results, IOC news, photos and videos. see London 2012 Summer Olympics - Athletes, Medals & Results for the London Olympics in 2012.
The official Paris Fashion Week platform, includes schedules, videos of collections and exclusive articles.
The Tourism Alliance seeks to establish and maintain a favourable operating environment for all businesses involved in the delivery of tourism, particularly in England. Their main purpose is to lobby government both in England and Brussels on the key strategic issues facing the industry.
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. It is a global forum for tourism policy issues and a practical source of tourism know-how.
UK Hospitality is the leading hospitality trade association UK and represents the interests of the UK's hospitality sector covering everything from bars, hotels, coffee shops, contract catering, nightclubs, visitor attraction, escape rooms, bowling alleys, independent and large multi-national sites.
The World Tourism Organization E-library is an online service containing books, journals and statistical reports by country and by indicator on the subject areas of ecotourism, sustainable development, finance and investment, risk and crisis management, market research, tourism statistics and poverty alleviation.
A non-departmental public body funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, VisitBritain publishes many reports that provide statistics and data on many aspects of tourism in Britain such as inbound tourism, sector research, consumer behavior, business research, and more.
Please note, as the resources above are not provided or subscribed to by the University, we are not able to guarantee continuity of access. Please contact us if a resource is not accessible anymore and we will remove the link.