Librarian @ Business
Business Librarians will assist you with finding and using resources and referencing in your assignments.Make an appointment by emailing [email protected] or phoning 6488 2342.
We also offer a drop-in service, every Monday and Tuesday, between 4pm and 6pm (during weeks 1-5 of Trimester). You can find us in Room G30 - next to the Business School Café.
The University Library, and the UWA Business School, provide a variety of research resources for staff and student use.
Library Resources
See the Library Subject Guides for help, suggestions and links for your research. The guides include databases of journal articles, data sets, selected web resources and books / eBooks. The following subjects are available:
- Accounting and Finance
- Business Law
- Finding Business and Economic Statistics and Data
- Company and Industry Data and Information
- Economics
- Management and Organisations (including guides on Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour, Work and Employment Relations and Transport and Logistics).
- Marketing
Most resources are available online from any internet enabled device for staff and students. They include:
- Bloomberg - Real-time terminal service for market data, news, analytics and charts
- Company360 - Business information and analysis for public and privately traded Australian companies, by Dun and Bradstreet publications.
- Factiva - Filtered and curated information from media outlets and trade and consumer publications.
- IMF eLibrary Data
- Mergent Online - US and International company information.
- DatAnalysis Premium - Comprehensive current and historical picture of ASX listed and delisted companies.
- OECD iLibrary - OECD's Online Library of statistical databases, books and periodicals. It includes statistics on employment, migration, globalisation, national accounts and more.
- Connect 4 - ASX Company information, Announcements, New Issues, Annual Reports and Prospectuses.
- Datastream - Historical financial data on global economic indicators and a variety asset classes.
Business School Resources
Additionally Business School staff and students can access datasets via the following databases.
- Thomson Reuters Institutional Brokers' Estimate System (I/B/E/S) - Provides revenue, sales, income and profit data for companies worldwide.
- Thomson Reuters SDC Platinum: Mergers and Acquisitions - Information on global mergers and acquisitions.
- Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) - Provides access to COMPUSTAT, CRSP, IBES and other important business research databases.
- S&P Compustat - Financial and market data covering publicly traded companies.
- SIRCA - Australian Equities Tick History yes, Thomson Reuters Tick History no but Datastream has , Australian Company Reference Data yes for public companies, Share Price and Price Relatives.
- Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) - Stocks, Indices, Treasuries, Mutual Funds.
Contact Associate Professor Marvin Wee to request access to these Business School databases