 |
Library Catalogue - a direct link to check which resources are available from our Learning Centres. |
| |
How to... guides for researchers - practical tips and guidance on how to design, develop and present your research |
 |
British Library Catalogue - nearly every book and magazine / journal article published in the UK can be found in this catalogue. WCC students and staff can request items from any Learning Centre. |
 |
Google Scholar - Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature |
 |
ebrary - a collection of over 3,000 electronic books all related to Further Education courses, including many standard course textbooks. |
 |
Financial Times - A daily international newspaper and web site providing extensive news, comment and analysis on business, finance, and related topics |
 |
BTEC Level 3 National Business Student Book 1 |
 |
BTEC Level 3 National Business Student Book 2 |
 |
BTEC Introduction to Business by
Hala Selie |
 |
Ingenta Connect - - Abstracts (summarising the text) of over 20 million journal articles. If you wish to access an article, please ask about our Inter Library Loans service (West Cheshire College students and staff only). |
 |
Intute: Business and Management - provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. |
 |
Internet for Business and Management - Use this free, interactive tutorial to improve your Internet research skills |
 |
Check out the links recommended for your course by West Cheshire College |
 |
Biz/ed - a service about business and economics related subjects. Including current topics, learning materials and company information.
|
 |
Businessballs - is a free online training resource containing covering " ... sales, management, motivation training and free team building games for business, organisational development, personal development and executive coaching". |
 |
CAROL - an on-line service offering direct links to the financial pages of listed companies in Europe and the USA. Students and staff register themselves to get free access to company reports. |
 |
National Statistics Online - free access to data produced by the Office for National Statistics, government departments and devolved administrations. |
 |
videojug - online training videos on business and management themes |

|
EBSCOhost Research Databases - Vocational & Career Collection and Professional Development Collection |
 |
Emerald - the world's leading publisher of management journals and databases |
 |
Datamonitor 360 - Provides business reports & profiles of 10,000 companies and 2000 industries in 50 countries in the industries of Automotive & Logistics, Consumer Markets, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technology sectors |
 |
European Sources Online - ESO provides access to thousands of expertly selected web sites, publications and documents from the EU. |
 |
Fact File 2009 - important, interesting and relevant statistics brought together for teachers & students. Online PDFs and Excel files allow you to extract colourful charts for assignments. Subjects include: Food & Drink, Health, Britain & its citizens, Internet & Media, Education, Law & Order, Environment, Sport & Leisure, Family, Wider World, Finance & Work |
 |
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance. Macmillan Reference, 2 vols.
Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce. Gale, 2 vols. |
 |
Infotrac Journals - full text electronic journals.
Business Information Alert - Full text: Apr 1, 2000 - Current
HRMagazine - Jan 1, 1990 - Current
Infotrac full text newspapers - complete articles from over 20 national and 25 local papers. For articles from the Guardian see Newsbank. |
 |
Issues online - books about contemporary social issues. Contains information for business regarding statistics. |
 |
just-style - just-style.com is the apparel and textile industry's leading online resource providing a unique blend of up-to-the-minute information, insights and intelligence. |
 |
Key Note - 140 reports about companies - useful to most areas of study in the college |
 |
Regional Trends - published by the Office for National Statistics, exists to paint a statistical picture of areas within the United Kingdom to assist in understanding the complex relationships between locations and the people who live there. |
 |
Social Trends - Social Trends draws together statistics from a wide range of government departments and other organisations to paint a broad picture of our society today... |

|
Chambers Dictionary and Thesaurus |
 |
ASK (Assignment Survival Kit) - Being faced with assignments can be a daunting prospect. ASK might help you to cope! It will help you to plan your time and the steps you might need to follow to survive and produce your work. |
| West Cheshire College recommended sites - librarians' and tutors' choices. |