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Business Source Ultimate

Screen shot of Business Source Ultimate databaseBusiness Source Ultimate is a key database for business, economics, finance and management. It includes academic books, journals, working papers, conference papers and dissertations; alongside country and industry reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and case studies.

In Summer 2025, EBSCO launched a new Business Source Ultimate user interface - highlighting key publications and reports, integrating modern internet standards, and improving the user experience for researchers. It includes new filter, saving, sharing and citation functionality, AI Insights - an AI summary of journal articles, and a new text-to-speech readers for PDF articles and ebooks.

Click here to watch an online demonstration of the new Business Source Ultimate interface.

Financial news

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The library has an institutional subscription to the Economist.com newspaper app. Click here to register (Login > Register Now) using your @warwick.ac.uk or @wbs.ac.uk email. Afterwards, login is via email address and password. Download the Economist apps for Android, Apple and Teams. Click here to watch an online demo of the Economist - delivered as part of our Resource of the Month event.

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The library has an institutional subscription to the FT.com newspaper app. Click here to register using your u-number@live.warwick.ac.uk email. First time users should complete the data privacy agreement and FT registration. Afterwards, login is via the university's single sign-on authentication. Download the FT.com Business News app from Apple or Android stores. Click here to watch an online demo of FT.com - delivered as part of our Resource of the Month event.

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Your librarian is available for 1-2-1 appointments, both on-campus and online, and can advise on all library, research and referencing matters.

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Information Skills
for Economists

An online library course for new economics students which develops information skills to find, select, access and reference appropriate academic sources. With sections on:

  • Academic information
  • Finding books and journals
  • Planning a literature search
  • Searching databases
  • Evaluating information
  • Information ethics
  • Avoiding plagiarism
  • Referencing
  • Economic data

The end-of-course assessment counts towards the Department of Economics' Professional Development Module (PDM).

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Academic skills

Discover a range of library and study skills guides including how to study, how to think critically, and how to write essays and prepare for examinations.

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Referencing

Discover how to avoid plagiarism, how to use the Harvard referencing style, and how to manage references with EndNote referencing software.

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Artificial intelligence

An introduction to artificial intelligence for academic purposes including how to use and reference Gen AI in your academic work.

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Research support

Discover the library's support for researchers including literature searching, reference management, research data management, open access and publishing and research metrics.

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