Business Communication & International Trade

Useful links

For quick access to high quality information for your assignments, try the links on these pages.

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Reading Lists

Got an assignment? Have you looked at the reading list to see lecturer recommendations?

Key Starters for Essays, Projects and Dissertations

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• Choosing keywords and sources - first steps

• Finding print and ebooks using the Library Catalogue

• Online resources to try first

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• Credo Reference

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

A variety of reference works, including dictionaries, which tutors may well prefer to Wikipedia, and it even tells you how to set out a reference to what you find. Try out the 'Mind Map' feature to see how your keyword links to others - useful for essay planning and dissertation work.

These short videos show you how Credo can speed up your research:

Additional access instructions:

For off campus access use this link

• Ebook Central

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Contains full-text ebooks in many subject areas.

Watch these short videos explaining the features available

• Oxford Research Encyclopedia - Communication

World experts give you accurate, unbiased and up-to-date overviews of a wide range of communication topics e.g. language and gender, intercultural communication, social media. Each entry is designed to take 30 mins or less to read so have a look here when you have a new topic to research.

• SAGE Catalyst

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

A collection of over 500 full-text social science textbooks from SAGE.

There are some great titles for different aspects of business and management, as well as communication, media, study skills and research methods.