Business Information Systems

Useful links

The Library purchases high-quality subscription resources to support your assignments.

Use the University VPN system to access these resources any time, anywhere.

Covid19: The Library Building is open but there are adjustments to Library services.

Getting Started

Books

Journals and Articles

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Finding, reading and referencing relevant journal articles will get you the highest marks:

Check out this video on how to find journal titles.

Check out this introductory video on finding journal articles.

If we don't have an item you're interested in, we may be able to obtain it via Interlibrary Loan.

• Why use journal articles?

• Finding Articles on a topic

• Recommended Journals

• Using Google Scholar

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Google Scholar searches for academic content online. It's a useful additional resource when looking for books, journal articles and other papers.

But you may be asked to pay for access to some resources and it does not have full search controls or filters like Discovery/Business Source Complete.

To save time, set Scholar to show which results you can access via your University of Portsmouth's library subscriptions:

In Scholar, click on the three line icon in the top left corner
Select 'Settings' and 'Library Links'.
Enter 'Portsmouth' in the search box and select 'University of Portsmouth Library - Full-text@Portsmouth' and Save.
Any results available via the University Library will now show a Full-Text@Portsmouth link on the right hand side.

Scholar also offers an alerting service, a referencing option and a times cited count.

Using Google Scholar guide