Brunel Business School Librarian

I often recommend creating an account when using EBSCO databases, such as Business Source Premier. It's useful for saving searches to come back to, eg for Systematic Literature Reviews, or searching in selected journals. We've had issues lately with access to EBSCO accounts - here's a workaround.

A new FAQ, with links to video sections libanswers.brunel.ac.uk/faq/280350

Did you know? In addition to all our wonderful Brunel resources, as a member of the University of London (which we are part of), you also have access to lots of online journals, books and databases via Senate House Library. See the recently created FAQ for more details, including how to sign up

The next Systematic Literature Review workshops, for social sciences researchers, are now open for booking. There are 3 parts, on 24th & 25th February:
1 Structure & Planning
2 Scoping, Searching & Search Results
3 Screening, Following up, Reporting & Later stages
(Links to parts 2 & 3 in part 1)

Business students and researchers can learn about effectively searching for books, journal articles, market research and secondary data in this new video on Business Specific Resources brunel.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Library display with posters, laptop (with Bloomberg) and leaflets

All ready to meet with the new Brunel Business School undergraduate students!

A second video on Business Specific Resources is coming soon! (Have had a few problems with getting access to the recording in order to edit it...)

New business students & researchers can learn about the Library through the newly updated Library Basics & Getting Help video.
Includes:
Finding & borrowing books
Basic searching for journals & articles
Reading Lists
Subject Guides
Getting Help (FAQs, workshops, appointments, training
Referencing

I'm working on slides for an updated library intro for new students - this one a Library basics, another to come later on Business specific resources. I'm aiming to have this recorded and edited and ready for Welcome week, coming up soon!

I'm preparing for the new academic year, and have updated the LibAnswer FAQ on Systematic Literature Reviews. This now has links to the edited recordings of the two classes I ran on this topic in June, 1. SLR Structure and Planning, 2. SLR Searching, Screening & Reporting. Links to sub-sections too!

I've set up some appointments for tomorrow (Tuesday) & Wednesday this week, & a bit for next week (I hope to add more for next week too libcalendar.brunel.ac.uk/appointment/... Available to help with literature searching, systematic reviews, secondary data collection, market research, referencing...

As well as all our academic books & journal articles, we have popular reading-good for inspiration & general interest. I'll post highlighting these every so often. 1st an ebook, access for 3 simultaneous users, Hysterical: Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions, by Pragya Agarwal #PopularReading

For further ways of assessing the authenticity of a journal, I recommend this FAQ from my colleague-written for people submitting articles for publication, but also of use for assessing as a reader. I particularly like to make use of the ThinkCheckSumbit website.
libanswers.brunel.ac.uk/faq/52606

Business researchers often want to focus on high ranking journals. I recommend searching across many journals, assessing with multiple criteria, but it can be useful to do a search within 3 & 4 star journals in your field. This can help avoid missing key articles libanswers.brunel.ac.uk/faq/245924

Did you know... that even when you're a librarian with 20 years experience, you sometimes forget which EBSCO database you're in (or meant to be in). Business Source Premier & Academic Search Complete-they look nearly the same but have very different content!

Access both databases via the LibGuide

The 2nd Systematic Literature Review session is on Searching, Screening and Reporting libcalendar.brunel.ac.uk/event/4210798 Tuesday 25th June, 2-4pm (same day as the first session).

I'm excited to be running two sessions on Systematic Literature Reviews in a few weeks-a topic important to so many researchers who've come to see me, & one I'm a little obsessed with! The first is on Structure and Planning, details here libcalendar.brunel.ac.uk/event/4210796 Tuesday 25th June 11-1.

Details of recorded training on library and information topics (intros, searching, referencing, specific resources...) that's available for people at Brunel is available here libguides.brunel.ac.uk/business/rec... These are the things that I have created anyway!

Having been a BlueSky advocate for many months in a personal/professional capacity, I'm trying to start use BlueSky for work communication and promotion. I'll put up a few posts, and then try and put an RSS feed on the Business LibGuide.