eResources are electronic information resources which can be accessed online and searched by topic, so you can quickly and easily find relevant information.
eResources provide access to scholarly journal articles, company and industry information, statistics, market research, newspapers and more.
eResources are purchased by the Library to support you in your studies and allow 24/7 access to the latest high-quality information.
This contains UK and Irish company accounts with up to 10 years information for each company. You can create peer analyses or peer reports to compare companies, as well as viewing share prices, ratios, company structures and full financial details.
Financial figures and graphs for major UK companies from their consolidated accounts and peer comparisons.
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This contains over 65,000 listed or recently de-listed company accounts from around the world.
Another key resource you should be using:
Full-text academic journal articles, market research reports, trade publications, newspapers and e-books on a wide variety of topics.
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Use this to find more journal articles:
A collection of journals with articles on diverse topics in accountancy, finance and economics.
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Additional journal articles can be found in ScienceDirect:
Access subscribed full text journals for subjects including computer science, engineering and technology, psychology, business, biomedical science and social science. Also includes full text access to the Referex collection of ebooks in engineering. Please note that book chapters in other subject areas may not be available in full text.
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Articles on economics, statistics and accounting from 2000 onwards.
To Log off campus, view login details in SOL. You must log in to Solent Online Learning and enrol on the passwords page.
Provides access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, including UK government datasets, plus international sources such as OECD, IMF, UNIDO, Eurostat and the World Bank.
Large index for economics including published working papers, journal articles and departmental websites. Some articles are free to download.
Market research reports, trends and consumer data on a wide range of topics.
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A database providing access to over one million statistics, forecasts, dossiers, reports and infographics including data on business, technology, politics and society covering countries and regions around the world.
Please note the following:
For older articles/share price try the Financial Times Historical Archive:
Fully searchable facsimile edition covering economic and business history, and current affairs over the past 128 years.
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You can also access the FT online after 30 days via ProQuest Business:
Full-text academic journal articles, market research reports, trade publications, newspapers and e-books on a wide variety of topics.
To Log in off campus, enter your university email address and password.
Provides access to recorded TV and radio broadcasts to all the major channels.
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High-quality instructional videos across a broad range of topics.
To Log in, select the Solent University SAML-DEV option (recommended for Solent University) and enter your University email address and password. Please note: You might need to set up multi-factor authentication to use this resource.
Google Searching TipsType site: plus the site domain you want to search and then your keywords
So, if you want to find out about employability for graduates try:
It really works!!
Google Scholar Search TipsGoogle Scholar is a search engine that allows you to search for more academic content on the web. You can use it to track down journal articles, book details and more. You can set it up to show you which results you can access via a Solent University library subscription.
Set up a link to 'Import into RefWorks' for each result in your list. To set this up, go into the 
menu icon, select Settings and in the 'Bibliography Manager' section, select RefWorks and save.
menu icon.
to add the article to your 'My library'.
to send to RefWorks).Some eResources just provide citation details and an abstract (a short summary) rather than the full article. You can use the abstract to decide if the full text is worth reading.
If you want to read the full text and it is not available:
to see if the article is available anywhere else in the Library
Restrict your searches to Full Text using the options provided
Set up Google Scholar library links (see Google Scholar tab).
Sometimes you will get quite a few results and you will need to pick out the most relevant.
Getting too many or too few results? Watch Simple Searching to find out how you can improve:
To do peer analysis you need more than one company listed on your screen (as per the instructions in the previous tab): 
Click on Peer analysis and New analysis.
To make your bar charts clearer you can:
You can export to Word, Excel (allows you to edit and alter your graph colours etc.), PDF and other formats, or print or send (email) all the data in your report using the options at the top of the screen. 
Use the breadcrumb trail at the top to go back to the List format. Here you can add columns to show more data - click on Add to the right of the list. For example, type in Audit fees for this information to be added.
To compare a company to its peer group - the closest ten international companies within a GICS code (Global Industry Classification Standard) - select your chosen company and show the report on the screen. On the right, at the bottom, use Peer Report:
Display the information as a table or chart: 
The Mintel home screen has recently changed and no longer has the "Category Overview" menus which featured on the previous version. The best way to find reports on Mintel is to search by keyword from the home screen, then use the filters to narrow your results by sector, demographic etc. This Searching Mintel video, which is also embedded below, gives an introduction to searching on Mintel:
This is an introduction to TGI Snapshot from Johnston Business Library in Canada. The data set demonstrated is Canadian. Solent's subscription offers access to UK data only.
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