Search Summon to find online journal articles and book chapters.
The following resources offer financial information for companies.
You will need to login using your University email address and password to view the videos.
How to run a basic search on FAME:
Creating a list of companies on FAME:
D&B Hoovers - basic searches:
If you are on campus you will be able to access most e-journals and e-books, and some databases, without entering a username and password because your IP address identifies you as being at the University of Reading.
For any that require a login, see the Off-campus tab.
When you use our e-resources you are agreeing to our Terms of Use. Please take a moment to look at these by following the link below:
When you are off-campus you will need to login to identify yourself as a member of the University of Reading to gain access to our protected databases, e-books and e-journals.
Your login details
You login in the same way as for Blackboard - via Microsoft. Just enter your University username followed by @student.reading.ac.uk (e.g. ab123456@student.reading.ac.uk) and your password. If this is the first time you have logged in via this method when off-campus you will be asked to complete a Multi-Factor Authentication. For more information see:
Getting to the login page...
Watch this short video on how you login to use Library resources.
This playlist of two videos shows you how to prepare for and perform a literature search. The first video introduces literature searches and their role. The second video covers using the search operators AND and OR to create a search statement, and explains the role of wildcards and truncation in constructing a comprehensive search. This information is also available in written guides - see the links below.
Annual reports are good sources of data about companies including financial information. As well as using the databases above, most companies have their own web sites and display their annual reports. There are two major sites, which provide links to companies:
You will need to login using your University email address and password to view the videos. These databases can all be accessed from the ICMAC subject guide E-resources tab (this page) as well as the Business, informatics and accounting subject guide shown in the videos below.