Library: Management: Learning

Find tutorials to help you to improve your research skills and some useful resources to get you started.

Improve your information and research skills

In-depth tutorials

These courses will guide you through catalogue searching, using literature databases, introduce you to a range of specialised databases and cover the basics of academic writing and referencing.

Tutorial for Management students: using Library research databases
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Contents:
Section 1: Finding books and journals on the Library Catalogue
Section 2: Key databases for management
Section 3: An introduction to literature searching databases: Business Source Complete
Section 4: Using Scopus - cited reference searching and author searching
Section 5: Using Emerald - management focused database
Section 6: Using FAME and Osiris to find company information
Section 7: Using Marketline to find a company SWOT analysis or an industry Five Forces report
Section 8: Using Passport to find economic & other statistical data
Section 9: Using Nexis to find companies in the news
Section 10: Referencing and referencing software
Tutorial for DBA HEM students: Library induction and information skills
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There are 6 sections for you to complete:

Section 1: Finding books and journals on the Library Catalogue
Section 2: Key databases for management
Section 3: An introduction to literature searching databases: Business Source Complete
Section 4: Using Scopus - cited reference searching and author searching
Section 5: Using Emerald - management and education focused database
Section 6: Referencing and referencing software
Tutorial for MBA students: Library induction
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There are 6 sections for you to complete

Section 1: Finding books and journals on the Library Catalogue
Section 2: Key databases for management
Section 3: An introduction to literature searching databases: Business Source Complete
Section 4: Using Scopus - cited reference searching and author searching
Section 5: Using Emerald - management focused database
Section 6: Referencing and referencing software

Skills for Study This link opens in a new window
Description: Interactive tutorials with activities and tests covering: academic study skills, reading and note-making, critical thinking skills and referencing and understanding plagiarism.

Literature searching guide and video

Transcript for introduction to literature searching

Advanced information skills for researchers

Information skills for researchers
This multi-subject course is used by the Library to share presentations and other course material that we use in our Doctoral Skills training programme.
DoctoralSkills - open to staff and PhD students
Information and booking instructions for forthcoming Doctoral Skills training provided by the Library. Training open to staff and PhD students.
University of Bath Library Systematic Reviews Guide
Advice on doing a systematic review: how to formulate a question, write a protocol, search literature, manage references, select studies, assess evidence and write-up.

CARMA This link opens in a new window
Research methods video library from the Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis. CARMA contains more than 220 recorded lectures from internationally recognised scholars. Covers a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods in management and organisational sciences.

Note: registration required

SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window
Articles, case studies, e-books and videos on the subject of research methodologies (quantitative, qualitative and mixed), literature reviews and data analysis.
It includes sample data sets and guidance on data visualisation as well as tools such as Which Stats Test, Project Planner, and Methods Map.

Internet/web searching skills

Web search guide
A guide to using GenAI, internet search engines, Google databases and alternative tools.

Improve your skills: digital skills, software, business and professional skills

LinkedIn Learning Guide
An online skills platform offering an extensive library of over 21,000 high-quality video courses in business, technical, creative and personal development skills. Free access to all current staff/students is provided by the University of Bath Library. Trial access until 30 Nov 2025. Detailed guidance on using the platform with suggested video courses for staff and students e.g. study skills, career development, employability, wellbeing, GenAI and many more.
LinkedIn Learning - register and access
Research Software Learning Online
A guide to research software online courses from O'Reilly Learning. Courses cover Excel, Git and GitHub, LaTEX, MATLAB, Python, R and RS Studio, SAS, SPSS, Stata and SQL.

Helen and Tom's workshop and lecture materials

Management Librarian: teaching slides, worksheets and lecture capture
Teaching materials used by the Management Librarians in the current academic year.

Help with accessing resources

How to access online resources on and off-campus
How to reserve a book if all copies are on loan.
Bath Copies Service
Request a scanned article or book chapter from the Library's print collection.
Inter-library Loans Service
Use this service to request books, articles or theses that are not available in the Library's print and online collections.
Scanning Service for Teaching Staff
Providing Moodle access to copyright-compliant scans of articles and book chapters

Finding and submitting dissertations and theses

Information about dissertations and theses

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
PQDT Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses.
It includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with more than a million full-text dissertations. The database offers full-text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK and Ireland content.

Keeping up to date on your subject

Oxford Bibliographies for Management
Well organised research starting points and summaries, identifying key articles, books, journals and authors across a range of topics.
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In addition to management our subscription includes education, psychology, linguistics, childhood studies and political science.

In addition to the two resources above, you can use the Library's many literature databases to create search and journal alerts. For example, see our Scopus Guide for a video on how to create search alerts within that multidisciplinary database.

Access other libraries

Using other libraries - SCONUL Access
SCONUL Access allows University of Bath students and academic staff to visit over 170 higher education libraries in the UK and Republic of Ireland, either for reference purposes, or to borrow books.
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Access does not include IT facilities or online resources.

Past exam papers

Past exam papers
The Library provides you with access to Semester 1 and Semester 2 exam papers from the last 5 years, to help with revision. If you can't find the paper you are looking for it may be because:
• The unit code has changed
• It has been restricted by your Department
Please be aware that older papers might not be relevant to current course content.

FutureLearn Campus

FutureLearn Campus
FutureLearn offers a wide selection of flexible online courses, which can be accessed from anywhere in the world and work on any device.(See 'more' section for access instructions.)
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Staff and students benefit from free access to course assessments and Certificates of Achievement for completed FutureLearn courses at over 30 different partner institutions in the UK and overseas. To sign up, select the link above and the ‘Start learning now’ button. Sign in using your University of Bath email address and an access code will be sent to your inbox (check 'junk folder). If you are new to FutureLearn, you will be asked to register. If you are already signed up to FutureLearn, your accounts will be linked. Access to FutureLearn is provided by the Centre for Learning and Teaching: Questions to moocs@bath.ac.uk