An introduction to literature search for students of business and economics will be given as part of the course "Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten I” every spring term.

The course "Informations-, Daten- und Medienkompetenz in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften", offered during the fall term, offers an in-depth introduction to information research.

General training courses

On Thursday, 26.9.2024 at 14.00, an online training course on Eikon/Datastream will take place for students of the University of Basel via MS-Teams. Please register by 25.9. at philipp.casula[at]unibas.ch

Consultations

Academic search support for students and faculty:

Search on specific topics
Use of subject-specific databases
Support in designing search strategies

Please get in touch with us.

ACQUISITION REQUEST

Business and economics – general

Handbooks, encyclopaedias, (language) dictionaries
Address books, directories, information centers, studies, research
Bibliographic databases
Key journals
Statistical yearbooks, country statistics, economic and social statistics, statistical databases
Biographies

Economics - general

Handbooks, encyclopaedias
Textbooks, introductions, handbooks
Bibliographic databases
Key journals
Publications of international organisations (OECD, IMF, World Bank, EU, etc.)

Economics – individual subjects

Economic theory
Economic policies
Economic growth, economic development
Financial markets
Public finances
Foreign trade, world economy
Economic order, economic structure
Environmental economics
Economic sectors (including agriculture, energy industry, banking, transport, healthcare) and economic fields (focus on Switzerland)

Business administration - general

Handbooks, encyclopaedias
Textbooks (duplicates, to some extent), introductions, handbooks
Bibliographic databases
Key journals
Business Journals
Factual databases (companies, sectors, markets)

Business administration – individual subjects

General management (also practice-oriented literature)
Planning, controlling, accounting
Quantitative methods
Marketing
Corporate finance
Organisation, personnel, management
Business informatics

ACQUISITION REQUEST

Libraries with additional holdings

University library (print holdings, older than 10, or respectively, 20 years)
Library of the Law Department Basel (in German)
Library of the Institute for European Global Studies Basel
Library of the Department of History Basel (in German)
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) (for more information please go to the information desk at the University Library Business and Economics)
Library of the HSG St. Gallen
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Faculty of Business and Economics

The University Library Business and Economics provides all library services for research and instruction at the Faculty of Business and Economics: selection and acquisition of subject literature in printed and electronic format, indexing in the catalogue, database access, and training courses.

If you need specific literature for your research, you may request it from the subject librarian.
The subject librarian also acquires all literature, which you have specified to your students as being compulsory or recommended reading.
The subject librarian offers training courses on request.

Please get directly in touch here.

Further information can be found in the Merkblatt für Dozierende (PDF, 0.1MB).
A Library Commission regulates the cooperation between Faculty and Library (Reglement der Bibliothekskommission (PDF, 0.1MB).

Information on Open Science, Open Access Publishing and Digital Research

Information on Open Science, Open Access publishing and digital research can be found here.

More details on Open Access and Read & Publish agreements are summarized here.

Information on the University of Basel's institutional repository edoc, which lists scientific publications produced at the university, is compiled here.

Support for research and teaching

The University Library is your main contact for the following:

Digital course reserves

Plagiarism prevention

Research data management

Reference management software

Services for Students

The Library supports students and assists them with research and the availability of specialized literature. The subject area page is the starting point for research in databases and lists further research tools. If you need specific literature for your studies, you can report requests to the subject librarian. In particular, the subject librarian provides support in literature searches, in using Swisscovery and databases, in finding e-resources, in designing research strategies or in using literature management programs, such as Zotero. Upon request, the subject librarian offers group and individual consultations

Please get directly in touch here.

[Translate to English:] Schreibe Deine beste Hausarbeit

Short guide by the ZBW on how to write term papers in economics (in German).

BrowZine presents economics journals as a digital newsstand.

LSEG (formerly Refinitiv - Thomson Reuters) has transferred the Datastream database to the EIKON platform. Datastream provides information on approximately 75,000 securities. EIKON is a financial and analytical system and consists of the EIKON web interface, an integrated Excel add-in and Datastream. Learning videos and instructions can be found in the LSEG Learning Center and LSEG Learning Catalogue. Access to the database station only in the reading room of the University Library of Economics - SWA