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Library Guide for MBA and Business School Taught Postgraduate Students

Welcome to HKU Libraries! This guide provides MBA and Business School Taught Postgraduate students access to information resources and services available from the HKU Libraries and other free resources

(1) Country Analysis

Business source ultimate 🌟

  • After login to the database, search by country and limit to Country Reports
  • User guide: EBSCO training videos

EIU viewpoint (selected countries) 🌟

  • Economist Intelligence Unit
  • Current information, analysis and forecasts of the political, economic and business environment in selected countries
  • User Guide: EIU tutorials
  • EIU viewpoint Excel Add-in: User guide

EMIS

IMD World Competitiveness Online

  • Database on the competitiveness of nations

OECDiLibrary

  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Books and Reports by Theme, Periodicals, and Statistics
  • User guide

Web CEIC Data Manager 🌟

  • Macro economic data

中國經濟社會大數據研究平台

  • formerly CNKI 中國統計年鑒數據庫
  • Statistics and data on China

搜数 Soshoo : 中国统计数据专家

  • 匯集中國資訊行自92年以來收集的所有統計和調查數據

For more resources on Country information, please look at: Country Information 

(2) Industry/ Market Information (on a product or service)

Business source ultimate

BCC Research: Market research reports and technical publications 🌟

EMIS

Mintel Global New Product Database

  • Monitors worldwide product innovation and new product activity in consumer packaged goods markets

Orbis Asia Pacific (Oriana)

  • Covers more than 10 million companies information in Asia Pacific

Passport 🌟

  • Demographic, economic and marketing statistics for more than 210 countries worldwide

SPEEDA 

中國資訊行 China InfoBank 

(3) Company Information

Capital IQ 🌟

  • Obtain username and password here. 
  • Information on investment banking, private equity, corporations, investment management, professional services, and brokerage
  • Individual login can be arranged for full-time teaching/research staff and students of Business School, please complete the application form HERE or contact the Social Sciences, Business and Economics Librarian (ckitman@hku.hk) for further details. Unauthorized use (such as for commercial purposes), access will be terminated without prior notice. 
  • User Guide

Business source ultimate

  • After login to the database, click 'Company Information' on the top toolbar for searching
  • User guide: EBSCO training videos

Company Profiles from Business source ultimate 

  • by MarketLine
  • Company & business description, history, key employees, leading competitors, and daily company share and financial data

EMIS

ESG manager on campus

Orbis Asia Pacific (Oriana)

  • Covers more than 10 million companies information in Asia Pacific

Passport

  • Demographic, economic and marketing statistics for more than 210 countries worldwide

For resources on Company annual reports, please look at: Company Annual Reports 

(4) ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) 

ESG manager on campus

Wharton Research Data Services

Refinitiv workspace

  • Financial data, news and content coverage in customized workflows
  • ESG data is available at individual company record page
  • Self registration required, please refer to Refinitiv Libguide

(5) Trade Statistics

United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database

  • Annual international trade statistics, provided by over 130 countries, detailed by commodity and partner country to the United Nations

WTO iLibrary

  • World Trade Organization's key research material on global trade
  • User Guide

(6) Financial Information

Capital IQ 

  • Obtain username and password here. 
  • Information on investment banking, private equity, corporations, investment management, professional services, and brokerage
  • Individual login can be arranged for full-time teaching/research staff and students of Business School, please complete the application form HERE or contact the Social Sciences, Business and Economics Librarian (ckitman@hku.hk) for further details. Unauthorized use (such as for commercial purposes), access will be terminated without prior notice. 
  • User Guide

國泰安數據庫 CSMAR

  • Annual Financial Statements (General Industry)Corporate GovernanceCSRC's Enforcement ActionsFinancial StatementsIPO, Merger & Acquisition, Asset Restructurin, Seasoned Equity OfferingStock Trading
  • Introduction
  • Data Query

Genius Finance 巨灵财经金融服务平台 

  • Previous title: GTIOne
  • Information on securities, funds and bonds in China
  • Help Center

International offshore financial centres

  • Outline of the basic tax-saving techniques that can be utilised when incorporating offshore financial centres into international tax planning

Orbis Bank Focus

  • Detailed information on 38,000 banks, sourced from a combination of annual reports, information providers and regulatory sources

Refinitiv workspace

  • Financial data, news and content coverage in customized workflows
  • ESG data is available at individual company record page
  • Self registration required, please refer to Refinitiv Libguide

Risk.net

  • Full content from Risk magazine, including all special reports and topical supplements, as well as a searchable archive of past issues of Risk

The SDC Platinum desktop application was retired at the end of 2023. For accessing to SDC Mergers & Acquisition and New Issues, please use Wharton Research Data Services (HKU Faculty, research assistants and students can register to apply for a personal account at WRDS login page)

Capital IQ Pro

Wharton Research Data Services 🌟

Wind资讯金融终端 WIND Financial Terminal

  • Real-time online financial information terminal, based on Wind financial database to provide Chinese financial market data and information to analyst
  • Available at PC83, 86, 87 and 88 Level 3, Main Library
  • There are other WIND terminals available at Business School's Computer Lab, KK1104 and they are exclusively for current staff and students of HKU Business School

Bloomberg Terminal at Bloomberg Lab 

  • Only for current staff and students of HKU Business School

(7) News Articles

Factiva 🌟

  • Worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich Web sites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data
  • User guide

International newsstream

  • Collection of more than 1200 of the world's top newspapers and wire feeds
  • User guide

WisersOne

Regional business news

SIRS knowledge source

  • Articles from more than 1,200 newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications.

台灣新聞智慧網 Taiwan news smart web

  • Provides article searching for 聯合報,聯合晚報, 經濟日報, 民生報, 中國時報, 中央日報, 工商時報, 人間福報, 中華日報,蘋果日報, 自由時報, 星報
  • User guide

中國重要報紙全文數據庫

  • Includes full text of 400 China newspapers
  • User guide

中國資訊行 China InfoBank 

The Economist historical archive

  • Copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2015

Financial times historical archive

  • Complete run of the London edition of the Financial Times from its first issue (1888) through 2010

 For resources on newspapers and magazines, please look at: Newspapers and Popular Business Magazines.

(8) Articles (trade journals, academic journals)

EconLit

Business source complete

ProQuest 🌟

  • Periodicals and newspapers articles from over 5,000 publication
  • User guide

Emerald Insight

  • Full text database of journals, book series, case studies published by Emerald

(9) Case Study

 

  • After login to the database, search by Case Study and Limit to Full text
  • User guide: EBSCO training videos

Emerald emerging markets case studies

  • Collection of peer reviewed case studies focusing on business decision making and management development throughout key global emerging markets

(10) Research Papers/ Conference Papers / Preprints

SSRN: Economics research network 

  • Published papers with abstracts and full bibliographic descriptions relating to research in various area of economics
  • FAQ

SSRN: Financial economics network

  • Published papers with abstracts and full bibliographic descriptions relating to research in various area of financial economics
  • FAQ

SSRN: Management research network 

  • Published papers with abstracts and full bibliographic descriptions relating to research in various area of management research network
  • FAQ

SSRN: Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) Research Paper Series

  • Open access

CEPR Discussion Papers

  • Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain)

NBER working paper series

  • National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Full text embargo: 3 years

(11) Major e-book collections

Cambridge books online

  • eBooks from our world-renowned publishing programme, covering subjects from all disciplines across science, technology and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences

Elgaronline : the online content platform for Edward Elgar Publishing

Emerald insight 

  • Full text database of journals, book series, case studies published by Emerald

IG Library

JSTOR 

  • Archive of scholarly journal literature, with an emphasis on the retrospective conversion of selected journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences

OECDiLibrary 

  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Books and Reports by Theme, Periodicals, and Statistics
  • User guide

ScienceDirect, Books

  • Full range of scientific disciplines, including those published by Elsevier, Pergamon, Academic Press, plus Woodhead Publishing, and Gulf Professional Publishing imprints

SpringerLink, Books

  • Electronic versions of books published by Springer
World Scientific books