Business English & Intercultural Communication

This is UCLan's Business English & Intercultural Communication library page.

For more help and guidance please contact your Faculty Librarians: Andrea Evans and Francesca Robinson

Books

Search for books and ebooks on Library Search. It will tell you what we have in stock and where to find it.

Sometimes there may only be a chapter on a specific topic rather than a whole book. To find those, you will need to use one of our ebook databases which allow you to search through the whole text of a book. We have several ebook collections but a good place to start would be Ebook Central.

Library Search
Ebook collections
Ebook Central
Oxford English Dictionary - The 20+ volumes of the 2nd edition, online.
Phrase Thesaurus - Useful for journalists, advertising copywriters and anyone looking for that elusive turn of phrase, its origin and meaning.

Journals and Articles

If you have a reference for a particular journal article, or if you want to find out if we take a particular journal title, use the Journal Finder.

If the Library does not have the journal article you want, you can request a copy from the Inter-library Loan Service.

eResources and Databases

Recommended Resources for Intercultural Communication Studies:

Academic Search Complete - A full-text database of over 6000 journals covering a wide range of subjects.
Business Source Complete - A full-text database of over 2000 business and management journals.
Emerald Management Premier - Subject coverage of the journals includes marketing, human resource management, training, economics, hospitality management, quality, engineering, health services management, accounting, and organisation studies
Hospitality & Tourism Complete - A bibliographic database covering research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This comprehensive database contains 200 full text titles and abstracts from many more, with coverage going back to the mid 1960s
Humanities International Complete - A full-text database covering a number of subjects including communication studies.
MLA (Modern Languages Association) - Indexes of over 6,000 literature and language journals, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies, from 1963 onwards. MLA will include articles on Business English, and communication generally
Project Muse - full text journals on topics including humanities and cultural studies.
Sage Premier Journals Online - a collection of over 400 full text journals
Taylor & Francis Library - journal subscriptions include 57 titles in the Communication Studies area and 268 titles in the Business area.

Should you want to undertake a more thorough search for research materials/literature, try searching the following abstract and indexing databases.

Additional Resources

Newspapers: current

Nexis -the full-text of over 29,000 newspapers

Newspapers: archives

Artemis Primary Sources - Includes 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection, 19th Century Periodicals, Illustrated London News Historical Archive from 1842-2003, the Picture Post Historical Archive 1938-1957. Also includes The Economist Historical Archive from 1843-2011, Times Digital Archive from 1785-2011, the Daily Mail Historical Archive from 1896-2004 and the Financial Times Historical Archive from 1843-2011. Use Artemis Primary Sources to search all the collections simultaneously.
The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer Historical Archives (1791-2000)
The Telegraph Historical Archive (1855-2000)

Film and Media

Alexander Street Video - contains archive video content and documentaries in the area of humanities and communication studies.
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) - -provides a catch up TV and radio service with no expiry dates. All freeview channels covered. You can also create clips of programmes to share with others.
Kanopy - Documentaries in all humanities related areas, international and short films and animations.

Market Research

Passport GMID - Offers a comprehensive collection of company, industry and country information, extending across 200+ countries and every major industry sector.
Mintel Oxygen - A full-text database of consumer market research reports. The Library subscribes to the following series : Market, Leisure, Retail, Travel and Tourism, Special Reports Travel and Tourism Analyst, and Country Reports.

Company Research

FAME - A financial database of over 1.5 million companies in the UK and Ireland.
OSIRIS - the international version of the FAME database containing listed company accounts from around the world.

Advertising

BRAD - comprehensive and up to date advertising related information on over 13,500 media entries across all media sectors e.g. websites, newspapers and magazines.
WARC (Word Advertising Research Center) - Marketing and advertising intelligence.

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