Collection Guidelines - Subject/Discipline Collections
Business, Finance, Economics and Management
Includes
The Dewey range: 310-319; 330-339; 368; 380-388; 650-659
This collection covers the areas of general statistics, economics, insurance, communications, accounting, finance, management, marketing, tourism management, human resource management, management information systems, project management and advertising, and public relations.
Purpose of the collection
The Library collects in the field of Business, Finance, Economics and Management primarily to support the teaching and research needs of the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, the School of Management and Marketing, the School of Information Systems and the Deakin Graduate School of Business within the Faculty of Business & Law.
Resources in this area are also used to varying degrees by other Schools in the University, including the School of Life & Environmental Sciences (ecotourism), the Schools of Engineering & Information Technology (management of information systems) and School of International & Political Studies (economics and international relations) and the Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology (MIBT).
Users/Courses Supported
- Undergraduate degrees - deakin.edu.au/buslaw/courseinfo/undergrad.php
- Postgraduate courses offered by the Faculty - deakin.edu.au/buslaw/courseinfo/pg-courses-all.php
- Faculty Research Centres -deakin.edu.au/buslaw/research/index.php
Existing collection
A wide range of books available as hardcopy and /or ebook format is available as are journals in both formats.
Major online databases such as ABI/INFORM Global , Business Source Complete, Emerald Management Extra , EconLit, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete , Expanded Academic ASAP, Factiva, Global Market Information Database, IBIS World , FinAnalysis , DatAnalysis, Tax and Accounting online and Informit databases, provide access to a range of information.
Selection Notes
Purchased material will be located according to the original requestor. Other material should be located as follows:
- Financial Planning (M, G)
- International Business (M)
- International Trade (M)
- Quantitative Business Analysis (M)
- Sport Economics (M)
- Sport management (M)
- Business systems implementation & management (M, G)
Last Revised: 4 March 2011
