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Business and Entrepreneurship: Resources

A Library Guide to business, entrepreneurship, economics, human resource management, marketing, management, tourism and property resources for students of the University of Newcastle.

Business and entrepreneurship databases

For more information on finding statistics see our Statistics Guide

Patents

Australian Patents

International Patents

Professional Associations

It can be valuable to build your career prospects and networks by connecting with professional associations. You might like to engage with these business and entrepreneurship groups as a student, or even throughout your career.

Let us know what you want

Is there anything more you would like us to include in this guide? Let us know by going to our Feedback page and we will do our very best to add the resources you want.

Open Access Textbooks and Resources

Did you know that there are many great textbooks and resources that are available for free?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are defined by UNESCO as

“… teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions....”

The following textbooks are examples of resources that are 100% free and available for you to use during your degree and beyond!

For information about OER's, please see our guide.

Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias

Useful resources for understanding your topic and finding the right keywords to use in your searching. 

Your Subject Librarians

This guide has been created by University of Newcastle Librarians who work with your schools to make sure you have access to the resources you need. The Librarians supporting business and entrepreneurship are:

Teaching Liaison Librarians

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Michael Paver - Acting (NUspace and Ourimbah)

Maria El-Chami (Sydney and International Students)

Research Liaison Librarian

Jennie Skulander