Business Information Systems

Useful links

The Library purchases high-quality subscription resources to support your assignments.

Use the University VPN system to access these resources any time, anywhere.

Covid19: The Library Building is open but there are adjustments to Library services.

Getting Started

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New students might like to take a Virtual Tour of the Library.

• Using Generative AI in coursework or research

(pdf file 127 kb)

A short guide on how might legitimately use generative AI such as Chat GPT in your coursework, dissertations or research.

• Find your module readings in Moodle

• Start researching your topic

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• Credo Reference

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

A variety of reference works, including dictionaries, which tutors may well prefer to Wikipedia, and it even tells you how to set out a reference to what you find. Try out the 'Mind Map' feature to see how your keyword links to others - useful for essay planning and dissertation work.

These short videos show you how Credo can speed up your research:

Additional access instructions:

For off campus access use this link

• Google Scholar

What

A variant of Google that searches for academic literature

Why

Provides access to articles, books, conference papers and preprints
Links to Full-text @ Portsmouth where available when settings are applied

How

Simple or advanced searching allowing refinement by date, author etc
A Library Guide to this resource is available

See this video for an introduction to the Library homepage and this video gives a brief tour of these subject pages. Or try this Library Welcome interactive slide set.