BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT - USEFUL WEBSITES

A range of high-quality resources for Business and Management are available on the web. Start exploring them here:

• Gresham College is a registered charity which has been providing a wide remit of free public lectures within the City of London. Check out over 2,000 lectures freely available online from their website.
• Management & Business Studies Portal: From the British Library, in association with the British Academy of Management and the Chartered Management Institute. Full-text research reports, summaries, working papers and videos.
• National Bureau of Economic Research: An American, private, non-profit, non-partisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works.
• Open Book Publishers is a UK HSS publisher which enables you to access an openly available list of Open Educational Resources (OER) which includes books and textbooks for free. 
• UK Government Information: A range of useful UK government information is made available online via various official websites.

Be careful, though, when using the Internet for research, that the sites you find are reliable and up to date. Check when the page was last updated, and think about who is providing the information and why. Sites like Wikipedia are not suitable for academic work. The archived version of Internet Detective tutorial looks at the critical thinking that is required when using the Internet for research, and offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of websites.