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Management & Business: News & current awareness

News & current affairs

Depending on the nature of the topic or problem you are researching, you may want to find out how an issue has been reported in the popular press e.g. newspapers.

Newspapers

See our Newspaper guide for  a full list of the free and subscription newspaper resources to which we have access.

Here are some newspaper resources which are particularly useful for management & business:

Financial Times - FT.com

The Financial Times is a UK-based news organisation which offers news articles, reports, opinion and data on international business & finance topics. Access to the FT.com is available to all our Business School students and staff.

You will need to register through Brightspace. Log in and click on the FT icon on the homepage, then sign up using your University email address.

For step-by-step instructions see the written or video guide below.

Box of Broadcasts

Box of Broadcasts (also known as BoB) is an archive of free-to-air TV and radio programmes available to you through the University of Huddersfield Library subscription.  You can choose to watch previously recorded programmes, request future programmes and save lists of programmes for your learning, teaching or research.

Click on the tabs above for a series of instructional videos to take you through the basics of using Box of Broadcasts.

                                               Box of Broadcasts promotion poster http://hud.ac/hpj

Click on this link to go direct to BoB. You can also access it from the A-Z list of electronic resources, and find BoB under the letter B.

You will be prompted to log in with your University login and password. The first time you access BoB, it will ask you to register your university email address (undergraduates and postgraduate taught students = u1234567@unimail.hud.ac.uk). You will need to confirm your address by checking your email and clicking on the link provided.

 

Here's a useful video from Learning on Demand who run Box of Broadcasts.

 

This short video shows you how to request TV and radio programmes to be recorded.

Box of Broadcasts provides extensive help on their website:

Frequently asked questions

How to use BoB videos

If you have any further questions, contact your Subject Librarian at the Help Centre on Floor 4 of the Library or email library@hud.ac.uk and we will be happy to help.

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