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Research archive

Eddie Davies Library - Research archive material

Over the past 40 years the Eddie Davies Library (EDL) has accrued a wide collection of materials, which will be of interest to all students & researchers in the subject discipline of business & management.

Much of this material is held in our research archive, this is to help create more space for study within the EDL, and also to help the materials remain in the best condition possible.

Any items held in the Research Archive can be identified by using the Library catalogue (They will show Archive in the location field).

EDL staff retrieve items from the archive on a daily basis. Simply fill in a request from, and the items you have requested will be brought up to the EDL, where you can browse them on a reference only basis. A sample of the types of information held in the Research archive is offered below:

Historical global statistical data
  • United Nations Yearbook of National Accounts Statistics (1966 - )
  • UNESCO Statistical Yearbook (1965 - )
  • United Nations Demographic Yearbook (1967 - )
  • Yearbook of International Trade Statistics (1966 - )
  • World Motor Vehicle Data (1974 - )
Historical UK market research
  • Economist Intelligence Unit reports
  • Monopolies & Mergers Comission reports
  • Eoromonitor Retail Trade International
  • Advertising Statistics Yearbook
  • Taylor Nelson Reports
Historical UK Government Statistics
  • Digest of Energy Statistics (1974 - )
  • New Earnings Survey (1968 - )
  • Inland Revenue Statistics (1970 - )
  • Household Food Consumption (1964 - )
  • Annual Abstract of Statistics (1937 - )
Historical reference materials
  • Directory of Directors (1998 - )
  • Bankers Almanac (1998 - )
  • Financial Times (1960 - )
  • The Times (1960 - )
  • Wall Street Journal (1968 - )
Academic journals
  • Harvard Business Review (1950 - )
  • Management International Review (1965 - )
  • McKinsey Quarterly (1967 - )
  • Sloan Management Review (1970 - )
  • Journal of Consumer Research (1974 - )
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