Information Services and Library: Service Alerts and FAQs

Books

The physical library space is accessible whenever the Sammy Ofer Centre is open so you can browse the shelves, borrow or return books. Additionally we have a click and collect service. Books requested Monday - Friday before 2pm through click and collect can be collected after 3pm on the same day.

Submit a Click and Collect Request | Read our Click and Collect guide

Dubai EMBA students please cpntact the library team for assistance library@london.edu

Go to the Library catalogue and search by keyword/topic etc. If there is an e-book version it will be indicated with “location internet” and a URL will be displayed. Different e-book providers have different download limits.

Please email us and we can see if an e-book is available. 

July 2022. Remote access to Bloomberg ceased at the end of the Covid crisis
Bloomberg have reverted to their pre-pandemic model of access for all academic institutions from 1st July 2022.  This means  that our licenses are back on 14 of the fixed PC's in the Sammy Ofer Centre Finance Suite.

We also recommend these databases as alternatives to using Bloomberg:

• Factset - pre-register here. Company, economic and financial market data.
• Capital IQ 
• Fitch (banks) - 
• Mergent Online - no prior registration required Company data, economic data and also Investext for analysts' research.
• Eikon - book a slot to log on remotely.
• Tip – see our guide to researching a company

The Information Services and Library Team run bookable Bloomberg Basics training sessions (as well as sessions on other topics) during term time. These sessions will be via Zoom. To see what's coming up and book a place go to https://library.london.edu/training 

Additionally Bloomberg run 3 certification programmes: Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC), Bloomberg Finance Fundamentals and ESG.
These are free to all students using a Bloomberg terminal, alternatively you can contact the Library team for a code if you wish to complete it via the Bloomberg for Education website (please note we only have a limited number of codes for the academic year).

Yes - unfortunately we cannot offer Bloomberg.

SDC Platinum was previously only available on campus, is now available via the WRDS platform.

Our Information Specialists can suggest alternative data sources so please email us with details of the data you need and we can try and help.

The Finance Suite is currently open to students 24/7in order to access Bloomberg, Eikon,( including Datastream), Morningstar and the S&P Capital IQ Excel add-in (aimed at Mac users).

Search for them using Summon or Google Scholar. Use the basic search for keyword searching or use advanced search to look for a specific article title, or articles by a particular author.
TIP: See our guide on browser extensions to help you find and access articles.
If an article is not available please use our document supply service.

Articles that have appeared in the print edition and digital only Harvard Business Review articles are both available through the Business Source Premier database.
However you will find direct links to these specific titles in our A-Z list

For Harvard Business Review articles we suggest using these links - found in the A-Z list of databases.:
HBR articles that appeared in the the print journal
HBR digital articles

Our primary source for analyst research is the Mergent Online database (look for the Investext tab and then search for the company industry or keyword.)

It is possible to get a limited number of analyst reports through Bloomberg (see above for access arrangements) .
To access analyst research on the terminal find your equity and then use function DS RES<GO>