Project and Risk Management
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Top Databases
- Business source premier
- Huge database which covers both trade and professional magazines as well as academic journals. Click on the peer-reviewed button if you only want academic articles.
- Science direct
- in spite of its name, this database has thousands of articles on business and management topics
- Emerald fulltext
- Best results found if you do an advanced search. There you can also choose to search just for case studies or literature reviews
- Click on Journal of the Week for free weekly access to two of Emerald's journals.
- Engineering village [Compendex,Inspec]
- Abstracts and full text from engineering sources not covered by the business databases. Enables you to see many conference papers.
- Occupational health and safety information service
Journals
Dictionaries & Encylopaedias
Websites
- International Project Management Association [IPMA]
- Look at this website for a substantial annual publication with lengthy articles plus more frequent newsletters and magazines of interest to project managers
- Official PRINCE2 Website
- with FAQs about this widely used PM method, a knowledge centre and case studies
- PMFORUM
- is for professionals interested in international project management. You can subscribe to a free newsletter and there are breaking news stories, regional reports, case studies and other articles on the site
- PM Network
- is the magazine of the Project Management Institute. Each month some articles are made freely available online and there is an archive of older articles
- Openlearn
- if you would like to consolidate your learning here at the University you could go to the OpenLearn website from the Open University where (2009) you have free access to several courses on project management including project planning, implementation, completion and managing people through projects.
- The JISC P3M Infokit
- on the JISC Infonet site has lots of basic information and examples in project, programme and portfolio management. Intended for those working in the education sector but much of the information is general
- The JISC Risk Management Infokit
- has basic information on risk management in organizations. Intended for the education sector, much information is general
- 12Manage
- Program and Project Management, Methods, Models and Theories from the 12Manage executive network portal available in 12 languages. Potentially very useful summaries and there is also a dictionary of management terms and models
Blogs
- Ron Rosenhead
- thoughts on project management from a PM trainer plus some downloads (mainly tips and hints)
- Project Management 2.0 blog
Resources in the Library
- Project Manager Today
- received in print in the Library
Theses / Dissertations
- Networked digital library of theses and dissertations
- British Library EThOS
- A database of digitised UK doctoral theses offering free online access to theses of participating Higher Education institutions
- Index to theses
- This will help you identify UK and Irish theses
Newspapers
- Nexis UK : LexisNexis executive
- Huge amount of news content, Select Financial Times as a Source under the Source Tab to search the FT
- links to US and international newspaper sites
Government Sources
- Office of Government Commerce (OGC)
- has among its goals helping Government improve its capability in programmes and projects. There is a programmes and projects documents library
Meet the Subject Team
Sue Stevenson
Faculty Librarian
sue.stevenson@port.ac.uk
(023) 9284 3238
Lizzie Wildgoose
Assistant Faculty Librarian
lizzie.wildgoose@port.ac.uk
(023) 9284 3452
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- Risk management: 658.403
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