Quality Management

Business source premier: Good place to search for articles from professional journals not found on Google Scholar as well as academic articles. 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 including quality
Emerald fulltext: Emerald is very strong in quality management. All journals are from the same publisher. 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]: This is a huge database which will give you articles and conference papers from engineering and IT journals not covered by Business Source Premier

European Foundation for Quality Management
Excellence One: from the EFQM has many resources you can access if you register with your UoP email address, as the Business School is a member
British Quality Foundation site: has some reports including a 2008 survey of workplace quality http://www.qualitydigest.com Quality Digest – you will probably mainly visit this site for practitioner articles from Quality Digest Magazine but there are some interesting short videos too
American Society for Quality: short articles in their Knowledge Center plus selected articles from their Six Sigma Forum magazine
The Chartered Quality Institute: professional body - some introductory factsheets and articles

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

sue and lizzie

Faculty Librarian
sue.stevenson@port.ac.uk
(023) 9284 3238

Assistant Faculty Librarian
lizzie.wildgoose@port.ac.uk
(023) 9284 3452

We've put together some links we think you’ll find useful. Click the Down Arrow (Subject Pages) on the resources to see our suggestions.

If you need more help, consult Judith or Lisa or if you are on campus, come and see our colleagues at the First Floor Enquiry Point.