Libraries
Bank holiday hours for Library Services: Monday 25 August
Karyn Meaden-Pratt2025-08-18T18:53:09+01:0020/08/2025|Tags: bank holiday, barrington, knl, opening hours, SOMLibrary|
Library Services staff will be taking a break on Monday 25 August for the bank holiday. You will still be able to access all the resources and help you need via our library website. The 24/7 ...
Collecting your book reservations has changed!
Karen Stokes2025-08-18T12:34:10+01:0018/08/2025|Tags: access, books, borrowing, knl, reservations|
We now have lockers on the ground floor of Kings Norton Library so you can pick up your reservations 24/7. They were previously in use at the School of Management Library and replace our "green ...
Macroeconomic metrics – How to find Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross Value Added (GVA) data
Penny Robertson2025-09-25T16:44:05+01:0014/08/2025|Tags: barrington, data, gdp, gme, gva, knl, macroeconomics, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-economics|
There is a wealth of information on a range of global macroeconomic topics within our Library resources. This information ranges from statistics and reports to forecasts, insight, analysis and metrics. Two commonly used macroeconomic metrics ...
Getting ready to hand in your thesis?
Cranfield University2025-08-08T15:56:21+01:0011/08/2025|Tags: academic writing, advice, formatting, guidelines, IT, knl, SOMLibrary, stress, template, thesis|
You are nearly there! Many of our students are starting to think about finishing their theses. If you are one of them, then you might find this post useful as you write up your masterpiece ...
Finding credit ratings for companies
Tracey Nunn2025-08-07T11:23:03+01:0007/08/2025|Tags: Bloomberg, capitaliq, company financials, company information, credit ratings, fame, mirc, OrbisBankFocus, SOMLibrary, web-mirc-finance|
A credit rating (or score) is a measure of a company or corporation’s ability to meet their financial commitments based on their previous dealings. It can also be viewed as a measure of a company’s ...
How to publish open access (for free!)
Karyn Meaden-Pratt2025-08-04T10:58:09+01:0004/08/2025|Tags: barrington, data availability statement, gold open access, knl, open access, research data, research data management, research publishing|
Many funders and institutions, including Cranfield University, require their authors’ outputs to be made open access (OA). It is no secret that most publishers charge authors a fee, known as an article processing charge (APC), ...
