Business

As the Academic Liaison for Business and Economics, I am the contact for all masters and PhD students in the Gatton College. Please bring me your questions regarding library resources or services. Let me know if you need help with your research or library assignments. I will be happy to meet with any graduate student in person or communicate via email, phone, or Zoom.

Also, if you are a TA and would like me to speak to your class about library resources, please contact me at jennifer.horne@uky.edu OR fill out the Information Literacy Instruction Request Form.

This online tutorial is designed to provide business students with information about specific library resources which would be useful to their studies.  The tutorial is designed to allow students to work through it from beginning to end or enter it at any point.

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is a web-based business data research service from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. It provides access to selected databases in the fields of finance, accounting, economics, management, marketing, and public policy.  To use, UK faculty and graduate students must request a WRDS account, available on the front page of the WRDS site.

Create your account here.

Select the University of Kentucky from the pull down menu and select the appropriate option for affiliation type. Use your UK email address, not a gmail or other account. Click the "Register" button. Within the next day or so, you will  receive an email with further instructions

Datasets Available:  UK Libraries has several sources for datasets in the business and financial areas.  
Online Sources

Research Consultation
If you have a research question or problem that you would like to discuss with me, we can schedule a consultation session via Zoom.  Please use the "Schedule Appointment" link on the right side. 

EndNote
EndNote is a citation management software package that can help you keep your research materials organized as you research and write. Many of our databases will export citations directly into EndNote.The software is available for download though the UK Download page. More detailed information is available on the EndNote research guide.

Request a Purchase
If there are materials (books, datasets, databases) that you would like to see added to the UK Library collection, please contact me at jennifer.horne@uky.edu. I am happy to consider any request.

Interlibrary Loan
If the University of Kentucky Libraries does not have access to an article or book that you need, our Interlibrary Loan service can usually borrow a copy from another library for you to use. Information about the service can be found on the library's Interlibrary Loan page. NOTE: your library card number is on the back of your UK ID card. 

UK Libraries has created a general guide to library services and resources called the Graduate Student Survival Guide.

A few books which might be helpful:

Basic Research

Dissertation Research

If you would like to see examples of past dissertations from the University of Kentucky, paper copies are housed on the 5th Floor of WT Young Library in the rotunda and west wing.  They are organized by year and then alphabetically by the author's last name.
Some newer dissertations are submitted electronically - they can be viewed in the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Database.

You can also look at examples of dissertations from practically all US and Canadian universities (as well as some in Europe) use ProQuest's Dissertations and Theses Global database.