Business and Management Blog

Have you been taking notes in eBooks during your studies? If so, well done! It's a fabulous way to consolidate your knowledge and good note taking is the foundation for critical reading. If you have done this and plan to use those notes in your assignments this year, please be aware that one of our eBook platforms is migrating and your notes will be lost if you don't take action before 30 September 2025. 

To see whether you impacted, please do the following: 

1. Search for the relevant book title in Library Search
2. Identify whether it is a Sage Catalyst eBook. You can see whether this is the case in the Library Search record, as there will be links to both Sage Catalyst and Vital Source in the ‘Access Online’ section of the eBook record, as illustrated by the screenshot. 
3. If it is not, no action is needed
4. If it is a Sage Catalyst eBook, you must log into the Sage Catalyst platform to access your notes. This is the second option in the list, outlined in red on the screenshot.
5. Navigate to your notes and copy and paste those notes to a separate document like Microsoft Word or you could open the eBook in Vital Source and paste your notes into there. You could also take a screenshot of your notes
    
6. Return to step 1 for each eBook where you would like to maintain access to your notes. 

Sage Catalyst eBooks will only be available to you on the VitalSource platform from 1 October 2025.

If you would like to make new notes, please make sure to access the eBook using the VitalSource platform. If you need help or would like to be in touch, please send us a chat. You aan also read more about this migration in our FAQs. 

If you read our previous blog post on O'Reilly Online Learning, you will know that you can use our Ebook collections to explore the newest titles and editions available to you.

This time, we will show you how to view new titles through Sage Catalyst, an Ebook platform containing a large collection of social science textbooks published by Sage. You can access Sage Catalyst from the database page linked below.

The first page you will be taken to displays all of the different subject areas covered within the Sage Catalyst catalogue. Simply choose the 'Business and Management' section if this is the subject area you wish to explore - don't forget that other disciplines may well be useful for you, so try not to limit yourself too much!

From there you will be taken to a full list of titles, and by default they will be sorted by publication date so you will immediately see the newest titles first. You can then also filter by sub-disciplines if required. Simply click on the books to read them online.

O'Reilly Online Learning is a digital learning platform containing an extensive collection of content across a wide range of subject areas. You can access O'Reilly via the Library from the database page linked below (you will be asked to log in using your user ID and Password).

The O'Reilly collection is continuously developing, so keeping track of the latest titles can be difficult; however, one easy way you can do this is by using the 'Explore Skills' button at the top of the page. From there select your subject area - in this case I am choosing 'Business'. You can then choose a relevant sub-discipline, or click 'View All to explore all titles for this area.

You can then refine your results using the filters on the left side of the page. For this I'm choosing 'Books', and to view the latest titles I'll be filtering by 'Publication Date'. This example will filter your search by Books published within the last 6 months, during which 204 new titles have been published and made available through O'Reilly. It may also be worth filtering by language, as many of the results may not be in English. This narrows the results down to 140.

Once this is done, you can then sort your results page by publication date.

Remember that O'Reilly also contains much more than just Ebooks, and you can explore the entire collection for your chosen subject area by simply not choosing a specific format when filtering your search.

The University of Sunderland Library Services website is bringing in a new feature called 'Collections', which will replace our monthly new book lists for all subject areas.

Previously, our new book lists have been included within our Library Reading Lists webpage, and have been a way to showcase new title purchases over the academic year. These reading lists - which were updated monthly - reflect the continuing development of our library collections as subject areas evolve.

Collections are embedded into our library search, which brings with it a few new features that will prove useful to students and staff looking to make use of our latest titles; including the ability to pin both the collection, and individual books to your 'favourites' within your library account.

New book collections will be updated continuously as new titles are purchased, meaning library users are able to view our latest titles as soon as they are available. We hope that you find Collections a useful addition to our library services.

Visit the link below to access the New Books Collection for Business and Management now.

New Books for Business and Management

Following recent suggestions from our MSc Finance and Management students, we have purchased a number of new books and ebooks covering a range of subject areas including macroeconomics, econometrics, and accounting. You can view a small selection of these new purchases below, for the full list of books and ebooks recently purchased for our collections please visit our New Books for Business and Management Collection.

Our new economics books include Baltagi's (2021) Econometrics, and Hermann-Pillath and Hederer's (2022) A New Principles of Economics. You can click on the book covers below to view the titles in our Library Search.

Econometrics by Badi H. Baltagi

ISBN: 9783030801489

Publication Date: 2022-01-28

A New Principles of Economics by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath; Christian Hederer

ISBN: 9781003094869

Publication Date: 2022-12-30

Modern Monetary Theory by L. R. Wray (Editor); Phil Armstrong (Editor); Sara Holland (Editor); Claire Jackson-Prior (Editor); Prue Plumridge (Editor); Neil Wilson (Editor)

ISBN: 9781802208085

Publication Date: 2023-01-10  

Capital Market Finance by Patrice Poncet; Roland Portait; Igor Toder (Contribution by)

ISBN: 9783030845988

Publication Date: 2022-11-08

New purchases in finance and accounting include Zicari and Gamble's (2023) Responsible Finance and Accounting, and Auditing by Taylor and Millichamp (2022). Remember to use our Library Search to find further titles within your subject area.

Responsible Finance and Accounting by Adrián Zicari (Editor); Tom Gamble (Editor)

ISBN: 9781032329185

Publication Date: 2023-01-17

Auditing by John R. Taylor; Alan R. Millichamp

ISBN: 9781473778993

Publication Date: 2022

For the full list of Business and Management books and ebooks purchased within the list three months, please visit the new books list linked below. If you have any more suggestions for titles within your subject area which we do not already have, feel free to complete our Suggest a Book form.

New Books for Business and Management Collection