SCHOOL OF BUSINESS LIBRARY

Introduction

The KNUST School of Business (KSB) was established in 2005 as an outgrowth of the 29-year-old Department of Economics and Industrial management to fulfil the vision of KNUST. It was also to provide the environment for excellence in teaching, learning, and research in management and entrepreneurship in science and technology for the industrial and socio-economic development of Ghana and Africa. KSB Library is as old as KSB and it serves as the main information support facility for the School. It seeks to support the educational programmes of the School in the realisation of its academic objectives. Hence it strives to maintain a comprehensive collection that supports lecturers, students and other staff, in the area of teaching, learning and research.

Currently, the Library serves the Departments of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Marketing and Corporate Strategy, Human Resource and Organizational Development and Accounting and Finance.

Physical Collection/Print Resources

Books in the library have been organised/arranged on the shelves using the Library of Congress Classification Scheme (LC). Here is an outline of just “Class H” for the programmes KSB runs.

Class number

HA – HD 31

Social Sciences

Statistics

Economics

Methodology

HD 31 – HF 1373

Production

Management

Costs

Inflation

Public Relations

Organizational Behavior

Real Estate Business

Trade

Transport and Communication

HF 1379 – HF 5621

Commerce

Marketing

Accounting or Bookkeeping

Buying and Selling

Human Resource Management

HF 5625 – HG 6024

Accounting and Finance

Banking

Business Mathematics

Investment

HG 6041 – HM 301

Business Communications

Public Finance

Insurance

Sociology

The Family

Criminology

Inflation and Taxation

Electronic resources

There is a wide range of online resources subscribed to by the KNUST Library. These resources provide users access to electronic journals, databases, electronic books etc. The resources can be accessed both on-campus within the KNUST network using the address, https://library.knust.edu.gh/online-databases and off-campus with user credentials. To access KNUST E-resources off campus, Staff should log in to ocl.knust.edu.gh with their university email address and password and students with their Students’ ID and password.

Below are some multidisciplinary and specialised databases available to users.

Annual Reviews - http://arjournals.annualreviews.org

Subjects: - Biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences

Directory of open access books (DOAB) - https://www.doabooks.org/

Subjects: Multidisciplinary

Directory of open access journals (DOAJ) – https://doaj.org/
Subjects: Multidisciplinary

Digital commons network - https://network.bepress.com/

Subjects: Multidisciplinary

EBSCO HOST – http://search.epnet.com

Subject: Multidisciplinary

Edinburgh university press - http://www.eupjournals.com

Subject: Humanities, and social science

Emerald Insight - https://www.emeraldinsight.com

Subject: Management, Business and Information Management

IMF Electronic Library - https://www.elibrary.imf.org/?redirect=true

Subject: International Financial Statistics, Balance of Payment Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, Government Financial Statistics, trade investment and others.

JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org

Subject: Multidisciplinary

Oxford University Press - www.oup.co.uk

Subject: Multidisciplinary

Project Muse- http://muse.jhu.edu

Subject: Social sciences and humanities.

SAGE online journals - http://www.sagepub.com/journalsIndex.nav

Subject: Multidisciplinary

ScienceDirect - http://www.sciencedirect.com

Subject: Multidisciplinary

Social Science Research Network:- https://www.ssrn.com

Subject: Social sciences and humanities.