Relevant subjects and their shelfmarks
Benchmarking
Communication theory
Corporate Strategy
Customer satisfaction
Engineering Mathematics
Environmental Management
Excellence Models
Health and Safety at work
Maintenance
Management
Metrology
Product Liability
Quality assurance
Reliability
Research methods
In the social sciences
In management
In business
Six Sigma
Software Quality
Statistical Process Control
Supply chain management
Team building
Total Quality Management
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Electronic Books
MyILibrary contains the full text of academic titles
from the world’s leading publishers. This is included
on the Electronic Resources link in the Library widget
on iCity https://icity.bcu.ac.uk
Standards
A full set of British Standards including European,
ISO and ISO/IEC standards adopted as British
Standards, is available through the Internet,
delivered as pdf downloads to the desktop.
Access to resources
Sign in to Birmingham City University when you
access the iCity web page https://icity.bcu.ac.uk.
This will automatically
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Electronic Resources.
There is a link to
Electronic resources on
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widget on iCity
Sources of further information
for full-text articles try
ABI/Inform Global from ProQuest, includes full text
to almost 850, and abstracts to a further 700, of the
world’s most respected business and management
journals. Results can be emailed to your address.
Emerald Management Plus from MCB University
Press delivers peer-reviewed articles from some of
the most prestigious journals in industrial
management, quality and supply chain management.
Science Direct, the world’s leading source for
scientific, technical and medical full-text research
with access to over 2,500 peer-reviewed journals.
for references to articles published in journals:
Academic Journals
(E:Electronic and print version; E*:Electronic only)
Professional/Institution
(E) Quality Progress (ASQ)
Quality World (CQI)
12 most popular peer-reviewed academic quality
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journals (Franceschini & Maisano, 2010 )
IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability
Engineering (Institute of Industrial Engineers- US),
not held
(E*) International Journal of Quality and Reliability
Management
(E*) Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
(E*) Journal of Quality Technology (ASQ)
(E*) Managing Service Quality
Quality Engineering (ASQ), not held
(E*) Quality & Quantity, except current year
(E*) Quality management journal (ASQ)
(E) Quality Progress (ASQ),
Quality and Reliability Engineering International, not
held
(E*) Technometrics (ASQ), 1997-2010
(E) Total Quality Management & Business
Excellence, 1995-2011
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Franceschini, F. and Maisano, D. (2010) A survey of quality
engineering – management journals by bibliometric indicators.
Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 26(6), pp. 593 –
604.
Zetoc Electronic Table of Contents,
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk a British Library service
providing citations from more than 28,000 of the
world’s leading research journals and conference
proceedings.
Web of Science covers peer-reviewed journals in all
social science disciplines giving you details of
technical papers. For each paper it gives you the
references used, links to related records and details
of more recent papers that cite it as a reference.
Google Scholar, provides details of scholarly
research across all disciplines with links to full-text
where available on University servers and details of
times cited.
Part-time Students
The SCONUL Access Borrowing Scheme
http://www.access.sconul.ac.uk
allows part-time students to borrow materials from
other participating Higher Education libraries. A list of
participating libraries is on its web site. You need to
complete the online Registration Form on its web
site, and return it to me. I shall then stamp it and
return it to you to take to the relevant library.
If you have any problems in finding the
information you require, please ask the Learning
Centre staff or contact James Dean.
Email: james.dean@bcu.ac.uk
Tel.: 0121-331 7480
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