The Financial Times, Economist, Library Subject Guides
and 1000s more eBooks!
You now have access to the online version of the ‘Financial Times’, and the ‘Economist’, for
free! These can be viewed via your computer, tablet and/or smart phone. Read the instructions
below on how to access your free copy.
Shortcuts:
Access to the Financial Times
Access to the Economist
More E-books on Librarysearch
New online subject guide to Economics
Access to the Financial Times
We have online access to the full text of the Financial Times, up to the most recent thirty days,
through the Nexis service:
http://eresources.rhul.ac.uk/kb/Nexis_UK_Global_News_and_Business_Service
In the “Sources” box, the Financial Times is included if you select *UK Broadsheets. To search the FT
alone, click the “More sources” link under the box and in the page that opens, use the “Find a
Source” box to search for “Financial Times”. In the list that appears, tick the box for the first entry,
Financial Times (London). Click OK-Continue and you will return to the search screen, this time
searching only the FT.
The most recent thirty days of the newspaper are withheld to protect its direct subscriptions. The
Library has a print subscription, and you can find the last thirty days of print copies in the Bedford
Library (level 1 mobile shelves). You can go to the website at www.Ft.com/ and make a free
personal registration to access a limited number of articles each month.
Access to the Economist
Go to the Library home page, and in the central black box, click on E-journals A-Z. In the e-journals
search page, enter “The Economist” and click the button for “Exact” (title). This gives two results,
the first one is in Dutch. Under “The Economist”, the content from 1843 to 2008 is available in the
Economist Historical Archive, and the current content from 2000 to date is available through a link
called “Miscellaneous Ejournals”. This takes you to the Economist website, and always seems to
bring up an invitation to subscribe personally. However, we do subscribe as an institution, and all
the links here take you to the articles.
We now have access to 1000s more ebooks via LibrarySearch!
Just search for book titles as normal and if the ebook is available it will appear alongside print titles
in the results list, or select ‘Full text available’ from filter list on the left hand menu in the
LibrarySearch results page.
http://libguides.rhul.ac.uk/content.php?pid=490549&sid=4024943
PLEASE NOTE: if you receive a notice to say that you can preview the first 50 pages of the book
(pages 1 to 50), but you want to view further than page 50, then click on the preview then wait for 5
minutes. You should then see the following message:
The Financial Times, Economist, Library Subject Guides
and 1000s more eBooks!
“Preview Expired. The 5 minute, 50 page preview has expired. Would you like to continue reading?
This will unlock the entire book”
Just click on ‘Continue reading’ and you can access the whole text.
This should all work smoothly, but if you have any problems accessing these texts, or if you want to
check if a text is available as an ebook, just ask at the Library Help Desk or email:
library@rhul.ac.uk
and we will look into this for you.
Library Subject Guides –updated!
Last September we introduced the new Library Subject Guides. Most 1st Year Undergraduates will be
familiar with these, but others may not.
They are there to support subject resource needs for ALL Economics undergraduates and
postgraduates (including researchers).
We have recently added information to several areas of the guide including information on how to:
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search for information for your assignments & dissertations
use Economics focussed online resources
obtain resources ‘beyond RHUL’ (including Inter Library Loans)
find dissertations & thesis
Latest search skills & research methods training
Please have a look at the Economics Subject Guide and let me know what you think!
http://libguides.rhul.ac.uk/Economics