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1. Purpose of the collection
The Library collects in the field of Commerce primarily to support the teaching and research needs of the School of Commerce. Resources in this area are also used to a varying extent by other schools in the University, including School of Business and School of Law.
2. Primary user groups served
The School of Commerce offers undergraduate degrees in Commerce and Electronic Commerce. The Bachelor of Commerce may also be taken as a dual degree with a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Business Management, Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Journalism, Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Social Science.
The School of Commerce offers postgraduate coursework programs within the streams of finance, electronic commerce, information systems and professional accounting. Programs include the Graduate Certificate in Financial Management, Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Management, Master of Commerce Applied Finance concentration, Master of Financial Management, Postgraduate Diploma in Information Systems, Master of Commerce Information Systems concentration, Master of Information Systems, Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Accounting, Master of Commerce Professional Accounting concentration, Master of Professional Accounting, Master of Commerce Electronic Commerce concentration. The School also has research programs in its PhD and honours programs.
3. Description of the collection
The collection for undergraduate students is located primarily in the Social Sciences and Humanities Library. Other material is held in the Law Library. The Economics and Business Library is a graduate research library and supports the teaching and research of the Schhol of Commerce and the School of Business within the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law.
The collections include books, journals, law reports and databases. There are many full text electronic journals available through databases covering the subject or through title searches in the catalogue.
4. Interdisciplinary relationships
The School of Commerce shares common areas of interest with all other subject areas in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law. The collection in the Law Library is particularly important.
5. Scope of current collecting
1. Languages collected
The bulk of the collection is in English though no languages are excluded.
2. Geographical areas collected
No geographical area is specifically excluded.
3. Chronological periods collected
No chronological periods are specifically excluded.
4. Types (formats) of material collected
No types of material are excluded. The emphasis is on journals and monograph literature.
5. Publication dates
The emphasis is on collecting recent publications. Older publications may be purchased to support teaching and research.
6. Special considerations
The Economics and Business Library also maintains a collection to support staff and graduate students in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law.
7. Conspectus
In the evaluation of the general commerce area under Conspectus guidelines in 1993-94, the collection is strongest in coverage of Australian material, with relatively good coverage of theoretical academic literature and comparative international statistics.
Coverage of non-Australian material is generally sufficient to support undergraduate coursework. The general areas of business and business administration, finance and public finance are rated at intermediate introductory level. In public finance the collection is generally stronger in theoretical and historical material than in contemporary case studies and stronger for federal and Queensland material than for other states. In the area of finance the collection is stronger in theoretical works than applied. Money, foreign exchange, corporation finance and stocks, investments and speculation all rate at intermediate introductory with stronger, intermediate augmented coverage (suitable for postgraduate coursework) of sharemarket theory and Australian material. In the area of banking, the collection is rated at basic information (advanced) but at research level for Australian material (with a strong regional emphasis).
Subsequent to the Conspectus evaluation the Library has also provided access to many electronic databases of relevance to the discipline, which enhance the collection. These include ABI/Inform, Business source premier, Business Australia on disc, Connect4 databases (annual report collection, prospectuses and mergers and acquisitions), ABIX: Australasian business intelligence, Reuters business briefings, Huntleys DatAnalysis, Huntleys financial database, and EconLit. Access is also supplied to relevant interdisciplinary databases, including Butterworths online, Proquest computing, CCH electronic tax library, Attorney General's information service, APAIS (Australian public affairs information service), IDEAL (Academic Press) and InfoTrac.
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