When looking for academic journal articles you can use the 'everything' search in Library Search or search directly in the databases below, which we’ve selected as being most relevant to your subject area.
Databases are the best place to find academic journal articles as they offer advanced search tools, metric data, and export options for referencing. These databases also often provide access to information types such as conference papers, book chapters, review articles, trade magazines, and more. BrowZine can also be used to explore e-journal titles in your subject.
While most of our collection is now available digitally, some titles may only be accessible in print. You can find these journal titles using an ‘everything except articles’ search in Library Search.
You’ll also find links to essential reading for your programme in your module reading lists on Canvas.
Key Databases and E-journal Collections
Databases will either provide you with the full text of the journal or they will give you the bibliographic details of an article. Where full text is not available, look for the
link and follow this to see if we have the full text available via Library Search.
Subject databases
Subject databases are tailored to particular subject areas. They tend to use precise terminology relating to the subject area, making searches more accurate, and can include subject specific tools and features.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Complete is a full text business database, covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.
- Emerald Emerging Markets Case StudiesEmerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (EEMCS) is an online platform of case studies covering a variety of business related subjects.
These case studies offer practical insights into “real world” situations giving students a chance to discuss the business problems and enhance their critical thinking. - Emerald Management Ejournals This link opens in a new windowEmerald Management Xtra comprises 150 marketing and management titles published by Emerald plus a further 300 of the world's best management and business journals taken from Emerald Management Reviews.
- FAME This link opens in a new windowFAME provides company accounts, activities and ownership information for 1.9 million UK and Irish companies.
- Fortune magazine archive (EBSCO)An extensive cover-to-cover collection of the long-running business magazine dating from its very first issue in February 1930 through December 2000. Fortune Magazine Archive is valuable to researchers of 20th-Century current events, politics and culture, as well as those interested in the history of business, advertising, and popular culture.
- Mintel Marketing Intelligence This link opens in a new windowAs a globally recognised market analyst, Mintel produces hundreds of reports into UK-specific consumer markets every year.
Each report that Mintel publishes provides a unique overview of a market's dynamics and prospects, giving you the knowledge to devise informed and profitable marketing strategy. - Nexis® Uni - UK, international and business news This link opens in a new windowNexis allows you to search across international newspapers, business and industry trade magazines as well as access to company information.
- Orbis Asia Pacific This link opens in a new windowOrbis Asia Pacific provides company accounts, activities and ownership information for the largest companies across the Asia-Pacific.
- Orbis Europe This link opens in a new windowOrbis Europe provides company accounts, activities and ownership information for 7 million companies throughout Europe.
- Passport (Euromonitor International) This link opens in a new windowAn online business information system providing business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries
- SAGE Business CasesThis platform provides access to over 3,000 business case studies, which cover a variety of topics and industries focusing on global brands and companies.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowStatista is a statistics and market research database what gives you access to millions of data sets. It includes consumer trends and forecasting for over 400 industries.
Multidisciplinary databases
Much like Library Search, multidisciplinary databases cover a wide range of topics and are a great place to scope your search, or to use if your topic covers more than one subject area.
- CNKI China Academic Journals This link opens in a new windowSearchable database providing full-text access to approximately 2.8 million articles in journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities subject areas. Subscription covers F (Literature, History, Philosophy), G (Economics, Politics, Law), H (Education, Social Sciences) and J (Economics/Management)
- ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection This link opens in a new windowThis collection provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more. You can search across the whole collection or choose a specific database to retrieve information. Use the thesauri within the databases to identify alternative keywords.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowScopus is a large, multidisciplinary database, which indexes peer reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and trade publications. It provides cited reference searching, so you can navigate forward and backward through the literature to uncover all the information relevant to your research and set up citation alerts. Other useful tools include citation overviews, author and affiliation searching, visual analysis of search results and a journal analyser and author identifier tools (if you are interested in publishing work).
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science is a multidisciplinary database, which indexes scholarly journal articles, books, book chapters and conference proceedings. It provides cited reference searching, so you can navigate forward and backward through the literature to uncover all the information relevant to your research. Use citation reports to see citation activity and geographical trends and the ‘analyse results’ tool to identify trends and publication patterns.
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