Electronic Journals give the full-text of journal articles online, so are handy for a quick search but are not as comprehensive as databases.
Examples of full-text journals collections for Business include:
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Business Source CompleteBusiness Source Complete is a full text business database, covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.
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Emerald Management EjournalsEmerald 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.
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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.
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CNKI China Academic JournalsSearchable 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)
Bibliographic databases give you an overview of the literature in a subject area. They provide an index to journal articles and conference papers from a wide range of publishers. Many of these databases provide an abstract of a paper, but NOT ALWAYS the full text. Key databases for Business include:
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ScopusScopus 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).
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ProQuest Social Sciences Premium CollectionThis collection provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology and business. 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. It is a valuable resource to use for a scoping search and for a broad range of results, but limited to the social sciences.
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Web of ScienceWeb 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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Mintel Marketing IntelligenceAs a globally recognised market analyst, Mintel produces hundreds of reports into UK-specific consumer markets every year.
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Passport (Euromonitor International)An online business information system providing business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries
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StatistaStatista 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.
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Nexis® Uni - international and business newsNexis allows you to search across international newspapers, business and industry trade magazines as well as access to company information.
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Business Source CompleteIn additional to journal articles, the database includes industry, company and country profiles, trade publications and market insight. Business Source Complete is a great for finding a range of different types of information linked to your topic in one place.
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FAMEFAME provides company accounts, activities and ownership information for 1.9 million UK and Irish companies.
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AmadeusAmadeus provides company accounts, activities and ownership information for 7 million companies throughout Europe.
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ORIANAOriana provides company accounts, activities and ownership information for the largest companies across the Asia-Pacific.
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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.
Use our Business YouTube Playlist to find help videos for our databases and resources:
Try Google Scholar for finding scholarly literature on the internet. Google Scholar is particularly good at finding Open Access (freely accessible) scholarly information but a great deal of important literature is still only available through the databases and electronic journals to which the Library subscribes. You should, therefore, use Google Scholar in addition to (and not instead of) our databases and electronic journals.
Not sure which journals to use?
A good starting point is to identify which journals are highly recommended or are rated/ranked highly. You can do this using:
Financial Times Top 50 Journals
ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide (you need to create a free username and password on the site before you can view the guide)
Journal Quality List from Harzing.com
