LibGuides: Business: Finding Articles

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Recommended E-Resources for Starting to Search for Articles in this Topic

Business Source Premier
- Why search here?
  Business Source Premier is a comprehensive database that includes scholarly journals and business periodicals covering topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more.
- What's included?
  BSP provides the full text of more than 1,100 scholarly publications, such as the Harvard Business Review, some dating from as far back as 1922.
Academic Search Ultimate
- Why search here?
  Academic Search Ultimate is a great place to start your search for both popular and scholarly articles on almost any topic.
- What's included?
  It contains a large number of journals, the majority of which are peer-reviewed, from numerous subject areas. This resource features mostly full text content, and goes as far back as 1865.
D&B Hoovers (Formerly Avention/OneSource/D&B Business Browser Pro)
- Why search here?
  D&B Hoovers — which combines the best of the former Hoovers solution, insights-rich Dun & Bradstreet data, and the robust Avention OneSource platform — offers deeper insights on important industries, accounts, and contacts. It offers functionality to help you quickly analyze and understand companies at a granular level. Please log out of D&B Hoovers when you are finished using the database.
- Note: Some users are reporting errors , such as requests for a password pop up, when attempting to access from off-campus. Please try clearing your browser's cookies/cache. Opening a new browser and clearing cache can fix this as well.
- What's included?
  contains information from more than 25,000 data sources, including market research, analyst reports, regulatory filings, news releases and much more.
26 Concurrent User Limit

Searching for Articles

A quick demonstration of how to search for and narrow down a broad topic. To see it in fullscreen, click play and then the button with the rectangle icon on the bottom right of the video.

Trade/Consumer Publications

Click the link, then click or type in "Search within this publication," to search these titles for industry news, trends, practitioner perspectives, etc.

Searching Tips

Keywords are...

A good way to start a search.
The important concepts in your own words.
Found anywhere in the article (title, author, subject terms, etc.).
Very flexible.

Connecting concepts...

Join similar ideas or alternate term with "OR."
Link different parts of your topic with "AND."
Exclude concepts with "NOT."

Limit to Peer-Reviewed, Refereed or Scholarly articles...

This is part of the publication & editorial process for academic and research journals. Being peer-reviewed is a sign that a paper's author(s) have done a certain level of due diligence in their work and their research is complete, manages conflicts-of-interest, and is fair and objective.

Narrow the Date Range...

When looking for Current Research or Evidence-Based Practices limit your date range to the last 3-5 years.

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