Business & Economics Resources @ Smith Library

Finding journal articles in business and economics:

Part one: find articles by searching in an indexing database.  These databases allow you to search for articles by keyword, author, title or subject heading or any combination.  Several databases provide many articles in full text, either Portable Document Format (pdf), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or plain text.   Other databases simply provide citations - the journal title, volume, issue, page numbers and date - that tell where an article was published.  The following databases are recommended for business and economics:

• ABI Inform - company profiles through Hoover's Online, newspaper coverage, and lots of full text articles on every facet of business and economics.

• Business Source Premier (EBSCO) - company profiles through Datamonitor, lots of full text articles on a wide variety of business and economics topics.

• Business and Company Resource Center (Gale) - articles, company and industry profiles, financial statements.

• Business and Industry (First Search)  - citations only, short newswire articles.

• Business and Management Practice (First Search) - citations only.

• ECON Lit (First Search) - citations only for academic economics sources, sponsored by the American Economics Association.

• Lexis/Nexis Academic Search  - legal reference section, business news from around the world, company profiles, country profiles, financial statements, accounting articles full text.

• Market Research.com  - MarketResearch.com Academic reports offer quantitative and qualitative analysis of the market for a wide variety of businesses.

• Plunkett Research Online - Plunkett's Online provides access to industry specific research for important business sectors, including market research and trends, statistics, company profiles, associations, industry glossary, and company contacts.

• Regional Business News (EBSCO) - Provides comprehensive full text coverage for 75 regional business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States .

• STAT-USA - includes two related databases: State of the Nation for domestic economic data and GLOBUS for international trade, business and economics.

General article databases that might be useful for business and economics include:

•   Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  - lots of full text, broad in scope

• Academic ASAP (Gale) - lots of full text, broad in scope

• Article First (First Search) - very broad in scope, but citations only

• JSTOR - full text of classic journals in a wide range of disciplines

These databases focus on fields related to business and economics:

• Congressional Quarterly - News and analysis of pending and upcoming legislative issues.

• Congressional Researcher - reports on current, controversial issues, including pro/con discussions of social, economic, environmental and political topics.

• GPO (Government Publications Online) - U.S. government publications citation index.

Part two:  Search the ECSU Journal Locator to find journals that are available to Smith Library researchers, whether in print or online.  For online/electronic sources, enter the title of the journal that you want to find and follow the links to the right volume and issue in one of the Library's full text research databases or some in some cases on the publisher's web site.

For a list of peer-reviewed, open access journals in business and economics, freely available on the Internet, see the listing provided the Directory of Open Access Journals at http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=18.  The library also has access to JSTOR, which is a collection of traditional academic journals that been converted to electronic format.  You can browse the issues of JSTOR as you would a traditional, printed, journal issues.  There are many business and economics journals in JSTOR.  This link will take you to a subject breakdown of journal in JSTOR - JSTOR subject divisions

If the business/economics journal or periodical you need is owned by the Library in print, you will find current issues (published within the past year) of journals and magazines shelved on the 2^nd (main) floor of the library, and older issues, either bound print or microform, shelved on the 1^st floor.   Periodicals are shelved in alphabetical order by title, whether they are in the microform cabinets, bound in the print periodical stacks or in the current periodical display on 2^nd floor.  In addition to using the journal locator you can also do a journal title search in the online catalog to determine if ECSU or any of the other CSU libraries owns a subscription (print or electronic) to a journal or magazine that you want.

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