Key Business Databases for General Business Topics
- ABI/INFORM Collection
Major source for academic journals, trade publications, market and industry research reports, company annual reports, dissertations, and working papers. Also contains country profiles and economic forecasts for most major economies.
- Business Insights: EssentialsA database offering 2 million investment reports, 25,000 industry reports, 11,000 company histories, 3,900 periodicals, 2,500 market research reports, and 1,000 SWOT analyses.
- Business Source CompleteFull-text coverage plus indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, including Harvard Business Review.
- ProQuest One BusinessAn intuitive and comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.
To see view all of the business databases, select Business Databases.
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QUICKSearch is an easy place to start your research when you don’t know which specialized database to use. It’s also good for the experienced researcher who wants to make sure to get a comprehensive view of the topic. Sometimes great results come from unexpected places. Enter a keyword and click the red button. You may also use the the arrow on the right to trigger the dropdown menu to limit your search to specific items like scholarly journals, print books and eBooks.
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Business Video Databases
- ProQuest One BusinessAn intuitive and comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.
- Films On Demand -- Business and EconomicsStreaming videos on business and economics from Films Media Group
