Finding Scholarly Sources
Business and Economics Resources (Scholarly)
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Business Insights: EssentialsA comprehensive business resource which provides access to periodical and newspaper articles, information about domestic and international companies, investment reports, brands, industry and company rankings, corporate histories. Coverage includes public and private companies. A good source for company histories and chronologies. Combines all of the content formerly found in Business & Company Resource Center.
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Business Source CompleteProvides full-text for scholarly business and management journals as well as financial data, case studies, industry reports, market reports, and company profiles.
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EconLit with FulltextProduced by the American Economic Association, the database contains more than one million records from 1886-present and covers virtually every area related to economics.
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Entrepreneurial Studies SourceProvides insight on topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small businesses. Offers full text for more than 125 key periodicals, 135 reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV.
General Databases with Business and Economics Resources (Scholarly)
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Academic OneFileProvides over 54,000,000 articles, most full-text, from about 13,000 scholarly journals across most academic subject areas. Coverage is from 1980 to the present.
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Academic Search CompleteFull text for about 8,500 periodicals including over 7,300 peer-reviewed journals across most areas of academic study as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 magazines and journals. Coverage is from 1887 to the present.
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JSTORFull text of over 1400 core scholarly journals across most subject areas. The objective of JSTOR is to provide all issues back to Volume 1, Issue 1. Although some current titles are included, the most recent 3-5 years are generally unavailable due to copyright restrictions. Includes 253 Economics titles, 53 Finance titles and 294 Business titles.
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ScienceDirectProvides full text access to over 2200 Elsevier journals in the fields of science, psychology, medicine, and technology.
Databases with Newspaper and Magazine Articles
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InfoTrac NewsstandOffers full-text for over 1,000 national, international, and state newspapers. Includes the Albany Times Union, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Chicago Tribune, New York Post, New York Observer, Newsday, The Times (London), and Christian Science Monitor. Also includes the Economist. Years of coverage varies by title.
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Nexis Uni (LexisNexis)Offers full-text current business and legal information as well as a large number of national and international newspapers including the New York Times. Coverage varies, but generally is from 1980 to the present.
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Wall Street Journal (1984-present)Searchable database of all WSJ content including the WSJ and WSJ Magazine from 1984 to the present.
Other Resources
Sources of Scholarly Material: Other Disciplines (Selected)
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Education SourceFull-text for over 1700 journals, 550 books, and selected education-related conference papers. Covers elementary education, special education, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, secondary education, and teaching methods. Encompasses all content from Education Research Complete.
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Environment CompleteIndexing for over 2200 journals in agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, geography, pollution and environmental law. Provides full-text for over 900 journals.
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MEDLINE with Full TextFull-text for about 1450 publications. Coverage is from about 1800 to the present, with some full-text from about 1935 to the present.
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Political Science CompletePolitical Science Complete (PSC) provides full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product. The database also features over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association
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SocINDEX with Full TextProvides full-text for over 850 journals as well as abstracts for about 1,300 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, this database provides indexing from more than 450 "priority" coverage journals and about 2,000 "selective" coverage journals. Contains extensive indexing for books/monographs (with about 850 available full-text), conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources.
Selected World Wide Web Sources
Census Bureau
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Economic Research
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
Federal Reserve: Economic Research and Data
http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/default.htmFederal Reserve: Economic Research and Data
Citing Sources
The online version of Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition is available on the library’s web page.
Revised January 28, 2016
michelle.hendley@oneonta.edu