Business Source Elite
This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management and economics journals and periodicals. These valuable publications cover topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales and more.
Business Source Elite encompasses a selection of business disciplines, offering access to 492 active full-text journals, along with abstracted and indexed journals. It provides researchers with essential business journals such as Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Marketing Science, MIS Quarterly, Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Fortune, and many others. With a journal retail value of $290,614.93, it is the fourth-largest database within the Business Source family.
Active Full Text for FT50 Journals
The Financial Times publishes a yearly ranking of business schools that offer MBA, EMBA, and online MBA programs. These rankings include a research score, which is based on the number of faculty publications published in 50 academic and practitioner journals, known as the FT50 journal list. Here is how Business Source Elite compares to ABI/INFORM Collection across the FT50 journal list:
Strengthen Exposure to Open Access Journals
Business Source Elite includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 1,987 active global OA journals. Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.
NOTE: EBSCOhost databases and EBSCO Discovery Service generate a lot more referrals for DOAJ than any other online platform.
International Content Compared
Ahead of Print
Business Source Elite includes Ahead of Print content for relevant titles from key publishers.
Valuable Video Content
Business Source Elite includes more than 78,000 videos from the Associated Press. Updated monthly, this collection of videos from the world’s leading news agency includes footage from 1930 to the present and helps round out student research.
The Highest Quality Subject Indexing
EBSCO has the premier and most highly regarded scholarly vocabularies curated by subject matter experts, covering all disciplines and major publishers.
EBSCO believes in breaking down barriers to information through Enhanced Subject Precision (ESP) mapping, bridging the gap between content and end users through inclusion of natural languages.
EBSCO databases support all learning types through textual and visual subject browse and information literacy training through subject access points in more than 30 languages. Watch video to learn more.
Business Source Elite includes 4,341 active indexed and abstracted journals. 3,219 of them are peer-reviewed.
Business Searching Interface (BSI)
A streamlined user interface tailored specifically for business researchers. The BSI offers an intuitive and efficient platform for exploring country economic data, company profiles, industry insights, and market research—distinct from the traditional EBSCOhost interface.
