Business Source
Business Source is a comprehensive research database specifically designed for accessing peer-reviewed, full-text business journals across various disciplines. It caters to a diverse audience, including academic institutions, public libraries, and government agencies, by providing a wealth of resources in business and economics. The database family includes several editions, such as Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Business Source Complete, and Business Source Ultimate, each offering unique features and content tailored to different research needs.
Business Source databases encompass a wide range of topics, including accounting, finance, marketing, and management, ensuring that users have access to current and historical data. Notably, the Company View feature allows researchers to delve into detailed information about over 1.1 million companies, including financials and industry profiles. Additionally, Business Source Ultimate stands out by providing a significant collection of videos from reputable providers, enhancing the research experience.
For post-college professionals, the Business Source Alumni Edition offers up-to-date information from essential business magazines and journals, spanning various fields. In essence, Business Source serves as a vital tool for anyone seeking reliable, scholarly resources in the dynamic field of business.
Business Source
Business Source is the essential research database for peer-reviewed, full-text business journals. Each database in the Business Source product line includes a wide selection of peer-reviewed content drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, making these databases well-suited to meet the needs of academic and public libraries, government agencies, and other institutions interested in providing resources in the fields of business and economics. Except for Business Source: Main Edition, each database also provides access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency. This collection, updated monthly, includes more than 75,000 videos dating back to 1930.
Business Source Elite
Business Source Elite 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. Customers of Business Source Elite can also take advantage of Regional Business News, a supplemental database that is updated daily with comprehensive full-text articles from regional U.S. and Canadian business publications, including titles from Crain Communications.
Business Source Premier
The industry's most widely used business research database, Business Source Premier features full-text and searchable cited references for top journals covering a variety of business disciplines, including accounting, finance, economics, marketing, management, management information systems, and operations management. Business Source Premier also includes access to Regional Business News.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete contains full-text content and peer-reviewed busines journals covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more.
Researchers looking for comprehensive information about different companies can take advantage of the Company View feature, which provides data on financials, subsidiaries, products, employees, industry information, and more for over 1.1 million companies worldwide. With the Company View Content in Context feature, users can also broaden and deepen their investigation of a company by accessing information such as case studies, industry profiles, SWOT analyses, market research reports, and many other resources.
Users of Business Source Complete can also access in-depth coverage of US and Canadian business news with Regional Business News Plus, an expanded version of the Regional Business News feature.
Business Source Ultimate
The most comprehensive database in the Business Source family, Business Source Ultimate offers an unprecedented wealth of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business. In addition to accessing essential full-text journals, business students can also delve into case studies, country economic reports, and company profiles, as well as interviews with executives and analysts, covering topics such as finance, accounting, banking, management, and many more. The Company View component provides data such as financials, subsidiaries, products, employees, industry information, and more on over 1.1 million companies worldwide.
Students seeking a broader, more global perspective in their business research can take advantage of thousands of English-language and native-language full-text journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe, and Latin America. In addition to the Associated Press video resources provided in other Business Source databases, Business Source Ultimate also offers a collection of more than 27,000 videos from Harvard Business Publishing, IGI Global, Kiplinger Washington Editors, the Academy of Management, and other top providers of high-quality content.
Business Source: Main Edition
This database provides bibliographic and full-text coverage of scholarly business journals, general magazines, and trade periodicals covering virtually all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance, and economics. Business Source: Main Edition contains PDF images for most full-text magazines and journals, and many of these PDFs are searchable or scanned-in-color. Users of Business Source: Main Edition can also take advantage of the Regional Business News feature to access a comprehensive selection of full-text articles from US and Canadian business publications.
Business Source: Alumni Edition
Designed for the business research needs of post-college professionals, Business Source Alumni Edition provides the most current information from essential business magazines and journals. Business Source Alumni Edition provides full-text content from a variety of sources, including business magazines, top management journals, trade publications, country economic reports, industry reports, market research reports, and company profiles, and serves as an essential resource for researching topics in fields such as marketing, management, production and operations management, accounting, econometrics, and many others.
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