Business
Journals
Journals are a key resource for any degree course, they can be published, monthly, quarterly or in some cases there may only be a couple of issues each year. They contain articles (research papers) submitted by academics, researchers or practitioners.
The University Library subscribes to over 250,000 journals from journal providers and publishers. To find journal articles for your assignments or literature review use DiscoverEd.
Another source for journal literature is Google Scholar which allows you to search for scholarly literature (e.g. journal articles, books, conference papers etc.) from a variety of sources, including academic publishers, professional societies, and online repositories.
The literature searching section of this guide will help you search effectively:
Journal services
Links to key services that cover journals in business and related fields are below. The content from these is also included in DiscoverEd so there is no need to search separately, however it may be useful to use the advanced search functionality of a particular database.
The literature searching section of this guide will help you search effectively:
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Business Source CompleteBusiness Source Complete provides access to Business and Economics journals. Content includes:
More than 2,100 active full-text journals and magazines
Nearly 1,300 active full-text peer-reviewed journals
Nearly 770 active full-text peer-reviewed journals with no embargo
More than 840 active full-text journals indexed in Web of Science or Scopus -
Emerald IntelligenceAccess to over 130 MCB University Press journals.
The journals cover general management, human resource management, information management, library & information services, marketing, operations, production & economics, property, quality, training and education and engineering & material science. -
Proquest BusinessThe Business Premium Collection is a largely full-text database with scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, working papers, market reports, newspapers, and other sources relevant to business and economics.
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Science DirectScienceDirect provides access to 1200 journals published by Elsevier Science B.V., with full text of articles available from 1995 onwards for titles to which the University subscribes.
Google Search
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites
Access eresources using Google Scholar
Google Scholar may not provide access to full-text, however, by linking to the Library you can access full-text where there is a University subscription.
- Selecting Settings from the top of the Google Scholar Home Page
- Selecting Library Links
- Search for University of Edinburgh. Select it from the list and Save your settings
You will now see FindIt@Edinburgh links next to items in your Google Scholar results that you can use to access the full-text.
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Google Dataset SearchDataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across the Web through a simple keyword search. The tool surfaces information about datasets hosted in thousands of repositories.
Access to journal articles or journals not available from the Library
If the Library does not hold the journal or journal article you need, you can request:
- An Interlibrary loan to try to obtain the item from another Library
- Access to another Library
- a subscription
Information is available from Library Resources Plus.