Things you can add to your searches to help databases understand you better:
A database brings together lots of information and makes it searchable. In libraries, a database can contain a collection of e-books or articles on general or specific topics. Searching in a database is similar to Googling something, but instead of searching the entire internet, you are searching that database's collection of articles.
This page focuses on using databases to find scholarly articles. In the academic world, an "article" is a long formal essay published in a journal. A journal is like a scholarly magazine on a specific topic. Like there are fashion, home decor, or cooking magazines, there are journals in history, chemistry, psychology, and other topics. Journals were traditionally printed physically, but nowadays they are mainly online and can be found in databases. A database may have access to hundreds of journals with thousands of articles each. You can search all of a database's articles at once by keyword, title, author, journal title, etc.
Learn more about how to search in databases below.
Business research from journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers.
Includes research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and hundreds of ETFs.
Provides centralized access to top journals, reference reports, proceedings, dissertations and more, including over 2,350 publications with hundreds in full text.
Contains company, industry, economic, and geopolitical market research from Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
The ultimate cross-disciplinary research tool, ProQuest Central brings together 30 of our most highly used databases to create the largest single academic research resource available today.
Information for entrepreneurs and researchers that includes business start-up plans, video clips, journals, business cases, and more.
Reference and research tool providing instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on 24 million U.S. businesses and 235 million U.S. residents. Data-Axle Reference Solutions makes it faster and easier to find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, find news articles, conduct job searches, research papers, locate addresses and phone numbers, conduct market research and much more.
Includes page-by-page images and articles from the journal dating back to 1981.
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