Business Department E-Resources

Literature Search Engines
  • Core is an academic search engine dedicated to open-access research papers. For each search result, a link to the full-text PDF or full-text web page is provided.
     
  • Google Scholar is a freely accessible search engine that indexes scholarly articles, theses, books, conference papers, and patents.
     
  • Research Gate is an academic profile and social networking site, and a popular hub on the web for sharing academic publications and finding collaborators in a variety of disciplines.
     
  • Scopus is an extensive abstract and citation database covering approximately 21,000 peer-reviewed journals across various disciplines.
     
  • Web of Science is a comprehensive research database that provides extensive citation indexing and search capabilities across disciplines, including business and management. They cover a wide range of peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and more.
     
Business Magazines & Business News Websites
  • Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial news. It provides comprehensive coverage on markets, finance, politics, technology, and more.
     
  • Fast Company focuses on technology, leadership, and creativity for a younger audience.
     
  • Reuters Business provides business, financial, and international news.
     
  • Crunchbase is useful for finding information on startups, venture capital funding, and mergers and acquisitions.
     
  • Statista is a website offers a wide range of statistics and studies on sectors, markets, and companies.
     
General E-Resources
  • MIT OpenCourseWare provides free course content and materials related to a wide range of topics, including entrepreneurship, environment & sustainability, and more, suitable for those interested in augmenting their business knowledge.
     
  • Stanford Online provides a selection of free online courses taught by Stanford instructors, including topics relevant to business and management.
     
Open Access E-books & Resources
  • Open Textbook Library offers free textbooks on various subjects, including business, making education more accessible and affordable for everyone.
     
  • The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.
     
  • IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet.
     
Academic Journals Databases
  • The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) covers over 10,000 quality open access peer-reviewed academic journals.
     
  • Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost) is a comprehensive business research database, offering information in nearly every area of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics. It features full text for more than 2,300 journals, including over 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.
     
  • ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) includes important scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports in all areas of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics, and more.
     
  • ScienceDirect is primarily known for its strength in science and technology, offering a strong collection of business and management journals while providing access to peer-reviewed research articles, book chapters, and open access content.
     
  • JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students, offering a wide range of academic journals across various disciplines, including a substantial collection in business, economics, and related fields. It is known for its archival collections, preserving important historical academic work.
     
  • Emerald Insight specializes in journals and book series across fields related to business, management, and economics. It is well-regarded for its focus on subjects such as operations management, human resource management, marketing, and corporate governance.
     
  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a repository for preprint and working papers in a variety of disciplines including economics, finance, and management. It serves as an important platform for early-stage research and scholarly discussion.
     
Top E-Journals
  • Academy of Management Annals offers high-quality, peer-reviewed contributions and is known for its exploration of business responses to environmental performance improvements.
     
  • Journal of Finance publishes original material concerned with all aspects of strategic management, appealing to both practitioners and academics.
     
  • Review of Financial Studies focuses on advancing the science and practice of marketing, acting as a bridge between the scholarly and practical aspects of marketing.
     
  • Academy of Management Journal is devoted to the improvement and development of the theory and practice of strategic management.
     
  • Journal of Marketing is one of the premier refereed scholarly journals of the marketing discipline, playing a significant role in the dissemination of marketing knowledge.
     
  • Academy of Management Review publishes communications on practices and developments in strategic management, including major topics like strategic resource allocation and leadership.