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Business Databases: Finding Journal Articles

Journal article titles are not listed in MaagNet. Use the databases listed below to search for articles. While these databases provide a good starting point for your research, other databases are also available. To view the complete list of databases, go to the Maag Library Home Page and click on Research Databases on the left side of the screen under Quick Links.

Many articles may be found full-text within the databases, while many others may be found in print in the bound journals on the sixth floor of the library. If you’re having trouble locating the full-text of an article, contact Christine (contact information above left).

Click on the database titles below if you are in the library or on campus. If you are off campus, click on the Off Campus Access link to authenticate using the library barcode on the back of your YSU ID or your YSU username and password (same as YSU email). Click HERE for more information about off campus access.

  • ECONLIT / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT ECONLIT
    EconLit, the American Economic Association’s electronic database, is the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 785,000 records from 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
  • BUSINESS SOURCE COMPLETE / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT BSC / BSC USER GUIDE
    Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content. BSC provides full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM (Production & Operations Management), accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, nonjournal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry profiles, market research reports, product reviews, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
  • STAT-USA / GPO ACCESS TRAINING MANUAL
    THIS DATABASE AVAILABLE FOR USE IN REFERENCE ROOM ONLY; SEE REF DESK FOR PASSWORD.
    State of the Nation (SOTN) provides various financial and economic data from the federal government and other related entities. SOTN concerns itself with the United States’ domestic economy. Information provided includes: General Economic Indicators; Housing and Construction; Employment; Manufacturing and Industry; Monetary Statistics; and Economic Policy.
    GLOBUS (Global Business Opportunities) offers daily trade leads from the Trade Opportunities Program (TOPS), as well as the Department of Agriculture. GLOBUS also offers daily procurement activity from the Defense Logistics Agency, the United Nations, and the Commerce Business Daily leads.
    NTDB (National Trade Data Bank) provides access to Country Commercial Guides, Market Research reports, Best Market reports and other programs. The International Trade Library is a comprehensive collection of over 40,000 documents related to international trade. All are full text searchable, as well as keyword searchable by country or product.
  • ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE
    Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world’s most comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
  • ELECTRONIC JOURNAL CENTER / EJC HELP & TIPS
    Electronic Journal Center includes the full text of more than 7000 online research journals covering many subject areas. Most electronic indexes available to the Ohio academic community link from article citations to the full text in the EJC.
  • JSTOR (Journal Storage) / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / JSTOR TUTORIALS
    JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR’s archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
  • LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC TUTORIALS
    LexisNexis Academic provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information from nearly 7,000 sources, most of them available in full text. The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.
    >>Click on Sources tab → Browse Sources By: News & Business Topics → Select a Category to View Sources: Economics → Select Source(s) → OK-Continue.
  • MASTERFILE PREMIER (Popular Magazines) / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT MASTERFILE PREMIER
    MasterFILE Premier (Popular Magazines) provides full text for more than 1,900 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,510 periodicals. The database also contains full text for reference and travel books; biographies; primary source documents; and an image college of photos, maps, and flags.
  • NEWSPAPER SOURCE / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS
    Newspaper Source contains selected full text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, and nine newspaper columns.
  • PAIS INTERNATIONAL / ABOUT PAIS INTERNATIONAL
    PAIS International is an index to the literature of public affairs — current issues and actions which affect the world communities, countries, people, and governments. This database covers important political, economic, and social issues. PAIS concentrates on topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. It contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more.
  • REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
    Regional Business News is a collection of full text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. In order to maintain the most current collection of news, this database contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources.
  • TOPICSEARCH / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT TOPICSEARCH
    TOPICsearch is a current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for articles from magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, biographies, book reviews, public opinion polls, EBSCO’s Current Issues database, and government information.
  • WORLD ALMANAC / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS
    World Almanac includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics. This database incorporates the full text of The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A, The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, The World Almanac for Kids, and the World Almanac Knowledge Source. It is a single reference source that covers arts and entertainment, information about U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes, economics, national defense, historical anniversaries, and much more.

MJF: Maag Journal Finder

Use MJF: Maag Journal Finder to locate the print and/or electronic holdings of journals. You can search for a specific journal title or browse journals by title or subject. This is the best way to locate an article if you already have the citation!
From the Maag Library Home Page, click on MJF: Maag Journal Finder on the left side of the screen under Quick Links.

Browse Maag print and electronic holdings for:

Below are direct links to some of the major economics serial publications to which we have access. Many others can be accessed through the various databases or MJF: Maag Journal Finder.
Authentication with a valid library barcode required for off campus access.
Academic Search Complete (ASC): Use journal title for on campus access and separate link for off campus.
Business Source Complete (BSC): Use journal title for on campus access and separate link for off campus.
Electronic Journal Center (EJC): Use journal title for both on and off campus access.

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