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Business Databases: Finding Articles & News Stories

Articles and news stories can provide valuable and current insight into an industry. Maag Library provides access to several online databases that are useful for locating journal articles and news stories. To view the complete list of available 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 can 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 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. Click HERE for more information about off campus access.

  • BUSINESS SOURCE COMPLETE / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT BSC / BSC USER GUIDE
    • Scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content
    • Provides full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS (Management Information Systems), 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 reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more
  • ECONLIT / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT ECONLIT
    • American Economic Association’s electronic database
    • Index to articles on Economic issues, primarily from scholarly journals, dating back to 1969
    • Links to full text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more
    • Journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature
  • LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC TUTORIALS
    • 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
    • Industries & Markets Sources: Click on Sources tab (on toolbar) > Select Industries & Markets category > Choose sources from Business Opportunities, Industry Analyst Reports, Industry Statistics, Industry Trade Press, and Market Research Reports > OK-Continue > Enter search terms > Search > Choose Relevance from Sort dropdown menu (above listed results) > Click on article or report title for full text
    • Sources for Specific Industries: Click on Sources tab (on toolbar) > Browse Sources by Industry > Select relevent industry category > Choose sources > OK-Continue > Enter search terms > Search > Choose Relevance from Sort dropdown menu (above listed results) > Click on article title for full text
  • REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS / OFF CAMPUS ACCESS / ABOUT REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
    • 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

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 Industries

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