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Business and Economics: Overview

A research guide for general business, accounting, economics and finance, management and marketing.

Search Library Catalog

1. WCU Library Catalog

2. E-Z Borrow (web gateway that allows simultaneous searching of over 60 academic library catalogs in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia)
3. Worldcat (public site; a global catalog of library collections) and request the book via Inter-library loan (ILL) service.

Database for Specific Research

Ebook Platforms

Databases for Scholarly Content

Full-text Journal Article Databases

  • Business Source Complete (EBSCO) - Multidisciplinary database with business focus. Search full-text journals, books, case studies, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and industry, market, and country reports.
  • Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) - Full-text access to multi-disciplinary books, journals, conference papers etc.
  • Emerald Insight - one place to search Emerald journals, books, and case studies. We subscribe to a select number of Emerald journals so some resources will not be available full-text.
  • Wiley Online Library - Full-text access to subscribed journals and eBooks. 
  • Sage Journals - Full-text access to subscribed journals. 
  • Science Direct Journals - Full-text access to eBooks and peer-reviewed journals related to business, management, accounting, economics, econometrics and finance and other science and social science disciplines.
  • EconLit with Full Text (EBSCO) - Index and full-text access for economic journals and books.
  • NBER Working Papers - Index and full-text access to the National Bureau of Economic Research working papers applicable to many discipline.
  • Annual Reviews - Full-text access to the Annual Review of Economics, Annual Review of Financial Economics, Annual Review of Resource Economics, the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, etc.
  • JSTOR - Full text scholarly journal articles in Arts & Sciences, Biological Sciences, Business, Health and General Sciences from first volume through three to five years from the last complete calendar year (moving wall).
  • Fed in Print - Freely available central catalog of publications of the US Federal Reserve System, from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Economic Division. Includes full text for most documents.


Index Databases


Case Studies


Grant and Funding

Highlighted Business Magazines and Journals

Film and Videos

Business Librarian

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Grace Liu
Contact:
Grace Liu, MBA, MSLIS
Business Librarian, Assistant Professor
T: 610-436-2917 | yliu@wcupa.edu

Newspapers

Comprehensive

U.S. Major Dailies (ProQuest)
Chicago Tribune (1985-current); Chicago Tribune (Online) (2017-current); Los Angeles Times (1985-current); Los Angeles Times (Online) (2017-current); New York Times (1980-current); New York Times Online (1996-current); Wall Street Journal (1984-current); Wall Street Journal (Online) (2010-current); Washington Post (1987-current); Washington Post Online (2016-current); 

Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Cover-to-cover full text for 40+ U.S. and international newspapers, including the USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times and The Times (London). 
Regional Business News (EBSCO)
Full-text business publications for the United States and Canada.

Specific 

New York Times, 1980 - present
New York Times Online, 1996 - present
Wall Street Journal, 1985 - present
Wall Street Journal Online, 2010 - present
Washington Post, 1987 - present
Washington Post Online, 2016 - present
Chicago Tribune, 1996 - present
Chicago Tribune Online, 2017 - present
Los Angeles Times, 1990 - present
Los Angeles Times Online, 2017 - present
Newsweek, 1983 - present
CQ Researcher
Current reports cover a wide range of social, economic, political, and environmental issues.

Historical Newspaper

New York Times - Historical (1851-2013)
Wall Street Journal - Historical (1889-1998)

Local Newspaper
Philadelphia Inquirer

Statistics and Data

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