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Management: Find Articles & Databases
Subject Research Guide -- Management
Core Databases for the Subject
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ABI/INFORM CompleteProvides search and discovery for 1,600+ business-related journals, many in full-text.
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Books24x7Books24x7 is an ebook portal focusing on content which is frequently updated by writers and publishers. Iona currently has access to three collections: ITPro, containing 10,500+ IT, technical and software-related ebooks; BusinessPro, containing 7,700+ ebooks on business skills, management and strategy; and EngineeringPro, which contains 2,500+ ebooks on engineering, science and technology.
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Business Insights: EssentialsAbstracts and full-text from 4,000+ business related publications. Information on more than 400,000 companies including profiles, industry rankings, products and brands, investment reports, marketing data, and more.
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Business Source PremierProvides full text for 2,300+ journals dating as far back as 1886, including 1,100+ peer-reviewed titles, in the fields of business, management, and economics. Includes thousands of Datamonitor company profiles.
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Nexis UniNexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
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PubMed CentralPubMed Central® (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). PMC provides access to 150+ journals. (Note: Many journals have a six month to one year delay period before issues become available.)
Business Economics Databases
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CheckPointThis online portal, produced by Thompson Reuters, provides tools for conducting accounting and tax research. It's search interfaces allow users to discover documents on tax law, expert financial analyses, IRS and court rulings, tax-related news and more.
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CountryWatchProvides political, economic, business, demographic, cultural, and environmental information and statistics on countries around the world. Also includes databases of daily news coverage by country, comparable country data sets and regional maps.
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EconPapersUsing RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) bibliographic data and repositories, EconPapers provides access to 1,000,000+ free economic working papers, articles and software items.
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OECD iLibraryOECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) iLibrary is OECD’s Online Library for books, papers and statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. Indexes 480 complete databases with 4.5 billion+ data points produced since 1998. Iona has access to Main Economic Indicators (through Volume 2014 Issue 3) and OECD Economic Surveys (through Volume 2007).
Company & Industry Financial Databases
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Key Business RatiosMining information from the Dun & Bradstreet (now a subsidiary of Mergent, Inc.) database of financial information on 60 million+ companies from 209 countries around the world, Key Business Ratios (KBR) can be used to assess a firm's strengths and weaknesses relative to competing firms or an entire industry.
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Mergent OnlineFinancial information on thousands of companies worldwide; also includes industry reports. Company information includes annual reports, company histories, SEC financial statements, stock information, directories, etc.
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North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) from the US Census BureauThe North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy.
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North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) from the US Census BureauNAPCS is a comprehensive demand-oriented product classification system developed jointly by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to classify products created and used in North America.
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ValueLine Investment SurveyReports on 1700+ U.S. stocks including projections and company and industry commentary. New data issued weekly. Iona subscription is limited to 3 users at a time; to the 'Investment Survey' section only.
Healthcare Resources
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Health Reference Center, AcademicThis multi-source database provides access to the full text of 1775+ nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center. Contains the Alternative Health Module.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic EditionInformation on nursing, allied health and related medical fields. Mainly full-text of 460+ journals. Includes the Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
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ProQuest Health ManagementFull-text of 800+ journals and doctoral dissertations in all areas of healthcare administration.
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PubMed CentralPubMed Central® (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). PMC provides access to 150+ journals. (Note: Many journals have a six month to one year delay period before issues become available.)
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ScienceDirect (via SciVerse)ScienceDirect is Elsevier's platform for peer-reviewed, scholarly content to include over 3,800 journals and more than 37,000 books that span major scientific disciplines.
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Scitation®Openly available through the American Institute of Physics (AIP), Scitation is a leading online publishing platform for science and technology content. Home to more than 30 scholarly publishers, Scitation hosts, and makes searchable, over 2 million articles on physics, chemistry, geosciences, engineering, acoustics, etc.
Audio / Visual Resources
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Health Sciences in VideoThis database defines and explores today’s latest medical progress in health and wellness issues through hundreds of premium documentaries, profiles, reports, and interviews.
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TED TalksTED (Technology, Education & Design) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading knowledge. It's "Talks" database contains 1100+ lectures and documentaries.
News Sources
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New York Times (1980 - Current)Often considered the official U.S. newspaper, the NYTimes publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches and presidential press conferences.
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Wall Street JournalThe WSJ is considered the US's preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide. Content available from 1984 - Current.
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Newspaper SourceProvides full-text of 200+ regional, national, and international newspapers. The database also includes transcripts from major television and radio broadcasts.
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US NewsstreamMajor national newspapers including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, plus other important international and minority interest papers. Most articles available full-text or PDF full-image. Date ranges vary.
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InfoTrac NewstandProvides access to more 1,000+ major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. (Formerly InfoTrac Custom Newspapers.)
Multidisciplinary Databases
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EBSCO Academic Search PremierA multi-disciplinary database providing 4,600+ full-text journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
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Gale Virtual Reference LibraryAn ebook portal for multi-volume encyclopedias and reference works covering a wide range of subjects, as well as a collection of classic literature full-texts and criticisms.
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JSTORFull-text archive of 400+ core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year. Journals can be browsed individually or searched as a group. The purchase of JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III was funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services by an Act of Congress, in accordance with the FY 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Bill.
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SAGE Journals OnlineSAGE Journals Online contains 600+ journals covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The full text of every issue is available from Volume 1, Issue 1 to the present.
Business Magazines in the Iona Periodicals Collection
Google Scholar
You can still use Google to search for scholarly, peer reviewed resources, but limit your usage to the Google Scholar portal.
Database Search Tips
Use Operators, fields, and special characters to retrieve more accurate search results
AND: Look for documents that contain all of your words or phrases. Use ‘AND’ to narrow your search and get fewer results.
Ex: food AND nutrition
OR: Look for documents that contain any of your words or phrases. Use ‘OR’ to broaden your search and get more results.
Ex: food OR nutrition
NOT: Look for documents that contain one of your search terms, but not the other.
Ex: nursing NOT shortage
" " : Phrase searching - look for phrases by enclosing them in quotation marks.
Ex: "healthy eating"
? : Wildcard character - used to replace any single character, either inside or at the right end of a word. Multiple wildcards can be used to represent multiple characters.
Ex: nurse? - Finds: nurses, nursed, but not nurse
Ex: sm?th - Finds: smith and smyth
* : Truncation(*) - retrieves variations on the search term, replacing up to 10 characters.
Ex: nurse* - Finds: nurse, nurses, nursed
Ex: colo*r - Finds: colour, color
Ex: *old - Finds: told, household, bold
NEAR/n or N/n: Look for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within a specified number of words apart. Replace ‘n’ with a number. In the example, 3 means within 3 words.
Ex: nursing NEAR/3 education
Ex: media N/3 women
PRE/n or P/n: Look for documents that contain one search term that appears within a specified number of words before a second term.
Replace ‘n’ with a number. In the example, 4 means the first term precedes the second term by 4 or fewer words.
Ex: nursing PRE/4 education
Ex: shares P/4 technologies
Limit your search: select available limiter check boxes such as Full text or Peer-reviewed to focus your search.
Note: You can enter operators in either lowercase or uppercase - OR will work the same as or.
Note: Available limiters vary by database and search method, always check the 'Help' section of the database you are using.