Research Guides: Doctor of Business Administration (DBA): Databases Articles

Core Business Databases

A-Z Databases: Business
Business databases list

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes business and economics full-text journals, magazines, dissertations, conference and working papers, country and industry reports, newspapers, and coverage of companies and business trends worldwide. It comprises ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry.

ABI/INFORM Dateline
It specializes in hard-to-find regional business publications with news and analysis of local companies and markets. It covers local company news, markets, employment opportunities, benefits and compensation, and corporate strategies.
ABI/INFORM Global
It includes in-depth coverage from thousands of publications in full-text about business, economic conditions, corporate strategies, management theory and techniques, business trends, competitive landscape, product information, accounting, and finance. The titles included are Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, and Barron's. Also included is the ABI/INFORM Archive offering a deep back-file of the most important business journals of the last century.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
It provides in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, and trends of several industries, including pharmaceutical, telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemical, and food & drink.

Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides company, industry, and geopolitical macroeconomic market research from three sources: 1) Hoover's Company Profiles, which offers information on 40,000 global public and non-public companies including location, summary financials, competitors, officers, and more. 2) OxResearch, which features succinct articles covering significant economic and political developments of major significance from a network of over 1,000 faculty at Oxford and beyond. 3) Snapshots Series, which includes market research overviews on over 40 industries and 40 countries to 2008.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from business publications, including scholarly, peer-reviewed journals on marketing, management, accounting, banking, and finance. Coverage dates back to 1886. Also, it includes full-text financial data, case studies, industry reports, company profiles, market research reports, country economic reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, reference works, videos, and book chapters.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
OPEN ACCESS. A Google search is limited to scholarly publications, archival materials, peer-reviewed research, and related citations. Includes papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, and other scholarly organizations.

Repositories for Scholarly Research

You can find scholarly research resources in repositories - an organized storage and archive receptacle with online access to scholarly materials such as articles, theses, dissertations, and grey literature.

The Scholarship Repository of Florida Institute of Technology
Provides permanent, open access to journal articles, research reports, conference papers, data sets, theses and dissertations, and other scholarly works created by Florida Institute of Technology faculty and students.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Open-access online preprint community specializing in social sciences, including economics, law, corporate governance, and humanities. It allows scholars to post their early research, collaborate on theories and discoveries, and get credit for their ideas before peer-reviewed publication. SSRN serves as a starting point for Ph.D. students, professors, and institutional faculty to post early-stage research before publication in academic journals. To access it, you need to register with a free account.