Library Guides: ENGL 202D: Effective Writing: Business Writing (Fleet): Overview of Business Databases

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Business News and General Sources

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Best for: general business research and scholarly journal articles
An essential article database for business research providing the full text for more than 2,000 periodicals, including about 1,000 scholarly journals. Covers virtually all disciplines in business and economics, including: accounting, economics, econometrics, finance, marketing, management, MIS, QMM and supply chain management.
Nexis Uni - News Sources This link opens in a new window
Best for: general and business newspapers and newswire feeds
This link allows you to limit your search to Nexis Uni’s news collection, without the law and business collections mixed in. If you want to search the entire Nexis Uni collection (including law and business), select the “Nexis Uni” link instead.

Industry Information

IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Best for: industry reports, industry risk rating reports, and economic and demographic profiles
IBISWorld provides over 700 full-text industry reports, 700 US industry risk rating reports, and information on over 8000 Publicly Traded US Companies as well as hundreds of economic and demographic profiles. Subscription includes access to the US Industry State Reports module.

Market Research Reports

eMarketer This link opens in a new window
Best for: reports on digital marketing
eMarketer research helps marketers answer three essential questions: how consumers spend their time, how consumers spend their money, and what marketers are doing to reach them. By gathering data from thousands of sources and putting it into context, eMarketer provides the world's top brands, agencies and media companies with the most complete view of digital marketing available. Every report openly references studies and interviews that are handpicked from more than 4,000 research sources. Content is provided in the format of analyst reports, charts, articles, interviews/case studies, PowerPoint presentations, comparative estimates, forecasts, webinars and more. High level topics include: Advertising & Marketing, B2B, Consumers & eCommerce, Demographics, Email, Media Usage, Mobile, Search, Social Media and Video. These topics cut across all industries and geographies.
Mintel This link opens in a new window
Best for: unique insights into customers, including social, cultural, economic and psychological influences; critical information about market share, market forecasting data and market environment awareness; and important trends relating to companies and brands.
Provides access to two products. Mintel Academic publishes 600 market research reports each year for the U.S. and European consumer markets. Reports analyze market drivers, trends, market forecasts, market segmentations, demographics, and consumer attitudes and purchasing behaviors. The Trends module in Mintel Academic tracks cutting edge trends and shifts in consumer behavior. Mintel Market Sizes provides market size, market share and segmentation data for global consumer packaged goods industries. No walk-ins allowed.

General Social Science

PsycINFO (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Best for: psychology-related research
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Best for: sociology-related research, understanding our society
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Best for: general social sciences research
The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.
ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Best for: education-related research
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the major database for education literature, sponsored by the U.S. Department. of Education. The same database content is available on many platforms.

Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete is one of the largest databases at Penn State, and forms a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals.

ASC allows searching in two modes: advanced mode, where you string terms together using AND, OR, or NOT, or basic mode which functions much more like LionSearch. Advanced mode is the default.

Search results are sorted by publication date, with the most recent resources at the top of the list. Results can be limited by many different facets, including: full text, peer-reviewed journals, subject terms, and publication date.

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a 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. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Academic Search Complete is a 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. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

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ENGL 202D: Effective Writing: Business Writing (Fleet)

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