When searching for scholarly journal articles for your research and assignments we recommend the databases listed below.
You can use ‘Library Search’ to search across multiple resources and databases at the same time but using these individual databases will help you focus your search on the most relevant literature. It will also allow you to take advantage of some of the unique search features of each database.
We've listed the main 'disciplinary' specific databases which focus on a particular subject area as well as some 'multi-disciplinary' databases which allow you to search across multiple disciplines/subject areas.
Want to browse a particular journal? Our Journal Finder tool is an excellent tool to see the range of journals we have in business (expand 'business & economics' to see business journals).
Company accounts, ratios, activities, ownership and management for the largest 2.6 million UK and Irish companies, summary information for a further 1 million smaller businesses. FAME is best viewed using Internet Explorer: some advanced features may not work with other browsers.
Warc is comprehensive marketing, advertising and media communications website which includes:
A market research database providing extensive access to:
LSEG Workspace is a financial data platform which was created by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG).
It gives users access to the following information:
Students who are required to access Workspace for specific projects must register first. Click here to register. You will have access to Workspace for 24 hours. You may re-register once your session has ended and you require access again. There may be times when you can’t access LSEG Workspace, this will be due to the volume of users accessing the platform at the given time. If this occurs, please wait a while and try again.
The following multidisciplinary citation databases can be useful as they allow you to search the scholarly literature across multiple disciplines (physical sciences, health sciences, social sciences, and life sciences) at the one time.
Scopus, SAGE, and Web of Science databases are citation indexes so you can track research via citations. You can see the references cited by each paper and view the papers that have subsequently cited a particular paper. It’s like looking back in time (the references cited by a paper) but also forward in time (the papers that cite a particular paper).
Academic Search Complete is another multidisciplinary database available on the EBSCOhost platform.
Scopus is one of the largest multi-disciplinary abstracting and indexing databases of research literature and quality web sources. It offers access to over 16,000 titles from more than 4000 international publishers, with abstracts available back to 1966. Citation data is available from 1996. Coverage includes scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature, including arts and humanities. There are also 23 million patent records from 5 patent offices as well as links to 'Articles in Press' from over 3,000 journals.
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Scopus is a citation index so you can track research via citations. You can see the references cited by each paper and view the papers that have subsequently cited a particular paper. It’s like looking back in time (the references cited by a paper) but also forward in time (the papers that cite a particular paper).
Web of Science is a citation index so you can track research via citations. You can see the references cited by each paper and view the papers that have subsequently cited a particular paper. It’s like looking back in time (the references cited by a paper) but also forward in time (the papers that cite a particular paper).
WoS is a multidisciplinary citation database covering over 10,000 of the world's highest impact research journals. It also offers the unique "citation searching" feature, allowing users to see how many times a paper/author has been cited and by whom. It consists of the three databases: the Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present), the Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).
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Web of Knowledge is a web-based platform which provides access to high-quality research information. Several products are available to search within the Web of Knowledge platform
Full-text access to more than 8,000 journals (over 7,000 peer-reviewed) and indexing for almost 12,000 covering the following disciplines: business, communications, computer science, biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, education and nursing.
Coverage: Varies according to title.