Library Research Guides: * Business Resources: Find Sources

Finding Sources

Below you'll find a selection of resources you can use for your business research. Georgia Gwinnett College offers the Bachelor of Business Administration degree with concentrations in the following areas: Accounting, Economics, Finance, International Business, Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management. This guide will present a few sources for each concentration.

Use the tabs to navigate to databases, streaming media, DVDs, trade publications, scholarly journals, books, and freely available Web resources.

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Resources

Kaufman Library provides access to many databases that can help with your business research. In addition to those highlighted below, you can access our full list of databases using our Databases A-Z list (link below).

GGC Databases A-Z
Search by title and subject from over 175 databases.
Database Tutorials

Business Databases

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to many peer-reviewed business related journals, including disciplines such as marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM Complete is a comprehensive business database containing thousands of journals. The combination of products forms a business database package that offers full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
GALE Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
Includes business case studies, in-depth statistical data, company and industry profiles, SWOT and market share reports, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries.
Business Source Complete (Business Searching Interface) This link opens in a new window
Business Source Complete (Business Searching Interface) provides users with an alternative searching and browsing interface to the traditional EBSCOhost version of Business Source Complete. The Business Searching Interface allows for easy browsing of supplementary content such as, company profiles, country reports, industry profiles, market research reports, SWOT analyses, and author profiles.
D&B Hoovers Online This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive up-to-date information through a global database of over 85 million companies, 90 million decision makers, 1,000 industries, and a proprietary data collection process
Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text of law-related resources such as American Jurisprudence 2d, American Law Reports, law reviews and journals, United States Codes Annotated, U.S. Supreme Court cases, federal and state cases, states statutes and regulations, Code of Federal Regulations, and the Federal Register for legal reference.

Multidisciplinary Databases

OmniFile Full Text Select This link opens in a new window
Full text research database that serves multiple disciplines.
GALE Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content.

Multidisciplinary Reference

Credo Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Full-text online reference service.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
An ever-expanding database that specializes in offering original PDF copies of full-runs of legal collections. It includes: most major legal periodicals, federal and state statutes, court decisions, attorney general reports and opinions, federal legislative history materials, treaties, foreign & international law material, and numerous specialized legal collections. The text of collections are fully searchable and there are tools to browse or find items by citation.

Kaufman Library provides access to many trade publications and journals both individually and through our databases that can help with your business research. In addition to those highlighted below, you can access our full list of electronic journals using the link below.

Electronic journals

Business Newspapers

The Economist
The Economist is an international weekly newspaper printed in magazine-format and published digitally that focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, and technology.
Investor's Business Daily
Daily online business magazine.
Wall Street Journal--Eastern Edition
The online English edition of the Wall Street Journal.

Business Trade Publications

Black Enterprise
BLACK ENTERPRISE is the premier business, investing, and wealth-building resource for African Americans. Since 1970, BLACK ENTERPRISE has provided essential business information and advice to professionals, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and decision-makers.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg Businessweek reveals the strategies that the best leaders, companies, and start-ups use to change the world.
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur is an American magazine and website that carries news stories about entrepreneurship, small business management, and business.
Fortune
Fortune is a global media organization dedicated to helping its readers, viewers, and attendees succeed big in business through unrivaled access and best-in-class storytelling.
IndustryWeek
IndustryWeek provides manufacturing executives with key insights on and analysis of trends, news, operational knowledge and research, as well as facilitating peer-to-peer conversation among the global manufacturing management community.

Business Journals

Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. HBR is published six times a year and is headquartered in Brighton, Massachusetts
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
The Journal of Business and Economic Statistics ( JBES ) publishes a range of articles, primarily applied statistical analyses of microeconomic, macroeconomic, forecasting, business, and finance related topics. More general papers in statistics, econometrics, computation, simulation, or graphics are also appropriate if they are immediately applicable to the journal's general topics of interest. Articles published in JBES contain significant results, high-quality methodological content, excellent exposition, and usually include a substantive empirical application.
Journal of Business Ethics
The Journal of Business Ethics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media covering methodological and disciplinary aspects of ethical issues related to business, including systems of production, consumption, marketing, advertising, social and economic accounting, labor relations, public relations and organizational behavior
Journal of Business Venturing
The Journal of Business Venturing is a bimonthly peer-reviewed multidisciplinary academic journal publishing research on all aspects of entrepreneurship. Its scope spans the disciplines of economics, psychology, and sociology.
Journal of Health Economics
This journal focuses on the economics of health and medical care. The specific scopes of this journal are: production and supply of health services, demand and utilization of health services, financing of health services, and many more topics.
Journal of International Business Studies
The Journal of International Business Studies is a double blind peer-reviewed academic journal and the official publication of the Academy of International Business. It is published by Palgrave Macmillan and covers research on international business.
Journal of International Entrepreneurship
This journal addresses international entrepreneurship opportunities and challenges featuring high-quality theoretical and empirical research.
Nonprofit Management & Leadership
Nonprofit Management & Leadership is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal that publishes quality scholarship on all aspects of management and leadership important to nonprofit organizations and leaders.

Kaufman Library provides access to many streaming media resources and DVDs that can help with your business projects and research.

Streaming Media

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Access to more than 14,000 streaming videos: films, documentaries, and must-see movies.

Kanopy: Business Titles
A listing of Kanopy titles subject tagged for business.

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

AVON: 60 Minutes: 1997-2014
This collection of videos from AVON covers several topics in business.
AVON: Business Education in Video
The Complete Business and Economics Package is a comprehensive online resource that brings together the best applied learning content from top publishers to meet the emerging educational needs of business students and instructors across the globe.

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Video titles in humanities, social sciences, world languages, business, economics, health, and science.

FOD: Business & Economics
A collection of over 5,500 video titles/segments about the topic of business.

Books

Search the entire Kaufman Library collection using the link below. Once you've entered a search term, you can narrow your search by type/format of material (book, visual, etc.), creation date, location, language, and more.

Kaufman Library Catalog (GIL-Find)
Search Kaufman Library's entire collection of materials. Find books, e-Books, DVDs, streaming media, journals, databases, and more.

Library Catalog Searches of Books by Genre

The link below will take you directly to books focused on a variety of topics related to business in the Kaufman Library collection. You'll also be able to edit the search (limit by date, eBook vs. physical book, and more).

eBook Collections

You can also search our eBook collections directly instead of through the library catalog. Below are links to our eBook platforms.

EBSCOhost eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary eBook titles
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central provides access to thousands of ebooks. New titles are added each year from leading publishers to help libraries build collections that meet the needs of their community of researchers.

Business Resources on the Web

The resources in this section are freely available on the Web.

Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM)
The Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) provides sample estimates of statistics for all manufacturing establishments with one or more paid employee.
Georgia Department of Economic Development: Small Business
The Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) is the state's sales and marketing arm, the lead agency for attracting new business investment, encouraging the expansion of existing industry and small businesses, aligning workforce education and training with in-demand jobs, locating new markets for Georgia products, attracting tourists to Georgia, and promoting the state as a destination for arts and location for film, music and digital entertainment projects, as well as planning and mobilizing state resources for economic development.
NPR: Planet Money Podcast
This podcast provides an easy to understand and digest overview of topics related to the economy.
NPR Business and Finance News
National Public Radio's landing page for Business resources.
PBS NewsHour Making Sen$e Podcast
Every week PBS NewsHour covers the world of economics like no other podcast.
SBA: Women's Business Resources
SBA and the Office of Women's Business Ownership collaborate with many organizations to make the best possible resources available to women entrepreneurs. Whether you are a woman interested in starting a business, applying for a business loan, finding government contracting opportunities, or improving an existing business, this page is a good point of reference for you.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
This is the official site of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, an entity that provides a tremendous amount of statistics about the U.S. labor market.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The SEC's website provides information about companies and investments in an easy to understand manner.
U.S. Small Business Administration
Created in 1953, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) continues to help small business owners and entrepreneurs pursue the American dream. The SBA is the only cabinet-level federal agency fully dedicated to small business and provides counseling, capital, and contracting expertise as the nation’s only go-to resource and voice for small businesses.
World Bank
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. We are not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development.