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Articles often are published more quickly than books.
Articles focus on very specific topics.
Articles may refer to key people, statistics, associations or other important resources.
Articles may provide objective analysis on an industry or on a company’s personnel and financial situation, competition, market share, strategies, products, licensing and patents, and successes and failures.
To find information on private companies, ones that aren’t required to disclose financial information and don’t sell stock on a stock exchange, articles are crucial.
What Should I Use to Find Journal or Periodical Articles on My Topic? Identify articles on your topic in a business or economics article index, using the JHU resources on this page or the full list of business or economics databases, under the Online Resources tab.
Indexes will:
Efficiently target articles from reputable, scholarly, popular or trade publications through specialized search engines and classification systems.
List articles published universally in the field, which are independent of JHU's holdings; you will not see JHU call numbers.
Provide the essential details (author, title, journal title, volume #, issue #, page numbers) for retrieving and citing the article.
Possibly provide links to electronic, full-text articles within the database, depending on the supplier's copyright agreements with the publishers.
Provide links that identify whether the journal is available through another JHU database or the JHU Catalog.
Why Shouldn't I Just Use the World Wide Web?
The WWW is useful for some news, company information, statistics, demographic and industry data and competitor analysis.
However,
A company's web site only reveals what the company wants the public to know.
Anyone can post or remove a website.
Searching the WWW is unorganized and usually more time-consuming.
Most professors want critical or scholarly information, which is not freely available through the WWW, due to cost and publishers' copyright restrictions. Although current or sample issues of journals may be posted, use library article databases for back issues, and for trade (industry-specific) or scholarly journals. The JHU libraries spend much money on high quality print and electronic resources and the rights that enable access to the scholarly information, often in full-text, web-based format. Consult this guide to Searching for Scholarly Journals.
Electronic Indexes (forcurrent and older articles):
Remote Access From Home or Laptop:
The Sheridan libraries' electronic article indexes are automatically accessible from any JHU Campus. To access these JHU-licensed resources from home or a laptop, you will need your JHED login ID and password for authentication as a valid JHU user. More information is located on our site under the Computing portion of the Library Services menu.
Search Tips:
Create a list of keywords or concepts. Include any related search terms or spelling variations. Analyze the vocabulary or subject terms used by a particular database.
Consult multiple databases. Despite some overlap, journal coverage and availability vary among databases.Depending on publishers' agreements with suppliers, full-text of particular journals may be available only in a certaindatabase (e.g. full-text to Harvard Business Review is only in Business Source Premier; Wall Street Journal is in ABI Inform).
The most targeted searches on your keywords will be in the title, subject or abstract fields. To broaden your results list, choose all field, general keyword, or full-text searches.
(Proquest)Indexes over 1,000 scholarly and trade journals to provide bibliographic citations, abstracts, and selected full-text andselected full-image for articles in business and management. Over 60,000 U.S. and international companies are represented.Can limit to refereed journals. Files begin prior to 1985. ABI Inform includes full-text articles from The Wall Street Journal.
(EBSCOhost) Selected full-text, full-image for 1,685 scholarly and trade business and academic journals. Can limit toscholarly or refereed journals. Can search across selected databases simultaneously. Contents include Harvard Business Review.
(through WilsonWeb database collection) Complements Business Source Premier and ABI Inform Global in coverage. One can limitto refereed journals. Contains selected full-text. Articles begin with 1982. Through WilsonWeb, one can simultaneously search across multiple,selected indexes (e.g Social Sciences, Business, Applied Science & Technology).
American Economic Association's bibliographic database is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature.Selected full-text links for JHU electronic journal subscriptions. Print equivalent is Journal of Economic Literature. Updated quarterly. Coverage begins with 1969.
(FirstSearch Collection)Contains important facts, figures and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. Includes citations and selected full-text articles from leading trade magazines, newsletters, thegeneral business press and international business dailies. Coverage of 1200+ periodicals begins with 1994. Can search up to 3First Search databases simultaneously.
Search the abstracts portion for articles and statistics from industry-specific (trade) journals and other publications.
Print Indexes (for older literature):
Business Periodicals Index (H.W. Wilson) v.1 (1958:Jan./1959:June)-v.24 (1981:Aug./1982:July) General Reference Collection (M-Level) HF 5500 .A1 B8
Applied Science & Technology Index (H.W. Wilson) (1958-1993) Eisenhower Stacks, C-Level T 8 .A6 (non-circulating)
The Industrial arts index; annual cumulation; subject index to a selected list of engineering and tradeperiodicals (Superseded by Business Periodicals Index and Applied Science & Technology Index) 1st (1913)-45th (1957) Request from Libraries Service Center T 8 .I42
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) (1963-present) General Reference HB 1 .J63 (also electronically available)
International Bibliography of Economics General Reference HB 62 .I5
Index of Economic Articles v.1 (1886/1924)-v.37(1995) General Reference HC 20 .I5
Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (1986 - present) General Reference HB 1 .A15
