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Finding Journal or Periodical Articles on Your Topic


Why Use Articles?Electronic Article Index Databases
What Do I Use to Find Articles?Print Article Indexes
Why Not Just Use the WWW?

Why Use Articles?

  • 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 (for current 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 certain database (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. 

Article Indexes for Scholarly, Professional/Trade, and Popular Journals:
This link opens a new window - Info About ABI/INFORM Global ABI/INFORM Global  (All JHU (incl. International))

(Proquest) Indexes over 1,000 scholarly and trade journals to provide bibliographic citations, abstracts, and selected full-text and selected 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.

This link opens a new window - Info About Business source premier Business source premier   (All US JHU)

(EBSCOhost) Selected full-text, full-image for 1,685 scholarly and trade business and academic journals. Can limit to scholarly or refereed journals. Can search across selected databases simultaneously. Contents include Harvard Business Review.

This link opens a new window - Info About Wilson business full-text (also part of OmniFile Full Text Mega) Wilson business full-text (also part of OmniFile Full Text Mega)  (All US JHU)

(through WilsonWeb database collection) Complements Business Source Premier and ABI Inform Global in coverage. One can limit to 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).

This link opens a new window - Info About EconLit with Full Text EconLit with Full Text  (All US JHU)

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.

This link opens a new window - Info About Academic Search Premier Academic Search Premier  (All US JHU)

(EBSCOhost) Multi-disciplinary article index with much full-text content, especially for scholarly journals in economics.

This link opens a new window - Info About Business and industry Business and industry  (All JHU (incl. International))

(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, the general business press and international business dailies. Coverage of 1200+ periodicals begins with 1994. Can search up to 3 First Search databases simultaneously.

This link opens a new window - Info About Periodical abstracts Periodical abstracts   (All JHU (incl. International))

(FirstSearch Collection) Selected full-text journal articles. Coverage extends twenty years.

This link opens a new window - Info About LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis Academic  (All US JHU)

Search the files under the Business Menu for business and industry publications.  

This link opens a new window - Info About LexisNexis Statistical LexisNexis Statistical  (All US JHU)

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 trade periodicals (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

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