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BUS 526 Internationalization Proposal (Vora)

Resources for the country analysis assignment

Access articles about your firm

Using the Business Source Complete database to find articles

What is an article database?

Library article databases allow users to search for articles from various publications and/or periodicals (journals, newspapers, or magazines).

The description of an article found in a database commonly consists of 3 main parts: 

  • Citation - gives the publication information for the article or book chapter including author, title, periodical name, issue, date, and pages numbers.
  • Abstract - A brief summary of an article or book.
  • Full-text – when available, the complete copy of the article.

Need help finding articles? See our Database Searching guide for more information about selecting a database, search strategies and step-by-step database searching instructions.

Industry analysis: trade journals and associations

Trade or professional publications

  • Provides information of use to a particular industry.
  • Articles are not peer-reviewed.

Trade publications are tremendous resources offering extensive specialized information on the industries they cover.  Many of these trade publications are in full text in the business databases such as Business Source Complete and ABI/Inform. Also, the publishers of trade journals often maintain their websites with selected free data.