Library Guides: International Business: Journal articles and databases

Key journal article databases

Searching databases for journal articles is the most effective and efficient way to find resources and evidence.

ABI/INFORM collection
Worldwide business journals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and companies.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is a scholarly journal article database, providing bibliographic and full text access to business, finance, and management journal articles, as well as company & industry information.
Emerald Insight
Emerald Insight is a specialist database developed for business schools, providing full text access to the Emerald/MCB University Press' collection of peer-reviewed management journals, as well abstracts from the Emerald Management Reviews database.
OECD iLibrary
OECD iLibrary is OECD's Online Library for Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to OECD's analysis and data.
Scopus
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer reviewed literature, book reviews and conference proceedings.
WARC / by Ascential
Warc is a comprehensive marketing information service. Warc provides marketing and communications case studies, research papers, conference reports and authoritative forecasts of advertising expenditure for all major economies used by researchers worldwide.
Web of Science
A collection of citation databases and citation analysis tools covering the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

Full list of business related databases

Peer reviewed articles

Explanation of peer reviewed articles and journals (YouTube, 1m51s)

Australian Business Deans Council - Journal list

Australian Business Deans Council Journal Quality List

The Australian Business Deans Council's (ABDC) Journal Quality List is a journal ranking exercise undertaken by the Council that divides different business journals into four categories of quality: A*, A, B, C.

Journal titles (not journal articles) can be searched from the ABDC website using titles, keyword, ISSN, Field of Research (FoR) category or Journal Rating.

This video provides advice on searching for these titles in the databases.

Searching for articles from the ABDC journals list

Searching for journals on an approved list (Research tips for business students) (YouTube, 3m48s)