BUSINESS SOURCE COMPLETE – EBSCO

Vlerick Library Quickguide

1. WHAT IS BUSINESS SOURCE COMPLETE?

Business Source Complete, designed specifically for business schools and libraries, provides full text

from many sources, including scholarly business journals. As part of the comprehensive coverage

offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals

back as far as 1886 are included. EBSCO Business Source Complete contains:

Academic Journals

Author Profiles

Books

Case Studies

Company Profiles

Conference Proceedings

Country Reports

Financial Data

Industry, Investment Research and Market Research Reports

Monographs

SWOT Analyses

Trade Journals

This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics,

finance, accounting, international business, and more. The database contains full text from

international top ranking journals, including Harvard Business Review, California Management

Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of

Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of

Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, Human resource management, Journal of Business

Ethics, Small Business Economics, etc.

To get access to Business Source Complete – EBSCO, go to http://www.vlerick.com/library

click on e-resources and choose Business Source Complete – EBSCO

2. SEARCH

You can enter a subject, author, title… and refine your search using different limiters.

3. CONSULT YOUR SEARCH RESULTS

Your search results are shown in a tabulated form on the results page. The first column shows the number of

results and enables you to narrow down your search even further. The second column shows the actual results

with a brief citation of the retrieved articles.

4. READ THE ARTICLE

Clicking on the brief citation will open up a more detailed citation and provide you with more options.

5. SEARCHING ONE SPECIFIC JOURNAL

If you want to consult the table of contents and articles of one specific journal, you can look up the journal

via ‘Publications’ search.

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6. RETRIEVE YOUR SAVED ARTICLES

Once you have saved articles, you can retrieve them from ‘your folder’.