Business Source Ultimate
Business Source Ultimate contents
Business Ultimate contains research articles, company profiles, SWOT analyses, cases. Furthermore, you will find thousands of industry and market reports at country level as well as regional level. These are publications from Datamonitor, EIU, WEFA, Countrywatch, ICON Group, and MarketLine and others.
The database covers a wide range of topics and contains various subject areas within business, including areas such as management, finance, banking, insurance, auditing, law, international business, marketing, human resource management, production management, public administration, computer science.
Search words
Be inspired by the subject terms in the Thesaurus. In the thesaurus you can see which words the database uses to describe a topic.
By using the thesaurus you can either expand or narrow your searches compared to the word you would otherwise use.
What does AND, OR or NOT mean?
- AND - combines your search terms so that each search result contains all the words
- OR - combines your search terms so that each search result contains at least one of the words
- NOT - excludes the search terms
Find a specific journal
In the "publications" menu, you can search for a specific journal, e.g. Harvard Business Review, and see tables of contents from individual issues. You can also search for journals within a specific topic.
Find company profiles
In the "Company profiles" menu, you can find company profiles with SWOT analyses and an overview of competitors as well as a company history section.
Guides
- Getting started - Business Source (pdf)
- Tips for searching Business Source (video 16:22 min)
- Follow a subject - create a search alert (video 1:28 min)
- Follow a journal - create a journal alert (video 1:08 min)
Business Source on the fly
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Find links for download on the search page.
Business Source Ultimate Facts
Coverage | 5000+ full text journals 7000+ indexed journals including abstracts and much more |
Period | 1911- |
Geographical coverage | World |
Provider | EBSCOhost |