Business Source Premier provides indexing and abstracts for over 3,000 business journals and full text for over 2,500 journals, including over 1,100 peer-reviewed journals.

Many of the journals are indexed back to the 1980s.

The database covers all disciplines of business including marketing, management, management information systems, production and operations management, accounting, finance, and economy. It provides access to journals such as Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and Newsweek.

In addition to journal articles, the database includes SWOT analyses, company profiles, and industry profiles.

The database is updated daily.

The search language is English. You may find articles in other languages in the search results.

You can also use the embedded AI function to have articles summarized and explained.

? = replaces one character in the search term (eg. wom?n finds woman and women)

* = finds all endings of the search term (eg. market* finds market, markets, marketing, etc.)

1. Type your search terms in the search bars
2. All Fields: Here you can define the fields that you are searching eg.: AB=abstract, SU=subject term
3. You can combine your search terms using AND, OR, NOT.
             AND: Retrieves articles containing all the specified search terms,
             OR: Retrieves articles containing at least one of the specified search terms,
             NOT: Retrieves articles containing one search term but excluding the other

1. Phrase searching: Put quotation marks around two or more words to search them as a phrase (eg. ”market strategy”).
2. Company Entity/Profiles: Search for a company name to find company profiles from MarketLine.
3. Search in "Company" under filters in the left side.

1. All filters: Allows you to refine your search results. For instance refine on publication year
2. or add more subjects to your search.
3. Access to articles: Choose Online Full Text or PDF.  If that is not a possibility: Choose to see if the VIA Libraries provide access to the full text.

Press Cite: Choose Export citation. Allows you to export the reference to Mendeley or Zotero. Choose RIS Format.