Searching for your topic? Use databases.
- ABI/INFORMSearch local, national & international business, economic, management & company publications.
Help using ABI/Inform.
Help getting a permalink in ABI/Inform.
Proquest Accessibility Help - Gale Business Insights (formerly Business Insights: Essentials)Company profiles, histories and chronologies; investment reports; business news.
Help creating a permalink in Gale Business Insights. - Business Source CompleteScholarly and non-scholarly articles on business, management and economics.
Help using Business Source Complete.
Help getting a permalink in Business Source Complete.
EBSCOhost Accessibility Help - Conference Board: Business Knowledge ResearchBusiness reports, podcasts and webcasts.
Help getting a permalink in Conference Board: Business Knowledge Research. - Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)Primary source for federal and state case law and statutes and law reviews. Company, industry, country, and executive profiles. Newspapers.
Nexis Uni tutorial.
Help getting a permalink in Nexis Uni. - Sage JournalsScholarly articles in all subjects. Particularly good in business, biology/medicine, engineering, and the social sciences. We do not have access to full-text for all Sage journals. Limit your search to "SAGE Journals Available To Me."
Help using Sage Journals.
Help getting a permalink in Sage Journals. - ScienceDirectFull-text access to 248 journals. Please also check Google Scholar if you cannot find full-text in ScienceDirect.
Help using ScienceDirect.
Help getting a permalink in ScienceDirect.
ScienceDirect Accessibility Help
Know what article or journal you're looking for?
- Google ScholarYou now need to go into Settings to get SUNY Empire Library fulltext through Google Scholar. Please check out the Google Scholar how to for new instructions!Know the title of the article you're looking for? Use this tool to search for it (in quotes.) You can also use this tool to search for scholarly articles across multiple databases and in institutional repositories.
Help using Google Scholar.
- E-Journals A-ZKnow the name of the journal? This tool lets you enter the journal's title into the search box and shows you the databases that have articles from that journal.
What are scholarly/peer reviewed articles?
In scholarly/peer reviewed articles:
- Author is an expert in the subject
- Content is evaluated by other experts before publication
- All information sources are cited
Some databases have all scholarly material. Others have an option to search for only scholarly/peer-reviewed articles. The videos below will help you make sense of the differences between scholarly and peer-reviewed articles.
Need help with searching?
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Combine keywordsEntering your keywords by themselves is less effective than combining them with Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT, etc.) Here's how to do it.
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Citing Your SourcesA collection of web sites that will help you cite your sources (aka document your sources, make footnotes and bibliography.)
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Identify KeywordsShows you how to come up with keywords to search in library databases, the e-book catalog, even Google.
Accessibility Note
Please note: If you need to request accommodations with content linked to on this guide, on the basis of a disability, please contact Accessibility Resources and Services by emailing them. Requests for accommodations should be submitted as early as possible to allow for sufficient planning. If you have questions, please visit the Accessibility Resources and Services website.
