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International Business

Journals (e.g. peer-reviewed) vs. popular magazines

Types of periodicals

Scholarly/academic journals, e.g. International Business & Economics Research Journal, may be peer-reviewed and provide research findings in a discipline.

Trade publications, like World Finance and The Asset, inform or educate professionals in an industry or management function (e.g. IT).

Popular magazines, like Time, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harvard Business Review, and newspapers like The Wall Street Journal, inform or entertain the general public.

If in doubt, ask your professor what kinds of periodicals s/he prefers you to use for the assignment.

Business Source Complete

Business Source Complete, our largest business and management article database, offers primarily scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles from a variety of publications. It is often the best place to start searching for articles.

Here are a couple of tip sheets on using advanced features within Webster University Libraries' databases, which include:

  • Full-text: where to locate the full text of an article
  • Cite tool: how to generate a citation, e.g., in APA or MLA format
  • Folder tool: how to save items to EBSCO folders for future use

Additional international business article databases

The following databases may provide a different focus for your search. You might use them in addition to Business Source Complete above.

Search the Journals and Magazines A-Z list to discover if the periodical you seek is one of more than 80,000 titles available full-text online or in print from the library.