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Business Source Complete, our largest business and management article database, offers scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, trade publications and business magazines. It is often the best place to start searching for articles. Here's a brief (2-page PDF document) tip sheet on how to get started with a search.
icalsScholarly/academic journals, e.g. The Career Development Quartetly or Human Resources Management Journal may be peer-reviewed and provide research findings in a discipline.
Trade publications, like HR Magazine or Chief Learning Officer, inform or educate professionals in an industry or management function (e.g. human resources).
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.
These databases may provide a different focus for your search. You might use them in addition to one of the comprehensive databases listed above, or if you have a multidisciplinary topic.
Here are a couple of tip sheets on using advanced features within Webster University Libraries' databases, which include:
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.
If the full-text is not available online, see our Borrowing & Returns page to learn how the library can help students, faculty and staff to obtain the text (at no cost to you).
