Research Guides: Business: Getting Started

Additional Research Guides

For additional research resources, please refer to the guides below.

Library Business FAQs and Instructional PDFs

Library Business FAQs
General Concepts PDFs
Instructional PDFs that simplify and explain: Company Research, Industry Research, Market Research, Literature Search and How to Find Data.

Getting Started

OSU Libraries subscribes to many licensed resources related to business. This guide organizes these resources into subject areas to make them easier to find.

These resources are a good place to start for many types of business research. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me with any questions.

Introduction to Library Resources (3 minutes)

Business News and Journal Resources

Wall Street Journal [Selected Articles in Full Text]
Contains the full-text Wall Street Journal newspaper which has extensive coverage of stock markets, finance, investments and business-oriented news. We have access to 1984-current.
Business Source Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text]
A business articles database with indexing and abstracts for more than 1,200 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals from 1886-present.
Factiva [Selected Articles in Full Text]
A news aggregator database; one of the best places to access news stories from around the world. Content is often native language of publication. Also: Company profile pages and industry reports (see Companies/Markets dropdown in top menu bar). Company pages give you a good overview of a company + all the most recent relevant news stories in one place.
Access Business News
This database includes business and economic content from newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs and video around the world.
Regional Business News [Selected Articles in Full Text]
A full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world.

Business Librarian

Ash Faulkner

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Contact:

Thompson Library 222C
1858 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, OH 43210

614-514-5935

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review is available via Business Source Complete. For some article PDFs, printing has been disabled. Refer to the spreadsheet below to see what articles are included in this list. Note: Harvard Business Cases are generally not included in these subscriptions.

HBR Read Only

Business Source Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text]
Limit search to HBR articles by going to Advanced Search and typing "Harvard Business Review" into the Publication box.