Business FAQ
General Databases for Scholarly Articles
- EBSCO MegaFILEGeneral, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstracts for more than 16,000 periodicals.
- JSTORJSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching possible both within each title and across the whole database.
- Google ScholarAccess to Google Scholar with Penn-only links to full-text articles. Once authenticated through Penn's proxy, full-text articles to which Penn Libraries subscribe will become available within the Google Scholar search results.
- Web of ScienceIndexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address, as well as for articles that cite a known author or work.
Business Databases
- Business Source CompleteCitations, summaries and full-text articles from business-focused academic journals, magazines and trade publications, as well as some company, industry and market reports.
- ABI/InformAggregates content from thousands of business and management publications worldwide, including scholarly and trade publications.
- EconLitCovers accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, demographics, modeling, economic theory, and planning. Primarily English language, some foreign language publications included.
- APA PsycInfoThe American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields. Coverage is worldwide. Sources are in English and over thirty languages.
- PAIS IndexBibliographic citations (1915-) with indexing on contemporary public affairs and policy issues worldwide related to a wide range of topics.
Full-text Newspapers & Magazines
- FactivaProvides access to over 32,000 sources of national and international news
- New York Times (1851-2019), ProQuest Historical NewspapersFull-text of the New York Times. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements are all searchable and available for viewing and printing.
- Newsbank Access World NewsSearchable fulltext of international and U.S. national, regional, and local newspapers. Coverage for current issues (i.e., yesterday in most cases) with extensive backfiles.
- Wall Street Journal (1889-2011), ProQuest Historical NewspapersFull-text of the Wall Street Journal. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, financial quotes, and advertisements are all searchable and available for viewing and printing.
InterLibrary Loan (ILL) & Document Delivery
If you are unable to find a book or article that you need through the Penn Libraries, you can use one of our InterLibrary Loan systems to search beyond the holdings in Franklin and try and locate it at another library: Click here for access to BorrowDirect+, EZBorrow, and InterLibrary Loan.
As Wharton students, you are also eligible for our Document Delivery services. For more information on DocDel, click here.
