Guides: Huntsman Senior Thesis 2023: Scholarly Articles & News

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General Databases for Scholarly Articles

EBSCO MegaFILE
General, 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.
Google Scholar
Access 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.
JSTOR
JSTOR 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.
Web of Science
Indexes 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.

Full-text Newspapers & Magazines

Factiva
Current and historical news from thousands of publications worldwide in over 20 languages. Company overviews and stock data are available for public companies.
American Historical Periodicals, 1740-1949
Newsbank Access World News
Searchable fulltext of international and U.S. national, regional, and local newspapers. Coverage for current issues (i.e., yesterday in most cases) with extensive backfiles. Business and Management, Communication, Education, Philadelphia Studies, Political Science, Public Policy and Administration, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences, Sociology, Urban Studies.
Business Week Archives, 1929-2000
Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020
New York Times (1851-2019), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Full-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. Through the ProQuest interface, a searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image in ProQuest Historical Newspapers (although the ASCII text is not available for printing or emailing). Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved including article title, publication, issue date, author, page, etc. Articles are emailed in pdf format.
Wall Street Journal (1889-2011), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Full-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. Through the ProQuest interface, a searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image in ProQuest Historical Newspapers (although the ASCII text is not available for printing or emailing). Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved including article title, publication, issue date, author, page, etc. Articles are emailed in pdf format.

FT.com
Use this link to set up your Financial Times online account.
Financial Times, 1888-2021
Provides online access to a complete facsimile run of the Financial Times from 1888 to 2016.
WSJ.com
You need to use this link to create an account. After that you can log in directly from wsj.com

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Business Databases: Cases, News and Periodicals related to business

Start with a keyword search and the use the filters to limit to scholarly publications, subject, date, source and more. If the full text is not available from the database you are using, click on the Penn text tab under the article to see if it is available in another source.

Sample searches: silk road and economic development and africa; economic development and strategies.

ABI/Inform
Aggregates content from thousands of business and management publications worldwide, including scholarly and trade publications.
Fitch Solutions
Information on global emerging markets. Covers political risk, finance, economic indicators, macroeconomic performance, outlook and forecast, and the business operating environment. A wide range of industry sectors are covered including: agribusiness, autos, banking and financial services, consumer and retail, consumer electronics, defense and security, food and drink, freight transport and shipping, information technology, infrastructure, insurance, metals, mining, oil and gas, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, power, real estate, telecommunications, tourism, and water.
Business Source Complete
Citations, summaries and full-text articles from business-focused academic journals, magazines and trade publications, as well as some company, industry and market reports.
EconLit
Covers accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, demographics, modeling, economic theory, and planning. Primarily English language, some foreign language publications included.
EMIS
News, financial, economic and market information focusing largely on emerging market countries. Includes native language publications.
PAIS Index
Bibliographic citations (1915-) with indexing on contemporary public affairs and policy issues worldwide related to a wide range of topics: agriculture, banking, finance, business, demographics, education, health, environment, planning, public administration, law and legislation, and international relations. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, and Internet material. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
Sage Business Cases
Cases published by several business schools (e.g. Kellogg, Berkeley, Cambridge), as well as original cases produced by Sage covering all areas of business.

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.