Business Administration

The recommended first-stop for all business research. Use the left side bar to navigate to the various kinds of resources available through the SMC Library.

Searching for Business Articles

 

For articles in business journals, magazines, newspapers, and more, you can start with using the Library Search box here and on the Library's homepage to search multiple databases at one time.

Library Search

Search for books, articles, videos, and more

Advanced search

Essential article databases

You can limited to just business content by searching directly in the following two essential business article databas

 

Other useful databases

Unless otherwise noted, these sources are included in Multisearch. These links will just limit results to those specific sources.

 

Google Scholar

If you are just starting your research, I always recommend that you search the databases above first (particularly Multisearch and ABI/Inform). See this video for the pros and cons of Google Scholar in your research.

Government Agencies

Search USA.gov to find reports and documents about issues of international, national, and regional importance from various applicable government agencies.

For more specific searching, trying searching for your interests in Google, and add "site:gov" to your search (without the quotation marks) to limit your results to only those from US government agencies. You can limit to state by adding the state abbreviate, as well (example: "site:ca.gov").

screenshot of google search screen

 

 

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

An increasing power on the World's stage is the non-governmental organization. The US alone is home to over 1.5 million NGOs. See the searchable directory to find NGOs on any given topic from WANGO, a leading umbrella organization for NGOs.

World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO)

 

Also, Duke University offers a customized Google search box that limits keyword and topic searchs to known and verified NGO resources: Duke University Libraries NGO Guide

 

Research Institutes ("Think Tanks")

"Think tanks" are policy Institutes that research contemporary and important social and economic issues. Often housed by universities or afflicated with political action groups, think tanks are a wealth of great data and analysis, though not without bias. Research the background of think tanks to know more about their positions. 

Below are some of the more well known think tanks related to business and economics:

Brookings Institution

Cato Institute

Conference Board

Heritage Foundation

The Hoover Institution

National Bureau of Economic Research

RAND

Public Policy Institute of California

Also see the comprehensive guide to think tanks from the Library of Harvard's Kennedy School. Use the customized Google search they developed to search for your topic in hundreds of known think tanks.

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