Business

Business Subject Page

 Jack Hyland

My name is Jack Hyland and I am the subject librarian for staff and students in the Business School and Fiontar. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the Library's resources and services or if you need advice on finding information for your work in DCU. If you'd like speak to me in the Library, you can ask for me at the Information Desk. I'm usually available at these times during term:
-Monday, 2.15pm to 10.00pm
-Tuesday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.00pm
Phone: (01) 700 5206 | Email: jack.hyland@dcu.ie

Training docs: slides, exercise sheets etc.

 

Business Abstracts with Full Text (H.W. Wilson) (previously part of Wilson Omnifile)
Full text access to 510 business magazines and scholarly journals dating back to 1995.

Business & Company Resource Center
See Business Insights: Essentials (below).

Business Insights: Essentials
Business Insights: Essentials has all of the content formerly found in Business & Company Resource Center. It includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
E-tutorials: Company Search (3:08) |  Industry Search (2:00) | Article Search using (2:14) | Basics (3:40) | Content Types (5:50) | Searching (5:56)

Business Source Complete (also searches the database Business Abstracts with Full Text*)
Full text access to nearly 1,700 peer-reviewed journals covering accounting, economics, finance, international business and management. Also includes full-text books, company profiles, country economic reports, market research reports, trade journals and business magazines.
*if you want to search Business Source Complete without Business Abstracts, use this link.
E-tutorials : Basic Searching | Advanced Search  | Create Journal Alerts | Create Search Alerts

Cambridge Journals Online
Full text access to economics and psychology journals.

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Full text access to almost 100 scholarly business, management and economics e-journals

DORAS (DCU Online Research Access Service)
Open Access to DCU's scholarly output, including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and theses.

Econlit with Full Text (includes RePEc)
EconLit with Full Text contains all of the abstracts and indexing available in EconLit, plus full text for more than 560 journals, including the American Economic Association journals.
Econlit covers abstracts for over 400 economic journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations in the fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and more.
Title lists: Econlit (abstracts only) | Econlit with Full Text
E-tutorials: Basic Searching  | Advanced Search  | Create Journal Alerts   | Create Search Alerts

Emerald Management Extra
Full text access to over 200 journals in the fields of Economics, Social Studies, Business, Management, Statistics, Finance and Marketing.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches most academic publishers' online collections across all subject areas, and also searches freely available content from sources like researchers' homepages and institutional repositories such as DORAS
Tips for better linking to full-text with Google Scholar.

Irish Newspaper Archive
Digitised newspapers including Freeman's Journal (from 1763), Irish Independent and regional titles.

Irish Times Digital Archive
A searchable full-text reproduction of all editions of the Irish Times published by  from 1859 to the most recent 12 months. You can access the most recent 12 months' content on www.irishtimes.com.

JSTOR
Archive of electronic journal articles in broad subject areas including economics, finance, population studies, sociology and statistics. Most recent years not available.
E-tutorials

NBER Working Papers
Full text working papers produced by researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Over 700 papers added annually.

NexisUK
Extensive newspaper coverage, including many business and financial titles.
E-tutorials

OAIster
Freely-available full-text academic resources from over 100 research libraries and institutions worldwide, including books, journal articles, technical reports, preprints, theses and working papers.

Project Muse
Recent year full text access to 14 economics journals and the Advertising & Society Review.

PsycArticles
Full text psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organisations.
E-tutorials Basic Searching |  Advanced Search |  Create Journal Alerts |  Create Search Alerts

PsycInfo
Two million summaries of psychology articles, books and dissertations in the field of psychology. Links to PsycArticles full texts.
E-tutorials Basic Searching |  Advanced Search |  Create Journal Alerts |  Create Search Alerts

RePEc
See EconLit.

SAGE Journals Online
Full text access to economic science and management journals.

ScienceDirect
Includes around 150 full text journals covering accounting, business, economics, finance and management.

Scopus
Scopus is one of the largest multi-disciplinary abstracting and indexing databases of research literature. It offers coverage of over 16,000 titles across all disciplines, with abstracts and citations data available from 1996.
E-tutorials | User Guide (PDF, 26 pages) | Searchable help guide

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Abstracts of around 150,000 scholarly working papers and free full text access to over 110,000 of these. Specialised network subsets for accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, management and marketing.

SpringerLink
Full text of over 140 business journals covering all disciplines, but with particular emphasis on economics, finance and management.

SwetsWise
Database of approximately 80% of the print journals held in DCU Library and its linked college libraries (St. Patrick's College and Mater Dei Institute).

Taylor & Francis Online (formerly InformaWorld)
Full text journals in business, behavioural sciences, economics and finance published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press.

Web of Science
Access to abstracts and full texts of articles in top scholarly social sciences journals falling within the SSCI. It also offers "Citation searching" to see how many times a particular paper/author has been cited and by whom.
Database Guide (pdf)
E-tutorials: Search Tips (07:33 minutes) | Managing Search Results (04:14 minutes) | Saving Search Histories and Creating Alerts (05:45 minutes) | Cited Reference Searching (06:54 minutes) | Citation Alerting (4:17 minutes)

Wiley Online Library
Full texts of over 70 Wiley business journals.

Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega
see Business Abstracts with Full Text (above).

XpertHR
Human resources intelligence from periodicals, news, employment law cases, case studies, analysis and surveys. Hosts archive of content from 'Employment Law Bulletin', 'Employment Review', 'European Employment Review' and 'Pay & Benefits Bulletin'. Content from IRS and LexisNexis Butterworths.
Access
: username/password required.

Data & Statistics

Business World
Currency information and summary information on Irish, UK and US shares.

Datastream Advance
Financial and economic information database covering financial instruments and indicators for over 140 countries and 60 markets.
Accessing DataStream in DCU | More about Datastream | E-tutorials | third-party help pages

EcoWin
Economic and financial data for over 100 countries and for aggregates such as Eurozone, Africa, Americas and World. Data is collected from more than 800 primary sources, including national statistical offices, central banks, financial exchanges and private institutes. Updated daily.
Database guide.
-access for staff / researchers: install EcoWin software on your computer on or off campus. Contact your Subject Librarian for installation instructions.
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access for students: EcoWin is installed on all PCs in the Library. No off-campus access.

Passport (Euromonitor International)  
(previously known as Passport GMID)
A market research database providing extensive access to:
-Reports on global markets, countries, industies, companies and lifestyles
-Statistics on countries, markets and lifestyles
-Company and country profiles
-Company market share and brand share rankings

OECD iLibrary
OECD iLibrary replaces SourceOECD as the new platform for access to OECD statistical data, books, journals and working papers. As of November 2010 SourceOECD is still active, but access will end as soon as the migration process is complete.

World Development Indicators  
The World Bank's statistical database: over 600 development indicators and time series data for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources and environmental indicators.
See also: World Bank eAltas of World Development - interactive maps of more than 175 World Bank indicators.

Company Information

Business Insights: Essentials
Business Insights: Essentials has all of the content formerly found in Business & Company Resource Center. It includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
E-tutorials: Company Search (3:08) |  Industry Search (2:00) | Article Search using (2:14) | Basics (3:40) | Content Types (5:50) | Searching (5:56)

Business Source Complete (formerly Business Source Premier)
Access to almost 5,000 economic, industry and market reports. Datamonitor analytical reports are available through "Company Profiles".
E-tutorials : Basic Searching | Advanced Search  | Create Journal Alerts | Create Search Alerts

FAME
Company accounts, ratios, activities, ownership and management for the largest 2.6 million UK and Irish companies, summary information for a further 1 million smaller businesses.
FAME is best viewed using Internet Explorer: some advanced features may not work with other browsers.
FAME Online Help

Creating your personal FAME account: you can now create a FAME account to save your searches, to create alerts and to customise lists, reports etc. To register, make a note of the login details here, then go to this page, enter the login details and register. To login to your account, click here. For help with your account, click here.

Irish Times Top 1000
Profiles, contact details and summary of financials for Ireland's top companies by turnover. Methodology.

Kompass
Contact details and basic information for 2 million companies in 75 countries, including Ireland. Access limited to 10 simultaneous users.

Country Reports

CIA World Factbook
Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU): Country Reports
Country reports from Ireland, UK, Germany, France, Spain and Japan from 1996/97 to present. For other countries, see Business Source Complete (6 month embargo).

NexisUK
Reports, profiles, analysis and news classified by country or region:

  • Reports and profiles: general economic, financial and political reports on 90+ countries from Walden Country Reports, and economic and financial profiles from
    70+ financial bodies from the Quest Economics Database. Use the Countries tab, select your country and source type, and enter your search terms;
  • Business analysis and general news: search geographically-grouped publications. Go to Browse Sources tab, select your country and click on 'Country &
    Regional Reports'. Select your preferred sources, click on 'OK-Continue' and enter your search terms

E-tutorials

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Access OECD content from various sources:

  • OECD iLibrary: contains a wide range of country-related material on individual countries, or in passages or chapters in thematic works. Most publications concentrate on OECD member countries, but there is also material on certain non-OECD countries. The main country-related sources are:
          -OECD Economic Surveys: major survey of individual countries. Go to the Papers section and select from Annuals & Outlooks
          -OECD Economic Outlook: analysis of OECD and selected economies. Sections on individual countries. Go to the Papers section and select from Annuals & Outlooks
  • Business Source Complete: archives of OECD Economic Surveys and OECD Economic Outlook (6 month embargo)
  • oecd.org: the OECD's website. More information on country-related sources. Search or browse by country

Market Research

Business Source Complete
Includes access to selected content from Datamonitor and MarketWatch and other sources.
-to access company reports, click on More > Company Profiles the top of the home page.
-to access market, industry and country reports, run your search and use the Source Types filter option on the left of the search results screen to filter your search by publication type.

Business Insights: Essentials
Business Insights: Essentials has all of the content formerly found in Business & Company Resource Center. It includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
E-tutorials: Company Search (3:08) |  Industry Search (2:00) | Article Search using (2:14) | Basics (3:40) | Content Types (5:50) | Searching (5:56)

Passport (Euromonitor International)  
(previously known as Passport GMID)
A market research database providing extensive access to:
-Reports on global markets, countries, industies, companies and lifestyles
-Statistics on countries, markets and lifestyles
-Company and country profiles
-Company market share and brand share rankings

NexisUK
Access to a number of market research sources, including ICC Keynote, MarketResearch.com and Worldwide Market Share. Go to Browse Sources, select Industries & Markets and then Market Research Reports, choose your sources, click on OK-Continue and then enter your search terms.

Accounting & Taxation

International Accounting Standards
Full texts of International Accounting Standards, International Financial Reporting Standards and related materials as published by the IASCF.

TaxFind
A database of the Irish Taxation Institute providing access to tax publications, legislation, case law, articles and documentation.
Access: username and password needed.

News Databases

Business News

Ireland

United Kingdom

United States

Europe


News Databases

Business Insights: Essentials
Business Source Complete (also searches the database Business Abstracts with Full Text*)
NexisUK
 

Business News

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Europe

France

German Language (Germany, except where stated)

Spain

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