Research Guides

                        Searching the Business Journal & Periodical Literature

Lovejoy Library licenses two databases specifically designed for searching and mining Business Journals & Periodicals,
namely, ABI/INFORM and Business Source Elite.

To access either of these resources, you can do so from the Library's opening web page and then just click on the
"eResources A-Z" list and go to it alphabetically.  Alternatively, on the main web page, click on
"Journals, Magazines, and More" under the "Find" menu. Next click on "eResources and Databases By Subject"
and then on "Business," at which point you'll be at the "Business eResources" page, where you can also
choose either database from the list.

Here's a screenshot from the Business eResources page.

Choosing ABI/INFORM, let's show some search samples from this premier business periodical index database.
Here's a view of the database as it opens.  The default search is a keyword search.

A second screen shows ABI/INFORM with the drop-down menu for choosing different fields within which
to search, e.g., "Subject," "Company/Org," "Document title," etc.

Next see this screen with a search input for searching a topic in a particular publication:

Finally, here's a screen shot of a search illustrating a search for scholarly journal
articles within a specific subject and time frame:

Tutorial Demonstration of searching an Industry in ABI/INFORM.

For more comprehensive assistance in searching within ABI/INFORM,

please see ProQuest's Training Tutorials and Training Materials.

Now look at a couple of screen shots from our other, complementary business
journal database, EBSCOhost's Business Source Elite:

Note the following screen showing available drop-down fields, quite similar to ABI/INFORM.

Within Business Source Elite, EBSCO provides more comprehensive help for various search features.
Simply click on the "Help" tab in the upper right tab of the search screen.