| Database | Main Features | Why use it? |
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| ABI/ProQuest |
- Covers business, academic, and trade journals
- Key journals included from 1st issue
- Indexes back to 1923
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- Focuses on academic sources
- Articles may include charts/images
- Includes alert service
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| Academic Search Premier |
- Covers journals, magazines and newspapers
- Large collection of scholarly publications
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- Multi-disciplinary
- Larger than ABI/ProQuest or Business Source Complete
- Articles may include charts/images
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| Business Source Complete |
- Covers academic journals, magazines, and trade publications.
- Includes company, industry, and region reports
- Indexes back to 1886
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- Includes wider range of sources and special features than ABI/ProQuest
- Articles may include charts/images
- Best place for Harvard Business Review
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| Factiva.com |
- Several thousand sources including journals, trade publications, newspapers, newswires, and transcripts
- Content in 22 languages
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- Focuses on current news
- Includes unique indexes for sources and languages
- Best place for recent Wall Street Journal
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| LexisNexis Academic |
- Several thousand sources including journals, newspapers, newswires, and transcripts
- Legal reports from federal and state courts, federal laws and regulations, and other government information
- Medical and health publications covering wide range of medical topics
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- Best for legal and government news
- Includes biographical information on politicians and business executives
- Best place for recent New York Times
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| JSTOR |
- Over 500 academic journals including several on business, economics, and finance
- All journals included from 1st issue; most recent issue available 3-5 years old
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- 100% full-text
- All charts and images are included
- Solid collection of classic academic journals
- Best for older research
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