Depending on your research needs, you may want to select one article database over another. Each article database has its own particular strengths:
ABI ProQuest
Best for management and scholarly literature. Some articles may include charts/images. Includes alert service.
Academic Search Premier
Best for interdisciplinary scholarly literature. Some articles may include charts/images.
Business Source Complete
Best for management and scholarly literature. Similar to ABI/Inform; each has journals the other does not. Includes full-text of Harvard Business Review. Company, industry, and region reports. Some articles may include charts/images.
EconLit
Best for scholarly economic literature. Includes content in multiple languages.
Factiva
Best for current events and news. Includes current issues of Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post. Full contents include journals, trade publications, newspapers, newswires, and transcripts. Includes content in 22 languages. Sophisticated search options.
Google Scholar
Best for quick search of academic literature. Can connect Google account to Harvard Library access to connect Harvard's subscription access to results.
JSTOR
Best for older research (comprehensive backfiles of journals). Classic academic journals. 100% full-text; all charts and images included.
Nexis Uni
Best for legal and government sources. No images. Journals, newspapers, newswires, and transcripts. Legal reports from federal and state courts, federal laws and regulations, and other government information.
ProQuest TDM Studio
Best for text and data mining. Allows researchers to run analysis on Harvard licensed ProQuest content (200+ article databases).
Web of Science
Best for cited reference searches and journal citation reports for impact factor. Only citations are provided (no full text). Broad interdisciplinary coverage.
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