Library Guides: ACCT 302: Find Articles & More

Tips for Searching Databases

Use keywords.

Combine keywords with boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT).

If your research involves a company, search by the ticker symbol of that company, if available.

If you are doing industry research, search by industry code when possible.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service offered to patrons who are unable to find certain books or articles through the SU Academic Commons Library or other USMAI Libraries. Library staff may be able to request these items if they are owned by libraries across the United States.

ABI/INFORM Global
Provides indexing and abstracting for 1000 periodicals with full text for more than 600 publications.
Business Source Complete
Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more. Content includes many full-text journals and topical video content

ABI/INFORM Global
Provides indexing and abstracting for 1000 periodicals with full text for more than 600 publications.
Morningstar
Provides up-to-date stock and fund information to research current or prospective holdings and see how investments work together. Data reports cover more than 20,000 securities.

Historical Wall Street Journal
Provides full-text and full-image articles from 1889-2010.
Morningstar
Provides up-to-date stock and fund information to research current or prospective holdings and see how investments work together. Data reports cover more than 20,000 securities.
Wall Street Journal
Indexes, abstracts, and provides online full text for the Wall Street Journal newspaper 1984-present.
Value Line Investment Survey
Provides year-ahead and three-to-five-year probable relative price performance, projections of key financial measures, and concise, objective commentary on current operations and future prospects, as well as full-page individual stock reports and industry reviews.

ABI/INFORM Global
Provides indexing and abstracting for 1000 periodicals with full text for more than 600 publications.
Academic Search Ultimate
Offers access to an unprecedented collection of resources including journals, magazines, reports, books, and videos. Many are peer-reviewed and full-text. Subjects range from astronomy to zoology.

ABI/INFORM Global
Provides indexing and abstracting for 1000 periodicals with full text for more than 600 publications.
Statista
Provides data and infographics on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources, categorized into 21 market sectors with quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas.

EconLit
Provides a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research in peer-reviewed journals, working papers, PhD dissertations, books, and book reviews.
Statista
Provides data and infographics on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources, categorized into 21 market sectors with quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas.

Historical Statistics of the United States
Provides data from the Millennial edition, 2006.
Statista
Provides data and infographics on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources, categorized into 21 market sectors with quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas.

Checkpoint Edge
Provides information to tax and accounting professionals including expert research, guidance, technology, tools, learning and news.
Access is limited to 35 simultaneous users.
HeinOnline Academic
Provides topic specific databases including all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law, and Women and the Law, etc. Full text case law powered by Fastcase is included.

Baltimore Sun
Indexes, abstracts, and provides online full text for The Sun, Baltimore (Baltimore Sun) newspaper 1990-present.
Historical Baltimore Sun
Includes complete issues of The Baltimore Sun from 1837 to 1996.
New York Times
Indexes, abstracts, and provides online full text for the New York Times newspaper (1980-present), the New York Times Book Review (1988-present), and the New York Times Magazine (1997-present).
Historical New York Times
Provides full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times from 1851-2018.
Regional Business News
Provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 60 sources.
Wall Street Journal
Indexes, abstracts, and provides online full text for the Wall Street Journal newspaper 1984-present.
Historical Wall Street Journal
Provides full-text and full-image articles from 1889-2010.
Washington Post
Indexes, abstracts, and provides online full text for the Washington Post newspaper 1987-present.
Historical Washington Post
Provides full-text and full-image articles from 1877-2006.

Academic Search Ultimate
Offers access to an unprecedented collection of resources including journals, magazines, reports, books, and videos. Many are peer-reviewed and full-text. Subjects range from astronomy to zoology.
JSTOR (including ARTSTOR)
Provides full-text access to a broad range of resources about the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, including primary sources, images, articles, and books. Does not contain the most recent journal articles.
ScienceDirect
Provides extensive full-text journal coverage of the physical and biological sciences, as well as some coverage of the social sciences and humanities.
Web of Science
Enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from thousands of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. It also provides cited reference searching.

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