LibGuides: Business & Management (RSM): Finding Literature

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Introduction

Use this section to find online resources to conduct a literature search for business management, including reference materials (dictionaries and encyclopedias) ebooks, journals and databases.

Below you will find a thorough selection of general resources, all of which are considered authoritative. However, if you don't know where to begin your literature search, we recommend to start with Business Source Premier (ProQuest), e.g., via the A_Z list or via Subject Databases.

General Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
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Encyclopedias on business, finance, management, science, technology, ethics, social sciences, law and humanities. It contains the well known "International Directory of Company Histories".
It consist of six parts:
- Encyclopedia of Business and Finance 2v, 2001
- Encyclopedia of Management 5th ed., 2006
- Encyclopedia of Small Business 3rd ed., 2v, 2007
- Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics 4v, 2005
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., 2008
- World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems, 2nd ed., 2007
MIT Economics Collection This link opens in a new window
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The MIT Economics Collection includes work from Nobel Prize winners Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Peter Diamond, James J. Heckman, Paul Krugman, Franco Modigliani, Elinor Ostrom, Edmund S. Phelps, Christopher Pissarides, Herbert A. Simon, and Jean Tirole.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics This link opens in a new window
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Online version of the well known dictionary economics.
Now Publisher's Foundations and Trends: Business and Economics This link opens in a new window
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Journal articles from Now Publishers.
Oxford Scholarship Online Economics and Finance This link opens in a new window
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E-books in the field of economics and finance, published by Oxford University Press.
Routledge History of Economic Thought This link opens in a new window
History of Economic Thought (Routledge) focuses on the period of 1700-1914. The collection contains classical works and thematic essays on economics.
Though this resource focuses on the period 1700-1914, many of the primary source collections extend beyond this period. Part of the content is digitally available for the first time (2018).

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
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includes 900 original articles by noted scholars from more than thirty-five countries. Articles range from 500-word entries on inventors, theoreticians, and industry leaders to overarching, 8,000-word essays on markets, industries, and labor.
Encyclopedia of statistics in behavioral science
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Provides complete coverage of current statistical methods ranging through confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, random effect/multilevel modeling, generalized linear models, computationally intensive methods such as the bootstrap, and many more.

If you want to do an extensive literature search, we advise you to use subject-specific databases: they offer additional search features not available on sEURch, such as thesaurus or citation searching, and allow you to save your searches or export your lists to a reference management tool, such as RefWorks.

Browse through the Library's A-Z list of databases:

Databases A-Z
Find the best library databases for your research: select a subject or search by title.

Or go straight to the business-subject databases listed below:

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
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Provides bibliographic or full text content from 1300 academic journals, magazines and trade publications covering business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Platform: EBSCO
Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
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Full-text access to academic journals and e-books published by the Cambridge University Press.
Econlit (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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International bibliographical database for economists.
Platform: ProQuest
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
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Online library with access to over 200 titles in the fields of management, information science and engineering.
IngentaConnect This link opens in a new window
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Platform giving access to journals from different publishers.
The whole database can be searched, but access to the full-text article is limited to the subscribed content. The full-text of most journals is available via other databases.
ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
ProQuest One Business combines multiple ProQuest business information databases - including e.g. the ABI/INFORM Collection and J.P. Morgan Research - to a total of more than 130 million documents.
To facilitate the research of e.g. company or market information ProQuest developed new corporation and business subject thesauri for ProQuest One Business as well as a new indexing for e.g. different types of reports and report content. Based on this new indexing ProQuest One Business offers special search and navigation features that are not available elsewhere on the ProQuest Platform. For more information on how to use these features, please see the Unique Features page.
Risk.net This link opens in a new window
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Risk.Net is a platform for journals, ebooks and conference reports in the area of risk management, derivatives, asset management, regulations, Basel III, central banking and Quant resources.
RiskNet contains journals such as the Journal of Risk, the Journal of Computational Finance and the Journal of Credit Risk.

Citation databases compile the citations of scholarly publications and enable you to find articles that reference a paper or author you already know about. The best citation databases are:

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Web of Science is a citation database, covering academic journals worldwide in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, and conference proceedings. It provides cover-to-cover indexing, from 1975 till present.
The EUR license to Web of Science Core Collection consists of:
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) --1975-present
- Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) --1975-present
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) --1975-present
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S) --1990-present
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) --1990-present
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) --2005-present
Date range: 1975 - present
Related databases: Scopus, Dimensions
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature (journals and books).
Date range: 1823 - 1970 (abstracts included where available); 1970 - present (records including references - in development)
Related databases: Web of Science, Dimensions
Essential Science Indicators This link opens in a new window
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Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is an analytical tool to identify top-performing research in Web of Science Core Collection. It ranks authors, institutions, countries and journals based on publication and citation performance.
Date range: rolling 10-year period

Use the link below to learn how to use citation information to find literature:

Citation information
Following the chain of references can help you find additional publications. Citation information also helps to identify key publications or 'hot papers' within a field of research and to find related articles, based on an overlap in the reference lists of articles. Web of Science and Scopus offer tools to get citation information for individual records and for lists of records.

Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is to increase the discoverability of Open Access, academic peer-reviewed books from publishers worldwide and from all fields of research. The DOAB contains links to the e-books. You can browse by subject or by publisher.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals, covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short, the DOAJ aims to be the one-stop shop for users of open access journals.
Open Textbook Library This link opens in a new window
The Open Textbook Library contains over 1000 open textbooks. All kinds of subjects and disciplines are covered, including business, economics, psychology and sociology.
The textbooks have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. They have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality.

IDEAS
IDEAS the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Based on RePEc, it indexes over 2,400,000 items of research, including over 2,200,000 that can be downloaded in full text.

eBooks and Journals

Books and eBooks held by the University Library can be retrieved using sEURch

Alternatively, you can search for electronic books directly on VLeBooks or by browsing through the business collections below:

EBSCOhost eBooks This link opens in a new window
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EBSCOhost eBooks gives access to selected e-books on all kind of subjects, from multiple publishers.
The number of concurrent users and the print/save options differ per book. This can be checked on the detailed record of the e-book.

Platform: EBSCO
Elsevier eBooks Collection This link opens in a new window
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Contains handbooks in economic series and reference works and e-book collections in finance, psychology and forensics, publised by Elsevier.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary collection of subject dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks published by Gale Cengage. For a list of all the available titles with their year of publication and ISBN indicated, click 'Title List' in the top right of the screen.
MIT Press Direct This link opens in a new window
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Ebooks published by MIT Press. Key subject areas covered include art and architecture, biomedical sciences, business and finance, computer science, cognitive science, design, education, environment, game studies, humanities, information science, linguistics, neuroscience, new media, philosophy and social sciences.
Perpetual access to the books published in 2020 and 2021.

In 2022 and 2023 the EUR Library participates in MIT Direct to Open HSS (Humanities & Social Science) collection and receives term access to the HSS backfile collection until December 31, 2023.
Morgan & Claypool Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning eBooks This link opens in a new window
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The Morgan & Claypool collection comprises a collection of e-books to advance learning for AI and machine learning. Example topics are Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, NLP and object recognition.
Taylor & Francis eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Unlimited access to a large collection of academic eBooks published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge, all available without download restrictions. Please note the EUR doesn't have access to all eBooks published by Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
Also gives access to the Routledge handbooks in Communication, Journalism, Media and Culture Studies from 2020 onwards: see subjects Media & Film Studies and Cultural Studies.

Related database: Routledge Handbooks Online (handbooks published up to 2019).

Most journals are available online and can be searched via sEURch and BrowZine.

Working Papers

Working papers are articles in progress or in the process of peer review. Working papers show very recent research but not with the quality stamp of the peer-review process.

First two resources which are gateways to a lot of workings papers, one paid license, and one free internet resource:

EconPapers
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EconPapers provides access to RePEc, a collection of online Economics publications.

CEPR This link opens in a new window
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Economic database contains over 3000 abstracts of discussion or working papers on topics like development, financial and macroeconomics.
NBER This link opens in a new window
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Working papers from economists of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) This link opens in a new window
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is composed of a number of specialized research networks and aims at early distribution of research by publishing abstracts of papers.
Specialized research networks are for example in the field of Cognitive Science, Corporate Governance, Economics, Legal Scholarship, Political Sience and Humanities.

The eLibrary can be searched for papers. This online library consists of an Abstract Database, containing abstracts of working papers and forthcoming papers, and the Electronic Paper Collection containing full text documents. Not all documents can be downloaded free of charge.

Date range: 1994 - present
Related database: EconPapers

Journal rankings are reference lists of journal articles that focus on quality and rankings, including the source of research data. A popular ranking is the Financial Times 50 - Journal Rankings.

Extensive and detailed information on academic citation performance can be found in the Journal Citation Reports. (JCR). JCR is an authoritative resource for impact factor data and rankings of many journals based on millions of citations.

ERIM Journal List (ELJ)

The list below gives the overview of the ERIM Journals that have the P and P* classification, and are listed in the ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

The Primary Set (P journals) are the best journals in the field of management.
P* journals (or STAR journals) are the top ones among the best journals in the field.

EJL top-core	EJL	ISSN number	Prog / domain
Accounting Review, The	P*	0001-4826	F&A
Accounting, Organizations and Society	P*	0361-3682	F&A
Contemporary Accounting Research	P*	0823-9150	F&A
Journal of Accounting and Economics	P*	0165-4101	F&A
Journal of Accounting Research	P*	0021-8456	F&A
Journal of Finance, The	P*	0022-1082	F&A
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	P*	0022-1090	F&A
Journal of Financial Economics	P*	0304-405X	F&A
Review of Accounting Studies	P*	1380-6653	F&A
Review of Finance (formerly European Finance Review)	P*	1572-3097	F&A
Review of Financial Studies	P*	0893-9454	F&A
Abacus	P	0001-3072	F&A
Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory	P	0278-0380	F&A
European Accounting Review	P	0963-8180	F&A
Financial Management	P	0046-3892	F&A
Journal of Banking & Finance	P	0378-4266	F&A
Journal of Business Finance & Accounting	P	0306-686X	F&A
Journal of Corporate Finance	P	0929-1199	F&A
Journal of Empirical Finance	P	0927-5398	F&A
Journal of Financial Intermediation	P	1042-9573	F&A
Journal of Financial Markets	P	1386-4181	F&A
Journal of International Money and Finance	P	0261-5606	F&A
Management Accounting Research	P	1044-5005	F&A
Academy of Management Journal, The	P*	0001-4273	GEN
Academy of Management Review, The	P*	0363-7425	GEN
Administrative Science Quarterly	P*	0001-8392	GEN
Management Science	P*	0025-1909	GEN
Business History	P	0007-6791	GEN
Human Relations	P	0018-7267	GEN
Interfaces	P	0092-2102	GEN
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics	P	0735-0015	GEN
Decision Sciences	P	0011-7315	GEN
Information Systems Research	P*	1047-7047	LIS
Journal of Information Technology	P*	0268-3962	LIS
Journal of Operations Management	P*	0272-6963	LIS
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	P*	1523-4614	LIS
MIS Quarterly	P*	0276-7783	LIS
Operations Research	P*	0030-364X	LIS
Production and Operations Management	P*	1059-1478	LIS
Transportation Science	P*	0041-1655	LIS
Communications of the ACM	P	0001-0782	LIS
Decision Support Systems	P	0167-9236	LIS
European Journal of Information Systems	P	0960-085X	LIS
European Journal of Operational Research	P	0377-2217	LIS
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	P	1041-4347	LIS
IIE Transactions	P	0740-817X	LIS
Information & Management	P	0378-7206	LIS
International Journal of Electronic Commerce	P	1086-4415	LIS
International Journal of Operations and Production Management	P	0144-3577	LIS
Journal of Management Information Systems	P	0742-1222	LIS
Journal of Product Innovation Management, The	P	0737-6782	LIS
Omega	P	0305-0483	LIS
International Journal of Research in Marketing	P*	0167-8116	MKT
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science	P*	0092-0703	MKT
Journal of Consumer Research	P*	0093-5301	MKT
Journal of Consumer Psychology	P*	1057-7408	MKT
Journal of Marketing	P*	0022-2429	MKT
Journal of Marketing Research	P*	0022-2437	MKT
Marketing Science	P*	0732-2399	MKT
Journal of Advertising	P	0091-3367	MKT
Journal of Interactive Marketing	P	1094-9968	MKT
Journal of Product Innovation Management, The	P	0737-6782	MKT
Journal of Retailing	P	0022-4359	MKT
Journal of Service Research	P	1094-6705	MKT
Marketing Letters	P	0923-0645	MKT
Quantitative Marketing and Economics	P	1570-7156	MKT
Journal of Applied Psychology	P*	0021-9010	ORG
Journal of Business Venturing	P*	0883-9026	ORG
Journal of Management	P*	0149-2063	ORG
Journal of Management Studies	P*	0022-2380	ORG
Organization Studies	P*	0170-8406	ORG
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes	P*	0749-5978	ORG
British Journal of Industrial Relations	P	0007-1080	ORG
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice	P	1042-2587	ORG
Human Resource Management	P	0090-4848	ORG
HRM Review	P	1053-4822	ORG
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management	P	0018-9391	ORG
Industrial and Corporate Change	P	0960-6491	ORG
Industrial Relations	P	0019-8676	ORG
Journal of Business Ethics	P	0167-4544	ORG
Journal of Evolutionary Economics	P	0936-9937	ORG
Journal of Organizational Behavior	P	0894-3796	ORG
Journal of Vocational Behavior	P	0001-8791	ORG
Leadership Quarterly	P	1048-9843	ORG
Organizational Research Methods	P	1094-4281	ORG
Personnel Psychology	P	0031-5826	ORG
Research Policy	P	0048-7333	ORG
Small Business Economics	P	0921-898X	ORG
Journal of International Business Studies	P*	0047-2506	S&E
Journal of Management Studies	P*	0022-2380	S&E
Organization Science	P*	1047-7039	S&E
Organization Studies	P*	0170-8406	S&E
Strategic Management Journal	P*	0143-2095	S&E
Industrial and Corporate Change	P	0960-6491	S&E
International Journal of Industrial Organization	P	0167-7187	S&E
Journal of Business Venturing	P	0883-9026	S&E
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	P	1058-6407	S&E
Journal of Management	P	0149-2063	S&E
Long Range Planning	P	0024-6301	S&E
Small Business Economics	P	0921-898X	S&E
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal	P	1932-4391	S&E
Strategic Organization	P	1476-1270	S&E

Notes:

F&A: Finance & Accounting
LIS: Logistics & Information Systems
GEN: Management general
MKT: Marketing
ORG: Organisation
S&E: Strategy & Entrepreneurship

Search Engines

sEURch is a discovery tool that allows you to search the collections of the Erasmus University Rotterdam libraries, as well as the collections of libraries in the Netherlands and libraries worldwide.

You can use sEURch to find an article or a book you already know, but also to find literature about a specific topic, or to get inspiration about a topic.

Browse, read, and save journal articles via BrowZine:

Use Google Scholar to look for academic literature, not available at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

For detailed information about how to search for literature, check the tutorial below:

Select databases & search engines
The type of information source you use depends on the stage of your literature research. Learn how to select the most appropriate search tools.