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Business and Economics Metafinder

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Call Number Range for Business and Economics

Business books are located in Fenwick, Johnson Center, Arlington Campus Libraries. Cataloged items are typically located in these call number area(s):

H Social sciences (General)
HA Statistics
HB Economic theory
HC Economic history and conditions
HD Land, agriculture, industry
HE Transportation and communication
HF Commerce
HG Finance
HJ Public finance

Find articles and videos

This tutorial will show you how to find Business and Economics journal articles using the Mason Libraries Databases

Factiva
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Supplies international business and news coverage from more than 8,000 sources including newspapers, newswires, magazines, trade journals, radio and television transcripts, and websites. Compiles company information and data and up to 5 years of historical market data. Contains photographs and pictures from Reuters and Knight Ridder. View a tutorial on this database here.
See the Factiva link generator to generate permalinks to Factiva records.
Business Source Complete
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Covers scholarly journals for business topics such as marketing, management, human resources, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Includes author profiles, financial data, books, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, company profiles, SWOT analyses, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, datamonitor, and country reports from 1886.
View a tutorial on this database here.

ABI/INFORM Collection
The ABI/INFORM Collection includes international coverage and provides researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
View a tutorial on this database here.

Refining your search with Boolean operators and truncation

First review this page on choosing search terms ,
Then check out this great page on Boolean connectors
and this page on truncation and wildcards
and then watch this video to give you more tips

All Business Databases
These databases provide a wide variety of information. Read the descriptions to choose the best ones for your research.

Films on Demand! Search for short Business and Economics videos

Business Education Videos- Streaming Videos from Alexander Street Press

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Here are two helpful sites if you are looking for seminal works:

From Northeastern University Library: https://subjectguides.lib.neu.edu/edresearch/seminalworks

From Weebly.com- http://libraryresearch.weebly.com/seminal-works.html