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Case Studies: Research Databases

Sage Business Cases
This digital collection provides access to thousands of business cases (from over 100 countries) on topics including Marketing, Operations Management, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, International Business, Human Resource Management, and more. *SAGE provides instructor-only access to teaching notes. Please contact libcoll@gmu.edu to request your access code.
SAGE Research Methods and Cases Online
Choose from hundreds of case studies showing how methods are applied in real research projects.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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1. Click on advanced for search screen
2. Type your keywords
3. Look to the bottom left of screen, under "document type" select "case study"
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
Change the search box from "articles and chapters" to case studies. The search supports Boolean searching and phrase searching (quotes around terms)
APA PsycInfo (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes more than 3.7 million records.
O'Reilly Learning Platform (Safari) This link opens in a new window
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Search the phrase "case study" and your topic OR "case studies" and your topic. Example: "case study" and auction
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) This link opens in a new window
Composed of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences, SSRN's open access eLibrary consists of an Abstract Database containing abstracts on scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers, and an Electronic Paper Collection of downloadable full-text documents. Also includes the research papers of a number of fee-based partner publications.

Around the Web: Case Study Resources

Case Study Collection: Ethics Education Library
The Case Study Collection is a database of ethics cases from the fields of science, engineering, the social sciences, and business.
ESRI Case Studies
GIS case studies
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
Peer-reviewed collection contains more than 395 cases in all areas of science and engineering.
PRIME: Clinical Case Studies
Medical case studies
Usability Case Studies
A tool for college students enrolled in an HCI/Usability Engineering course that uses the Rosson & Carroll textbook,

Cases from Business Schools

Research Guides from other schools:

Open Educational Resources: Business Cases (from the University of Lethbridge)
Business Cases (from Purdue Parrish Library)

Find many more case studies here (on my blog)

Case Studies: Library Catalogs

You can locate case studies through the Mason Libraries Catalog, as well as Mason Libraries research databases.To locate case studies in books, search by keywords: "case stud*" and words describing your topic. Example:

"case stud*" and "computer security"
"case stud*" and "autism"
"case stud*" and "food additive"

Search Business Source Complete for Case Studies. This search is limited to case studies results, simply add a company or topic to this search result.