Subject guide Business and Economics

Even when you search in databases provided by the university, you may find articles that are not scientific. For that reason it is important that you always assess the material you find before you decide to use it. See if you can find information about the journal, the publisher and the author.

• Is the author a researcher at a university?
• Does the article contain common elements (abstract, method, results, discussion and references) and does it present research?
• Is it published in a peer reviewed journal?

Peer review – a scientific quality marker

In the peer review-process expert researchers evaluate the article and leave a statement to the journal’s editor. The editor then determines whether the article should be published or not. Only a small part of the submitted articles are published.

• Link to the film Peer Review in 3 Minutes

• Books
  Search for printed books from our Library in our catalogue. If you cannot find the book there, there are other catalogues to search. Libris is the Swedish national library catalogue. In Libris you will find books, dissertations and other materials from Swedish university and research libraries.
  To our library catalogue
  To Libris

• E-books
  E-books are digital versions of books, which you can read on computers, mobile phones or tablets. You can read and download the books from home, if you log in with your user account first. You don't need a library card to read our e-books.
  How to search for and open e-books
• IMF eLibrary
  The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary contains e-books, journals, working papers and more published by the organization. You can also find data and statistics – see direct link under "Business information and statistics" further down the subject guide.
  To IMF eLibrary
  

• You can search our databases and journals when you are off-campus, either via our databases or via the University Remote desktop.
  Search off-campus
• Databases in business and economics
  Some suggestions of databases that you can use to find scholarly articles in business and economics.
  Academic Search Premier
  Business Source Premier
  Emerald
  Gale Business: Insights (new database 2023)
  JSTOR
  SAGE Business Cases
  Scopus
  Taylor & Francis Online
  Web of Science
• Meta Search
  Discovery and Google scholar are tools that can be used to make a broader search. Discovery is an integrated search service which covers many of the library's subscribed databases and links to fulltext databases. Google scholar is a web search engine that indexes free web resources as well as many publisher's journal archives on the web.
  To Discovery
  To Google Scholar
• Database List
  Databases the library subscribe to and some that are available for free.
  List of databases at the University of Gävle
• The Journal List
  All articles are published in scholarly journals. For information about which scholarly journals the library has access to, you can look and search in the journal list.
  The library's journal list

Retriever Business
Contains corporate information, annual reports and more. You can access the database off-campus if you log in with your student account.
To Retriever (Use Remote Desktop off-campus)

Eikon
Contains economic and financial data from several countries. Here you can find business information, stock indexes, stock market prices, investment analyzes and much more. Data can easily be printed directly or exported to Excel, Word or PowerPoint to be processed and presented.
To a course in Canvas where you find information about Eikon in Swedish

Gale Business: Insights
In addition to scholarly articles, the service includes SWOT analyses, financial statements, reports and more for companies, industries and countries. Users can also search for the top companies within a specific country.
To Gale Business: Insights

• Gale OneFile: News (new database 2023)
  International newspapers in full-text, including The Economist, The Guardian, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
  To Gale OneFile: News
• Websites
  EU-statistics
  Statistics Sweden
  World Bank Data
  IMF data
  

Research publications include dissertations, reports and other material produced by researchers.

• Theses or essays written by students at a university are not classified as peer reviewed research publications. As a student, you can still use other students' work to get inspiration and tips on methods and literature.
  How to find research publications and student theses

• Some suggestions of encyclopedias in business and economics.
  Encyclopedia of E-commerce, E-government and Mobile Commerce
  Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management
  Encyclopedia of Finance
  Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science
  

• First and foremost, turn to the Library's Search Guide or the information desk at the library. You can also call the phone number +4626648548 or send an email to biblioteket@hig.se. If you're working on your thesis and need extra search guidance, you can book a librarian.
  Visit the Library's Search Guide
  Read more about Booking a librarian

• Writing references
  It is important to cite your sources correctly. When you cite sources, you are guided by a specific framework – a citation style. It should be clear to the reader what thoughts and words are your own, and what thoughts and words are someone else's.
  Read more about citing sources
  Refero – an antiplagiarism tutorial
  

• Reference management with Zotero
  Zotero is a reference management software that you can use to save your references and then insert them into a document. You can also create a bibliography.
  Getting started with Zotero
  

• The Writing Centre
  The Writing Centre will help you plan your writing, express yourself correctly and use the proper format in both Swedish and English. Students, lecturers or members of staff at the University are welcome. All you have to do is to book an appointment.
  Read more at the Writing Centre web page