Subject guide Business and Economics
In the subject guide for Business and Economics, you will find tips on where to search for information on this topic.
In the subject guide for Business and Economics, you will find tips on where to search for information on this topic.
The subject guide is based on publication type and gives suggestions on search tools, for example different databases where you can search for scholarly articles or book-catalogues where you can find books.
At the bottom of the subject guide, there are links to pages about information searching and academic writing and citing.
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.
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.
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
Research publications include dissertations, reports and other material produced by researchers.
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