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đź’ˇ If you haven't already, please go through the HJF Research Tutorials. Topics covered in this guide are covered with the assumption you have already completed this tutorial.
Business Source Premier "includes more than 1,100 active full-text journals and magazines, 660 active full-text peer-reviewed journals, nearly 300 active full-text peer-reviewed journals with no embargo, and more than 550 active full-text journals indexed in Web of Science or Scopus. Included subjects are: accounting, finance, economics, marketing, management, management information systems, and operations management" (EBSCO 2019). Includes Regional Business News, video content from the Associated Press, and MarketLine Company Profiles.
⚠️ This is not a comprehensive guide to Business Source Premier, but a guide to the most useful features of the database. If you should wish to know more about the database, please consult the EBSCO Help Section, or talk to one of the librarians.
When you first click on the link to Business Source Premier, you will be directed to the Advanced Search page. It should look something similar to Image 01.
Image 01: Business Source Premier's Advanced Search Page
The first thing most users want to do, is uncheck "Suggest Subject Terms" above the first search bar (Image 02). More will be covered later about Subject Terms, but for basic searching they are not needed.
Image 02: Circled in red is the "Suggest Subject Terms" check box.
Pre-Search Limiters
Pre-Search Limiters
Limiters are ways to "limit" your search results based on specific criteria pre-defined by the database. Things like publication date ranges, publication type, peer reviewed, and many others allow you to tell the databases "only give me search results with my keywords that meet these additional criteria."
The problem with doing pre-search limiters is you'll never see the other results as they'll be eliminated before the results are displayed. The recommended route is to first do your keyword search and then use the limiters found on the left side of the search results to further narrow your results if you have too many.
Now, there are times where researchers know they have to have a certain kind of result or they simply don't want it. This is when it might be useful to use the pre-search limiters. Below is a quick description of the most useful ones in Business Source Premier.
Full Text - This limiter is not recommended the majority of the time. Access to sources not in full text is relatively easy to get and quick. Why limit your results to only those in full text if they could be in another database, freely available on the web, or a quick interlibrary loan request away?
Peer Reviewed - If you are looking specifically for academic articles from peer reviewed journals, then you will want to check this.
Publication Date - If you need your search results to be published during a specific date range, you can set that here. It is also just as easy to search without this limiter, see all the results, and then adjust the publication date range on the search results page.
Publication - If you want to limit your keyword searching that you entered above to only a specific publication, put that title here. Make sure you have the correct title and spell it correctly or you will not get any results. There are better ways of doing this but this is an option.
Publication Type - If you are looking for only trade publications or only academic journals (peer reviewed or not) than you can select those options here.
Product Name - If you are looking for a very specific product, you can enter it here. Like Publication, if you misspell or don't have the name correctly formatted, it could result in fewer or even no results.
Company/Entity - Limits your results to only the content that has been flagged as being about that company/entity.Â
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