Articles - ENG 211: Professional Communication - Shackelford

Article Databases

Business Source Complete
Journals, industry reports, market research reports, etc. Use in place of ABI-Inform.
EconLit
Corresponds to Journal of Economic Literature and the Index of Economic Articles, and covers journal articles, dissertations, chapters in books, conference proceedings and entire books.
Factiva
Great for U.S. and international newspapers, newswires, media transcripts, etc. Also great for business, company and stock news. Note: The truncation symbol is the dollar sign ($).
Readers’ Guide Full Text
Indexes popular magazines like Time and Newsweek.
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is an interdisciplinary database, covering a broad range of subjects. It contains indexing for 8,172 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles.
Regional Business News
Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Set up Google Scholar preferences to access Furman's subscription full text of articles from off campus.

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