Research Guides: Bite-Sized Library Workshop Materials: Business Literature Search

Introduction

Business Literature Search

Starting your assignment and need to do a literature review of business articles? Learn how to search for related articles from key databases like Web of Science, EBSCOhost, ProQuest and scite.

This workshop was designed by Sumita Govindan, Senior Librarian, Instruction & Learning Services and Redzuan Abdullah, Senior Librarian, Research & Data Services. If you have any questions, please contact Sumita at sumitag@smu.edu.sg or Redzuan at redzuana@smu.edu.sg.

Workshop Materials

Business Literature Search Slides

Related Databases

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Use this database to identify highly cited articles in a subject area and authors who cite a specific article. Use it to search for articles using keyword and even by institution name.
Web of Science includes Social Sciences Citation Index (from 1900), Science Citation Index Expanded (from 1965), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (from 2008), and Book Citation Index (2005-2018)

SMU Libraries has access to Web of Science API Lite. More info here.
EBSCOHost Databases This link opens in a new window
Search across the EBSCOHost databases which SMU subscribes to and retrieve articles from many subject areas, including business, economics, political science, psychology and sociology. Search multiple databases including Business Source Ultimate, Communication & Mass Media Complete, EconLit, Political Science Complete, PsycINFO and SocINDEX.
ProQuest Databases This link opens in a new window
Search across the ProQuest databases which SMU subscribes to and retrieve articles from many subjects like business, psychology, science and social sciences.
scite This link opens in a new window
New discovery and citation index. Search over 900M citation statements and find citations and well supported literature for your research projects.

Search and browse papers by type of citation (mentioning, supporting & contrasting), or section (Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion). Also includes scite assistant, an AI tool that extracts information from papers found to generate an answer.
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After sign-in Get a individual premium account with individual features like alerts and dashboards by registering with your SMU email on scite (link at bottom of screen). After which you can just use the account password to login.