Subject & Study Guides: Business: Databases

Business information resources

Are you after articles, news, research reports or case studies? Search these quality business sources for direct access to full text content online.

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus [Ebsco] This link opens in a new window
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Australia/NZ Reference Centre is a collection of regional full text including magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books
Business and Employment Law eBooks from Wolters Kluwer This link opens in a new window
ebook collection of 10 CCH New Zealand titles covering business and employment law topics
Business Insights: Global [Gale] This link opens in a new window
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Global Company and Industry Intelligence
Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports.
Thousands of company histories and industry essays from Gale's core business collection.
Case studies, scholarly journals, and business news for deep research coverage of global economies.
Business Source Complete [Ebsco] This link opens in a new window
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Business Source Complete is an international database. Search this for a range of business information, including journal and magazine articles, conference papers and case studies
As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the most-cited authors in the database. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Business [Gale OneFile] This link opens in a new window
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Gale OneFile: Business contains full-text coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, and business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications, which are updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications.
Ebsco business databases [Ebsco] This link opens in a new window
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Allows you to search Business Source Complete, Econlit and other databases at the same time.
Emerald Insight [Emerald Group] This link opens in a new window
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A range of key academic journals and case studies are covered. Select your area of focus (such as Accounting & Finance, Economics, HR & Organisational Behaviour, Management Science & Operations, Marketing, Strategy, etc.)
Entrepreneurship [Gale Business] This link opens in a new window
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Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.
Global Issues [Gale in Context] This link opens in a new window
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Overview of issues affecting the world today. Sources include statistics, magazines, newspapers, journals, reference books including a 'Business and Economy' focus.
Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
Google Scholar [Free] This link opens in a new window
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Good source of articles, and particularly good for finding items that have cited an article that you have looked at.
Infoshare [Free] This link opens in a new window
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Official New Zealand statistics data. Covers business, economic, trade, population and tourism data indicators. For analysis and comment - http://www.stats.govt.nz/
INNZ: Index New Zealand [Index only] This link opens in a new window
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Index New Zealand indexes nearly 300 journals and newspapers. It is the key New Zealand database for social sciences, arts, humanities and general interest material, and indexes some South Pacific journals.
NZX Data (was datex / irg.co.nz) [NZSE] This link opens in a new window
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All you need to know about the New Zealand companies listed on the local stock exchange, NZX. Annual Reports, trading information, dividend, market announcements, prospectuses for NZ's publicly trading companies.
Plan Builder [Gale Business] This link opens in a new window
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Provides a step-by-step process to build a business plan. Also includes some sample business plans for a variety of different business types
ScienceDirect [Elsevier] This link opens in a new window
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A quality collection of academic journals. You can search across the full collection or restrict to just the' Business. Management and Accounting' subject, and/or 'Economics, Econometrics and Finance' areas.
SafetyHub [SCA] This link opens in a new window
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A collection of workplace safety training videos providing instruction on how to keep safe in a range of situations. Safetyhub covers falls and heights, handheld and power tools, vehicles, hazardous substances, forklifts and cranes, welding safety, personal protection and more.

BusinessDesk This link opens in a new window
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Business news, opinion and analysis by a group of independent NZ journalists. Free subscriptions are available for students and staff of Unitec (click 'more' for signup details)
Note: you will need to setup an account for BusinessDesk using your Unitec email address. See the link in the passwords page on Moodle https://moodle.unitec.ac.nz/course/view.php?id=5038#section-1