BUS:3000 Business Communication and Protocol
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Subjects: Business and Economics
Academic Articles & Trade Publications
Search the databases for articles on companies, products and for current news and trends in your industry.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowCovers over 3000 journals & magazines
Includes company & industry profiles from DataMonitor -
Factiva This link opens in a new windowProvides access to articles from newspapers, newswires and journals.
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ABI/INFORM Global This link opens in a new windowCovers over 100 journals
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LexisNexis Academic (now called Nexis Uni) This link opens in a new windowFind articles, radio & TV transcripts and other media.
Business Press Sites
Use Google to find Business Press articles. Just add the title of the business press to your search.
Example: negotiation and trust and forbes
30 Sources To Keep You Updated On Business (Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2013/02/27/curate-this-30-sources-to-keep-you-updated-on-business-and-marketing/)
- Forbes (@Forbes) - I couldn’t post this list without giving a shout out to the platform that has the confidence in their own editorial quality to allow me to publish a list of competing sites.
- The New York Times (@NYTimes) – “All the news that’s fit to print.”
- Mashable (@Mashable) – social media news blog
- TechCrunch (@Techcrunch) news blog focusing on technology and start-ups
- Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) – get the inside scoop and some pretty racy headlines on finance, media and technology.
- Fast Company (@FastCompany) – one of the best rags you’ll find on business, innovation and professional success.
- The Week (@TheWeek) – if you’re looking for content curation in practice and some pretty excellent coverage of all the news across just about every category, The Week fits the bill. I subscribe to the print and digital editions and get their daily news alert as well.
- Fortune Magazine (@FortuneMagazine)
- Inc Magazine (@Inc)
- Time Magazine (@Time)
- BusinessWeek (@BW) – one of the best twitter handles on the web!
- Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz) – thoughtful, intelligent and unique coverage of the latest in business
- Knowledge@Wharton (@knowledgwharton) – from the University of Pennsylvania
- The Altimeter Group (@AltimeterGroup) – Charlene Li (@CharleneLi), Jeremiah Owyang (@Jowyang), Rebecca Lieb (@LiebLink) and many other amazing analysts produce tons of some of the best analysis on the innovations driving business today.
- Ad Age (@AdAge) – the latest in advertising trends, discussions and opinions.
- The Nielsen Wire (@NielsenWire) – if you’re looking for stats for your next presentation, this is a good place to start. (Disclosure: I started my career as part of The Nielsen family)
- eMarketer (@eMarketer) – another great marketer resource for stats.
- SmartBrief on Social Media (@SBoSM) – Jesse Stanchak is one of the best curators on the web working at SmartBrief, a company whose newsletters in many ways provide the best example of content curation in the digital age. I also subscribe to their Small Business and Leadership emails
- BtoB Magazine (@BtoBMagazine) – for us Business to Business marketing folks
- MarketingSherpa (@MarketingSherpa) – research reports and blogs on marketing.
- Social Media Today (@SocialMedia2day) – a great site syndicating some of the best authors covering social media
- Business 2 Community (@B2Community) – one of the top social news sites on the web covering the latest trends and discussions on marketing, business, entertainment and more. (Disclosure: I am co-founder of Business 2 Community)
- Business Innovation from SAP (@Biz_Innovations) – covers how business can grow and innovate through the latest technology. (Disclosure: I am the managing editor for this site @SAP)
Others
- Reuters (@Reuters)
- Bloomberg (@BloombergNews)
- International Business Times (@IBTimes) - IBTimes provides comprehensive content around the most important business, economic and political stories from around the world, while also adhering to other niche areas that interest global readers.
Newspapers
Search for Newspaper Articles, such as the Wall Street Journal in:
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LexisNexis Academic (now called Nexis Uni) This link opens in a new windowTURN OFF POP-UP BLOCKER; Researchers can quickly and easily search full-text documents from over 17,000 credible sources of information and pinpoint relevant information for a wide range of academic research projects. Extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790
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Factiva This link opens in a new windowLos Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune are not accessible from Factiva. Contains a wide variety of financial information including business and economic news, text-search services, stock market quotations, financial and investment services and general news and information.
NB: 10 simultaneous user limit.
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News and Newspapers guideSee this guide for more information on newspapers.
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