Business Source Complete

EBSCO's flagship business database. Full-text journals plus industry reports, SWOTs, and company profiles.

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OVERVIEW

What is Business Source Complete?

Business Source Complete is EBSCO's flagship business database, providing comprehensive coverage of business, management, economics, finance, marketing, and accounting research. It includes 1,500+ peer-reviewed full-text journals along with industry profiles, market research reports, country economic reports, SWOT analyses, and company profiles. Coverage spans from the early 20th century to the present, with strong content depth in finance, management, and global business. As a subscription database typically accessed through university libraries, it serves business school students, MBA candidates, and corporate researchers worldwide.
Business Source Complete
KEY FEATURES

What Business Source Complete does well

Business Specialist

EBSCO's flagship database for business, management, finance, and marketing research.

1,500+ Full-Text Journals

Strong full-text coverage of leading business and management journals.

Industry & Market Reports

Includes market research, industry analyses, and SWOT reports for context.

Company Profiles

10,000+ company profiles for case study and competitive research.

Country Economic Reports

Detailed economic and political risk reports for global business research.

Citation Tools

Cited reference search and citation export to major reference managers.

Subjects Covered

Media included

Document and content types you can find in Business Source Complete.

  • Journal articles
  • Conference papers
  • Books / book chapters
  • Reports / white papers
  • Full text
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Business Source Complete4,000,000Business & EconomicsNo · PaidCited references search, citation exportEBSCO's flagship business database. Full-text journals plus industry reports, SWOTs, and company profiles.
EconLit1,800,000Business & EconomicsNo · PaidJEL classification, cited reference search via host platformsThe American Economic Association's authoritative bibliographic database for economics research.
SSRN1,400,000Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics...Yes · FreeDownload counts, abstract views (alternative metrics)Elsevier's free preprint repository for social sciences, economics, and law. Like arXiv for the social sciences.
Academic Search Complete13,000,000MultidisciplinaryNo · PaidCited references search, citation exportReliable general-purpose subscription database for early-stage graduate research across disciplines.
ProQuest6,200,000MultidisciplinaryNo · PaidCited by, references, citation exportThe go-to source for dissertations, theses, and primary sources alongside scholarly journals.
Scopus102,600,000MultidisciplinaryNo · PaidCitation tracking, h-index, CiteScore, cited reference searchGold-standard subscription database for citation analysis and research evaluation across all sciences.

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