Research Guides: Business Articles: Overview

Journal and Trade Magazine Articles

ABI/INFORM Collection
Search business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Includes the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and other topics.
Business Abstracts with Full Text
Product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences and more.
Business Insights: Global
Academic journal articles, periodical articles, news articles, newswires and other news media.
Business Source Complete
Scholarly articles, 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.
Communication Source
Use this database for articles specific to topics related to communications and media.
Factiva
Provides worldwide coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich Web sites, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data.
JSTOR
This database is a back file, which means that you can access articles that were not published within the last few years.

Can be used for text mining. Data for Research is a free JSTOR service available to anyone interested in mining data for their research project.

News Articles

Nexis Uni
Access international news sources, with coverage typically within the last 40 years, depending on the title. Choose "A Publication" to limit your search to one source.
Newspaper Source Plus
Cover-to-cover full text for many regional and national (U.S.) and international newspapers. Coverage is typically within the last 40 years, depending on the title. This is your best bet for regional newspaper coverage. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Dallas Business Journal Portal
Access the Dallas Business Journal archive, as well as business journals for other cities.

***NOTE: To access DBJ Portal off campus, sign in with the the username and password found in the Box folder.***
Factiva
This is our library's only source for the Wall Street Journal. Also provides worldwide coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, and more.

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Popular Titles

Dallas Morning News

Dallas Morning News (1885-1984)
Dallas Morning News (1984 - 2016)
Dallas Morning News (1997 - present)
Dallas Morning News (Past 90 Days)
Use this for full pictures and layout or recent issues.

Other Possible Titles

Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851-2016)

New York Times (1985 - present)

Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881-1996)