## Business Source Elite

Business Source Elite is a database with full-text access to more than 1,000 business and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. It features leading publications such as Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, and BusinessWeek.

Business Source Elite also includes 4,589 active indexed and abstracted journals, of which 3,465 are peer-reviewed. Although these indexed records provide only references and not full text within the database itself, many of the articles can be accessed through the VU library collection.

### Why use Business Source Elite?

There are two important reasons to choose IBSS:

- You search only in journals from a specific number of disciplines. This reduces noise and makes it easier to find relevant articles.

- You find both scholarly research and professional publications.

### How to search

- Quick search: unstructured searching with individual keywords.
- Advanced search: you can use different Boolean combinations and search in various fields such as title (of both document and publication), author, abstract, keywords, etc.
- Searching: you can combine search queries, review your search history, sort the results, create alerts, build your own search commands, etc.
- Thesaurus: search with your keywords in the thesaurus for exact terms and related concepts.