Subject Guide Business and Economics

Shortened print version of the Subject Guide business and economics (PDF)

Databases

• Tema - Technology and Management
  contains, amongst others, the databases Doma (mechanical engineering), Wema (materials), Befo (management and organisation) and ZDEE (electrical engineering). Bibliographic records and abstracts in German or English. Befo is also available via "wiso wissenschaften"
• Business Source Premier
  "As the world's largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for over 7,600 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 1,125 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost." - Tip: mark "Peer Reviewed Journals"
• Company Profiles
  10,000 detailed profiles of the largest enterprises worldwide. Updated quarterly, producer: Datamonitor. Available within the database Business Source Premier (EBSCO), click "Company Profiles" in the menu line at the top of the site
• Web of Knowledge
    - Info zur Datenbank Isi Web of Knowledge
  International bibliographic records of articles with abstracts. Accessible 1945 to present. Contains:
  • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-expanded)
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)
• proArbeit-online
  Database of literature, research and institutions of IAB (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung of the Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Nuremberg
• Regional Business News
  Collection of 75 regional business magazines of the U.S. Provides information with abstracts, partly also articles in full text
• Scopus . - Tutorial
  Sciences, social sciences, engineering sciences
• Sowiport
  The social science portal Sowiport brings together and links quality information from German and international providers
• wiso Presse
  Full texts of the most important regional and nationwide newspapers (excluding FAZ and SZ) and news magazines , e.g. Handelsblatt, Die Zeit, Die Welt, Frankfurter Rundschau, Focus, Der Spiegel, ... - Help (PDF)
• wiso wissenschaften
  German database on economic and social sciences. Provides bibliographic references, partly full texts, furthermore e-books, newspaper articles, information on branches of industry and companies. - Help (PDF)

Electronic Full Texts

• Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ
  Provides a survey of freely accessible scientific journals of economics, amongst them STI-Sudies, the open access journal of the TU Dortmund Department of Technology Studies
• Diskussionsbeiträge Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften of the FernUniversität, Hagen
• Economistsonline
  Provides the contents of the RePEc database (Research Papers in Economics: more than 700,000 documents in full text, freely available)
• IDEAS
  Provides working papers and other economical research literature from the RePEc database (Research Papers in Economics). More than 700,000 documents are available in full text free of charge
• NBER working papers
  Working papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the most important organisation for the promotion of economics in the U.S.
• OECD iLibrary
  Databases and electronic full texts of the OECD. - Getting started (PDF)
• Publications of the Chair of Health promotion and Consumer education of TU Dortmund
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
  Research projects, working papers, abstracts, many full texts. In English
• Soziologische Arbeitspapiere
  Publications of the TU Dortmund Department of Technology Studies and the Chair of Economic and Industrial Sociology
• Springer E-Books Economics
• wiso wissenschaften
  German database on economic and social sciences. Provides bibliographic references, partly full texts, furthermore e-books, newspaper articles, information on branches of industry and companies. - Help (PDF)
• The Making of the Modern World - Accessible throughout Germany: Information on The Making of the Modern World

Reference Works

• Duden Lexikon der Wirtschaft
• Duden New Economy
• Enzyklopädie der Wirtschaftsinformatik
  Encyclopedia of Business Informatics, ed. by Kurbel et al., 5. ed. 2011.
• Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon
• Wirtschaftslexikon, by "Handelsblatt"
• Wiley international encyclopedia of marketing
• WidaWiki - online encyclopedia of economic didactics
• eCommerce ABC
• Langenscheidts Fachwörterbuch Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen
  Dictionary of economics, commerce and finance, English - German

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