Check out UVic Library's Research Tips for a review of scholarly vs. popular sources, developing research topics, the differences between books, journals, newspapers, and magazines, and more.
Whether you are doing a systematic review of literature in business, searching for scholarly, peer-reviewed material, or looking for popular business publications, Business Source Complete should be your first stop.
Publications such as magazines, journals, newspapers, blog articles and white papers that are written for a particular professional or trade/industry audience are considered trade publications. These resources focus on trends, forecast, and issues of interest to people working in a specific industry or profession. Like popular media sources published for a general audience, trade publications can include news, current events, statistics, advertisements, editorials, notices of events, and reports. These may have been reviewed by an editor but are generally not peer-reviewed.
The interdisciplinary nature of business research may benefit from searching broadly across our collections. Try Library Search or multidisciplinary databases like Google Scholar or Web or Science.
You may also consult research guides about other subjects, or browse our lists of databases. For example organizational behavior research may draw from psychology or education resources, etc.
UVic Libraries provides access to hundreds of thousands of eBooks, search these using the library catalogue or browse the eBook collections by publisher or discipline.
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