Library Research Guides: MBA research guide: Journal articles & search strategies

Research strategy guide

Business Research Strategy guide
This guide will help you time-save your research by giving you strategies to find the best available articles from peer-reviewed high impact journals.

Journal ranking and impact

ABDC Journal Quality List
Refine your research by using the Master Journal List issued by the Australian Business Deans Council.
Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
Quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate the world's leading journals and their impact and influence in the global research community. JCR is part of the Incites database.

Electronic Resources

Emerald Journals This link opens in a new window
Academic, peer reviewed journals.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database containing a large number of Business related sources: academic journals, trade and newspaper publications. Search for newspaper titles here within the publications tab.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Academic, peer reviewed journal content covering a range of subject areas including Business.
Elsevier no longer offer transactional logins for access to pre 1995 content as of 1 January 2019.

Getting the full-text of an academic article

Know the name of the journal? Use the Journal Search to search for the library's journal holdings.

Finding quality information sources involves more than simply searching Google. Peer reviewed and scholarly journal articles available through the Library's electronic resources should form the bulk of your research.

Peer reviewed articles are more authoritative than scholarly or non-academic articles. They can be found by choosing the 'Peer-Reviewed' only options in Library Search and individual library databases such as Ebsco or Proquest.

Another useful place to search is the Australian Business Deans Council master journal list. Search within high impact journals on your topic.

All the electronic resources can be accessed off campus. When accessing the resources off-campus you will be prompted to sign in using your Bond IT account: Use your student ID number as your username and your Bond IT password.

We also recommend installing the Libkey Nomad browser extension on your personal computer to simplify full text access via the Library's subscriptions, or open access versions.

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