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ABI/INFORM Global This link opens in a new window
The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
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Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources, covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Designed for academic institutions, this database is the leading resource for scholarly research with more full-text journals and more peer-reviewed journals than any other database available. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books, and more.
Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
With premium full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals, this database is the essential tool for business students. It covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more. Indexing and abstracts and full text are available back as far as 1886. It contains over 5,600 full-text magazines and journals.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Contains over 9000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Contains over 100,000 full-text authoritative ebooks on a wide range of subjects.
Fuente Académica This link opens in a new window
Fuente Académica provides researchers with a collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain, designed to make academic research readily available in PDF format.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship This link opens in a new window
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to fit your research needs at any point in your business's development.
Gale Business: Insights This link opens in a new window
Gale Business: Insights provides an extensive collection of business intelligence, combining Gale reference content with respected business sources and full-text periodicals to help researchers understand today’s global business environment. Users can access more than 430,000 detailed company profiles with company financial data, in-depth country overviews, and comprehensive industry profiles to stay current with the ever-evolving business landscape.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Contains over 9,000 full-text magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)
an international membership organization of companies of all sizes with the mission to work with business to create a just and sustainable world. The Our Insight section offers dozens of research reports, issue briefs, and case studies on a large number of topics such as codes of conduct, shareholder engagement, business and human rights, and the global marketplace.
Caux Round Table (CRT)
The CRT is an international network of experienced business leaders who "work with business and political leaders to design the intellectual strategies, management tools and practices to strengthen private enterprise and public governance to improve our global community." The group has developed the Principles for Business, "a worldwide vision for ethical and responsible corporate behavior."
Center for Business Ethics (CBE)
The center, at Bentley University, investigates ethical issues as they relate to the practice of business in contemporary society. View the Publications and Resources sections for books, articles and videos, and a compilation of business ethics surveys and research studies.
Ceres
Is a coalition of investor groups, environmental organizations and investment funds that advocates for sustainability leadership. The website contains full-text reports on topics such as climate change and the future, electric utility emissions, and how shareholder value is related to constructive approaches to climate change.
Codes of Ethics Collection
This project of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology provides Web access to the Center's more than 850 codes of ethics from professional societies, corporations, government, and academic institutions. A literature review, an introduction to the codes, and a user guide are also included. An index to the codes of ethics is organized by professional category, e.g., arts, media, or real estate, and the codes are also searchable by keyword.
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
CPSR was a membership organization of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society. Topics addressed by the group included the global information society, privacy and civil liberties, Internet governance, voting technology, intellectual property, open source software, and computers and the environment. The information is more retrospective or background as the site has not been updated since 2008 and the organization dissolved in 2013.
Corporate Register
a directory of corporate responsibility reports. Most of the content is free after registration.
Ethics Research Center (ERC)
The website's Resources section offers an Ethics Toolkit, which includes Ethics FAQs, tips and guidelines for writing codes of ethics, an Ethics Effectiveness Quick Test designed to assess an organization's ethical effectiveness in twelve ethics management areas, and a business ethics timeline. The Publications section offers full-text reports written by the ERC staff as well as the monthly Ethics Today newsletter. Student can subscribe to the online newsletter.
European Business Ethics Network (EBEN)
The EBEN is a membership organization of business people, public sector managers, and academics in Europe who are concerned about ethical behavior in business. The organization sponsors business seminars, workshops, and an annual conference; research meetings; and the EBEN Newsletter, published three times a year. The website includes more than 30 unannotated links to other business ethics sites all over the world as well as an events calendar. Members have access to full-text articles from the newsletter from 2002 forward.
International Association for Business and Society (IABS)
An association of scholars and practitioners with research interests related to corporate social responsibility and performance, emerging social issues for business, business ethics, environmental affairs, and business and government relations. The website includes abstracts of journal articles and past issues of the newsletter, as well as links to other ethics centers, a compilation of syllabi for business and society courses, and a list of other journals of interest to members.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
The center's focus areas include Bioethics, Business Ethics, Campus Ethics, Character Education, Government Ethics, and Internet Ethics. The website offers full-text articles on applied ethics, ethics case studies, podcasts and videos from Center events, and resources for decision making such as a framework for ethical decision making.
Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
An executive branch agency, its mission is to prevent and resolve conflicts of interest on the part of government employees and to foster high ethical standards for Federal employees. The website offers agency advisories, legal materials, and training information available to federal employees.
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics
View the ethics manuals, codes of conduct, and some of the training resources required for Senators. Read recent ethics news and the annual reports.
