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Search Literature Effectively for Business Research : Scopus and WOS

A guide on searching literature effectively for postgraduate business students

Introduction

Provides web access to Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science and Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science and Humanities (CPCI). SCIE covers 7,100 international science and engineering journals. SSCI covers 2,100 social science and business journals worldwide. Both databases can be searched by keyword, author, source, author's affiliation, cited author, cited work and cited year. CPCI provides bibliographic information and abstracts to papers in over 110,000 conference proceedings worldwide across 256 subject disciplines. All four indexes contain the references cited in the papers. Search Guide.

Provides bibliographic information and abstracts to articles in 12,600 academic journals, 750 conference proceedings, and 600 trade publications from over 4,000 international publishers. Subject coverage includes science, engineering, medicine, and social sciences. The database also contains the references cited in those articles published from 1996 onwards. Most records in Scopus are linked to the corresponding original articles at the publishers' web sites. Full-text access is limited to the publications for which the Library has an electronic subscription. Search Guide.

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