1. "What databases do you recommend for article research?"
2. "Where can I find recent business news?"
3. "If I have an article citation, how can I find a copy of the actual article?"
4. "How can I read an issue of my favorite newspaper or magazine online?"
5. "Which business journals does the library subscribe to?"
6. "How do I cite my sources and prepare a bibliography?"

1.  "What databases do you recommend for article research?"

Our Business Databases Arranged by Subject page will list the top databases for article research. Also, see our How to Conduct Article Research guide for information on the differences among the databases and the strengths of each.

NOTE: if you need articles on a topic outside of business (e.g. technical engineering articles or articles from sociology journals), you can browse all relevent databases to which the Cornell Libraries subscribe by clicking the subject categories on the Find Databases page on the Library Gateway.

2.  "Where can I find recent business news?"

The library subscribes to most of the top business publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Investor's Business Daily. Recent issues can be found on the Current Periodical shelves on the first floor of the library. A few extremely popular titles, such as The Economist and Institutional Investor, are kept on course reserve at the circulation desk. These publications can also be accessed electronically with Factiva.

Several free web sites provide daily business news, inlcuding Yahoo! Finance, Reuters, and Bloomberg.com.

3.  "If I have an article citation, how can I find a copy of the actual article?"

Cornell University Library subscribes to thousands of journal titles so the first step is to perform a journal title search for the periodical in the Library Catalog. Electronically available journals will be denoted with a Networked Resource image and a link to the journal. Print-based journals will give a location, call number, and holdings information.

If you would like to limit your search to journals that are available electronically, use Find e-Journals.

If all the above methods fail to locate the periodical in which the article appeared, you can request the article via Interlibrary Loan (ILL). If you need assistance with submitting an ILL request, please ask a member of the library staff.

4.  "How can I read an issue of my favorite newspaper or magazine online?"

If you want to read today's Wall Street Journal or this week's issue of Fortune at home, you don't have to pay costly subscription prices. The Cornell library has already paid for these subscriptions, and members of the Cornell community have access to thousands of publications - online, full-text, for free. Factiva, ProQuest, and Business Source Premier have built-in features to make browsing the tables of contents of recent issues easy.

• Factiva - click the "News Pages" tab to get today's front page headlines from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and more.
• ProQuest - click the "Search by Publication" link, then type in the title you want to browse. Click the most recent issue to view the table of contents.
• Business Source Premier - click the "Publication Search" link, then type in the title you want to browse. Click the link for the title and then click the most recent issue to view the table of contents.

Find e-Journals is a quick way to determine which of these databases contains the specific journal or newspaper you are seeking.

5.  "Which business journals does the library subscribe to?"

The library subscribes to most of the top business journals, including the following:

• Advertising Age
• Barron's
• Brandweek
• BusinessWeek
• Economist
• Entrepreneur
• Forbes
• Fortune
• Harvard Business Review
• Investment Dealer's Digest
• McKinsey Quarterly
• The Deal
• Value Line Investment Survey

6.  "How do I cite my sources and prepare a bibliography?"

The Cornell libray has prepared citation guides for each of the major citation styles.

Members of the Cornell community have access to RefWorks, a citation management tool. When you enter information regarding the sources you used for a project (such as author, title, journal, etc.), Refworks will create a bibliography in the format that you want. Refworks has a series of online tutorials to get you started and there are also Refworks workshops offered at Olin, Uris, and Mann libraries to learn about the more advanced features.

Still can't find the answer you're looking for? Send a question to Ask A Librarian or stop by the reference desk during reference hours.