Business Subject Help

What are journals?

They are:

• like magazines but of a scholarly nature
• published at regular intervals with no predetermined end
• contain articles on a variety of topics
• the articles are written by different authors
• sometimes they also contain reviews and other information
• in printed and electronic formats

Why Should I use them?

• journal time is much quicker than for a book
• using information from journals will keep you up to date and informed of new developments in your subject
• journals articles are more specific than books.  They give you more detailed information in a more scholarly and concise format
• subject may not yet (or may never) be covered in books
• quality research - academic reputation - peer reviewed.

What does peer reviewed mean?

• Written by an academic, who is a specialist in the subject
• Submitted to an editor, who then passes the work to other professionals or 'peers' for a critiques, the work is then passed back to the original writer for changes to be made before being published
• Longer articles, heavily text based
• Charts, tables, statistics and images
• Properly referenced with a list of references at the end of the article.

Just like when you are searching for books or ebooks, you can use Discovery from the Library home page to search all of our Journal databases.

For more information on how to search Discovery, please watch the following video guide: 

If you prefer a written guide, you can find it here: Getting started with Discovery (written guide)

The following guides will help you to develop your skills in finding journal articles:

Finding Journals

Critical thinking - what it is and why it matters.

Doing a Literature Search

Developing Keywords

Have you found a useful resource that we do not have access to?  Undergraduate students doing their final assessment projects/dissertations, postgraduate students and staff are eligible for inter library loans. See the Inter Library Loan Guide for more information.