Subject guides: Business and Management: Databases

What is a database?

Databases provide access to high-quality peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, dissertations and other sources.

These databases have been especially chosen for this subject area.

When carrying out your research for a piece of work, you will need to search more than one database to find all of the journal articles relevant to your topic, as each database covers different journals.

Medical databases

Medline
Medline is one of the most important biomedical databases. It is produced by the National Library of Medicine (USA) and covers the contents of over 3,000 medical, dental and nursing journals.
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It corresponds to the printed sources Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature and International Nursing Index, which can be used to trace older literature. The National Library of Medicine provides free access to Medline via the PubMed service.
Embase
Is the European equivalent of Medline, and corresponds to the paper publication Excerpta Medica.

Databases

Management and social science databases

HMIC. Health Management Information Consortium
Over 170,000 records comprising the stock of the Department of Health and the King's Fund libraries. Many departmental and agency publications, some of which are available full text.