External sources

The widely known Wikipedia entries might serve as a starting point to get an overview of a general topic. However, they are not recommended to be cited in academic environment. If you start searching there, always check and entry’s references and continue your research on them.

Google is suitable for seeking news or finding the official website of an organization, institution.

Google Scholar finds scholarly documents but harvests predatory publishers’ materials as well. The content of articles published by predatory publishers are not checked before publication, so source evaluation might be necessary.

If you use GS through VPN, it can show fulltext from our collection. To get them, make the following setup at GS: Settings/Library links/search for Corvinus and tick it:

In Advanced search you can use the basic logical operators (and/or/not, phrase search) and some filtering options are also available.

For several years, the University Library has been a partner of the ZBW (originally known as Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaft), currently called as Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. ZBW’s mission is to acquire, index and archive theoretical and practical literature in economics and business studies and to provide sustainable and permanent access to this collection. Open access documents in the EconBiz database are also available for the Corvinus community. ZBW builds an extensive partnership network and regularly organize mini conferences on- and offline workshops for the partners.

Their activities also include promoting economics-related events and conferences, exploring the work of authors in the field of economics, building an economics thesaurus, supporting open science, research data management, building an economics repository (EconStor) etc.

Their extended search interface is called EconBiz. To access Econbiz, click the link below or check it in the Database list as well as among the Supplemental sources in SuperSearch.

Access to EconBiz-platform

The DBIS Database list contains the database collection of nearly 400 academic libraries in German-speaking countries. The total collection contains more than 15,000 databases covering all fields of science, of which about 6,000 are freely accessible. The databases are typically in English or German, and include bibliographic or full-text databases and datasets, as well as collections of press products, photographs, graphics etc.

Relevant databases at our university are available by filtering for the following subject headings: Business and Economics, Mathematics, Media and Communication Studies, Communication Design, Political Science, Sociology.

It is worth combining the search with the Freely available category.

Unfortunately, there is no filtering option for the database language. Currently, the description of the database content is often displayed in German also on the English interface; this is being fixed.

Some highlights:

Datasets: Data Catalog / World Bank

Statistical data: FAOSTAT, Bank of England Database

European online and print media: euro|topics

Encyclopedia: Concise Encyclopedia of Economics

The complete free collection is available by clicking on the DBIS – Database information system.

A searching platform to provide an overview about databases content.

The creators of the freely usable Searchsmart.org website have gathered the most popular English-language academic databases and other tools, to help researcher to find the relevant database for their topic. In total, the site contains more than 100 different search engines, aggregators, publisher databases, repositories, journal platforms etc. Detailed information is available on each of them, including their content, the period covered by the documents they contain, the proportion of OA documents and other features.

The aim of the site is to provide an overview of the range of databases that offer keyword searches, and those that offer forward or backward citation searching. 6 databases can be pinned and compared simultaneously on the basis of a number of criteria, such as the type of documents they contain, paywalled or free, the number of keywords that can be entered at once, the possibility of bulk downloading etc.

Access: SearchSmart.org